10 am

2 pm

Karen Shakhnazarov’s Vanished Empire (2008, 105 min)

Introducer: Igor' Mantsov
Respondent: Dawn Seckler (University of Pittsburgh)

Aleksei German, Jr.’s Paper Soldier (2008, 118 min)

Introducer: Petre Petrov (Princeton University)
Respondent: Chip Crane (University of Pittsburgh)

Tuesday, May 5

10 am

2 pm

Aleksandr Proshkin’s Live and Remember (2008, 95 min)

Introducer: Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary, University of London)
Respondent: Elise Thorsen(University of Pittsburgh)

Katia Shagalova’s Once Upon a Time in the Provinces (2008, 112 min)

Introducer: Gerald McCausland (University of Pittsburgh)
Respondent: Hillary Brevig (University of Pittsburgh)

Wednesday, May 6

10 am

2:30 pm

7:30pm

Sergei Mokritskii’s Four Ages of Love (2008, 100 min)

Introducer: Marcia Landy (University of Pittsburgh)
Respondent: Erin Alpert (University of Pittsburgh)

Drew Chapman (University of Pittsburgh) and Dmitry Komm (Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences [St. Petersburg])

Mikhail Kalatozishvili’s Wild Field (2008, 100 min)

Introducer: Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary, University of London)

Thursday, May 7

10 am

7:30pm

Vladimir Kott’s Mukha (2008, 107 min)

Introducer: Alexander Prokhorov (College of William and Mary)
Respondent: Olga Klimova (Univerity of Pittsburgh)

Nikita Mikhalkov’s 12 (2007, 153 min):

Introducer: Dmitry Komm (Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences [St. Petersburg])

Friday, May 8

10 am

2:00 pm

7:30pm

Aleksei Uchitel'’s Captive (2008, 80 min)

Introducer: Mark Lynn Anderson (University of Pittsburgh)
Respondent: Irina Anisimova (University of Pittsburgh)

Pavel Bardin’s Russia-88 (2009, 104 min)

Introducer: Dmitry Komm
Respondent: Margaret Barton-Fumo (University of Pittsburgh)

Bakur Bakuradze’s Shultes (2008, 100 min)

Introducer: Igor' Mantsov

Saturday, May 9th

11 am

7:30 pm

Roundtable 2: Masculinity and Genre

Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh) and Igor' Mantsov

Aleksei Balabanov’s Morphia (2008, 107 min)

Introducer: Petre Petrov (Princeton University)