Yesterday’s highlight was indeed the panel on visualizations of imprisonment, in which Judith Pallot and Sonia Gavrilova presented the Mapping the Gulag project, and Josephine von Zitzewitz talked about the new version of Memorial’s Virtual Gulag Museum. I’ve already written about the museum, and the new version (due to go live in the middle of […]
All posts for the month March, 2010
Blogging from BASEES (2)
Posted by Sarah Young on March 29, 2010
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Blogging from BASEES
The end of term has arrived and with it the BASEES annual conference, so here I am in Cambridge in the slightly unlovely environs and overheated rooms of Fitzwilliam College. To be fair, they have made a lot of improvements to the college since I first visited BASEES as a tender postgrad, and it is […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 27, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/27/blogging-from-basees/
Ephemerality and versionality
I know I said my next post would explore some aspects of the connections in Shalamov, and that will be coming up soon, but for now… At the inaugural UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Decoding Digital Humanities event, a wide-ranging discussion initiated by our reading of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 23, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/23/ephemerality-and-versionality/
Shalamov: connections
One of the most intriguing aspects of Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales is connections between the stories. These take a large variety of forms. Within the six collections, there are clusters of stories that are linked in different ways: by chronology (‘The Lawyers’ Plot’ and ‘Typhoid Quarantine’; ‘June’ and ‘May; ‘Chasing Engine Steam’ and ‘The Train’), location (such […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 18, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/18/shalamov-connections/
Four short links: the Stalin era
1. Stalinka: Digital Archive of Staliniana. Lots of images (593 to be precise), including photos, posters, paintings, cartoons, and even a few pictures from the Blue Noses Group’s 2007 Naked Truth series (if you’ve never seen them, and aren’t easily offended, do take a look). Those works notwithstanding, I’m somewhat dubious about the concept of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 13, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/13/four-short-links-the-stalin-era/
Dostoevsky, the biography
I’m currently reading Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Princeton University Press, 2010), the abridged version of his five-volume biography. So far so good; it preserves a lot of the best features of the original work, in particular the focus on Dostoevsky’s intellectual development and role of the intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Russian life. […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 10, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/10/dostoevsky-the-biography/
Four short links: resources on pre-revolutionary Russia
1. Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909. Nice research archive of images and texts from the period, with lots of search options. Good for finding interesting and unexpected things, though occasionally difficult to find the images you’re actually looking for. A lot of the images are in black and white, which seems odd […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 6, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/06/four-short-links-resources-on-pre-revolutionary-russia/