> CONF./CFP- Soyuz Symposium 2001, Berkeley, 16-17 Feb. 2001
>
> Call for Papers:
>
> From the "Internationale" to the Transnational: Repositioning Socialist
> and
> Post-Socialist Cultures
> Annual Symposium of Soyuz: the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural
> Studies
> University of California, Berkeley, February 16 & 17, 2001
>
> In an era when the boundaries of the former Soviet bloc are expanding
> beyond
> the clearly-marked "Internationale" to include increasingly
> deterritorialized globalizations, scholars' analyses of postsocialist
> cultures are also expanding to include questions about the realities and
> mythologies associated with integrating these communities into "world
> culture." This year's Soyuz symposium in postsocialist cultural studies
> explores new ways to talk about Soviet and post-Soviet cultures and
> societies in relation to globalization. We will discuss how local
> cosmologies can be linked with larger interpretive frameworks to form and
> answer questions about post-Soviet cultures' and subcultures'
> participation
> in, and ambivalence or resistance toward, international processes. Also of
> interest are historically informed, theoretical questions about the
> constitution of global communities and the presentation of post-Soviet
> subjects in light of globalization.
>
> Possible topics for papers include cultural syncretism, identity
> formation,
> diaspora, the presocialist global eras, emigre communities, refugees,
> international relief efforts, NGOs, corporate cultures, technocracy,
> technology, labor, war. Presentations may be from any discipline
> (anthropology, sociology, folklore, political science, history, literary
> criticism, etc.) and may focus on any aspect of social life - religion,
> politics, economics and exchange, kinship and the family, gender,
> language,
> the arts - but papers must strive to creatively and successfully combine
> solid ethnographic and/or empirical evidence with theory. Comparative work
> is especially of interest.
>
> First-come, first-served housing can be arranged in Berkeley and travel
> subsidies for some foreign presenters will be provided.
>
> Please send abstracts of 250 words or less by e-mail, to:
> Rachael Stryker <[log in to unmask]>
>
> The deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 1, 2000.
>
> If you have any questions or would like further information, please
> contact:
> Nancy Ries ([log in to unmask]).
>
> For more information, or to see the program of past Symposia, visit the
> Soyuz website at <http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/soyuz>
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