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*Vocabularies of Informality*
One-day workshop of the CEELBAS ‘Languages of
Informality’ interdisciplinary research network
http://www.rees.ox.ac.uk/languages-informality<http://www.rees.ox.ac.uk/languages-informality*>
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Friday, 15th March, 2013
Venue: School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford 11
Bevington Road, OX2 6LH, Oxford.
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Please note: there are currently limited places available
We invite scholars of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia from across the
Humanities and Social Sciences to join us for a one-day workshop which
considers comparatively the vocabulary, etymology, and semantics of
localized terms for informal economic behaviour (*blat,znajomosci, štela,*
*şpaga*), as well as their appearance and role in regional literary and
cultural traditions. This is the first of two workshops designed to bring
together scholars from CEELBAS institutions, policy makers, and
representatives of third sector organizations to the debate linguistic,
literary, and analytical aspects of networking, favouritism, clientelism,
bribery, and corruption across the contemporary post-socialist Eurasia.
*Programme*
10:15 Welcome
David Henig (Kent) & Nicolette Makovicky (Oxford)
10:30 ‘Buying the Story – The informal economy of narrative’
Jonathan Paine (University of Oxford)
Respondents: Nicolette Makovicky (Oxford) and Oliver Ready
(Oxford/Russkiy Mir)
12:00 Lunch
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13:00 ‘Towards an Encyclopaedia of Informal Practices’
Prof Alena Ledeneva (UCL)
Respondents: Marina Kurkchiyan (Oxford) and Nikolai
Ssorin-Chaikov (Cambridge)
14:30 Coffee
15:00 ‘Moskvachylyk: Economies of favour and indifference in Moscow´s
temporary housing market’
Dr Madeleine Reeves (Manchester)
Respondents: David Henig (Kent) and Dace Dzenovska
(Oxford)
16:30 Coffee and Open Discussion
The Languages of Informality research network is organized jointly by
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, and School
of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent; with generous funding
from the Centre for East European Language Based Studies (CEELBAS).
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