2004 ANNUAL SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM
Memory and the Present in Postsocialist Cultures

Reed College, Portland, Oregon
February 13-14, 2004

Friday, February 13 (Vollum lounge)
8:30 ­ 9:30 Breakfast & Commencing Conviviality

9:30 ­ 11:30 Panel One: National & Ethnic Identities in Post-Socialist
Societies

Hulya Sakarya (Temple U) Looking at Ethnicity: The Case of the Georgians

Gaelyn Aguilar (U Southern California) Image(a)nation: Memory Through the
Eye of the Post-Socialist Macedonian

Konstantine Klioutchkine (Pomona College) The Medium and National Identity:
The Idiot Mini-Series and Dostoevsky's Original in Their Respective Media
Environments

Carol Silverman (U Oregon Eugene) Trafficking the Exotic with "Gypsy" Music:
"World Music" Festivals and Romani Identities

Discussant: Bruce Grant (Swarthmore)

11:45 ­ 1:15 Panel Two: Institutional Regulation of Life and Death

Maria Stoilkova (Columbia U) The Life of the Body National under Question:
Declining Birthrates and Hushed Discontent in Bulgaria

Carolyn Mork (U Chicago) States of Care: Money, Morality and the Politics of
Health Care in Post-Soviet Russia

Jose Alaniz (U Washington) Particularities of National Death: Russian
Hospice

Discussant: Paul Manning (Trent U)


2:30 ­ 4:30 Panel Three: Market, Consumption, and Commoditization

Larissa Rudova (Pomona College) The Children's Detektiv in Post-Soviet
Russia

Diana Mincyte (U Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Displacement of Memory through
Reforms of Rural Settlements in Lithuania

Sara Kaiser-Holt (U Minnesota) De-Silencing the Narratives of Economy in
Rural Post/Socialist Hungary

Tatyana Mamut (UC Berkeley) From Comrade to Consumer: Advertising Practice
and the Making of Post-Soviet Man

Jacob Rigi (Cornell U) Money and Value in Post-Soviet Russia and Kazakhstan


4:45 ­ 6:45 Panel Four: Memories of Mao

Amy Hanser (UC Berkeley) The Politics of "Post" in Postsocialist China

Will Hurst (UC Berkeley) The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and the Framing of
Discontent in Contemporary China

May Shannon (UC Berkeley) Revisionary Time: the Narrating the Present in
Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Terry Woronov (UC Berkeley) Remembering the Future: "Quality" Children and
the Temporality of the Chinese Nation

Discussant: Charlene Makley (Reed College)


8:30 Special Event
Dmitri Prigov: "The Moscow Texts and Screams" (Poetry reading and multimedia
performance, in Russian and English)

Saturday, February 14

9:30 ­ 11:30 Panel Five: Constructions of a Usable Past

Richard Esbenshade (UC Santa Cruz) The 'End of Memory'?  Legacies of 1956 in
Hungary and the Future of Resistance

Maya Nadkarni (Columbia U) Victims and Perpetrators: The House of Terror and
Memory Politics during Hungary's Fourth Postsocialist Election

Oksana Kis (Institute of Ethnology NAS Ukraine) Pleasure and Danger of
Invented Past: the Berehynia Phenomena in Contemporary Ukraine

Serguei Oushakine (Columbia U) Replacing a Loss: Memory in Books and Stone

Olga Roussinova (European U St. Petersburg) Substance of Memory -- Place of
Gap: Monument to the Poet Iosif Brodsky in St. Petersburg


12:00 ­ 1:00 Keynote Address Daphne Berdahl (U Minnesota): Goodbye Lenin,
Auf Wiedersehen GDR:  The Social Life of Socialism


2:30 ­ 4:30 Panel Six: Post-socialist Nostalgia

Ana Devic (University of Aarhus Denmark) Yugonostalgia as a False Name:
Identity as Social Trajectories

Zala Volcic (U Colorado Boulder) Balkan Identities in the New Europe: Memory
and nostalgia for the former Yugoslavia

Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College) Red Nostalgia: Reconstructing Memories of
Communism in Bulgaria

Nikolai Voukov (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin) The Memory of "Paths Lost":
Commemorative Visits and "Mass Tourism" in Post-1989 Bulgaria

Discussant: Jennifer Cash (Indiana University)


4:45 ­ 6:45 Panel Seven: Trauma, Religion, Renewal

Jeanne Kormina (European U St. Petersburg) Seeking for God as Seeking for
Past: Culture of Travels in Post-Soviet Society

Jeffers Engelhardt (U Chicago) "Today is an important day here, the birthday
of our own religion": Festivity and Renewal in the Orthodox Church of
Estonia

Jason James (Lafayette College) Recalling Trauma : The Reconstruction of the
Church of Our Lady in Dresden

Violeta Davoliute (U Toronto) Deportee Memoirs and Post-Soviet Identity in
the Baltics

Discussant: Olga Shevchenko (Williams)


The 2004 SOYUZ Symposium is sponsored by the Office of the Reed College
President and the Reed College Departments of Anthropology and Russian

Contacts:
Marko Zivkovic ­ [log in to unmask]
Evgenii Bershtein  ­ [log in to unmask]