Session Details

Friday, 30 December

764. The Cultural Politics of Putin’s Russia: New Cynicism, New Censorship, and Beyond

1:45–3:00 p.m., Military, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Presiding: Vitaly A. Chernetsky, Harvard Univ.

1. “De-censoring Putin: Bread, Circuses, and Subversion in Russia Today,” Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard Coll.

2. “Brute Nostalgia: Putinism and the Populist Postmodern in the Genre of Russkii shanson,” Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra Univ.

3. “New Russian Cinema III: Revenge of the Iurodivye,” Gerald M. McCausland, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

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