Ministry of Science and High Education of the Russian Federation

Gorno-Altaisk State University

National Research Tomsk State University

National Research University Higher School of Economics

hold an

VII International Conference

DIALOGUE OF CULTURES: POETICS OF THУ LOCAL TEXT

on 5–11 October 2020

The 7^TH Conference aims to focus on the discussion of the role, nature and instruments of Russian literature in the reflection and modeling of the imperial-colonial and nation-building experience at different stages of cultural evolution (pre-modern, modern and postmodern).

Proposals are invited for report presentations on the following key issues:

1. Russian literature in the imperial and post-imperial culture: institutional and aesthetic aspects.

• imperial culture as a social and historical phenomenon;
• Russian literature and institutions of imperial culture (ideological, social and communicative interaction);
• Russia's "imperial imaginary" and tools of its literary modeling;
• features of formation and functioning of the national literary canon in the imperial conditions;
• Russian literature in the post-imperial cultural situation.

2. The ethnic diversity of the country and strategies of its representation in Russian literature (colonial, post-colonial, transnational).

• features of Russian colonialism as a theoretical and historical problem, its place in the imperial nation-building;
• literature and colonial institutions of the empire (administrative, religious, scientific, educational, cultural);
• literary imagology of the Russian imperial space: regions, ethnic groups, local cultures;
• colonial, post-colonial and transcultural consciousness in contemporary Russian literature.

3. The imperial experience of Russian literature in the comparative context:

• European-American and Russian scenarios of the "power" and "knowledge" interaction;
• Orientalized and Westernized images of Russia in the Western cultural consciousness and literature;
• Russian imperial imagology in the European context;
• poetics of Russian colonial / post-colonial discourse in the comparative perspective.

4. Borders in imperial culture. Cultural Frontier.

·        cultural borderlands as scientific problem;

·        cultural border between the West and the East;

·        center and periphery in the existing self-consciousness of the empire;

·        Siberia and Central Asia: problems of preservation of cultural heritage in the imperial and post-imperial periods

By the results of the conference, the Organizing Committee will publish articles on the material of presented reports.

Articles will be published in the conference proceedings and / or in Imagology and Comparative Studies, a Tomsk State University journal.

Articles are to be submitted by 30 November 2020.

The Organizing Committee address:

9/1 Lenin Str.,

Gorno-Altaisk, 649000, Russia.

Executive Secretary of the Conference: Professor Pavel V. Alekseev

Official website: https://lomonosov-msu.ru/rus/event/6313/

For any questions please contact the Secretary at pavel.alekseev.gasu@gmail.com. Please specify "Conference 2020" in the subject line of your e-mail.