Renren Yang
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Graduate Student, Comparative Literature
SCPKU Pre-Doctoral Fellow, August - November 2016
FREE TO ROCK: How Rock and Roll Helped to End the Cold War
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This event is sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Stanford Music Department.
Movie Screening: 7:30pm-8:35pm
FREE TO ROCK is a feature length documentary film telling the story of how western rock music contributed to ending the Cold War. Prohibited by the Soviet and Eastern Bloc authorities as propaganda, the “soft power” of western rock music infected the youth behind the Iron Curtain, spreading like a virus. This forbidden music was distributed and sold as “bone records” (etched on x-ray paper for 20 or fewer plays) and cassettes by Black market entrepreneurs and fledgling pop-culture capitalists. In the eyes of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, western rock music combined the twin evils of spreading the English language - undermining a Russification initiative in the 15 Republics of the USSR extending from Kazakhstan to the Baltics - and encouraging illicit free enterprise.
The film, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, features interviews with former President, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev (former Premier of the Soviet Union), Billy Joel, the Beach Boys, rock and roll pioneers from the Soviet Union, and is directed and produced by Jim Brown, four time Emmy Award winning director.
Panel discussion, 8:35-9:30pm
Power of Music and Political Change
Moderator
Michael McFaul, Former Ambassador to Russia and Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Panelists
Mark Applebaum, Associate Professor of Music, Stanford University
Nick Binkley, Free to Rock, Producer
Jim Brown, Free to Rock, Director
Valery Saifudinov, founder of the first Soviet Rock n' Roll band, the Revengers
Joanna Stingray, first American producer of Soviet Rock n' Roll
Kathryn Stoner, Director of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies, Stanford University
Campbell Recital Hall471 Lagunita DriveStanford, CA 94305
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Globalization, Innovation, and Culture in Korea
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The 8th Annual Koret Workshop
South Korea has become an economic powerhouse, but faces multiple challenges. The conference will focus on four areas that South Korea needs to turn its attention to: 1) the higher education and development; 2) entrepreneurship and innovation; 3) global competitiveness; and 4) demographic changes and immigration policy.
During the conference, a keynote speech is open to the public. Please click here for more information about the public keynote.
The Koret Workshop is made possible through the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
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Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Russian Media — a talk by Ilia Krasilshchik
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Despite the increasing state control over free speech, the Russian media market is still alive — and huge. There are tens of independent online media with a multimillion audience and each year we get more. How do you survive on the internet when it is controlled by the state? How do you find professional journalists when there are no decent schools of journalism? How do you manage a media outlet when you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow? Publisher of the popular Russian language online media outlet Meduza Ilia Krasilshchik will explain how the world of Russian media works.
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After dropping out of university at 21, in 2008 Ilya Krasilshchik became the editor of the then most influential Moscow entertainment and city life magazine Afisha. During his five-year tenure, Afisha published more than 100 issues, including specials like “Oral History of the Russian
Media” and “Oral History of the Russian Internet” and a “Coming Outs” issue (as an answer to the ”LGBT propaganda” law adopted by the Russian State Duma). He stepped down in 2013 to become the Product Director at Afisha publishing company, launching three separate web-based media and а TV streaming service in one year. In October 2014, he finally left Afisha, and together with two partners launched Meduza, a groundbreaking Russian language web news outlet based in Riga, Latvia. By December 2015 the monthly readership of Meduza exceeded 3.5 million unique visitors, with 320,000 app downloads and more than 500,000 followers on social media. Seventy percent of Meduza’s audience is based in Russia.
Ilia Krasilshchik
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Meduza.io
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Digitizing the Grand Tour: A Workshop on the Worlds and Lives of Eighteenth-Century Travelers to Italy (Day 2)
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Organized by Giovanna Ceserani at Stanford University, with the generous sponsorship of the Classics Department, and co-sponsorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of History, The Europe Center, the Division of Cultures, Languages and Literatures, and the Departments of English and Art History.
For more about The Grand Tour Project, go to grandtour.stanford.edu.
Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by March 1st. (RSVP also accepted by email to dearmond@stanford.edu)
Program
Saturday, March 5th 2016
10: 00 am - 10:30 am – Coffee and Pastries
10:30 am - 12:30 am
Session III: Sciences of the Grand Tour
Chair: Grant Parker, Stanford
10:30 am
Paul Davis, Princeton University
Climate Change and the Grand Tour
11:30 am
Sophus Reinhert, Harvard Business School
Mapping the Economic Grand Tour
12:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Session IV: Professing Arts and Tourism on the Grand Tour
Chair: Elaine Treharne, Stanford
1:30 pm
Malcolm Baker, UC Riverside
Sculpture, Sculptors and the Grand Tour: Intersections and Agency
2:30 pm
Simon Macdonald, European University Florence
‘Virtù in tale genere’: British equestrian performers in late eighteenth-century Italy
3:30 pm – Afternoon Coffee
4:00 pm
Carole Paul, UCSB
Ciceroni and Their Clients: Making a Profession of Tourism
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Discussion
For full program, see attachment below.
Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center
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Digitizing the Grand Tour: A Workshop on the Worlds and Lives of Eighteenth-Century Travelers to Italy (Day 1)
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Organized by Giovanna Ceserani at Stanford University, with the generous sponsorship of the Classics Department, and co-sponsorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of History, The Europe Center, the Division of Cultures, Languages and Literatures, and the Departments of English and Art History.
For more about The Grand Tour Project, go to grandtour.stanford.edu.
Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by March 1st. (RSVP also accepted by email to dearmond@stanford.edu)
Program:
Friday, March 4th 2016
10:00 am – Check-in, Coffee and Pastries
10:30 - 11:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Giovanna Ceserani
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session I: Circles and Networks of the Grand Tour
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford
11:00 am
Catherine Sama, The University of Rhode Island
Going Digital: Mapping Connections Between Rosalba Carriera and British Grand Tourists
12:00 pm
Jeffrey Collins, Bard Graduate College, NYC
Counting the Woodcocks: Snapshots from the Tour
1:00 pm – Lunch
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session II: Beyond Rome
Chair: Caroline Winterer, Stanford
2:00 pm
Melissa Calaresu, Cambridge University
Life and Death in Naples: The Italian presence in the Grand Tour (Explorer)
3:00 pm
Rosemary Sweet, Leicester University
Other cities of the Grand Tour: Turin, Padua and Bologna seen through the Grand Tour Explorer
4:00 pm Afternoon Coffee
4:30 pm
John Brewer, Caltech
Naples with and without Sir William Hamilton, 1764-1800
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Roundtable on the Grand Tour Explorer led by designer Giorgio Caviglia with graduate researchers Thea De Armond and Rachel Midura, Stanford
For full program, see attachment below.
Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center
Workshops
Permeable Borders: On the Nomos of Modern Aesthetics, A Talk by Bernhard Siegert
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Space reports back these days ― in a brutal way. While we are told that Europe's external borders have stopped to exist, old legal-political concepts loom in the background of the current discussion on the Decline of the West: mare nostrum, mare clausum, res omnium, and the (impossible) Nomos of the Sea.
With the dangerous concept of res omnium an ominous figure is back, too: the pirate, the enemy of mankind, the terrorist in the disguise of the refugee. Linked inseparably to the birth of the concept of the state itself (by means of exclusion), this abysmal figure underwent a number of significant shifts since the enlightenment era, like the sea itself. Already in JF Cooper the pirate became a metasign, designating the readability of signs as such, the recognizability of figures, and the birth of the nation. The lecture therefore pushes forward the thesis (by drawing on art, literature, and media history at the same time) that the media and crisis history of the nomos of the sea underlies the concepts of representation and aesthetics of our modernity. The order of sense making, the order of the recognizable (i. e. aesthetics) and the possibility to discriminate between friend and foe are neither ontologically nor transcendentally "given" in the modern era but dependent on media, and therefore are permanently related to the danger of becoming indiscriminate. Hence, the ultimate metasign is the seascape.
Bernhard Siegert is the Gerd Bucerius Professor for the Theory and History of Cultural Techniques at the Department of Media Studies at Bauhaus-University Weimar and Director and Co-Founder of the International College of Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy at Weimar. His books include Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (2015) and Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System (1999). He is a leading scholar of German Media Studies.
Hans Gumbrecht, the Albert Guerard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of French & Italian at Stanford and TEC affliliate faculty, will be the respondent.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, Department of Comparative Literature, and The Europe Center at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
History Corner Building 200, Room 307.
Bernhard Siegert
Gerd Bucerius Professor for the Theory and History of Cultural Techniques
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Bauhaus-University Weimar
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
112 Pigott Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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sepp@stanford.edu
Albert Guerard Professor of Literature, Emeritus
Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus
Professor of French and Italian, Emeritus
Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Emeritus
Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies, Emeritus
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Emeritus (since 2018) , in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian. During the past two decades, he has received twelve honorary doctorates from universities in seven different countries. While Gumbrecht continues to be a Catedratico Visitante Permanente at the University of Lisbon and became a Presidential Professor at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) in 2020, he continues to work on two long-term book projects at Stanford: "Phenomenology of the Human Voice" and "Provinces -- a Historical Approach."
Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center
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Stanford Scholar Examines Sectarianism and Urban Segregation in Baghdad [VIDEO]
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As part of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy speaker series, Director of The Markaz: Resource Center Mona Damluji examined the impact of the US-led occupation of Iraq on sectarian-based urban segregation in Baghdad. In a talk held on February 3, 2016, she argued that the sectarian-based segregation that has shaped urbanism in Baghdad is a direct outcome of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. The "post"-occupied city is characterized by the normalization of concrete “security” blast-walls that choke urban circulation and sever communities. The notorious blast walls -- or "Bremer Walls" -- perpetuate and intensify conditions of urban segregation. As the summer's surge of anti-government protests in Baghdad demonstrate, the short-sighted nature of this militarized solution to sectarian-based violence has proven to be a superficial and unsustainable fix to the deep dilemma of sectarian segregation codified in Iraq’s political system. The presentation also examined the context for recent public dissent on the streets of Baghdad through the story of the capital city's fragmentation between 2006 and 2007.
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Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia
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Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting imprint on East Asia and the world. By bringing together a variety of specialists in the cinemas of East Asia and offering divergent yet complementary perspectives, the book explores how the legacies of war have been reimagined through the lens of film.
This turbulent era opened with the Mukden Incident of 1931, which signaled a new page in Japanese militaristic aggression in East Asia, and culminated with the Korean War (1950–1953), a protracted conflict that broke out in the wake of Japan's post–World War II withdrawal from Korea. Divided Lenses explores how the intervening decades have continued to shape politics and popular culture throughout East Asia and the world. Essays in part I examine historical trends at work in various "national" cinemas, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States. Those in part 2 focus on specific themes such as comfort women in Chinese film, the Nanjing Massacre, or nationalism, and how they have been depicted or renegotiated in contemporary films. Of particular interest are contributions drawing from other forms of screen culture, such as television and video games.
This book is an outcome of the conference, Divided Lenses: Film and War Memory in Asia, that the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center hosted in December 2008, part of the Divided Memories and Reconciliation research project.
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