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Subject: Student Conference: Constructing the "Soviet"? Political
Consciousness, Everyday Practices, and New Identities (The European
University at Saint Petersburg, April 19-20, 2013)
The European University at Saint Petersburg
Call for Papers
April 19 - 20, 2013
7th Annual Conference
Constructing the "Soviet"? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, and
New Identities
Since 2007 the conference <Constructing the "Soviet"? Political
Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities> has been held annually
upon the students' initiative in the European University at Saint
Petersburg.
The mission of the event is to provide an international discussion of the
problems of the Soviet history, to develop the academic connections and to
find new methods and approaches. The conference gives to young scholars from
Russia and abroad an opportunity to discuss different aspects of Soviet
everyday life, politics, economics and art; to receive comments of
well-known academics: anthropologists, historians, sociologists and
philologists on their research.
At the conference in April 2013 we would like to discuss inter alia the
following topics:
- The Soviet economic system: beyond the effectiveness? Plan and
competition. The Second economy.
- War and society: the phenomenon of the "Soviet" in the context of the
Great Patriotic (World War II) and Cold Wars. Military and "peaceful"
hardware and technology.
- Postwar repressions. The fight with dissidence.
- The Soviet childhood: Utopia and reality. Pedagogical theories. Toys and
games.
- The foreigners in the USSR and Soviet people abroad. Migration, tourism,
espionage. The image of "The Other".
- Social, political and cultural boarders: the history of Soviet concepts
and practices .
- The language of the official soviet art: from socialist realism to
deideologization.
- Memory and oblivion of the "Soviet".
We invite undergraduate and PhD students specializing in the humanities and
social sciences to send us their short papers to participate in the
conference. No remote participation is possible. The conference languages
are Russian and English.
A collected volume will be published by the beginning of the conference. The
programs and volumes from previous years are available at:
www.eu.spb.ru/history/projects/constructing-the-soviet
Requirements for the short papers: no more than 15 000 characters (including
spaces and footnotes); MS Word (versions 1997 - to 2003), automatic
footnotes. Please also include your contact information, university,
department and year of education.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2013 at:
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The European university at St. Petersburg can cover transportation and
accommodation costs for a few participants.
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