[Daviscenter-list] Symposium Dec 3 @ MFA: Propaganda Textiles and Early Soviet Culture

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3rd, 9 A.M. - 3 P.M. SYMPOSIUM in conjunction with "DESIGNING THE MODERN UTOPIA: SOVIET TEXTILES FROM THE LLOYD COTSEN COLLECTION" at the MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON A symposium on propaganda textiles and the early Soviet cultural context will be held the morning of Sunday, December 3^rd in Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The event is free and open to the public, and no prior registration is required. Speakers will include Pamela Kachurin of Duke University and curator of the exhibition /Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles in Lloyd Cotsen Collection/, on Soviet textiles in the context of Soviet visual culture; Michael O'Mahoney of the University of Bristol on sports in Soviet culture; Jacqueline Atkins, of the Allentown Museum of Art, on textiles and propaganda; Terry Martin, of Harvard University, on utopianism in the late 1920s and 1930s; and Vida Johnson of Tufts University, who will introduce "Enthusiasm" by Dziga Vertov (USSR, 1921, 67 minutes) a Soviet film to be screened in the afternoon. Tickets are required for the film only ($8 / $9), and available through Remis Box Office (617-369-3306) or online at mfa.org. For further information please go to http://www.mfa.org/calendar/sub.asp?key=12&subkey=3595 <http://www.mfa.org/calendar/sub.asp?key=12&subkey=3595> or contact Alex Huff (ahuff(a)mfa.org; 617.369.3976). SCHEDULE *9:00 a.m.**:* Dr. Pamela Kachurin, Guest Curator of /Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles in Lloyd Cotsen Collection/; Assistant Visiting Professor, Duke University Topic: Soviet Thematic Textiles and their Visual Context, 1920s-1930s *9:40 a.m.**: *Dr. Michael O'Mahoney, Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Bristol, UK Topic: "Fizkult-Hurrah!:" The Sports Theme in Soviet Art between the Wars *10:20-10:30 a.m*.: BREAK *10:30 a.m.**:* Jacqueline Atkins, The Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Curator of Textiles, Allentown Museum of Art and curator of /Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States 1931-1945/ Topic: Propaganda textiles *11:10 a.m.**: *Dr. Terry Martin, Department of History, Harvard University Topic: Utopias: Conflicting Visions of Revolutionary Transformation *Noon-1:30 p.m.:* BREAK *1:30-3:15 p.m.**:* Dr. Vida Johnson, Slavic Department, Tufts University Topic: Introduction to screening of "Enthusiasm" by Dziga Vertov (USSR, 1921, 67 minutes)