[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP- 2008 Soyuz Annual Meeting: Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through the Lens of Postsocialism, Apr. 24-27, 2008, Berkeley

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CONF./CFP- 2008 Soyuz Annual Meeting: Critical Inquiry/Postsocialism, 
Apr. 2008

Posted by: Alexei Yurchak <yurchak at berkeley.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

2008 Soyuz Annual Meeting
University of California, Berkeley
April 24-27, 2008

THEME:

"Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through the Lens of Postsocialism"


The disintegration of Soviet and Eastern European socialisms not only
ushered in rapid and overwhelming transformations in the former 
socialist lifeworlds, but also engendered the emergence of the 
problem-space of "postsocialism" that spans well beyond the boundaries 
of the former socialist states. In this year's Soyuz conference, we 
would like to consider: how can theoretical insights gained in our 
critical engagements with postsocialism shed new light on questions 
central to contemporary anthropology and critical social inquiry more 
broadly.
	
For example, how might our inquiry of postsocialism illuminate:
  * current global configurations of liberalism and neoliberalism,
    democracy and neo-conservatism, sovereignty and citizenship, biopower
    and international law, religion and secularism, risk and security,
    global capitalism and labor outsourcing?

  * complex parallels between late socialist and late capitalist social
    formations at the level of institutions, practices, sentiments,
    knowledge, subjectivity, aesthetics?

  * current postcolonial engagements (considering that the ideological
    opposition capitalism/socialism, in relation to which postcolonial
    criticism emerged, is now in the past)?

We are now inviting submissions for the conference. The selected papers 
will interrogate the relevance of the theoretical insights gained in 
engagements with postsocialism for other contexts, areas and problems of 
contemporary world. They will consider the implications of 
postsocialism, both as a historical formation and as a problem-space, 
for the problems interrogated in contemporary anthropology and social 
inquiry.

The conference organizing committee:

Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell)
Dace Dzenovska (UC Berkeley)
Larisa Kurtovich (UC Berkeley)
Alex Beliaev (UC Berkeley)
Nina Aron (UC Berkeley)

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008.
Please send submissions electronically (preferable) to: yurchak at berkeley.edu

Or by mail to:

Alexei Yurchak
232 Kroeber Hall
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720




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