[Bilimsel Haber] Conference: What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories (U of Toronto, 6-8 April 2006)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <sao15 at columbia.edu>

http://www.utoronto.ca/ceres/realsocialism.html

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

"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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