2006 ANNUAL SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM

Walls and Bridges: Refiguring “Socialist” and “Postsocialist” Spaces in a Deterritorializing World

FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2006
PANEL I – 9:15-10:45AM - THE NEW WESTERN FRONTIER: THE IMPACT OF EUROPEANIZATION AND EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION

- Viktoriya Hryaban (Vienna University): “The Europeanization Process in Ukraine”
- Mats Lindqvist (Sodertorn University College): “Blurred Margins Between Home and Abroad”
- Karin S. Lindelof (Sodertorn University College): “If We Shall Become Like Europe… Variants and Variant-Making as Useful Concepts for Postsocialist Research”
- Chair and Discussant: Glen Camp, Bryant University

PANEL II – 11:00-12:30 – TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINARIES AND TRANSLOCAL REALITIES: RETHINKING IMAGINED COMMUNITIES IN POST/SOCIALISM

- Larisa Kurtovic (UC Berkeley): “Postsocialism in Exile: Memory, Identity and Nostalgia among Former Yugoslavs in Chicago”
- Lajos Csaszi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): “The Use of World Trade Center Jokes to Create Transnational Identities among Young Hungarian
Professionals”
- Judy Litoff, Gaytha Langlois and Joseph Ilacqua (Bryant U): “Challenges of Entrepreneurs and Managers as They Negotiate Competing Cultural Realities within Dramatically Different Environments”
- Chair and Discussant: Cileine DeLourenco, Bryant University

PANEL III – 2:00PM-3:30PM – POST/SOCIALISM AND ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

- Alex Perullo (Bryant University): “An African Economy of Music: Authority and Self-Reliance in the Tanzanian Music Industry”
- Mary Taylor (CUNY Graduate Center): “Growing Pains in the Dance-House: Hungarian Folk Revival in the Socialist and Postsocialist Eras”
- Catherine Closet-Crane, Susan Dobb, Jacqueline Solis and James M Nyce (Emporia State): “The Past is Our Only Industry: The Legitimization of Cultural Tourism in Maramures, Romania”
- Chair and Discussant: Bill Beeman, Brown University

PANEL IV – 3:45-5:15PM – POST/SOCIALISM’S GLOBAL REACH: THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF
POST/SOCIALISM

- Julianna Acheson (U. Maine, Farmington): “The Anthropology of Post-Socialism: What’s Been Studied; What Comes Next?”
- Kelly Askew (U Michigan) and Anne Pitcher (Colgate U): “Postsocialisms in Africa”
- Anna Fournier (Johns Hopkins U): “Post-Soviet ‘Color Revolutions’ and Their Challenge to Postsocialist Geography”
- Chair and Discussant: Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – 5:30PM-6:30PM
- JAMES L. WATSON (Harvard University), “IS SOCIALIST CHINA SOCIALIST? BIG MACS, CHAIRMAN MAO, AND THE WAL-MART FACTOR”

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006
PANEL V – 9:15-noon – POST/SOCIALIST PLACES AND TOPOGRAPHIES

- Katya Makarova (U Virginia) – “The New Urbanism in Moscow: The Redefinition of Public and Private Space”
- Maria R Roti (Wayne State U) – “Spatial Fixes in the New Russia”
- Ka-ming Wu (Columbia U) – “Spaces of Grief: Politics and Poetics around a Bridge and a Chastity Façade in Northern Rural China”
- Vera Kuklina (Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, RAS): “Russian-Mongolian Boundary: Phenomenon of Localization of the Frontier Village”
- Valbona Koci and Guven Arif Sargin (Middle East Technical U): “Spatial Transformation on the Waterfront as an Urban Frontier Case Study: Durres-Port City, Albania”
- Chair and Discussant: Jim Miller, Hampshire University and Krista Harper, University of Massachussettes at Amherst

PANEL VI– 2:00-4:00PM – POST/SOCIALISM, GLOBALIZATION AND MORAL DISCOURSES OF PERSONHOOD AND SOCIETY

- Eugene Raikhel (Princeton U) – “Rehabilitation from Abroad: Transforming Personhood and Civil Society through Alcoholics Anonymous”
- Agnes Ers (Sodertorn University College): “A Swedish Aid Development Project in Romania”
- Ben Passmore (University of Maryland): “’To Chee Kild’: Gender, Age and Tropes of Engagement/ Disengagement in the Late Transition Czech Workplace”
- Olga Shevchenko (Williams College) and Yakov Shchukin (U Minnesota): “From Socialist Camp to a Global Village?: Globalization and the Imaginary Landscapes of Postsocialism”
- Chair and Discussant: James Nyce

PANEL VII – 3:15-4:45PM – FOOD FOR THOUGHT: PRODUCING AND CONSUMING POST/SOCIALISM

- Diana Mincyte (U Illinois): “Pasteurization of Lithuania: Of Raw Milk, Cities and Globalization”
- Neringa Klumbyte (U Pittsburgh): “Deterritorializing Post-Socialist Nostalgia: Tradition, Memory and Global Market of ‘Soviet’ Food Products”
- Yuson Jung (Harvard U): “’Need’ and ‘Normality’ in Everyday Consumption Practices: A Bulgarian Case”
- Zsuzsa Gille (U Illinois): “The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization”
- Chair and Discussant: Melissa L. Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz

SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006
PANEL VII – 9:15-11:45AM - POST/SOCIALIST ECONOMY OF DESIRE: VALUE IDENTITY AND PERSONS

- Michele DeSando (UC Santa Barbara): “Making Socialist Citizens: Women and the New ‘New Man’ in Cuba”
- Ayse Akalin (CUNY Graduate Center): “Reterritorialized Identities: Consuming Socialism in Turkey”
- Susanne Cohen (U Michigan): “Imagined Standards in a Global World: Secretarial Etiquette in St. Petersburg”
- Larisa Honey (CUNY Graduate Center): “Inherently Deterritorializing and Reterritorializing: How Study of the New Age Movement in Moscow Expands Post-Socialist Territory”
- Liliya Karimova (U Massachusetts, Amherst): “The Negotiation of Post-Soviet Ethnic Identity in On-Line Discussion among Tatars”
- Chair and Discussant: Olga Shevchenko, Williams College and Bill Graves, Bryant University