Dear Colleagues,
Please see the below announcements which have just been sent to the
'memory in postsocialism' network, some of which may be of interest to
this list.
With apologies for cross-posting.
Best wishes,
Anna
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1) Subject: CfA: Newsletter "Aktuelles aus der DDR-Forschung" - Berlin
01/11
Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur 20.01.2011, Berlin
Deadline: 20.02.2011
Der Newsletter "Aktuelles aus der DDR-Forschung" wird von der
Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur drei Mal jährlich
erarbeitet und auf ihrer Website (www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de)
veröffentlicht. Er informiert über geplante Veranstaltungen zur
DDR-Geschichte, Forschungsprojekte, Neuerscheinungen, Ausstellungen und
sonstige aktuelle Hinweise zum Thema. Der nächste Newsletter erscheint
Ende Februar/Anfang März und soll Terminankündigungen bis einschließlich
Juli 2011 beinhalten.
Gerne nehmen wir Meldungen aus Ihren Institutionen oder eigene Vorhaben
in den Newsletter auf. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie uns über
Tagungen, aktuelle Forschungsvorhaben, "graue" Literatur, neu
erschlossene Archivbestände, Ausstellungen, neue fachspezifische
Internetportale etc. etc. informieren würden. Sehr gern können Sie uns
auch Kurztexte oder den ausgefüllten Fragebogen, den wir Ihnen auf
Anfrage zusenden, zu in Vorbereitung befindlichen Projekten oder
Publikationsvorhaben per mail, Fax oder Post übermitteln.
Einsendeschluss der Mitteilungen für den nächsten Newsletter ist der 20.
Februar 2011.
Die bereits erschienenen Newsletter können Sie auf der Homepage der
Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung einsehen und downloaden
(www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de/service_wegweiser/ddr_newsletter.php).
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Meldungen!
Dr. Ulrich Mählert
Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur Kronenstraße 5, 10117
Berlin
Fax: 030/ 319 895 210
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(2) Pre-dissertation fellowship:
Please note that the deadline for the Society for the Anthropology of
Europe/Council on European Studies Predissertation Fellowship is
February 15, 2011.
As prompted by SAE President Deborah Reed-Danahay, I was able to change
the announcement on one of two SAE webpages mentioning the deadline (
http://www.h-net.org/~sae/sae/Pre-diss_award.html ). Irritatingly,
however, because I am traveling, I couldn't fix the date on the more
complicated code for the activities page (
http://www.h-net.org/~sae/sae/Activities.html ). It should read
February 15, not February 1.
For application instructions see
http://ces.columbia.edu/awards/awards.html
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(3) Papers are invited for the panel: A POLITICS OF DISRUPTION?
AESTHETICS AND POST-SOCIALISM
General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research
Reyjkavik, 25-27 August 2011
Panel Abstract:
The collapse of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, coupled with the sharp
market turn taken by countries such as China and Vietnam, have given
rise to a plethora of new aesthetic forms. Such transformations have
occurred not only in the traditional arts (painting, music, theatre) but
also in the broader culture sphere (space, architecture, new media). A
dominant force driving such changes is the introduction of the market
economy, which critics argue has enriched only a small number of elites.
Through an inversion of working-class cultural hegemony promoted under
socialism, the material and aesthetic desires of this newly enriched
class have become the same desires of the under-classes. Additionally,
it has been argued that the advent of global capitalism within
former-socialist states has reified enclaves of socio-cultural
difference hitherto resistant to such a project (Jameson). This
?disneyfication? of elements ranging from collective memory to ethnic
minority culture, illustrates how market forces are pressed into the
service of re-emerging (and re-imagined) forms of nationalism. The
proposed panel offers an interrogation of this totalizing scenario.
Participants are invited to present work on various aesthetic practices
and possibilities which resist, embrace, co-opt, re-invent, disrupt or
are even indifferent to such forces.
