PRINCETON CONJUNCTION – 2016
AN ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
IMPERIAL REVERB:
Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism
May 13-15, 2016 • 120 Lewis Library
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
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FRIDAY, May 13, 2016
10.00 – 12.30
PANEL I: PROVINCIALIZING THE POSTCOLONIAL
Chair: EKATERINA PRAVILOVA (Princeton University)
DIRK UFFELMANN (University of Passau)
Varieties of Nationalism in Polish and Russian Appropriations of Postcolonial Theory
VIACHESLAV MOROZOV (University of Tartu)
Postcolonial Russia: The Figure of the Native and the Obstruction of Popular Subjectivity
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
DIANA T. KUDAIBERGENOVA (University of Cambridge)
Unidentified Diffusion: The Use and Abuse of Postcolonial Discourse in Post-Independent Kazakhstan
Discussant: HARSHA RAM (UC Berkeley)
14.00 – 16.30
PANEL II: WHEN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK
Chair: ELENA FRATTO (Princeton University)
ROSSEN DJAGALOV (New York University)
Premature Postcolonialists: the Afro-Asian Writers’ Movement from Tashkent to Luanda
IVAN SABLIN and LILIA BOLIACHEVETS (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg)
The Second or the Fourth World: Critique of Communism and Colonialism in Contemporary North Asian Literatures
EMILY LASKIN (UC Berkeley)
Four Perspectives on the Second World, Tajik Realism, and Soviet Socialism
Discussant: ARVIND RAJAGOPAL (New York University)
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
17.00 – 19.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
DAVID CHIONI MOORE (Macalester College)
EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH:
COMPLEX ASYMMETRIES IN POSTCOLONIAL / POST-SOVIET DEBATES
SINCE 2001
SATURDAY, May 14, 2016
10.00 – 12.30
PANEL III: POST-IMPERIAL CLAIMS
Chair: MARGARET H. BEISSINGER (Princeton University)
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
SAYGUN GÖKARIKSEL (Boğaziçi University)
Misadventures of Transitional Justice: Rightwing Lustration in “Postcolonial” Poland
CHOI CHATTERJEE (California State University)
Who Does a Woman Speak For in a Post-World Order? The Case for and against Anna Politkovskaya and Arundhati Roy
ALBERT DOJA (University of Lille)
Post-imperial Truth Claims and Postcolonial Knowledge Production in the Post-Communist Balkans
Discussant: RONALD GRIGOR SUNY (University of Michigan)
14.00 – 15.45
PANEL IV: DEVELOPMENT AND ITS AFTERMATH
Chair: KATHERINE M.H. REISCHL (Princeton University)
MALIKA BOHAVODINOVA (Indiana University) and ARTEMY M. KALINOVSKY (University of Amsterdam)
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
Internationalism and (Post)Colonialism: Central Asia and the Soviet Development Paradigm
YURI BOYANIN (La Trobe University)
Civilisation Lost: Visual and Sound Narratives of Communism in Ruins
Discussant: JOHANNA BOCKMAN (George Mason University)
16.00 – 18.30
PANEL V: BORDERS IN FLUX
Chair: MICHAEL KUNICHIKA (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
ZSUZSA GILLE (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Postcoloniality in 3D: The East-European New Right Wing’s Cognitive Map
KEVIN M. F. PLATT (University of Pennsylvania)
White Skin, Black Masks: Dual Domination on the Border of the Soviet Post-Colony
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
NATALIYA TCHERMALYKH (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
A Metaphor, a Map and a Flag: Art as a (Public) Space of Reflection on Post-Soviet Coloniality
Discussant: EDYTA BOJANOWSKA (Rutgers University)
SUNDAY, May 15, 2016
10.00 – 12.30
PANEL VI: POSTCOLONIAL ASSEMBLAGES
Chair: PERRY SHEROUSE (Princeton University)
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
MEHRENEGAR ROSTAMI (UCLA)
“Frozen Music:” Imperialist Formations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia
MARIA SONEVYTSKY (Bard College)
Ethno-Chaos: Provincializing Russia through Ukrainian “World Music”
VESSELA WARNER (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Performing Imperialism in Postcommunist Yugoslavia: Nation and Memory in the “Skopje 2014” Project
Discussant: NARIMAN SKAKOV (Stanford University)
13.00 – 14.30
PANEL VII: STRUCTURES OF DECOLONIZATION
Chair: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton University)
Christopher Herwig, Soviet Bus Stops, FUEL Publishing, 2015.
ŁUKASZ STANEK (University of Manchester)
Memories of an Encounter. Eastern European Architects in West Africa during the Cold War
NARI SHELEKPAYEV (Université de Montréal)
Astana as an Imperial Project: Kazakhstan and its Wandering Capitals.
Discussant: TARIK CYRIL AMAR (Columbia University)
This conference is a part of Princeton Conjunction, a series of annual conferences that has been taking place at Princeton University in the last few years. The series is organized by the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and made possible by the generous funding from Princeton’s institutions.
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