Photographing Landscape and People: Political Exiles and Visual Representations of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia

press release:  Please join us for the next in our Spring Lecture Series: Tatiana Saburova's lecture titled “Photographing Landscape and People: Political Exiles and Visual Representations of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia."The lecture is focused upon several themes connected both with the history of photography and representations of Siberia. Saburova explores, for example, why it is that political exiles made such a distinctive contribution to the development of photography and to the construction of the image of Siberia in late Imperial Russia. The lecture will also examine what Russian revolutionaries photographed in Siberia, how this fit with their ideological constellations and activities as a whole, and how these representations reinforced, altered, and undermined powerful myths and stereotypes about Siberia, landscape and people.

The Speaker:

Dr. Tatiana Saburova, a visiting Professor at Indiana University, Professor at the Department of History, Omsk State Pedagogical University (Russia). Her book "Mythologies of the Russian Intellectual World: Socio-Cultural Representations of the Russian Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century" (2005) looks at the social and cultural representations of Russian intellectuals. She is a member of Russian Society for Intellectual History, International Auto/Biography Association, and a member of the editorial board of “AvtobiografiЯ,” Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture (Padova University). Tatiana was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Indiana University (2011), DAAD visiting scholar at Freiburg University (2010) and a visiting scholar at Tuebingen University (2013). Her current research focuses on the identities and strategies of behavior of Russian intelligentsia in the Late Imperial Russia, generations and historical memory.