Contemporary Russian Utopianism:
Geopolitics and Identity
“Contemporary 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 government, dictatorship and empire. Since
the dissolution of the Soviet Union in
1991, Russian writers have created a bewildering number of futuristic and postapocalyptic novels which focus on questions dealing with new Russian identity
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and geopolitics. Russian intellectuals and
artists are preoccupied with the same
crucial questions, and these questions are
highly visible in the public debate.
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
What role do
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 geopolitical narratives?
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.
The aim of
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.