Locating "Eurasia" in Postsocialist Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming"
April 27-29, 2007
2007 Annual SOYUZ Symposium
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 27 | |
| 2.30-3.00 | Registration |
| 3.OO-5.OO ROUND TABLE | “EURASIA”: OLD THEMES AND NEW APPROACHES |
| Sergei Glebov (Smith College) Russia, Eurasia, and the Mongol-Bolshevik Revolution: in Search of Non-Eurocentric History Stefan Wiederkehr (German Historical Institute in Warsaw) Forging a Concept: “Eurasia” in Classical Eurasianism Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University) Eurasia and Its Uses: The History of an Idea and the Mental Geography of post-Soviet Space Moderator: Michael Gordin (Princeton University) |
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| 5.3O-6.3O KEYNOTE ADDRESS: | Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University): Eurasia: Disease Masquerading as the Cure? |
| 7.OO-9.OO RECEPTION | followed by an informal meeting with Mark Beissinger, the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 28 | |
| 9.OO – 11.OO PANEL 1. | NAMES AND SPACES IN EURASIA |
| Chair: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University) Steven Seegel (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University) Metageography Unbound? Late 19th-Century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space Abel Polese (Hannah Arendt Institute fur Totalitarismusforschung, Germany) The Fluidity of the Eurasian Borders, (Mentally) Mapping the Self and the Other in Odessa Michael Denison (University of Leeds) Reluctant Eurasians? Great Patriotic War Commemoration as Geocultural Anchor in Turkmenistan Discussant: Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton University) |
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| 11.3O – 1:30 PANEL 2. | TRAVELING IDEAS: NATURAL FUSION? |
| Chair: Krista Hegburg (Columbia University) Anya Bernstein (New York University) Pilgrims, Fieldworkers, and Secret Agents: Buryat Buddhologists and Eurasian Imaginary Catherine Wanner (Pennsylvania State University) Missionizing Eurasia: The Global Networks of Ukrainian Evangelicals Sonja Luehrmann (University of Michigan) “Only Russians Can Convert the Muslim World:” Eurasian Spaces in the Geopolitical Imagination of Russian Evangelicals Katerina Seraïdari (Centre d’anthropologie de Toulouse) Greece and the 1990s Balkan Crisis: Political Manipulations of the Notion of Eurasia Discussant: Ruth Mandel (University College London) |
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| 2.3O- 4:3O PANEL 3. | ECONOMIES OF BACKWARDNESS AND MODERNIZATION |
| Chair: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University) Leyla J. Keough (University of Massachusetts) The Gendering of Migration Management in a Postsoviet Borderland: Limiting Moldovan Women’s Mobility and Legitimating a New “Backwardness Project” Neringa Klumbyte (University of Pittsburgh) The Geopolitics of Provincialism and Political Economy of the Orient in post-EU Lithuania Carroll T. Patterson (Johns Hopkins University) Diverging Pathways to the Periphery: The Case of Georgian and Moldovan Wines Alla Kassianova (Tomsk State University/Stanford University) Between .ru and .com: Geopolitics of the Virtual Space Discussant: Bruce Grant (New York University) |
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| 4.30- 4.45 | Break |
| 4.45.-6.45 PANEL 4. | MARKETING POSTSOCIALIST IDEAS |
| Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) Michal Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) The Invention of Postsocialist Anthropologists and Anthropology by Anthropologists Elena Gapova (European Humanities University, Vilnius) On (Not) Getting Lost in the Vast Spaces of Eurasia: Intellectuals and Symbolic Markets Johanna K. Bockman (George Mason University) The Economics Profession in Post-Socialist Hungary: The Continuity of East-West Connections and Practices Edgar Hoffmann (University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna) Eurasia Between Cultural Studies and Marketing & Management Discussant: John Borneman (Princeton University) |
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| SUNDAY, APRIL 29 | |
| 9.OO-11.OO PANEL 5. | EURASIAN SPECTACLES: IDENTITIES IN PERFORMANCE |
| Chair: Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania) Joseph Crescente (Indiana University) Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine Michael R. Rouland (Miami University) Images of Eurasia: Conceptualizing Central Asia through Film Aimar Ventsel (Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu) Sakha Pop Music: Selling the “Exotic” i.e. European in Asia and Asian in Europe Aida Huseynova (Baku Music Academy) Contemporary Music of Azerbaijan: Restructuring "Eurasian" Phenomenon Discussant: Alexei Yurchak (Berkeley) |
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| 11.15 – 1:15 PANEL 6. | NEW BORDERS AND PERIPHERIES: POLITICS IN BETWEEN |
| Chair: Kristen Ghodsee (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Justine Buck Quijada (University of Chicago) Etigilov between East and West: The Border Politics of Buryat Buddhism Eunice Blavascunas (University of California Santa Cruz) Primeval Forest and Relic Dictatorship on the EU's External Border: Bialowieza, Poland Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt University, Berlin) Locating the Homeland. Armenia between East and West, Between the “Second” and the “Third World” Jenifer Patico (Georgia State University) In Search of Serious Husbands and Sincere Ladies: Power and Meaning in the Russian-American Matchmaking Industry Discussant: Nancy Ries (Colgate University) |
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| 1.15- 2.00 | Concluding remarks; an informal discussion of the Soyuz’s plans and future. |
| Getting to Campus: Click here for directions |
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| Staying in Princeton: Nassau Inn Ten Palmer Square Princeton, New Jersey 08542 Phone: 609.921.7500 or 1.800.NASSAU Click here for a list of local hotels. |
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| For more information, email OUSHAKIN@PRINCETON.EDU | |
THE SYMPOSIUM IS SPONSORED BY:
• PRINCETON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES •
• THE PROGRAM IN RUSSIAN & EURASIAN STUDIES •
• THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY •
• THE COUNCIL OF THE HUMANITIES •
• THE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR HUMAN VALUES •
• THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES •
