ASJA ABOUT WALTER BENJAMIN 

The New Russian Kitsch or Re-reading Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary


Panel at the VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Berlin, Germany, July 25-30, 2005

Stream
Politics, International Relations, Security

Chair
Reut, Oleg

Keywords
Walter Benjamin, IR and social views, diary, kitsch

This panel questions and problematizes the notion of kitsch within International Relations and Social Analysis. The main goal will be to explore the new challenges for IR: terrorism, globalisation, and contemporary Islam. Walter Benjamin's theory of kitsch will provide a theoretical and empirical basis for our line of intellectual discourse.



Speaker
Smirnov, Dmitrii, d-smirnov@mail.ru
Paper title
Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary as Device for the Discovery of Kitsch

Speaker
Homanuk, Mykola, mamon_off@wp.pl
Paper title
Kitsch in the Perception of Terrorism

Speaker
Ibrahimov, Rovshan, rovsen@azerimail.net
Paper title
Kitsch in the Perception of Contemporary Islam

Speaker
Reut, Oleg, olegreut@psu.karelia.ru
Paper title
Kitsch in the Perception of Globalisation

Discussant
Izotov, Alexander, aleksander.izotov@joensuu.fi
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