Speakers might want to address ways in which earlier socialist
aesthetics continue to haunt the present; whether these forms offer any
emacipatory value; whether the persistence of authoritarian rule in
certain post-socialist states provides forms of resistance predicated on
modernist notions of ?Truth? (Badiou); and how such potential might
contrast with post-modern parliamentary democracies in which such
movements are no longer fashionable. The panel, which approaches
questions of art and aesthetics in the broadest possible sense,
encourages submissions from a wide range of disciplines including
anthropology, art history, architecture, cultural studies, political
science and urban studies.
Please submit paper proposals by 1 February via the ECPR website below:
http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=334
Please note that you do not have to be a member of ECPR to propose a paper.
Soyuz: the Research Network for Post-Socialist Cultural Studies
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(4) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Beyond Socialism and Liberalism? Transnational Perspectives from Eastern
Europe and East Asia
Rice University, Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room January 28th - 29th,
2011,
Thematic overview:
Much research on China and Eastern Europe in the humanities and social
sciences today emphasizes the importance of a socialist legacy, often
characterizing these as "post-socialist," "late socialist" or even
"neo-socialist" environments. Alternative accounts have emphasized the
impact of political liberalism and market capitalism in both regions
over the past twenty years. This conference asks whether the seemingly
hybrid cultural forms, social institutions and political ideologies that
are emerging in China and Eastern Europe (among other "post-socialist"
contexts) can really be meaningfully captured by the spectrum of terms
ranging from "late socialism" to "neo-liberalism."
Cultural studies of contemporary China and Eastern Europe routinely turn
up mutations and fusions of socialist and liberal influence that
confound exclusionary models. Nevertheless, socialism and liberalism
(inflected by their various "posts", "lates" and "neos") still tend to
provide scholarship its most significant compass points in the social
analysis of these regions. We thus face a problematic gap between our
analytical strategies and the complexity of real cultural, social and
political forms. The conference seeks to address this gap by asking
whether our inherited oppositional understandings of "socialism" and
"liberalism" can really account for the new kinds of political ideas and
social subjectivities, the new aesthetics and mediated forms of
knowledge and the new relations of practice and property that have
emerged in China and Eastern Europe particularly after the collapse of
Cold War geopolitics.
10:30 CONCEPTS, CONJUNCTURES, GENEALOGIES
Chair: Elizabeth Marks, Rice U.
Presenters:
Lisa Hoffman, U. of Washington, "Late-socialist neoliberalism?
Questions of Professionalism, Volunteerism, and Governmentality in
Contemporary China."
Rebecca Karl, NYU, "Post-liberal post-socialist China? The Contemporary
Conjuncture in Transnational Perspective?
Discussant: Tani Barlow, Rice U.
12:30-200 LUNCH
2:00 AESTHETICS, GOVERNANCE, IDEOLOGY
Chair: Lina Dib, Rice U.
Presenters:
Janine Wedel, George Mason, "Shadow Elite: How the Study of Socialism
and Post-Socialism Illuminates Governing in the United States Today"
Dominic Boyer, Rice U., and Alexei Yurchak, UC-Berkeley, "Stiob invades
Washington (and Reykjavik): How the Aesthetics of Overidentification are
Entering Western Political Culture"
Discussant: James Faubion, Rice U.
4:30 Close of first day
January 29 (Saturday)
9:30 CONTEXTS, DESIGNS, PRACTICES
Chair: Anthony Potoczniak, Rice U.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Dunn, U. of Colorado, "Humanitarianism or Solidarity?
Liberalism, State Care, and the New World Order in the Caucasus"
Amy Ninetto, Rice U., "Designs for Knowing: Academic Town, Science Park,
and Technopolis"
Elitza Ranova, Rice U., "The Sweet Smell of Success: Talent, Cultural
Production, and Entrepreneurial Selves after the End of Socialism"
Discussant: Carl Caldwell, Rice U.
12:00 LUNCH
1:30 GRADUATE STUDENT ROUNDTABLE
Presenters:
Jessica Lockrem, Rice U.
Laura Resendez, Rice U.
Maria Vidart, Rice U.
Moderator: Marcel LaFlamme, Rice U.
3:00 END OF CONFERENCE
For further information, please contact: Dominic Boyer
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