thursday, october 5 friday, october 6

Thursday, October 5

Friday, October 6

Saturday, October 7

*In German

19.30 - 21.00Panel discussion100 Jahre Russische Revolution (Literaturhaus Zurich)Chair: Ulrich Schmid (St.Gallen)mit Julia Kissina (Berlin), Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt/O.), Sylvia Sasse (Zurich)

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Panel 5: The Revolution Expands: Now and Then (01-308)Chair: Sandra King-Savic (St.Gallen)Francesco Campagnola (Ghent): Revolution and Renais-sance in Interwar Japan | Tatjana Jukic (Zagreb): Revolu-tion in Yugoslavia as the October Redux for British Politi-cal Subjectivation | Yves Partschefeld (St.Gallen): Disrup-tion and Restart: The Formation of the Republic of Esto-nia in the Context of the Russian Revolutions of 1917

Panel 6: Revolutionizing Everyday Life (01-U126)Chair: Olena Palko (Basel)Grzegorz Krzywiec (Warsaw): The ‘Jewish Revolutions’: A Reconsideration of the 1905 and the Russian Revolution in East Central and East European Rightist Imagination | Ibrahim Mirzayev (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Revolution and Alphabet: Reform of the Arabic Script in 1921-1937 | Philipp Casula (Zurich/Manchester): The Revolution Goes On: The Soviet Union and the Third World

17.30 - 18.00Co�ee Break

18.00 - 19.15Keynote 3:Christoph Menke (Frankfurt/M.): Is a Revolution (Still) Possible? (09-011)Chair: Dieter Thomä (St.Gallen)

19.30 Reception (09-FOY)

09.30 - 10.45Keynote 4: Donatella Della Porta (Florence): ‘Like a House of Cards’: Time Intensity in Revolutions (52-7024)Chair: Thomas Telios (St.Gallen)

11.00 - 13.00Panel 7: The Philosophical Discourse on Revolution (52-5120 ) Chair: Federica Gregoratto (St.Gallen)Marie-Josée Lavallée (Montreal): The Future of Revolu-tion after the Russian Revolution: The Reconceptualiza-tions of Arendt, Adorno and Marcuse | Jacob Dahl Rend-torf (Roskilde): The Phantom of Stalin: Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy of the Russian Revolution | Oliver Flügel-Martinsen (Bielefeld) / Franziska Martinsen (Hannover): What’s Left? Is There a Post-Marxist Concept of Revolu-tion?

Panel 8: Founding Revolutionary Practices (52-6120)Chair: Sergey Kozin (Newcastle, AU)Sigrun Bielfeldt (Tübingen): Andrey Belyi’s Epistemology of the Russian Revolution | Vanessa Rampton (Zurich): The Idea of Progress in History, or the Relationship between 1905 and 1917 | Josette Baer Hill (Zurich): ‘I Did Not Want To Lie’: Thomas Garrigue Masaryk and the Intellectual Failure of the Russian Revolution

Panel 9: Revolutionary Law: Between Peace and Violence (52-7024)Chair: Carl David Mildenberger (St.Gallen)Monika Kareniauskaite (Vilnius): The Criminal Justice System in Soviet Russia during October Revolution and Civil War: Chaos, Experiment, or Model for Communist Transformations in 20th-Century Europe? | Irina Gordeeva (Moscow): The ‘Tolstoian’ Origins of the Idea of ‘Peaceful Revolution’ in Russia | Aleksander Miłosz Zieliński (Fribourg): Is Thinking a Peaceful Revolution a Contradiction in Itself?

13.00 - 14.00Lunch Break 14.00 - 16.00Panel 10: The Revolution’s Sex and Gender (52-5120) Chair: Josette Baer (Zurich)Olga Baranova (Vienna): The Role of Bolshevik Revolu-tion for Women's Emancipation in Russia

13.15 - 15.15Panel 1: Revolutionary Philosophy (01-113)Chair: Marie-Josée Lavallée (Montreal)Naveen Kanalu (Los Angeles): Law, Absolute Will, and the Withering of the State: Sovereignty at the Limits of Lenin’s Dictatorship of the Proletariat | Sushila Ramas-wamy (Delhi): Insights of Critics of Lenin: Why Were They on the Right Side of History? | Gregor Schäfer (Basel): Philosophy at the Moment of its Realization: On Lukács’ Concept of the Revolution

