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It seems that all of this has not happened to me at all. As if it happened in another life with other people. Another city, another country, completely different people. Maybe, these pictures are actually my past. Something that was taken away from me. Something that I am now forced to forget. Yet, I am not forgetting because this is really a part of me. Maybe even the best part.听
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鈥擲erhiy Zhadan, from Voroshilovgrad听
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March 15-16, 2018 University of Pennsylvania
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What does it mean to be a 鈥榩ost-Soviet person鈥� today? The Soviet Union was created and held together on the premise that the power of class consciousness could create a community that transcends the limitations of ethnicity and language. The events of 1991 shattered this illusion. As the USSR dissolved, newly created states and people across the post-Soviet space were left with the task of figuring out who they were and to what country, body politic, language, and culture they belonged. In the early post-Soviet years, this process was manifested in social violence in the form of armed conflicts in Georgia and Moldova, the expulsion of 红杏直播 nationals from Central Asian states, and criminal infighting over the privatization of former Soviet industrial complexes. As time passed, however, it began to seem that the people and states of the region were embarking on an era of peaceful co-existence, built on shared recognition of their common history and present situation in the world. The absence of visas encouraged travel within the region, while organizations like the Customs Union stimulated trade and economic cooperation. Post-Soviet political elites seemed at times to work with one another much better than they did with their European or American colleagues. 听
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Yet armed conflicts鈥攂etween Russia and Georgia in 2008, and Russia and Ukraine in 2014鈥攈ave radically unsettled hopes for further peaceful development of the region. Today, the post-Soviet social space is unstable and contested. This contestation extends to people, nations, cultures, languages, architectural heritages, memories, arts, lands, industries, infrastructures, international relations, social hierarchies, and political systems. It demands a renewed critical examination of the history and reality of the post-Soviet world. What happened to people鈥檚 lives after the dissolution of the USSR? How did its sudden collapse affect the cultural sphere, language, and artistic production? How is the Soviet past remembered at the official, popular, and individual levels? What does it mean that many still name this region with reference to a political formation that no longer exists? How might this denomination still be useful, or is this a problematic naming which we need to reinterpret or reorient? Our conference will consider these and other questions.听
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The conference program will feature both invited speakers and panels completed from open-call submissions. Our confirmed keynote speakers are: 听
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Kristen Ghodsee (University of Pennsylvania)听
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Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University)听
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Ekaterina Sergatskova (Journalist) - cancelled
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Olena Chervonik (Art Curator)听
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We also invite and welcome contributions from faculty and advanced graduate students from all disciplines including, but not limited to: anthropology, communications, critical theory cultural studies, history, Jewish studies, literature, media studies, philosophy, political science, and sociology that engage with and step beyond following questions:听
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Conference organizing committee: Iuliia Skubytska, Kevin Platt, and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach.听
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Conference Schedule
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March 15, 2018: Max Kade Center,鈥疪oom 329-A (3401 Walnut St.)
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Opening Remarks and Keynote Presentation (12:45-2.30pm)
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Kristen Ghodsee (University of Pennsylvania)
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鈥淭he Left Side of History: Public Memory and 20th Century State Socialism in Eastern Europe鈥澨�
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Panel I: Civic Activism (3-4:30pm)
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Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University): 鈥淲omen on the Maidan: Gender and the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine鈥� 鈥�
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Janet Elise Johnson (Brooklyn College, CUNY): 鈥淭he Gender of Informal Politics in Putin鈥檚 Russia鈥� 听
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Olga Kamenchuk, Eric Nisbet (Ohio State University): 鈥淭he chance for New Russia: How socializing context of RuNet contributes to changing post-Soviet identities among political activists in Russia?鈥� 听听
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Keynote Presentation (5:30pm) Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street听
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Kateryna Sergatskova (Journalist, Ukraine)
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鈥淛ihad Export Service. How Post-Soviet World Became #1 Supplier of Jihadists to the Middle East鈥濃€�
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March 16: Arch Building, Room 108, 3601 Locust Walk
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Panel II: Nationalities (10:30-12:00pm)
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Laurie Manchester (Arizona State University): 鈥淲hat to Do When Being Soviet is No Longer in Vogue: How 红杏直播 Repatriates from China Created their Own Ethnicity Following the Collapse of the Soviet Union鈥澨�
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Marina Mikhaylova (Temple University): 鈥溾€楾he Outdoor鈥�: Contested Postsocialist Subjects in EU Initiatives鈥澨�
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Harrison King (University of California, Berkeley): 鈥淕eographies of Loss, Narratives of Redemption: Azerbaijan鈥檚 Culture of Perpetual War鈥� 听
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Keynote Presentation (1:00pm-2:30pm)
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Olena Chervonik (Philadelphia Museum of Art): 鈥淚ZOLYATSIA in Exile: Contemporary Art Meets Donetsk National Republic鈥澨�
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Panel III: Aesthetics (3-4:30pm)
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Massimo Balloni (Princeton University): 鈥淭he Carnivalization of Sovietness in Venia D鈥檙kin鈥檚 Songs鈥� 听
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Epp Annus (Ohio State University): 鈥淎esthetic Sovietness: Vestigial Soviet-era landscapes in the context of Estonia鈥檚 high tech dreams鈥� 鈥�
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Maria Vassileva (Harvard University): 鈥淣oone wants to be who he was born to be禄: Anxious Men and Joyful Robots in鈥疐yodor Svarovsky鈥� 鈥� 鈥�
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Keynote Presentation (5:30pm) Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street听
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Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University): 鈥淧resence without Identification: Creating Postcolonial Archives after Communism.鈥濃€�
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