The Centennial of the Russian Revolution

International Workshop

 

 

THURSDAY 23.3

 

9:00 Coffee

 

9:30-11:15 Panel 4- “Weathering the Revolution” | Chair: Rafi Vago
Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University
Revolution as Existential Crisis: Strategies of Survival

 

Mark Gamsa, Tel Aviv University
Emigration to China in and after 1917

Boris Morozov, Tel Aviv University
Ekaterina Peshkova: Defending the Rights of Political Prisoners in Revolutionary Russia

 

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

 

11:30-13:15 Panel 5- “Revolutionary Art and Revolution in Art” | Chair: Yitzhak Brudny
Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marc Chagall and the Russian Revolution

John MacKay, Yale University
Dziga Vertov’s Allegories of Revolution

 

13:15-14:30 Lunch Break

 

14:30-16:15 Panel 6- “Experiences of Revolutionary Times” | Chair: Igal Halfin
Jan Plamper, Goldsmiths, University of London
Sounds of February, Smells of October: Towards a Sensory History of the Russian Revolution

Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University, NJ
Subjects of Revolution and War

Catriona Kelly, New College, University of Oxford
Children of Revolution

 

16:15-16:30 Coffee Break

 

16:30-18:00 Round Table- Historiography of the Revolution
Chair: Ziva Galili, Rutgers University, NJ