In the two-day event, coordinated by our network member Elena Fratto, participants of the conference “Modernism and its ‘Environments‘” will revisit literary texts and cultural products of Russophone modernism and the avant-garde from an ecocritical perspective.
The event will take place on sight on the 12th and 13th of April, at Princeton University Campus in the Aaron Burr Hall 219.
Conference Idea
This two-day conference will revisit literary texts and cultural products of Russophone modernism and the avant-garde from an ecocritical perspective. The numerous discoveries in the fields of climatology, paleontology, physics, and biology that punctuated the early twentieth century brought about a new understanding of time, space, evolution, and the role of human life and activity vis-à-vis other living and nonliving entities. These new scientific ideas and technologies permeated modernist aesthetics, emerging thematically and stylistically throughout literature and the visual arts. Approaches include, but are not limited to, the energy humanities, extractive practices, and sound studies.
Hosts:
- Elena Fratto
(DFG Network Russian Ecospheres / Princeton University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, New Jersey) - Ana Cohle
(Princeton University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, New Jersey)
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"Russian Ecospheres" 