Day 2 of Two
New Stages?
Postsocialisms, Postliberalisms, and Performances
The 2018 Annual Symposium of the Soyuz Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies
March 2nd & 3rd, 2018
All events take place in the first floor seminar room of the Department of Anthropology at Yale University, 10 Sachem Street, (across from the Yale School of Management and the Peabody Museum).
The Soyuz Symposium is free and open to the public.
To attend, please register by February 23rd.
Saturday March 3
8:30 Welcome Table Opens
9:00-10:50 Panel Four: Contesting Meaning in Public
Sofia Kalo (Independent Scholar/UMass Amherst)
Spectacular Promises: Art, Elites, and Spectacle in Post-socialist Albania
Caterina Preda (University of Bucharest)
Living Statues: Performing Memory in Postcommunist Romania
Jacob Lassin (Yale University)
An Orthodox Bestseller and the Forging of a Community of Readers Online: The Case of Everyday Saintsand Pravoslavie.ru
Maria Sidorkina (Amherst College)
Non-Interaction Ritual: Recuperating Solidarity from the Ruins of Socialist Labor
Discussant: Erik Harms (Yale University)
11:00-12:50 Panel Five: Justice, Guilt, and the Law
Saygun Gokariksel (Bogazici University)
Performing Justice: The Body of the Accused and the Politics of History in Postsocialist Poland
Alexander Kondakov (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Performance of Queer Sexualities in the Russian Courts
Natalia Tchermalykh (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Burning like a state: Performative art, Agency and New Political fFctions in Contemporary Russia
Karolina Koziura (The New School)
The Political Lives of Documents: Holdomor as a (non)event
Discussant: Magda Romanska (Emerson College)
2:00-3:50 Panel Six: Representing Illiberalism
Joe Crescente (UMass Amherst)
Performing Nostalgia in Fiction: A Novelistic Exploration of Contemporary Russia
Erin McElroy (UCSC)
Hacking the Inimical of Post-Cold War Time: Mr. Robot, the Dark Army, and the Doomsday Machine
Miriam Gordis (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Eto Bolshoi Gorod”: Mapping Narratives of Space and Belonging in Postsocialist Moscow
Jennifer Zenovich (UMass Amherst)
Embodied ex-Yugoslav Borders and Property: Theorizing the Nation in Marina Abramović’s Performance Art
Discussant
3:50-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-4:15 Photography Exhibition Opening
Presentation, Arvydas Grisinas (Yale University)
Becoming Post-Soviet: Nationhood as Experience in Lithuania, January 1991
Photograph by Juozas Kazlauskas
10 Sachem Lobby
4:20-6:10 Panel Seven: Ritual and Care
Meagan Todd (Indiana University)
Gendered Geographies of Muslim Publics in Moscow, Russia
Julian Chehirian (American Research Institute, Bulgaria)
Excavating the Psyche: A Social History of Psychiatry in Bulgaria
Giang Nguyen-Thu (Vietnam National University)
Digesting Precarity: Digital Motherhood, Food Safety, and Health Panic in Vietnam
Jeremy Johnson (University of Michigan)
“Your Document Cannot Exist”: Histories of Silence and Agnotological Performances in Post-Socialist State Soviet Archives
Discussant: Justine Quijada (Wesleyan University)
4:30pm - Welcome Table Closes
6:15 Closing Plenary Discussion
Emily Channell-Justice (Miami University)
Tatiana Chudakova (Tufts University)
Doug Rogers (Yale University)