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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 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) K
SHORT BREAK 11:00 AM-11:15 AM K 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) K
SHORT BREAK 4:30 PM-4:45 PM K 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”
, Liene Ozolina
(Graduate Student, Social
Sciences, University of Amsterdam) “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) K DINNER
6:45 PM-8:15 PM
(catered for participants in 330 Wheeler Hall) K 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 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) K
SHORT BREAK 11:00 AM-11:15 AM K 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) K
LUNCH 1:15 PM-2:30 PM (catered for participants at
270 Stephens Hall) K
PANEL VII –
2:30
PM-4:30 PM Economies
of Affect: Gender, Family, and Labor Chair:
Corrine
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) “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) K
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 4:45
PM-6:45 PM K 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 K
DINNER 8 PM (contribution - $10) K Restaurant:
“The Great China” Address:
2115 Kittredge Street (btwn Fulton St & Shattuck Ave) Tel:
(510) 843-7996 Sunday, April
27, 2008 Optional
outing to San Francisco Details
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