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The End of the Soviet Union? Origins and Legacies of 1991
Conference at Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Bremen
Convened by Susanne Schattenberg and Maike Lehmann
May 19th – 21st, 2011
Venue: Gästehaus der Universität Bremen (Teerhof)
May 19th, 2011
13:30 Registration
14:00 Welcome
14:15 Round Table - Origins and Legacies of 1991
Chair: Susanne Schattenberg (FSO Bremen/U Bremen)
Stephen Bittner (Sonoma State University)
Kevin Platt (U of Pennsylvania)
Alexei Yurchak (U of California at Berkeley)
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 (Post)Soviet Politics. Leaders and Elites
Chair: Heiko Pleines (FSO Bremen)
Susanne Schattenberg (FSO Bremen/U Bremen)
Dnepropetrovsk in Power. Brezhnev's Rule as Synthesis of Stalin's and Khrushchev's Leadership
Nikolay Mitrokhin (FSO Bremen)
(Former) Members of CC Apparatus and the Demise of the Soviet Union (in Russian)
Discussants: Claudia Weber (HIS Hamburg) & David Lane (Cambridge U)
May 20th, 2011
09:00 (Post)Soviet Politics. Social Movements
Chair: Karl Schlögel (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin)
Benjamin Nathans (U of Pennsylvania)
The Self as Other. Soviet Dissident Memoirs
Miriam Dobson (U of Sheffield)
Religious Belief and the Social Sciences in the 1960s
Discussants: Serguei Oushakine (U Princeton) & Alexandra Oberländer (U Bremen)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 (Post)Soviet Practices. Mobilizing Citizens
Chair: Manfred Zeller (FSO Bremen)
Gleb Tsipursky (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Komsomol Patrols. Soviet Volunteer Youth Militias in Saratov, 1954-1964
Maike Lehmann (FSO Bremen/U Bremen)
Mobilization for a Common Cause. (Soviet) Worldviews and their Legacies on the National Periphery
Discussants: Juliane Fürst (U of Bristol) & Susan Reid (U of Sheffield)
14:30 (Post)Soviet Practices. Politics of the Everyday
Chair: Alice Szczepanikova (Goethe-University, Frankfurt/ M)
Anna Paretskaya (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Politics of Smallest Things. How "Lazy, Cowardly, and Selfish" Changed the Soviet Union
Andrea Weiss (CEU Budapest)
Trajectories of Economic Practices. Networks and the State in Mingrelia
Discussants: Walter Sperling (RU Bochum) & Heiko Pleines (FSO Bremen)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 On the Margins. (Post)Soviet Identity Politics
Chair: Stephen Bittner (Sonoma State University)
Moritz Florin (U of Hamburg)
Soviet Persons. Elites, the Russian Language and Soviet Identity in Kyrgyzstan, 1953-2011
Edgar, Adrienne (U of California at Santa Barbara) & Saule Ualiyeva (East Kazakhstan State Technical University)
Ethnic Intermarriage, Mixed People, and 'Druzhba Narodov' in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Discussants: Otto Habeck (MPI Halle) & Kristin Roth-Ey (SSEES/UCL London)
May 21st, 2010
09:00 Cultural Codes. The (Post)Soviet Empire of Signs
Chair: Alexei Yurchak (U of California at Berkeley)
Maxim Waldstein (Leiden University)
Parallel Science and Late Soviet Academia. The Case of Tartu Semiotics
Anna Geltzer (Cornell University)
A Failure of Imagination? The Crisis of Professional Identity in Russian Biomedicine
Manfred Zeller (FSO Bremen)
Knitting the Polysemic Scarf. The Emergence of What We Now Call fanatskoe dvizhenie in Late Soviet Moscow, 1976-2011
Discussants: Stephen Lovell (King’s College) & Malte Rolf (U Hannover)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 The Post-Soviet Life of Soviet Symbols
Chair: Alexandra Oberländer (U Bremen)
Elisa Ruiz Velasco Garcia (U of Aarhus)
A Soviet Dissident as Symbol of Russia? The canonization of Solzhenitsyn in recent Russian memory culture
Gediminas Lankauskas (U of Regina)
On Complications of Postsocialist Amnesia in Lithuania
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton U)
Affective Management. Remembering the Second World War in Russia
Discussants: Jan Plamper (MPI Berlin) & Kevin Platt (U of Pennsylvania)
14:00 End of Conference
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