Friday, March 11th
FRANKE INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES – 1100 EAST 57TH STREET
8:30am Breakfast
8:55am Welcome and Opening Remarks by Susan Gal (Director of CEERES, University of Chicago)
9:00am Mediating/Materializing Postsocialist Identities
Panel Chair: Andreas Glaeser (University of Chicago)
“To Live More Joyfully”: Conflict And Continuity In Russian Sketch Comedy
Amy Garey (University of California, Las Angeles)
Media And The Minority Public: Animating A Postsocialist Politics Of Difference
Kathryn E. Graber (Indiana University)
Telescopic Nationalism: Rendering History And Cultural Heritage In Postsocialist Mongolia
Tal Liron (University of Chicago)
Albania Re-Imagined? Communities, Religion, And Transnational Heritage Politics In The Western Balkans
Dana Phelps (Stanford University)
10:15am Break
10:30am On the Cultural Politics of Migration and Refugees
Panel Chair: Margit Feischmidt (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
On Europe’s Plan On Sharing Migrant Quotas And The Eastern Bloc
Raluca Bejan (University Of Toronto)
Strangers Among ‘Ours’: State And Civil Responses To The Phenomenon Of Internally Displaced Persons In Ukraine
Tania Bulakh (Indiana University)
Refugees, Compassion, And The Limits Of Europeanness
Dace Dzenovska (University Of Oxford)
Migrants, Refugees, And Invaders: European Hierarchies Of Othering And Identity Crises
Nadia Kaneva (University Of Denver)
11:45am Refractions of East/West Difference: On the Spectre Of European Belonging
Panel Chair: Maryna Bazylevych (Luther College)
Owning And Disowning The Absurd: The Bulgarian Film Mission London
Angelina Ilieva (University Of Chicago)
The Production Of Difference Through Art In Postsocialist Albania
Sofia Kalo (University Of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Urban Development And Stray Dogs In Bucharest: State Logics From Pre-Modernism To Post-Socialism
Lavrentia Karamaniola (University Of Michigan)
Pathological Desire: The Politics Of Addiction And Nosology In Putin’s Russia
Eugene Raikhel (University Of Chicago)
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Legal Contradiction and Social Contestation in Postsocialist Societies
Panel Chair: Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College)
Managing the “Informal”: Gender, Trust, and Forms of Expertise at Tbilisi’s Independent Grocers
Natalja Czarnecki (University Of Chicago)
Waiting For ‘Rule Of Law’
Deborah A. Jones (University Of Michigan)
Constructing Rights, Contesting Paternalisms: The Making Of The Mental Health Law In China
Zhiying Ma (University Of Chicago)
Building And Destroying A “Mediterranean Gem”: Migration, Unbridled Construction, And Property Regimes In A Former-Socialist Town In Southern Albania
Smoki Musaraj (Ohio University)
3:15pm Xenophobia and the Neo-Right in Postsocialist Europe
Panel Chair: Julie Hemment (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Habermas And Orbán: Conflicting Structures Of Difference And Categories Of Practice In The European Reception Of Migrants
Zsuzsa Gille (Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Mediating Crisis: The Role Of The Bulgarian Media In Framing Migrants And Refugees As Other
Elza Ibroscheva (Southern Illinois University)
Transnational Nationalism? Exchanges Between Far-Right Movements In Post-Habsburg And Post-Socialist Europe
Agnieszka Pasieka (University Of Vienna)
“National Values” Vs “Moral Degraded” West: A Family And Children In The Focus Of Conservative Mobilization In Ukraine
Olena Strelnyk (Taras Shevchenko National University Of Kyiv)
Xenophobia And Murder In Makanin’s Novel Underground, Or The Hero Of Our Time
Nina Wieda (Middlebury College)
5:00pm Break
5:30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS with Introduction by Susan Gal (University of Chicago)
A Sea of Difference? Regime Collapse and Migrations from Albania to Italy, 1945-1992
Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan)