Final Program: The Everyday Life in Russia Workshop

[Elena Gapova]

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the program for The Everyday Life in Russia Workshop is now available.
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The Everyday Life in Russia Workshop

Panel Schedule

Bloomington, May 13-15  (Indiana University)

14 May 2010, FRIDAY:


8.30am to 10.30am:

Introductory Remarks: David Ransel

PANEL I: THEORIZING EVERYDAY LIFE, INTER-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

David Ransel (Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Everyday Life History: Some Examples

Ilya Utekhin (Department of Anthropology, European University, St.
Petersburg) Visual means of ethnographic inquiry into everyday

Maria Bucur (Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington) Citizen
Doina Flushes the Toilet:  Everyday Citizenship under Communism

MODERATOR: Alex Rabinowitch (Emeritus, Department of History, Indiana
University, Bloomington)

11.00am to 1.00pm

PANEL II: ORGANIZING LIVING SPACE

Rebecca Friedman (Department of History, Florida International University)
At Home in Russia: Representations of the Domestic Interior at the Turn of
the Twentieth Century

Susan Reid (Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of
Sheffield) Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev-Era Standard Apartment

Douglas Rogers (Department of Anthropology, Yale University) The Oil Company
and the Crafts Fair: Space, Culture, and the Vanishing Everyday in Russia’s
Oil Boom

Sarah Phillips (Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Mobile Citizenship: Disability and Spatial Politics in the Socialist and
Postsocialist State

MODERATOR: Padraic Kenney (Department of History, Indiana University,
Bloomington)


2.30pm to 4.30pm

PANEL III: SOCIAL LOCATIONS AND NORMS OF EVERYDAY SOCIABILITY

Steven Harris (Department of History, University of Mary Washington)
Khrushchëby, Superquadra, Projects: Soviet Mass Housing  And the
Globalization of Everyday Life, 1950s-1960s

Deborah Field (Department of History, Adrian College) Everyday Life and the
Changing Parameters of Public and Private during the Khrushchev Period

Elizabeth McGuire (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, UC, Berkeley)
Kolia-kitaets

Mollie Cavender (Department of History, Ohio State University, Mansfield)
The Practices and Theory of Everyday Life in Russia: The Provincial Gentry

MODERATOR: Sheila Fitzpatrick (Department of History, University of Chicago)

7.00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SHEILA FITZPATRICK (DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)

Followed by the conference dinner at the Herman B. Wells Home


15 MAY 2010, SATURDAY:
8.30am to 10.30am

PANEL IV: EVERYDAY LIFE, SUBJECTIVITY AND RESISTANCE

Natalia Pushkareva (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) “We don’t talk
about ourselves”:  Memory of everyday things by women academics

Olga Shevchenko (Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College)
Resisting resistance: Everyday life, practical competence and the unlikely
sources of neoliberal rhetoric in postsocialist Russia.

Ben Eklof (Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington) “All
Politics is Local”: Teachers Appeal Their Dismissal in Kazan’ Edicational
District, 1895-1909

MODERATOR: Jeffrey Veidlinger (Department of History, Indiana University,
Bloomington)

11.00am to 1.00pm

PANEL V: REPRESENTATIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Peter Pozefsky (Department of History, College of Wooster) Everyday
Stalinism In Transition-Era Film

Elizabeth Skomp (Russian Department, Sewanee, University of the South) Byt
Literature and the Popular Representation of Motherhood under Brezhnev

Benjamin Sutcliffe (Department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages,
Miami University, Ohio) Family, Doom, Hope: Everyday Life and The Ties That
Bind in Liudmila Ulitskaia's Medea and Her Children

Choi Chatterjee (Department of History, California State University, Los
Angeles) Everyday Life in Transnational Perspective: Consumption,
Consumerism, and Party Favors, 1917-1939

MODERATOR: Ben Eklof (Department of History, Indiana University,
Bloomington)


2.30pm to 4.30pm

PANEL VI: OBSERVERS AND THE OBSERVED

Aleksandr Kamenskii (Department of History, Higher School of Economics,
Russia) Recent Studies on the History of Daily Life in the18th Century
Russia: Problems and Achievements

Sergei Oushakine (Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Princeton)
Totality Decomposed: Objectalizing Late Socialism in Post-Soviet
Biochronicles

Karen Petrone (Department of History, University of Kentucky, Lexington)
“Coming Home Soviet Style:  The Reintegration of Afghan Veterans into Soviet
Everyday Life”

MODERATOR: Janet Rabinowitch (Director, Indiana University Press)


Organizing Committee:

Choi Chatterjee
Department of History
California State University, Los Angeles

Karen Petrone
Department of History
University of Kentucky, Lexington

David Ransel
Department of History
Indiana University, Bloomington

Sarah Phillips
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University, Bloomington

Mary Cavender
Department of History
Ohio State University, Mansfield

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