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Symposium Schedule


Thursday, February 5, 2009
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall

Admission is free. Reservations are required.

8:30–9:00 AM Check in and Coffee

9:00–9:15 AM
Welcome
Thomas Gaehtgens, Director, Getty Research Institute

Introduction
Nancy Perloff, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute

9:15–Noon
SEEING, READING, AND HEARING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BOOK

The Futurist Book as Uneasy Flâneur: Walking, Seeing, and Feeling the Modern City
Mark D. Steinberg, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Editor of Slavic Review

Freeing Russian Verse: Poetry and the Book as Such from Futurism to Neo-Futurism
Brian M. Reed, Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington

The Russian Avant-Garde Book as an Ideological Object: From Zaum' to Photomontage
Nina Gurianova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Northwestern University

Discussion
Moderated by Katja Zelljadt, Principal Research Specialist, Getty Research Institute

Noon–1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00–3:15 PM
TECHNIQUE, AESTHETICS, AND REPUTATION

Print/Type/Rhetoric: Values of Production in Russian Avant-Garde Books
Johanna Drucker, Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, University of California, Los Angeles

Framing Russian (and Ukrainian) Futurist Books: Historical Place and Historiography
Edward Kasinec, Curator of Slavic and East European Collections, New York Public Library; presentation coauthored with Robert H. Davis Jr., Librarian for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University (not present)

From Grids to Games: Cultures of Copying in the Decorative Art of Natalia Goncharova
Jane A. Sharp, Associate Professor and Research Curator, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

Discussion
Moderated by John Tain, Assistant Curator, Getty Research Institute

3:15–3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30–5:00 PM Roundtable

Moderated by Nancy Perloff, Getty Research Institute

Timothy Benson, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Craig Dworkin, Associate Professor of English, University of Utah
Éva Forgács, Art Historian, Art Center College of Design
Liz Kotz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside