Photography as a Tool of Representation of Political Violence

Roundtable discussion "Photography as a Tool of Representation of Political Violence in the 20th Century: Strategies and Interpretations" in the framework of "Politics and Culture" Seminar (58–60 Galernaya Street).

PROGRAM

• Gil Pasternak (De Montfort University, England) "At Home with 'Palestine:' Performing Historical Photographs of the West Bank in Israel Households"
• Denis Skopin (SPbU) "The Shoes of the Dead. Notes on the Polemics Heidegger—Shapiro—Derrida"
• Erika Wolf (University of Tyumen) "The Visual Construction of the Stalinist Body Politic: El Lissitzky's Stalin Constitution Photomontages"
• Evgeny Savitsky (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) "Tamed Savages? Ethnic Exhibitions, Anthropological Photography and Duped Scientists, Late 19th—Early 20th Century"

STUDENT PANEL

• Georgy Lajus (SPbU) "Bifacial Propaganda: Images of Soviet Posters in Poetry of Late Mandelstam"
• Ekaterina Chefonova (SPbU) "Mental Illness in Photography—Way to Inclusion or Exclusion?"
• Evgenia Gorozhantseva (SPbU) "On Empathogenic Potential of Photography: When do not We Simply Regard on the Pain of Others?"
• Daria Manzhura (SPbU) "Ambivalence of the Labor in Pictures of American Workers"