NEW POSTSOCIALIST ONTOLOGIES AND POLITICS
THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF SOYUZ: The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies
March 11-12, 2011
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/events/conferences/SOYUZ.html
March 11, Friday
Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
4:00 pm Reception
4:15-4:30pm Introduction
4:30-6:30pm Keynote panel Katherine Verdery, Michael Burawoy
March 12, Saturday
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
9:00-10:30 New Geopolitical Imaginaries I: What East-West Directionality?
Neoliberalism, Markets, and Socialism
Johanna Bockman (George Mason University)
Ghosts of ’97: Ponzi Finance as a Living Paradigm of Postsocialist Neoliberalism
Smoki Musaraj (The New School)
Provincializing Neoliberalism through Culture(s)
Manduhai Buyandelger (MIT)
Reinstating International Women’s Day: Communist Relic, Euro-Conformity, or Radical Feminism?
Karen Kapusta-Pofahl (Washburn University)
Discussant: Maria Todorova (University of Illinois)
10:45-12:00 What Was the Socialist Subject?
Commodity-As-Comrade: The Politics and Practice of Consumption in Brezhnev’s Lithuania
Diana Mincyte (Yale University)
Transnational Epistemic Communities in Socialist Psychology
Tuomas Laine-Frigren (Jyväskylä/Aleksenteri Institute, Helsinki)
From Socialist Internationalism to Contemporary Nomadism
Beth Hinderliter (SUNY, Buffalo)
Discussant: Neringa Klumbyte (Miami University)
1:00-2:15 New Geopolitical Imaginaries II: The Whiteness of State Socialism and Postsocialism
In the Claws of the Black Crab: Historical Imagination in Postcolonial Europe
Dace Dzenovska (University of Latvia)
Between the Local and the Global: The Case of Socialist Yugoslavia and Postsocialist Slovenia
Nina Vodopivec (Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Whitened Histories: Revision, Reaction and Race in the Post-State-Socialist Politics of History in Hungary
József Böröcz (Rutgers University)
Discussant: Bruce Grant (NYU, ASEEES)
2:30-3:45 Living in Truth: Making Postsocialist Subjects
“The Power of the Powerless”: Eastern European Socialist Dissent, Western Theories of Civil Society, and their Brokers
Jonathan Larson (University of Iowa)
Secrets and Lies: “Truth-telling” and transparency in Hungary’s informer scandals
Maya Nadkarni (Swarthmore College)
Transparency between West and East
Susanne Cohen (Temple University)
Discussant: Olga Shevchenko (Williams College)
4:00-5:30 Postsocialism as a Global Political Condition?
A Genealogy of (post-)Soviet Dependency: Civil Rights or Redistribution
Cassandra Hartblay (University of North-Carolina, Chapel Hill)
The Politics of Recognition in Post-Socialist Latvia
Alexandre Beliaev (University of California, Berkeley)
Future as a Predicament: Answerable Politics and the Crisis of Youth in Postwar Bosnia
Larisa Kurtovic (University of California, Berkeley)
Postsocialism and/as the Anthropology of Democracy
Jessica Greenberg (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois)
5:30-6:30 Concluding Roundtable
For further information please go to the conference webpage:
http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/events/conferences/SOYUZ.html
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