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SOYUZ 2008 PROGRAM
Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through The Lens of Post-Socialism
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Lounge, Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility (ARF)
2251 College Building, UC Berkeley Campus
Conference Registration (with a Wine & Cheese reception): from 5:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks: 6:15 PM
Keynote Address: 6:30 PM
Dominic Boyer (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Cornell University) &
Alexei Yurchak (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
American Stiob: On the hypernormal kinship of ironic aesthetics in late socialist and late capitalist media
Friday, April 25, 2008.
Maude Fife Room
315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Coffee & Bagels 8:30 AM-9:00 AM
PANEL I 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
The Postsocialist Neoliberal: Hybrid Practices, Reconfigured Dispositions
Chair: Monica Eppinger (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Gerard Weber (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, City University of New York)
The Fish Rots from the Head : Theoretical Insights into the Problem
of Corruption from the Working Class in Post-Socialist Romania
Susanne Cohen (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Postsocialism and the Hybridities of Actually Existing Neoliberalism:
Communicating Agency in the Post-Soviet Office
Oane Visser (Visiting Fellow, Development, University of Wisconsin)
Crucial Connections in Late Socialism, Post-Socialism and Beyond:
Insights from fieldwork on Networks and Institutions in Rural Russia
Larisa Honey (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Lehman College)
Alternative Health in Post-Socialist Moscow: Unifying Individual and
Collectivist Values
Disscusants:
Cindy Huang (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Martha Lampland (Professor, Sociology, UC San Diego)
SHORT BREAK 11:00 AM-11:15 AM
PANEL II 11:15 AM-1:15 AM
Urban places and public spaces in transition
Chair: Gillian Hart (Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley)
Jonathan Larson (Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Miami
University, Ohio) Beyond Anonymity and Intimacy: Parsing Western
Slovak Phenomenologies of Space and 'Normal' Initiative
Pietro Calogero (PhD Candidate, City and Regional Planning, UC
Berkeley) Nostalgia as Appropriation: The Return of GenPlan Urban
Management in Kabul
Jennifer Dickinson (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of
Vermont) The Semiotics of Selling and the Transformation of Public
Space in Postsocialist Ukraine
Catherine Earl (Lecturer, School of Humanities, Communications and
Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia) Cosmopolitan
Subjectivities through the Lens of Postsocialist Anthropology
Discussants:
Ivan Arenas (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
You-Tien Hsing (Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley)
LUNCH 1:15 PM-2:30 PM
(catered for participants in 270 Stephens Hall)
PANEL III 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Epistemologies of Postsocialisms
Chair: Harsha Ram (Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and
Literature, UC Berkeley)
Marianne Liljeström (Professor, Centre for Women s Studies, University
of Turku, Finland) Producing Feminist Knowledge in Postsocialism
Anita Starosta (PhD Candidate, History of Consciousness, UC Santa
Cruz) Shadows of the Postsocialist Future: Newness and Rhetoric
Julia Lerner (Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel) The
Real Pseudo: Considering Post-Soviet Mimetic Culture through the Lens
of Postcolonial and Symbolic Anthropology
Dace Dzenovska (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Postcolonial Sensibility, the Postsocialist Present, and the Question
of Difference
Discussants:
Zhivka Valiavicharska (PhD Candidate, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Bruce Grant (Associate Professor, Anthropology, New York University)
SHORT BREAK 4:30 PM-4:45 PM
PANEL IV 4:45 PM-6:45 PM
Territory, Subject and Citizenship
Chair: Melissa Caldwell (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
Neringa Klumbyte (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Havighurst Center for Russian
and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University, Ohio) Biographic
Citizenship Through the Lens of Postsocialism
Jessica Greenberg (Academy Scholar, Academy for International and Area
Studies, Harvard University) Participatory Democracy, Apathy, and the
Legacies of Yugoslav Socialist Self-management
Mischa Gabowitsch (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sociology, Princeton
University) Post-socialism and the turn from critical theory to a
theory of critique: lessons from the debate about nationalism and
fascism
Liene Ozolina (Graduate Student, Social Sciences, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Bringing Up the New Citizens:
Governmentality in Post-Soviet Latvia
Discussants:
Sener Aktürk (PhD Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley)
Jim Holston (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
DINNER 6:45 PM-8:15 PM
(catered for participants in 330 Wheeler Hall)
FILM SCREENING 8:15 PM
Seda. People of the Marsh (2004, Dir. Kaspars Goba, 52 min)
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Maude Fife Room
315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Coffee & Bagels 8:30 AM-9:00 AM
PANEL V 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
In the Making: Concepts and Boundaries
Chair: Melanie Feakins (Visiting Assistant Professor, Geography and
Economics, University of California, Berkeley)
Zsuzsa Gille (Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign) Materialities of State Socialism and Postsocialism
Madeleine Reeves (Research Councils UK Academic Fellow, Center for
Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester, UK)
Becoming Integral : Separation, Intimacy and Territoriality on the
Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border
Eunice Blavascunas (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
Ecological Gaps: Nature, Absences, and Postsocialist Politics of
Memory in a Polish Wetland
Adriana Chira (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University)
Witnessing the Virtual
Discussants:
Larisa Kurtovic (PhD Student, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Krisztina Fehervary (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of
Michigan)
SHORT BREAK 11:00 AM-11:15 AM
PANEL VI 11:15 AM-1:15 PM
Changing Rationalities: State, Institutions, Expertise
Chair: Yuri Slezkine (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)
Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Stanford
University) Art for Government: entrepreneurial techniques of the
Union of Artists in post-socialist Kazakhstan
Kevin Karpiak (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley) Moral
Divides: The Problem of Policing After the Social
Susanne Wengle (PhD Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley)
Managers, Energetiki and Power Politics: Conflicting Expert
Discourses during the Privatization of the Russian Electricity Sector
Natalia Roudakova (Visiting Lecturer, Communications, UC San Diego)
Post-Soviet Journalism as Prostitution : Understanding Russia s
Reactions to Anna Politkovskaya s Murder
Discussants:
Emily Chua (PhD Student, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Michael Urban (Professor, Politics, UC Santa Cruz)
LUNCH 1:15 PM-2:30 PM
(catered for participants in 270 Stephens Hall)
PANEL VII 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Economies of Affect: Gender, Family, and Labor
Chair: Corinne Hayden (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Maya Nadkarni (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Columbia University) You
are stealing the past : Family Drama and Discourses of Transparency in
Hungary s Informer Scandals
Alexia Bloch (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of British
Columbia, Canada) Post-Soviet Labor Migration and New Geographies of
Power and Intimacy
Ayse Akalin (PhD Candidate, Sociology, City University of New York)
Producing Affects: Migrant Domestic Workers of Postsocialism in Turkey
Nona Shahnzarian (Kuban Social and Economic Institute, Krasnodar,
Russia) Living in Suspense: Illegal Migration, Care Drain and the
Crisis of Patriarchal Masculinity
Discussants:
Alexandre Beliaev (PhD Student, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Bradley Erickson (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 4:45 PM-6:45 PM
Chair:
Nina Aron (PhD Student, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Participants:
Martha Lampland, UC San Diego
Bruce Grant, NYU
Alexei Yurchak, UC Berkeley
Dominic Boyer, Cornell University
Michael Urban, UC Santa Cruz
You-Tien Hsing, UC Berkeley
Dace Dzenovska, UC Berkeley
Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jessica Greenberg, Harvard University
Maya Nadkarni, Columbia University
Open discussion of the conference participants and guests
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