From: Nancy Ries <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Call for Papers - Soyuz Symposium 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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