The Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

International Conference on "Post-Communist Nostalgia"
April 7-8, 2006

Complete Program

Opening Address: "From Utopia to Propaganda and Back" Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois)

Documentary Film Screening: "Bastards of Utopia" (2006, 64 minutes - rough cut; Directors: Pacho Velez and Maple Razsa)

Other Presenters:
- Laura Adams (Princeton University)
- Daphne Berdahl (University of Minnesota)
- Dominic Boyer (Cornell University)
- Donna Buchanan (University of Illinois)
- Cynthia Buckley (University of Texas)
- Fedja Buric (University of Illinois)
- Victoria Clement (University of Illinois)
- Gerald Creed (CUNY)
- Diana Georgescu (University of Illinois)
- Bruce Grant (New York University)
- Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois)
- Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)
- Tanja Petrovic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences)
- Tim Pilbrow (University of Illinois)
- Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)
- Oana Popescu-Sandu (University of Illinois)
- Maple Razsa (Harvard University)
- Cristofer Scarboro (University of Illinois)
- Anna Szemere (Washington State University)
- Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley)

Related Events:
Thursday, 6 April
CAS/MillerComm Lecture "The Spider Trap: Corruption, Organized Crime and Transition in the Balkans and Russia"
Misha Glenny (Award-winning journalist and author of The Balkans, 1804-1999)
7:30pm, Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center

Saturday, 8 April
Balkanalia (UI Balkan Ensemble) Spring Concert
8:00 pm, Smith Recital Hall
805 S. Matthews St, Urbana