program to be forwarded (fwd)

[Kevin Eric Laney]

From: David Koester <dk25 at columbia.edu>

1998 Annual Symposium on Cultural Studies of Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union  27-28 March

SOYUZ
the Research Network for Post-Communist Cultural Studies
presents

Out of the Ruins
Cultural Negotiations in the Soviet Aftermath

Program
Friday
9:00-11:00 Consumer Practices, Lifestyles, and the Changing Social Fabric
Nelson Hancock (Columbia University), "Televisions and Computers:  New
Fishing Tools for a New Political Economy"
Sigrid Rausing (University College, London), "Drink and Leisure: the
Semiotic Significance of Two New Enterprises on a Former Collective Farm
in Estonia"
Stella Grigorian (Rice University), "Shattered Toasts, Shattered
Relationships: Cultural Ruination amidst National Regeneration"
Melissa L. Caldwell (Harvard University), "Pepsi, Pensioners, and Peter
the Great: Moving through Time in the New Russia"
11:00-12:30 - Morning break
12:30-3:00 Continuities and Revivals: Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationhood
Alanna Cooper (Boston University), "Negotiating Identity in Post-Soviet
Uzbekistan: the Jews  of Samarkand"
Kira van Deusen (University of British Columbia), "The Voice of the
Mountain Spirits: New Legends  in the Revival of Khakass Shamanism"
Eva Jane N. Fridman (Brown University), "Lost Locale, Return and Healing
in Kalmykia"
Mary M. Doi  (Bryn Mawr College), "Concerts and Constitutions: Repertoires
of Uzbek Nationhood"
Brian Williams (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "The Reconstruction of
Exiled Identity, Post Soviet Nation Building Among the Crimean Tatars"
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-6:00 Culture Amidst the Ruins:  Ideology and Change in Art and Media
Lily Avrutin (University of Toronto), "Representation of the Ruins in
post-Soviet Film Culture:  Symbol, Root-Metaphor and Chronotope:
Perspective of Interpretive Anthropology"
Olga Shevchenko (University of Pennsylvania), "Search for Tomorrow in
Today's Culture: Contemporary Russian Film Read as a Representation of
Changing Values and Mentalities in post socialist Russia"
Viera Wallace-Lorencova (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Emerging
Feminist and Anti Feminist Discourses in Post-Socialist Slovakia:   the
Role of the Media"
Farhad Atai (Emam sadeq University, Tehran), "Post-Soviet Central Asian
Art and Culture in Transition:  Change for Better or for Worse?"
Richard Wallace (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "An Ethnography of
the Journalism of Social Responsibility"


Saturday
9:30-11:00  Institutions in Ruin: Repercussions of Dissolution
Elsa-Bair Goutchinova (Georgetown University), "Business Layer in
Kalmykia:  How to be Wealthy"
Russell Zanca (Northeastern Illinois University), "The Uzbek Countryside
and the Transition that Got away"
Kathleen Ann Collins (Stanford University), "The Political Culture of
Non-Democratization in Central Asia: a Case Study of Clans and Party
Development in Kirghizstan"
11:00-11:15 - Break
11:15-1:15 Public Space, Memory and Community
Margaret Paxson (McGill University), "The Festival of the Holy Trinity
(Troitsa) in Rural Russia: a Case Study in the Topography of Memory"
Kathleen Smith (Hamilton College), "Redecorating Civic Space in
Post-Soviet Russia:  Moscow's Monumental Propaganda or Public Art?"
Laura Adams (University of California, Berkeley), "What is Culture?
Schemas and Spectacles in Uzbekistan"
Alaina Lemon (University of Michigan), "Talking 'Transit' and Spectating
'Transition': the Moscow Metro"
LUNCH BREAK 1:15-3:00
3:00-5:00 "Culture" and "the Ruins"?: Challenging Frames of Analysis
Petra Rethmann (McMaster University), "In the Time of the Lizard"
Dale Pesmen (University of Chicago), "'We Lost Some Neatness' - Mixed
Imagery and Russian Incoherence"
Hibi Watanabe (University of Tokyo), "An Outline of Culture and
Modernization Processes under Soviet Socialism and in the Aftermath:
Local Definitions of 'Culture' and 'Cultural' by the Selenga Buriats"
Tom Wolfe (University of Michigan), "Transition to Ruins"

March 27-28
501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University


Sponsored by
the Department of Anthropology and the Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, SOYUZ, and the Columbia Graduate Alumni Association