[Bilimsel Haber] New Directions in Post/Socialist Research, 19-20 June 2006

[gonul at pultar.org]

from: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <oushakin at princeton.edu>

Departments of Anthropology, University College London & University of
Cambridge, Cambridge Central Asia Forum present:

New Directions in Post/Socialist Research, 19-20 June 2006.

Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street (off Gordon Square)
London WC1H 0BW

PROGRAMME

Monday 19 June, 10am to 5:45pm.

9:30         Coffee, Daryll Forde Seminar Room.

10:00        Panel 1: Politics, states & civil society

Christopher Kaplonski (William Paterson University/University of Cambridge),
“Tagnuul and esergüü: spies, counter-revolutionaries and the narrative  
of political violence in post-socialist Mongolia”.

David Gulette (University of Cambridge), “After the "Revolution":  
"Tribalism" in the Kyrgyz Republic”.

Manuela Leonhardt (University College London), Hospitality and  
Hierarchy in post-Soviet Dagestan”.

Rano Turaeva (Max Planck Institute), “Internal migrants in Tashkent:  
Continuities and discontinuities in post-socialist Uzbekistan”.

Discussant: Harry West (SOAS).

12:15         Lunch (45 minutes; today’s lunch will be provided £3.50).

1:00        Panel 2: Formal and informal structures and markets

Elizabeth Vann (Lehigh University), “What’s scarce in a market  
economy? The Search for “Source Goods” in Vietnam”.

Anna Cristina Pertierra (University College London), “La chopin:  
scarcity and consumption in urban Cuba”.

Simon Reid-Henry (Queen Mary, University of London), Biotechnology in  
the Western Havana Scientific Pole.

Alena Ledeneva (SSEES), “Blat and Guanxi: Comparative analysis of informal
practices in Russia and China”.

Discussant: Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge)

3:15         Break (15 minutes)


3:30        Panel 3: NGOs, development & aid.

Melissa Caldwell (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Rescuing the  
Socialist Ideal in Postsocialist Russia: The Politics of Social  
Welfare and International Development”.

Adam Fagan (Queen Mary, University of London), “Local activism after  
socialism and conflict: environmental protest in Bosnia-Herzegovina”.

Katrin Hansing & Hauke Dorsch (University of Bayreuth), “From  
Socialist Fraternity to Southern Solidarity: Experiences and Voices  
from Cuba’s social
assistance programs to Africa”.

Lois Woestman (New School for Social Research), “Planning the  
Capitalist Future, Recreating the Imperial Past: Planners and  
Immovable Property in Postsocialist Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Discussants: Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS), Shailaja Fennell (Cambridge).

5:45        End of Panel 3. Meet for drinks in the Housman Room.

7:30        Dinner at Tas Restaurant, 22 Bloomsbury Street London WC1B 3QJ.
Reservation has been made for 40 people, with a set menu of £15.99 excluding
drinks.


Tuesday 20 June, 10am to 4:30pm

9:30         Coffee, Daryll Forde Seminar Room.

10:00        Panel 4: Generational change

Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University), “The Kazan’  
Leviathan: youth street gangs and the problem of social order”.

Stefan Kirmse (SOAS), “Central Asian Youth in a Globalising World: The  
students of Osh between different cultural messages”.

Ivana Polonijo (University of Zagreb), “Childhood Research and the  
Case of Croatian Ethno-Anthropology”

Zuzana Burikova (Institute of Ethnology SAS, Bratislava), “Why Slovak  
women become au pairs”.

Discussant: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (SSEES).

12:15         Lunch (1.5 hours, participants to organise their own  
lunch today)

1:45        Panel 5: Ideology & knowledge

Patrice Ladwig (University of Cambridge), “Work discipline, solidarity  
and Laoness: Teaching Buddhist ethics under socialism and late  
socialism in Laos”.

Caleb Wall (Centre for Development Research), “Local Agricultural  
Knowledge in Transition: The impact of Socialism and its downfall on  
indigenous and local agricultural knowledge in Khorezm, Uzbekistan”.

Lenka Nahodilova (Charles University, Prague), “Rename! Re-dress!  
Resettle! Making of the New Communist Man in a Bulgarian Muslim  
Village”.
Discussant: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge).

3:30         Roundtable discussion  (with tea and coffee)

Discussion of funding opportunities led by Victor Buchli (UCL)

Discussion of current and future research of attendees who did not present
papers

Discussion of overall themes and research questions

Future meetings, mailing lists and other activities

4:30        End of workshop. Meet for drinks in the Housman Room.


Please pre-register by emailing Ruth Mandel (r.mandel at ucl.ac.uk).
Registration fee: £10 waged, £5 unwaged.