• Friday, April 17, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Humanities 1006
• Saturday, April 18, 9:00 am - 3: 00 pm. Hilton Garden Hotel (Stony Brook campus)
Description: It has been 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in Post-Socialist spaces, cultural and sociopolitical shifts are changing the landscape quickly. Intellectually, “PostSocialism" has become a prominent scholarly paradigm in in the past two decades in a range of fields, from the humanities to the social sciences. Stony Brook University is hosting a two day Colloquium, “The Future(s) of Post-Socialism”, April 17-18, 2015, that will bring together scholars in anthropology, sociology, literary studies, cultural and cinema studies, economics, political science and history, to engage in a series of conversations on the future(s) of Post-Socialist societies and of Post-Socialism as a paradigm of scholarly inquiry. The symposium will look at recent cultural and political shifts in Post-Socialist spaces in a comparative and interdisciplinary light in order to discuss what future(s) we can envision for PostSocialism, particularly in its cultural, economic and political spheres.
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Invited speakers:
- Heather DeHaan (Dept. of History, Binghamton University) "Baku’s Spatial Imaginaries: The Many Futures of a Contested Past"
- Zsuzsa Gille (Dept. of Sociology, University of Illinois) "What is the 'Post' in Postsocialism?"
- Georgiy Kasianov (Institute of History, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine) "Total Recall: Identity Building and Politics of Memory in Ukraine at the Turn of the Millennium"
- David Kotz (Dept. of Economics, University of Massachusetts) "Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present"
- Maša Kolanović (Dept. of Croatian Language and Literatures, University of Zagreb) "NO FUTURE? Politics of memory on Yugoslav Socialism in Postsocialist Literature and Culture"
- David Ost (Dept. of Political Science, William & Hobart Smith) "Back to the Semi-Periphery: Constraints and Opportunities"
- Robert Saunders (Dept. of History and Political Science, SUNY Farmingdale) "'Brand' New States: Post-Socialist Europe/Eurasia, Country Branding, and the Challenges of National Differentiation"
- Olga Shevchenko (Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College) "Putting the public into the public goods: Notes on self-help and collective imagination in Russia today"
- Iveta Silova (College of Education, Lehigh University) "Imagining (post)socialist childhoods: Socialist legacies and neoliberal absences in early literacy textbooks"
Organizing committee:
- John F. Bailyn (Dept. of Linguistics, Stony Brook University)
- Dijana Jelača (Dept. of Rhetoric, Communication and Theater, St. John’s University)
- Izabela Kalinowska (Dept. of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University)
- Danijela Lugarić (Dept. of E. Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Zagreb)
- Gary Marker (Dept. of History, Stony Brook University)
Official Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook, 1 Circle Road, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA
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Sponsored by:
- The College of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s Fund for Excellence
- Department of History
- Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
- Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Department of Linguistics
- Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University