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University of Bristol, April 11, 2011Registration deadline: Apr 4, 2011Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/community/conferences/cultural-exchange.htmlBooking is now open for the University of Bristol's postgraduate conference 'Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West'.With a diverse range of speakers and topics and free registration we encourage all postgraduate students to attend.This one-day conference aims to explore the nature of cultural exchanges between Russia and the West. This unique conference is an opportunity to re-examine artistic creativity during the twentieth century, a time of revolutionary and ideological change, and to look at cultural connections between Russia, Europe and the United States.Three panel sessions:-Cultural Connections: Russia and the European avant-garde-Art, Patronage and Display: Cultural exchange between Russia and the United States-Stalin and the West: Interpretation and Representation of the Soviet UnionCONFIRMED SPEAKERSKeynote: Dr Mike O'Mahony (University of Bristol)Natalia Murray, Courtauld Institute of ArtNikolay Punin- The Man who died for CézanneCinthia Willaman Baltaxe, University of CambridgeA Russian Welcome in Paris: Sonia and Robert Delaunay's Artistic Exchange with Russian Artists in the Parisian, German and American Avant-Garde, 1909-1914Louise Hardiman, University of CambridgeGossamer Wings or Feet of Clay?: British Portraits of Pavlova and NijinskyAnnie Blood, Courtauld Institute of ArtMoscow/New York: Russo-American Cultural Exchange in the 1920sTheodora Clarke, University of BristolKatherine Dreier and Kandinsky: American Patronage of Russian ArtJulia Bailey, UCLThe Art of Peaceful Existence: The Display of Socialist Realism in America during Khrushchev's ThawSamantha Sherry, University of EdinburghInstrumentalism and anxiety: censorship of western literature in the Soviet UnionMaria Starkova, Courtauld Institute of ArtImagining the Foreign and the New Soviet citizens: Illustrations of Internationalism in Children's Periodicals of the First Two Decades of the USSR (1922-1941)Ariane Galy, University of EdinburghThe Soviet Union, Stalin and the West: creating the Western  historiography of Stalin and StalinismFor further informationhttp://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/community/conferences/cultural-exchange.htmlHosted by the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities and sponsored by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster, University of Bristol and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.Source : H-ArtHist, Mar 29, 2011. &#60;http://arthist.net/archive/1129&#62;.