[Marxism] FW: Conference - What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories, April 6-8, Toronto

["Louis R Godena" <louisgodena@xxxxxxx>]

Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies


CONF.- What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories, April 6-8, Toronto

What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories

An International Conference sponsored by the Connaught Fund and the Centre 
for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

6-8 April 2006

Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

For more information and to register, please go to:
http://www.utoronto.ca/ceres/realsocialism.html

'What is Soviet Now?' is the conclusion of a three-year collaborative 
project, 'Real Socialism and the 'Second World'.' Funded by a University of 
Toronto Connaught grant for seed support for research clusters, the project 
is administered by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, 
and directed by Thomas Lahusen (History and Comparative Literature), Robert 
Johnson (History), Peter Solomon (Political Science), Susan Solomon 
(Political Science), and Lynne Viola (History).

Fifteen years after the demise of the Soviet Union, the definition and 
reality of what it meant to be 'Soviet' remain contested and ambiguous, 
subject to perspective and context. 'What is Soviet Now?' will address a 
series of themes or problems to explore how the meaning of the Soviet 
experience has changed, and is continuing to change, from the founding 
utopian dreams and the successful and unsuccessful attempts to implement 
them, to its post-Soviet present. Papers will focus on a set of core themes 
that may aid us in charting the meanings of 'Sovietness' and the legacies of 
the Soviet experience. What remains fifteen years after the end of the USSR, 
for those who lived and live within its old/new borders, for its 
competitors, its observers? Is what remains socialist? Is it Soviet? Does 
memory reconstruct a Soviet past, a socialist past, a nationalist one, or 
some combination of all of these categories? How do we understand 
post-Soviet nostalgia, which seems to be on the rise in Russia and other 
territories of the former Soviet Union?

The conference, which includes papers and film presentations, is open to the 
public.

Thursday, April 6
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South Building

Morning session:

9:15-10:00
Keynote speaker: Masha Gessen (Moscow): 'CCCP = Cool. How Russia Fell in 
Love with Soviet All over Again'

10:00-10:30 Discussion

10:45-12:30
 - Ben Eklof (Indiana University): 'By a Different Yardstick': Boris 
   Mironov's A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, its Reception in 
   Russia, and Perceptions of Western Hegemony'
 - Lynne Viola (University of Toronto): 'The Historical Legacy of 
   Collectivization, or What was Soviet about Collectivization'
Discussant: Wayne Dowler (University of Toronto)

Afternoon session:

2:00-3:45
 - Kathleen Smith (Georgetown University): 'Whither Anti-Stalinism?'
 - Tracy McDonald (McMaster University): 'Who's Afraid of Joseph Stalin?'
Discussant: Steve Maddox (University of Toronto)

4:00-5:45
 - Steve Barnes (George Mason University): 'Forging Soviet Society in the 
   Gulag'
 - Judith Pallott (University of Oxford): 'Continuities in Russia's 'Culture 
   of Punishment': Space and Gender in Post-Soviet Patterns of Penality'
Discussant: Sarah Young (University of Toronto)

Friday, April 7
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South Building

Morning session:

9:00-11:00
 - Rebecca Manley (Queen's University): 'Memories of Evacuation'
 - Heather DeHaan (Binghamton University): 'The Archaeology of a Post-Soviet 
   City: Nizhnii Novgorod'
 - Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley): 'Socialism Re-Visioned: Pionerki and Other 
   Soviet Heroes Born Today'
Discussant: Thomas Lahusen (University of Toronto)

11:15-12:30
Documentary film: The Province of Lost Film (A. Gershtein, T. Lahusen, T. 
McDonald, A. Nikitin, 2005, 47 min.), followed by discussion

Afternoon session:

2:00-5:45
 - Michael David (University of Chicago): 'Social Welfare or Wasteful 
   Excess? The Legacy of Early Soviet Tuberculosis Control Programs in 
   Post-Soviet Russia'
 - Dan Healey (University of Wales Swansea): ''Untraditional Sex' and the 
   'Simple Russian': Nostalgia for Soviet Innocence in the Polemics of Dilia 
   Enikeeva'
 - Andrea Chandler (Carleton University): 'Social Identity and the 
   Individual in Russian Welfare State Reform since Gorbachev'
 - Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto): 'From a 'prominent biologist' 
   to a 'Red Frankenstein': Il'ia Ivanov in Soviet and Post-Soviet
   Biographies'
Discussant: Susan Solomon (University of Toronto)

Saturday, April 8
Room 108, North Building

Morning session:

9:00-11:00
 - Alena Ledeneva (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University 
   College London): 'Behind the Facade of Post-Soviet Institutions'
 - Jessica Allina-Pisano (Colgate University): 'Klichkov i Pustota: 
   Post-Soviet Bureaucrats and the Production of Institutional Facades'
 - Anton Oleinik (Memorial University of Newfoundland): 'Embeddedness of 
   Sovietness in a Particular Model of Power Relationships: A Conceptual 
   Framework'
Discussant: Peter Solomon (University of Toronto)

11:15-1:00
 - James Millar (George Washington University): 'Markets, Money and Private 
   Property. The Persistence of Soviet Socialism in Russia Today'
 - Robert Johnson (University of Toronto): 'Markets and Memories: The
   Moral Economy of the Rynok'
Discussant: Harriet Friedmann (University of Toronto)

Afternoon session

2:00-3:00 General discussion




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