Conf.-"Post-Communist Nostalgia", U Illinois, April 7-8

[Lynda Park]

The Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

International Conference on "Post-Communist Nostalgia"

April 7-8, 2006
314 Illini Union
1401 W. Green Urbana

For a complete program see http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/annual.html

Opening Address
"From Utopia to Propaganda and Back"
Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois)

Documentary Film Screening
"Bastards of Utopia"
(2006, 64 minutes - rough cut; Directors: Pacho Velez and Maple Razsa)

Other Presenters
Laura Adams (Princeton University)
Daphne Berdahl (University of Minnesota)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell University)
Donna Buchanan (University of Illinois)
Cynthia Buckley (University of Texas)
Fedja Buric (University of Illinois)
Victoria Clement (University of Illinois)
Gerald Creed (CUNY)
Diana Georgescu (University of Illinois)
Bruce Grant (New York University)
Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois)
Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)
Tanja Petrovic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences)
Tim Pilbrow (University of Illinois)
Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)
Oana Popescu-Sandu (University of Illinois)
Maple Razsa (Harvard University)
Cristofer Scarboro (University of Illinois)
Anna Szemere (Washington State University)
Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley)

Related Events:

Thursday, 6 April
CAS/MillerComm Lecture
"The Spider Trap: Corruption, Organized Crime and Transition in the Balkans 
and Russia"
Misha Glenny (Award-winning journalist and author of The Balkans, 1804-1999)
7:30pm, Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center

Saturday, 8 April
Balkanalia (UI Balkan Ensemble) Spring Concert
8:00 pm, 
<http://webtools.uiuc.edu/ricker/CampusMap?target=search&building=60>Smith 
Recital Hall
805 S. Matthews St, Urbana

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