conference at Cambridge

[Alexander Etkind]

*Postcolonial Approaches to Postsocialist Experiences*

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Organised by Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge)

and Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)**

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*PROGRAMME*



24-25 February 2012



Keynes Hall

King’s College

Cambridge





*FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY*

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*9:00am: Opening Remarks*

·       *Dirk Uffelmann *(Passau)**

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*9:20 am: Keynote Address*

·       *Michael Rothberg *(Urbana-Champaign, IL), ‘Multidirectional Memory
Between the Posts’**

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*10:40am: Coffee*



*11:00am: Panel 1: Postcolonial Theory, Undertheorized Memory*



·       *Chair:* Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge)

·       *Dirk Uffelmann *(Passau), ‘Socialism as Colonialism in
Postcolonial Theory’

·       *Ilya Kalinin* (St Petersburg), ‘Empire of Memory: Mnemonic
Patriotism and “Post-Colonial Challenges” in Contemporary Russia’

·       *Alexander Etkind* (Cambridge), ‘Nostalgia or Melancholy:
Nationalism after Empire’

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*12:30pm: Lunch *



*2:00pm: Panel 2: Postimperial Malaise*



·       *Chair: *Rachel Polonsky (Cambridge)

·       *Viacheslav Morozov* (Tartu), ‘Subaltern Empire? Alternative World
Order(s) in Russia’s Political Imagery’

·       *Tamás Scheibner* (Budapest), ‘Between Universalism and
Particularism: The Metaphor of Colony in Hungarian Intellectual History’

·       *John Hawley* (Santa Clara, CA), ‘Vain Art of the Fugue: The
Postcolonial Romance of the Eastern European Nation’



*3:30pm: Coffee*



*4:00pm: Panel 3: Pre-Postsocialist Generation*



·       *Chair:* TBA

·       *Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova *(Lawrence, KS):* *‘Poland’s Last
Communist Generation: Lost or Found in the Transition?’

·       *  Mikhail Krutikov* (Ann Arbor, MI), ‘Soviet vs Jewish:
Constructing a Usable Past in Russian Jewish Writing, 1991-2011’

·       *Young-sun Hong *(Stony Brook, NY), ‘Ostalgie Goes Global: East
Germany, North Korea, and Postcolonial Narratives of the Cold War’



*8:00pm Conference Dinner*

Doubletree Hilton Cambridge

Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge

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*SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY*



*9:00am: Panel 4:* *Provinces of Europe*

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·       *Chair:* TBA

·       *Simon Lewis* (Cambridge), ‘Belarus: National Catastrophe and the
Work of Mourning’

·       *Kevin M.F. Platt* (Philadelphia, PA), ‘Hegemony without Dominance:
Russian Culture in the Near Abroad’

·       *Sonja Koroliov* (Halle-Wittenberg), ‘Memory and the Undead:
Strategies of Identity in Macedonian Film and Literature since 1990’



*10:30am: Coffee*



*11:00am: Panel 5:* *Memory Spaces*



·       *Chair:* TBA

·       *David Chioni Moore* (Saint Paul, MN), ‘Worldwide Retrospective
Cosmopolitanism and a New York State of Mind’

·       *Mischa Gabowitsch* (Berlin), ‘Soviet War Memorials as Colonial
Import’

·       *Andriy Portnov* (Kiev), ‘Out of the Soviet Closet: Dniepropetrovsk
beyond Postcolony’



*12:30pm: Lunch *

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*2:00pm: Panel 6: Local Memories, Global Post-Memory*

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·       *Chair:* John Barber (Cambridge)

·       *Anika Walke* (St Louis, MO), ‘Inhabiting the Space of Devastation:
Post-Soviet Memories of the Nazi Genocide’

·       *Dušan I. Bjelić *(Portland, ME), ‘Postcolonialism and Balkanism’

·       *Firuza Melville* (Cambridge), ‘Russian Colonial Military Folklore
in Post-Colonial Russia’

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*3:30pm: Coffee*

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*4:00pm: Round Table Discussion*

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·       *Chair:* Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)**


-- 
Alexander Etkind
Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History
Cambridge University
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, CB21ST
Principal Investigator, "Memory at War"
www.memoryatwar.org

My latest book, Internal Colonization, is now available from Polity:
http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745651291

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