Conference - "The Soviet Arctic: Exploration, Investigation, Representation"

Conference venue: Moscow, Russian Federation
Period: February 20-21, 2014

The German Historical Institute in Moscow welcomes you to participate in the conference "The Soviet Arctic: Exploration, Investigation, Representation" scheduled for 20-21 February, 2014. The languages of the conference are English, Russian and German.

Thursday, 20 February 2014
10:00 Welcome and Introduction

10:30 – 12:00 Panel „Man and the Force of Nature at the Polar Circle”
Discussant: Eduard Sarukhanian

Galina Orlova
The Scriptural Economy of the Arctic: Dramatic Medialization of Cheliuskin Robinsonade and its Effects

Bathsheba Demuth
Natural History as Human History: Soviet Development and the Arctic Environment in Chukotka

Sergey Lar’kov, Fiodor Romanenko
GULAG, GUSMP and Exploration of the Arctic

Ekaterina Kalemeneva
„The Cosy Arctic“: Attempts to Create a Favourable Living Environment in the Far North in the 1960s

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 16:00 Panel „Science and Technology in the Space of Coldness”
Discussant: Klaus Gestwa

Cornelia Lüdecke
Survey of the Unknown Arctic. German-Russian Cooperation under Schmidt-Ott (1930-1933)

Barbara Schennerlein
Aerophotogrammetric Works during the Arctic Ride by the Airship „Graf Zeppelin“ LZ 127 in the Context of Exploration of the Soviet Polar Regions

Olga Krasnikova
Academy of Sciences and Scientific Research in the Arctic. The Polar Committee (1914-1936)

Julia Lajus
Controversial Perceptions of Arctic Warming in the context of Soviet Polar Exploration and Resource Use, 1930s – 1950s.

Elena Kuligina, Peder Roberts and Julia Lajus
Seeing the Soviet Arctic through British eyes: Terence Armstrong and the Evolution of East-West Relations in Polar Research, 1947-1965

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Discussion «Scientific Research in the Arctic»
Alexander Danilov (AANII), Anne Morgenstern (AWI)

18:00 Reception

Friday, 21 Februar 2014
10:00 – 11:30 Panel „The Arctic as a Deployment Zone”
Discussant: Alexander Ananyev

Mikhail Suprun
The Arctic in the Focus of Strategic Plans of the World Powers during the Second World War

Ronald E. Doel
Assessing from Afar: Exploring the Cold War Soviet Arctic from Washington, DC

Matthias Uhl
The Arctic as a Deployment Zone. To the Soviet Plans for the Arctic Region in the Cold War

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:30 Panel „Representations of the Arctic in Soviet Art”
Discussant: Matthias Uhl

Alexander Schwarz
The Journey of Heroes: Crossing the Arctic, Moving in the Ice

Ekaterina Voicickaya
The Arctic in the Soviet Music: Images, Genres, Personalities

Alexander Ananyev
The Arctic and the Polar Explorers through the Caricature

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Panel „The Arctic in Fiction, Myths and Legends”
Discussant: Susanne Frank

Heinrich Kirschbaum
„Crowned with an Icy Tiara”: Multifunctional Topic of the Northern Arctic in the Works of Late Zabolockiy

Alexander Andreyev, Mariya Dukal’skaya
The Epic Land of the Soviet Arctic

Matthias Schwartz
Arktaniya. The North Pole in Adventure Literature and Science Fiction of the Stalin Era

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:45 Concluding Discussion:
Paul Josephson / Julia Herzberg

Alexander Ananyev
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