Panel 2: Commemorating the Revolution and the Politics of Remembrance (01-308)Chair: Martin Mühlheim (Zurich)Oksana Klymenko (Kiev): Soviet Politics of Memory about the October Revolution (1920s-1930s) | Tora Lane (Södertörn): The Memory of the Revolution, and the Revolution as Memory | Stephan Rindlisbacher (Tbilisi): The Legacy of the ‘October Revolution’ in Russia: Between Commemoration and Silencing

Panel 3: Religion and/as Revolution (01-U126)Chair: Jesse Ramírez (St.Gallen)Jack Coopey (Durham): Blessedness: Lenin and the Event of Empirico-Criticism as Praxis | Sergey Kozin (Newcastle, AU): A Religious Revolution? Accessing Lunacharsky’s Religion and Socialism from the Early 21st Century Context | Christian Schmidt (Leipzig): Revolution and Salvation

15.30 - 17.30Panel 4: On Mass(es), the Party, and the Collective(s) (01-113)Chair: Federica Gregoratto (St.Gallen) Julia Christ (Paris): A Drive for Revolution? Freud’s Analy-sis of Revolutionary Movements in the Era of the Individual | Till Hahn (Frankfurt/M.): Can There Be a Philosophy After the Cultural Revolution? Re�ections on the Dialectics of Theory, Organization and Action | Thomas Telios (St.Gallen): Learning from October: Collec-tives Unbound

09.00 - 09.15Registration (09-FOY)

09.15 - 09.30Opening Statement (09-011)Dieter Thomä (St.Gallen)

09.30 - 10.45Keynote 1: Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt/O.): Beyond the Horizon: The Russian Revolution, Far, So Far Away (09-011)Chair: Dieter Thomä (St.Gallen)

11.00 - 12.15Keynote 2:Sylvia Sasse (Zurich): Reenact Revolution? Theatre and Politics of Repetition (09-011)Chair: Ulrich Schmid (St.Gallen)

12-15 - 13.15 Lunch Break

FAILURES, LEGACIES AND FUTURES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

ONE HUNDRED YEARS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

5 - 7 October 2017th th

University of St. GallenLiteraturhaus Zürich Palace St. Gallen

Darabos Enikő (Budapest): The Revolution of Sexual Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe (1920-1930) | Tatiana Kozhemyako (Stavropol): The Attempts to Change Female Status as Re�ected in the Plans and Projects of the Bolsheviks: The Experience of the North Caucasus

Panel 11: Aesthetic Readings of the Revolution (52-6120)Chair: Emmanuel Alloa (St.Gallen)Olena Palko (Basel): Mythologizing the Revolution: The Representations of the Russian Revolution in Ukrainian and Russian Revolutionary Literature | Ksenia Golovko (St.Gallen): Utopia and Revolution: Vladimir Tatlin’s Social Art | Behzad Khosravi (Stockholm): Dialogue with Revolution: From Vertov to Tarkovsky. Narrative Strat-egy and Post-Revolutionary Film Practices in Iran

Panel 12: Revolutionary Constants: Between Contin-gency and Necessity (52-7024)Chair: Vanessa Rampton (Zurich)Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (Södertörn): The Revolu-tion of the Sketch | Judith Mohrmann (Frankfurt/M.): The Role of A�ect in Revolutions | Jörg Metelmann (St.Gallen): 1517-1917-2017: Re-Formations of the Body

16.00 - 18.00Break

18.00 - 21.00 Public Lectures: ‘The Long Night of Revolution(s)’ (Cinema Palace)Keynote 5: Geo�roy de Lagasnerie (Cergy-Pontoise): The Concepts of Revolution Keynote 6: Jean-Luc Nancy (Strasbourg): A Conversation on RevolutionChair: Thomas Telios (St.Gallen)

21.00 - Open End: Party

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09-FOY // 01-113 // 01-308 // 01-U126: Main Building 09-011: Library BuildingDufourstrasse 50 CH-9000 St. Gallen

Cinema Palace, Zwinglistrasse 3 CH-9000 St. Gallen

Literaturhaus, Limmatquai 62 CH-8001 Zürich

52-5120, 52-6120 and 52-7024:Müller-Friedberg-Str. 8 CH-9000 St. Gallen

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHYUNIVERSITY ST. GALLEN Dieter Thomä, Thomas Telios

DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN

Ulrich Schmid

LITERATURHAUS ZÜRICH

PALACE, St. Gallen