Fall Symposium
The Fall Symposium will focus on 1917 in its immediate context and also, reflect on the broadest implications of 1917 and a century of protest and revolution. The morning session will offer historical perspectives on the revolution in Russia, and will include scholars who will address the immediate and global reverberations of the revolution during the first decades after 1917. The afternoon will examine the state of radical political action, labor, and protest 100 years later and will focus on questions of work, precarity, and inequality.
Thursday, November 2
Keynote Address
November 2, 5:00pm
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
"100 Years Later: Memories of Revolution in Contemporary Russia"
How the Russians are commemorating the Russian revolution? Is the memory of revolution a usable past? Could commemoration events be explained by the politics of President Putin? What are main actors defining the politics of memory? What’s the attitude of the Russians towards the revolution? What’s the role of historians in this process? Boris Kolonitskii, professor of European University at St. Petersburg offers his answers to these questions.
Boris Kolonitskii, The resident senior research scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg, Professor Kolonitski is the author of numerous scholarly works on the Russian revolution of 1917, including Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 (with O. Figes, Yale University Press, 1999).
To be followed by a reception from 6:30-7:30pm in 210 Levis Faculty Center.
November 2, 5:00pm
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
"100 Years Later: Memories of Revolution in Contemporary Russia"
How the Russians are commemorating the Russian revolution? Is the memory of revolution a usable past? Could commemoration events be explained by the politics of President Putin? What are main actors defining the politics of memory? What’s the attitude of the Russians towards the revolution? What’s the role of historians in this process? Boris Kolonitskii, professor of European University at St. Petersburg offers his answers to these questions.
Boris Kolonitskii, The resident senior research scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg, Professor Kolonitski is the author of numerous scholarly works on the Russian revolution of 1917, including Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 (with O. Figes, Yale University Press, 1999).
To be followed by a reception from 6:30-7:30pm in 210 Levis Faculty Center.
Friday, November 3
Session 1: First Decades, Global Reverberations
November 3, 9:30-11:40am
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Moderated by Mark Steinberg (UIUC)
Discussant: Manuel Rota (UIUC)
“The Racial Reverberations of 1917: The Communist Party of Brazil’s New Antiracism and the Contest for Black Support in the 1930s” by Jessica Graham (UC San Diego)
"Constructivist Tectonics and the Wegenerian Revolution" by Kristin Romberg (UIUC)
"The Spread of the Soviet Myth in the West" by Marcello Flores (University of Siena)
Click here for paper abstracts.
Click here for biographies of the panel participants.
Session 2: Work, Inequity, and Protest: 100 Years After 1917
November 3, 2:00-4:00pm
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Roundtable featuring:
Erik S. McDuffie (UIUC)
Tariq Omar Ali (UIUC)
Daniel Gilbert (UIUC)
Jessica Greenberg (UIUC)
Film Screening
November 3, 7:30-9:30pm
101 Armory Building (505 E Armory Ave, Champaign, IL 61820)
Maple Razsa (Colby College) will introduce and screen The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film, which will be followed by a discussion of the film, led by David Aristizabal and Dilara Caliskan (UIUC).
November 3, 9:30-11:40am
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Moderated by Mark Steinberg (UIUC)
Discussant: Manuel Rota (UIUC)
“The Racial Reverberations of 1917: The Communist Party of Brazil’s New Antiracism and the Contest for Black Support in the 1930s” by Jessica Graham (UC San Diego)
"Constructivist Tectonics and the Wegenerian Revolution" by Kristin Romberg (UIUC)
"The Spread of the Soviet Myth in the West" by Marcello Flores (University of Siena)
Click here for paper abstracts.
Click here for biographies of the panel participants.
Session 2: Work, Inequity, and Protest: 100 Years After 1917
November 3, 2:00-4:00pm
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Roundtable featuring:
Erik S. McDuffie (UIUC)
Tariq Omar Ali (UIUC)
Daniel Gilbert (UIUC)
Jessica Greenberg (UIUC)
Film Screening
November 3, 7:30-9:30pm
101 Armory Building (505 E Armory Ave, Champaign, IL 61820)
Maple Razsa (Colby College) will introduce and screen The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film, which will be followed by a discussion of the film, led by David Aristizabal and Dilara Caliskan (UIUC).