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From: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <oushakin@Princeton.EDU>
To: 'Serguei Oushakine' <oushakin@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Conference Program: Locating "Eurasia" in Postsocialist Studies (2007
     Annual SOYUZ Symposium, April 27-29, 2007, Princeton U)

http://www.princeton.edu/~restudy/soyuz.htm

2007 Annual SOYUZ Symposium
Locating "Eurasia" in Postsocialist Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming
April 27-29, 2007

Aaron Burr Hall, Room 216

FRIDAY, APRIL 27
2:30-3:00 	Registration
3:00-5:00 ROUND TABLE 	“EURASIA”: OLD THEMES AND NEW APPROACHES

Sergei Glebov (Smith College)
Russia, Eurasia, and the Mongol-Bolshevik Revolution: in Search of
Non-Eurocentric History

Stefan Wiederkehr (German Historical Institute in Warsaw)
Forging a Concept: “Eurasia” in Classical Eurasianism

Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University)
Eurasia and Its Uses: The History of an Idea and the Mental Geography of
post-Soviet Space

Moderator: Michael Gordin (Princeton University)

5.3O-6.3O KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 	Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University):
Eurasia: Disease Masquerading as the Cure?

SATURDAY, APRIL 28
9.OO – 11.OO PANEL 1. 	NAMES AND SPACES IN EURASIA
Chair: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University)

Steven Seegel (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University)
Metageography Unbound? Late 19th-Century European Borderland Cartography and
the Geopolitical Construction of Space

Artak A. Dabaghyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan)
Renaming Practices in Post-war Karabakh/Artsakh

Abel Polese (Hannah Arendt Institute fur Totalitarismusforschung, Germany)
The Fluidity of the Eurasian Borders, (Mentally) Mapping the Self and the
Other in Odessa

Michael Denison (University of Leeds)
Reluctant Eurasians? Great Patriotic War Commemoration as Geocultural Anchor
in Turkmenistan

Discussant: Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton University)

11.3O – 1:30 PANEL 2. 	TRAVELING IDEAS: NATURAL FUSION?
Chair: Krista Hegburg (Columbia University)

Anya Bernstein (New York University)
Pilgrims, Fieldworkers, and Secret Agents: Buryat Buddhologists and Eurasian
Imaginary

Catherine Wanner (Pennsylvania State University)
Missionizing Eurasia: The Global Networks of Ukrainian Evangelicals

Sonja Luehrmann (University of Michigan)
“Only Russians Can Convert the Muslim World:” Eurasian Spaces in the
Geopolitical Imagination of Russian Evangelicals

Katerina Seraïdari (Centre d’anthropologie de Toulouse)
Greece and the 1990s Balkan Crisis: Political Manipulations of the Notion of
Eurasia

Discussant: Ruth Mandel (University College London)

2.3O- 4:3O PANEL 3. 	ECONOMIES OF BACKWARDNESS AND MODERNIZATION
Chair: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University)

Leyla J. Keough (University of Massachusetts)
The Gendering of Migration Management in a Postsoviet Borderland

Neringa Klumbyte (University of Pittsburgh)
The Geopolitics of Provincialism and Political Economy of the Orient in
post-EU Lithuania

Carroll T. Patterson (Johns Hopkins University)
Diverging Pathways to the Periphery: The Case of Georgian and Moldovan Wines

Alla Kassianova (Tomsk State University/Stanford University)
Between .ru and .com: Geopolitics of the Virtual Space

Discussant: Bruce Grant (New York University)

4.30- 4.45 	Break

4.45.-6.45 PANEL 4. 	MARKETING POSTSOCIALIST IDEAS
Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)

Michal Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
The Invention of Postsocialist Anthropologists and Anthropology by
Anthropologists

Elena Gapova (European Humanities University, Vilnius)
On (Not) Getting Lost in the Vast Spaces of Eurasia: Intellectuals and
Symbolic Markets

Johanna K. Bockman (George Mason University)
The Economics Profession in Post-Socialist Hungary: The Continuity of
East-West Connections and Practices

Edgar Hoffmann (University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna)
Eurasia Between Cultural Studies and Marketing & Management

Discussant: John Borneman (Princeton University)
8.00 	Film Screening

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

9.OO-11.OO PANEL 5. 	EURASIAN SPECTACLES: IDENTITIES IN PERFORMANCE
Chair: Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania)

Joseph Crescente (Indiana University)
Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of
Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine

Michael R. Rouland (Miami University)
Images of Eurasia: Conceptualizing Central Asia through Film

Aimar Ventsel (Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu)
Sakha Pop Music: Selling the “Exotic” i.e. European in Asia and Asian in
Europe

Aida Nemat Huseynova (Baku Music Academy)
Contemporary Music of Azerbaijan: Restructuring “Eurasian” Phenomenon

Discussant: Alexei Yurchak (Berkeley)

11.15 – 1:15 PANEL 6. 	NEW BORDERS AND PERIPHERIES: POLITICS IN BETWEEN
Chair: Kristen Ghodsee (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Justine Buck Quijada (University of Chicago)
Etigilov between East and West: The Border Politics of Buryat Buddhism

Eunice Blavascunas (University of California Santa Cruz)
Primeval Forest and Relic Dictatorship on the EU's External Border:
Bialowieza, Poland

Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Locating the Homeland. Armenia between East and West, Between the “Second”
and the “Third World”

Jenifer Patico (Georgia State University)
In Search of Serious Husbands and Sincere Ladies: Power and Meaning in the
Russian-American Matchmaking Industry

Discussant: Nancy Ries (Colgate University)

1.15- 2.00 	Concluding remarks; an informal discussion of the Soyuz’s
plans and future.