ODESSA COSMOPOLITANISM MODERNISM
This international workshop is the first to bring together anthropologists, historians, cultural studies scholars, literary specialists and musicologists to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of Odessa’s unique cosmopolitan network before the Russian Revolution and in its immediate aftermath. The workshop aims to set up a new paradigm for understanding cosmopolitanism in the urban centers of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, as well as in east European Jewish history, and other multiethnic societies. It will cover a range of interdisciplinary approaches to inter-ethnic and trans-cultural relations with a particular focus on the unique cosmopolitan networks in Odessa in the period 1895-1925. Among the topics to be discussed will be
Black Sea as cultural and commercial exchange
inter-ethnic co-existence and violence
cosmopolitanism in theory and practice
immigration and cultural identity
Jewish urban politics
Ethnic composition in crime and political movements
modernist art and literature
Odessa music and song
periphery and center
Odessa/Odesa and the Ukraine
Russian culture and ethnic identities
languages in contact and fusion: the case of Odessa Russian
Odessa as a Hebrew cultural center
political and cultural uses of the “Odessa myth”
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