Introduction & Opening Remarks: 9:30AM
Amir Weiner, Director of the Stanford Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Panel One: 9:45-11:45AM
Chair: Djordje Popović (Berkeley)
Branislav Jakovljevic (Stanford): Konstantinović’s The Philosophy of Parochialism: There Is No End to the End
Hilary Lynd (Berkeley): Migrating Meanings of Decolonization in Late Socialism and the Collapse: A View from Apartheid South Africa
Gasper Mithans (Fulbright Fellow, UC-Berkeley, 2020): Religious Conversions and Diversification of the New State: Slovenians in the Land of the South Slavs
Lunch Break: 11:45AM-12:30PM
Panel Two: 12:30-2:30PM
Chair: Jeff Pennington (Berkeley)
Sierra Nota (Stanford): The Museum Archive of the Transitional Period: Nationalism and Survival in Occupied Kyiv, April-October 1942
Blaze Joel (Berkeley): Building the Nation, Building History: Yugoslavia’s Spomeniks as Tools of Legitimacy and Ontological Security
Pawel Koscielny (Berkeley): Velvet Neurosis; De-Democratization and Memory-Boom as Aftermath of 1989
Panel Three: 2:45-4:45PM
Chair: Jovana Lazić Knežević (Stanford)
Andriy Kohut (Stanford): The End of the KGB in Soviet Ukraine
Natalia Koulinka (Stanford): Lazy Workers, Heroic Entrepreneurs, and the End of the Soviet Union
Sonja Avlijas (Stanford): Women and Work: A Political Economy of Transition
Closing Remarks: 4:45PM
John Connelly, Director, Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, UC-Berkeley