National Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions & Deterritorialisation
National Identity in Eurasia I : Identities & Traditions
22-24 March 2009
New College, University of Oxford
Conference Programme
Teas & Coffees will be served in the Junior Common Room
Lunches and Dinners will be served in the Hall
Sunday 22 March 2009
9.00-10.00 Registration
10.00-10-15 Conference opening
10.15-11.15 Opening lecture
Chair: Geoffrey Hosking (SSEES-UCL)
Ron Suny (Michigan) 'The Contradictions of Identity:
Being Soviet and National in the USSR'
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-13.15 Panel 1: Eurasianism and Empire
Chair: Gerry Smith (Oxford)
Alexander Morrison (Liverpool) 'Aryanism,
Asianism and Imperial Citizenship in the British and Russian Empires'
Mark Bassin (Birmingham) 'Eurasianism from Trubetskoi to Dugin'
Alexander Titov (SSEES-UCL) 'Lev Gumilev and the Rebirth of
Eurasianism'
Emel Akcali (Birmingham) 'Eurasianism: The New Geopolitics of
Kemalism in Turkey'
13.15-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Panel 2: The politics of nationality
Chair: Jeremy Smith (Birmingham)
Yoram Gorlizki (Manchester) 'Ethnic
Politics after Stalin'
Andreas Umland (Eichstaett's Institute) 'Public
Image Problems of the Post-Soviet Russian Extreme Right'
Galina Miazhevich (Oxford) 'Religious
Affiliation and the Politics of Post-Soviet Identity: The Maverick Case of
Belarus'
Doug Blum (Providence) 'National
Identity & Globalisation: The Politics of Youth Culture in
Post-Soviet Eurasia'
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-18.00 Panel 3: On the margins of Empire
Chair: Madeleine Reeves (Manchester)
Vera Tolz (Manchester) 'Imperial
Scholars and Minority Nationalisms in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia'
Gulnara Abikeyeva (Almaty) 'Central
Asian Documentary Films of the Soviet Era as a Factor in the Formation of
National Identity'
['Документальное
кино
Центральной
Азии
советской
эпохи как
компонент
формирования
национальной
идентичности']
Sergei Abashin (IEA-RAN, Moscow), 'Nation-Construction in
Post-Soviet Central Asia' ['Конструируя
нации в
постсоветской
Центральной
Азии']
Olivier Ferrando (Sciences-Po, Paris) 'The
Russian Language on the Margins of the Empire: Education Language Policies and Practices in Post-Soviet Central Asia'
18.30 Reception
19.30 Dinner
Monday 23 March 2009
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00 Panel 4: Nationality and religion
Chair: Zoe Knox (Leicester)
Nikolai
Mitrokhin (Moscow) 'Russian Orthodoxy and the Problem of
Nationalism in the USSR and CIS (1960s-2000s)' ['Русское
православие
в СССР-СНГ в 1960-е-2000-е
годы и
проблема
национализма']
Alexander Panchenko (IRLI-RAN, SPb) 'Popular Orthodoxy in
Twentieth-Century Russia: Ideology, Consumption and Competition'
Victoria Arnold (Oxford) 'The Place(s) of Islam in Post-Soviet
Russia: Revitalisation, Manipulation and Conflict'
Alisher Ilkhamov (SOAS) 'Localism
vs. Cross-National Mobility: Islamic Identity-Formation in Uzbekistan'
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 5: Nationality in memory and representation
Chair: Jessica Rawson (Oxford)
Peter Holquist (Pennsylvania) 'From Estate to
Ethnos: Cossack Identity in the Twentieth Century'
Dmitry Baranov (Russian Ethnographic Museum, SPb) 'Archaising
Culture: Exhibition Strategies at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in the
Mid-Twentieth Century' ['Архаизируя
культуры:
экспозиционная
стратегия
Российского
Этнографического
музея во
второй
половине ХХ в.']
Rana Mitter (Oxford) 'Ghosts
and Memories: Commemoration of the War of Resistance against Japan in post-Mao
China'
Birgit Beumers (Bristol) 'Nostalgia for a Soviet Past? National
Memory in Post-Soviet Cinema'
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Panel 6: National cities
Chair: Stephen Lovell (King's College London)
Dina Khapaeva (Smolnyi Institute) 'Post-Soviet
Moscow: Literary Reality or Nightmare?' ['Постсоветская
Москва:
литературная
реальность
или кошмар?']
Levon Abrahamian (Yerevan) 'Yerevan:
Memory and Forgetting in the Organisation of Space of a Post-Soviet City'
['Ереван:
память
и забвение в
оганизации
простанства
постсоветского
города']
Alim Sabitov (Almaty) 'Kitsch in the
Contemporary Urban Environment of Kazakhstan' ['Китч
в
современной
городской
среде
Казахстана']
Elza Guchinova (IEA-RAN, Moscow) 'Elista
between the USSR and the Orient: National and Ethnic Symbols in the City Text' ['Элиста
между
СССР и
Востоком: национальные
символы в
тексте
города']
15.45-16.15 Tea
16.15-17.45 Panel 7: Transnational cities
Chair: Linda McDowell (Oxford)
Catriona Kelly (Oxford)
'"A European City in Russia": Living with Transnational History
in St Petersburg'
Robert Pyrah (Oxford) '(Back) towards a Hyphenated
Identity? Recent Academic and Cultural Discourses on L’viv's
"Multicultural" Past'
Bruce Grant (NYU) 'Cosmopolitan Baku'
Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt University, Berlin) 'Transnational
Berlin: Russian Speakers in the City after the Fall of the Wall'
20.00 Dinner
Tuesday 24 March 2009
9.30-11.00 Panel 8: The Soviet national imaginary
Chair: Catriona Kelly (Oxford)
Albert Baiburin (EUSPb) 'Soviet
Rituals and Identity: The Solemn Presentation
of the Soviet Passport' ['Советские
обряды и
идентичность:
торжественное
вручение
паспорта
Andrew Jenks (California State) 'The
Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: Yuri Gagarin and the Many Faces of Modern
Russia'
Anna Kushkova (EUSPb) 'Surviving
in the Time of Deficit and the Narrative Construction of a "Soviet Identity"'
Vitaly Bezrogov (Moscow) 'Patriotic Education in Soviet &
Post-Soviet Primary Education, or Why One Shouldn't Have a Second Homeland' ['Патриотическое
воспитание в
советской и
постсоветской
начальной
школе, или
Почему
нельзя иметь
вторую
Родину']
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 9: A new Russian national imaginary?
Chair: Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes)
Hilary
Pilkington (Warwick) & Elena Omelchenko (Ulyanovsk) 'A
New Russian Patriotism? Russian National Identity through the Eyes of Young
People'
Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern) 'Literary
Nationalism in the Contemporary Russian Novel'
Nancy Condee (Pittsburgh) '"Tales
Told by Nationalists": Antilogy's Loophole'
Michael Gorham (Florida) 'Language
Culture and Economies of Mat in Post-Soviet Russia'
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Plenary session: Conclusions and overview
15.30-16.00 Closing remarks
Enquiries: russian-nationalism@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk