Program

399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017

9:30 – 11:30
P a n e l  1:  N E C R O P O L I T I C S   O F   H I S T O R Y
Chair: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton)
Discussant: ELENA FRATTO (Princeton)

MARILYN CAMPEAU (Toronto)
Surrounded by Death: Representations of Corpses and Mutilated Bodies in Soviet War Propaganda
PEGGY O’DONNELL (New York)
Bones of Contention: Nazi Propaganda and Forensic Science in the Katyn Forest, 1943
ROSS CAPUTI (Amherst)
The Necropolitics of US Information Warfare: The 2004 Sieges of Fallujah

11:30 – 1:30
P a n e l  2:   T H E   A R T  O F   I N C I T E M E N T
Chair: ALAINA LEMON (Ann Arbor)
Discussant: LAUREN COYLE (Princeton)

ANDREW KUECH (New York)
America as Disgustor: Cultivating the Arthropodal Enemy in Chinese Propaganda during the Korean War
JORDAN KIPER (Storrs)
Theories of Incitement Propaganda: A Case Study of the Yugoslav Wars
ALISTER MISKIMMON & BEN O’LOUGHLIN (London)
The Disinformation Distraction: Why Strategic Narratives are the Primary Force of Weaponisation in the Ukraine Crisis

2:30 – 4:30
P a n e l  3:  T H E   A E S T H E T I C S   O F   A F F E C T
Chair: ELENA FRATTO (Princeton)
Discussant: EMILY VAN BUSKIRK (New Brunswick)

ERINA T. MEGOWAN (Moscow)
“Spiritual Food for Soldiers and Workers:” Mobilizing Arts during the Second World War
VADIM BASS (St. Petersburg)
The Vocabulary of Monumental Propaganda: Designing War Memorials in the USSR
VARVARA SKLEZ (Moscow)
Performing Documents: World War II in Contemporary Russian Theater

5:00-7:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

J O C H E N   H E L L B E C K 
I M A G E S   A G A I N S T   W O R D S:
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945

SATURDAY, MAY 13TH, 2017

9:30-11:30
P a n e l  4:  I N F O R M A T I O N   W A R S
Chair: Chair: SERGEI ANTONOV (New Haven)
Discussant: ALAINA LEMON (Ann Arbor)

ALICE LOVEJOY (Minneapolis)
Material, Medium, and the Geographies of Moving-Image Propaganda
ITAI APTER (Haifa)
Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines: Broadcasting Violence in Rwanda
ARTEM BAGIEV (Moscow)
Militainment: Visualizing the Battle of Aleppo in Facebook Videos

11:30-1:00
P a n e l  5:  H U R T F U L   A C T S
Chair: KATHERINE M. H. REISCHL (Princeton)
Discussant: ALEKSANDAR BOŠKOVIĆ (New York)

PREDRAG DOJČINOVIĆ (Storrs)
A Mouthful of Crimes: Evidencing Genocidal and Persecutory Intent in the Courtroom
ÉVA TULIPÁN (Budapest)
Frames of Brutality: Violence in the Propaganda following the 1956 Revolution in Hungary
DMITRY BYKOV (Moscow)
Re-Usable Victory: Vladimir Putin and His Time Machine

2:30-4:30

P a n e l  6:  W E A P O N I Z I N G   T H E   P A S T
Chair: ILYA VINITSKY (Princeton)
Discussant: ALEXEI GOLUBEV (Toronto)

MATTHEW KOVAC (Chicago)
“Continuing the Mission”: World War I and the Roots of Red Scare Violence, 1919-1921
TAMARA PAVASOVIĆ TROŠT & JOVANA MIHAJLOVIĆ TRBOVC (Ljubljana)
History Textbooks in War-Time: The Use of WWII in 1990s War Propaganda in the Former Yugoslavia
MATTHEW LUXMOORE (Cambridge)
“Orange Plague”: WWII memory as an Instrument of Counter-Revolution in Putin’s Russia

5:00-7:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

R I C H A R D   A S H B Y   W I L S O N
H O L D I N G  P R O P A G A N D I S T S   A C C O U N T A B L E?
Problems of Causation and Agency in Law and Social Research

SUNDAY, MAY 14TH, 2017

9:30-11:30
P a n e l  7:  P A T R I O T S   &   H E R O E S
Chair: ALEXEI GOLUBEV (Toronto)
Discussant: SERGEI ANTONOV (New Haven)

WIM COUDENYS (Leuven)
A Country of Heroes? Belgium in Russian Propaganda during WWI… and After
KATHERINE M. H. REISCHL (Princeton)
All the Propaganda That’s Fit to Print: Ilya Ehrenburg’s War Album, c. 1942
NATALIJA ARLAUSKAITE (Vilnius)
Techniques of the Ice Road Observer: Adapting War Iconography for the Digital Age

11:30-1:30
P a n e l  8:  E M O T I O N A L   W A R F A R E
Chair: ALEKSANDAR BOŠKOVIĆ (New York)
Discussant: ILYA VINITSKY (Princeton)

AGATA ZBOROWSKA (Warsaw)
Between Hostility and Hospitality: The Role of Things in Polish Propaganda in the Twilight of World War II
POLINA BARSKOVA (Amherst)
Besieged Representations: Encoding Intimacy at the Time of Terror
LINDA ROBERTSON (Geneva, NY)
Teaching Us Not to Care: Post-Heroic Warfare, Armed Drones, and Moral Inanition

The Program Committee:

Serguei Oushakine, Chair (Princeton), Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois), Alexei Golubev (University of Toronto),  Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers University). Alaina Lemon (University of Michigan)

The annual conference is organized by the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and made possible by the generous funding from the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.