Conference Verschiebung – Displacement – Вымещение im Kalten

Slavisches Seminar
Conference
Verschiebung – Displacement – Вымещение
im Kalten Krieg
Slavic Department, University of Zurich
6–7 November 2015
Programme
Day one: Friday 6 November 2015 (Rämistrasse 71, KOL-G-217)
9:45–10:00
Sylvia Sasse and Alexander Markin, University of Zurich
Welcoming remarks
Keynotes
10:00–12:00
Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Mad Men and the Cold War Imaginary
Evgeny Dobrenko, University of Sheffield
Soviet Cold War Imagination
12:00–13:30 Lunch
1: Soviet Union
13:30–15:00
Steven Harris, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg
Murder of an Aeroflot Stewardess and Cold War Displacement
Matthias Meindl, University of Zurich
The Vanishing of the Barbarians – the Displacement of Guilt in Eduard Limonov's
Homecoming-Writings
15:00–15:15 Refreshments
2. Cold War Philosophy
15:15–16:45
Roland Végső, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Perpetual Cold War: Foucault and the Conditions of Philosophy
Fabienne Collignon, University of Sheffield
Becoming-Weapon
Day two: Saturday 7 November 2015 (Slavisches Seminar, Plattenstrasse 43)
3. Science
10:00–11:30
Patrik Kilian, University of Zurich
Flexible Responses – Flexible Bodies? 1960s Laboratory Astronauts and the Cold
War Body in Space
David Eugster, Univerisity of Zurich
Die Apokalypse als Spielfeld: Dougal Dixons Spekulative Evolutionsbiologie
11:30–12:00 Refreshments
4. Cases
12:00–13:30
Silvia Berger Ziauddin, University of Zurich
Der Bunker als Ort der Verschiebung im Kalten Krieg
Alexander Markin, University of Zurich
Displacement, mimicry, dogs and journalists
13:30–13:45 Refreshments
Concluding discussion
13:45–14:30