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An international conference organized by the UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, School of Languages and Media at Dalarna University and the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University. 19–20 Sept 2013 WHEN: 19–20 September, 2013 WHERE: September 19: Dalarna University, Hall Fö2 (Falun) September 20: Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus (Uppsala) CONTACT: Jevgenija Gehsbarga, [email protected], to sign up to attend Maria Engström, [email protected], or Irina Karlsohn, [email protected] for more information Please visit our website www.ucrs.uu.se/utopianism/ to find out more about the event. The conference is free of charge. Contemporary Russian Utopianism: Geopolitics and Identity INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Contem- porary Russian Utopianism: Geopolitics and Identity” examines late-Soviet and post-Soviet utopian thought in literature, art and politics. Contemporary Russian culture is concerned with ideas of govern- ment, dictatorship and empire. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian writers have created a bewil- dering number of futuristic and post- apocalyptic novels which focus on ques- tions dealing with new Russian identity and geopolitics. Russian intellectuals and artists are preoccupied with the same crucial questions, and these questions are highly visible in the public debate. WHAT ROLE do geopolitical narratives and nationalist utopias play in the formation of the Russian political agenda? How does contemporary Russian art represent the ambiguity between national and imperial Russian identity? What role does Russia play in the alter-globalization movement? Which of the concepts associated with Soviet utopian ideas are still developing and nourishing the formation of post- Soviet identities? What role does the border concept have in the new geo- political narratives? THE AIM of this conference is to explore the range of postmodern Russian utopias, such as neo-Soviet utopia, conservative utopia, Eurasian utopia, nationalist and radical Orthodox utopia. Alexey Belyaev-Guintovt

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An international conference organized by the UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, School of Languages and Media at Dalarna University and the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University. 19–20 Sept 2013When: 19–20 September, 2013

Where: September 19: Dalarna University, Hall Fö2 (Falun) September 20: Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus (Uppsala)

ContaCt: Jevgenija Gehsbarga, [email protected], to sign up to attend Maria Engström, [email protected], or Irina Karlsohn, [email protected] for more information

Please visit our website www.ucrs.uu.se/utopianism/ to find out more about the event. The conference is free of charge.

Contemporary russian Utopianism: Geopolitics and IdentityInternatIonal ConferenCe “Contem-porary Russian Utopianism: Geopolitics and Identity” examines late-Soviet and post-Soviet utopian thought in literature, art and politics. Contemporary Russian culture is concerned with ideas of govern-ment, dictatorship and empire. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian writers have created a bewil-dering number of futuristic and post-apocalyptic novels which focus on ques-tions dealing with new Russian identity

and geopolitics. Russian intellectuals and artists are preoccupied with the same crucial questions, and these questions are highly visible in the public debate.

What role do geopolitical narratives and nationalist utopias play in the formation of the Russian political agenda? How does contemporary Russian art represent the ambiguity between national and imperial Russian identity? What role does Russia play in the alter-globalization movement?

Which of the concepts associated with Soviet utopian ideas are still developing and nourishing the formation of post- Soviet identities? What role does the border concept have in the new geo- political narratives?

the aIm of this conference is to explore the range of postmodern Russian utopias, such as neo-Soviet utopia, conservative utopia, Eurasian utopia, nationalist and radical Orthodox utopia.

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