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[M T Znayenko <znayenko@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

Note April 27-29: Locating Eurasia Symposium!


Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

Ethnographies of Postsocialism:  Politics, Economies, Values

A Yearlong  Lecture  Series

  Sponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Department of
Anthropology, the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, the
University Center for Human Values, and the Council of the Humanities

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

12 pm

Room 213 Aaron Burr Hall

Alaina Lemon



University of Michigan



Alaina Lemon is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology.
She is a socio-cultural and linguistic anthropologist who works in Russia
and the Former Soviet Union. Her theoretical concerns lie mainly with ways
to understand struggles over aesthetic techniques and communicative forms in
relation to struggles over political change and social hierarchies. She has
conducted research in theaters, film sets, government bureaus, street
markets, and kitchens, as well as in archives and with media. She is the
author of Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from
Pushkin to Post-Socialism (2000), which received multiple awards from the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic studies.

"Moscovite seeks girl wanting normal relations":

  Love, Time and Value in Putin's Russia




Personal ads are new to Russia. But do the lenses of "Transition" discourse
offer the best way to read them? To argue that they do not, the talk will
detail struggles among directing students and their teachers in Moscow over
how to voice a personal ad.



In the efforts that people exert to anchor senses of social reality and
purpose, struggles to calibrate feelings such as "Love" (in terms both of
market and non-market framings of "Time" and "Value") may be even more
important than struggles to define new political ideologies.



  Ethnographies of Postsocialism: Politics, Economies, Values


3 April 2007
Nancy Ries (Colgate University)
Potato Ontology: Household Practices and the Politics of Survival in
Postsocialist Russia

Nancy Ries is the author of Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during
Perestroika from Cornell University Press (1997), which appeared in Russian
translation in 2005.

April 27-29
Special Event. The 2007 Annual SOYUZ Symposium:

Locating "Eurasia"  in Postsocialist Studies: The Geopolitics  of Naming.

http://www.uvm.edu/%7Esoyuz/frameset.html