National Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions & Deterritorialisation
National Identity in Eurasia II : Migrancy & Diaspora
10-12 July 2009
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Conference Programme
All academic sessions will take place in the Haldane Room.
Coffees and teas will be served in the Hall.
Lunches and dinner will be served in the Buttery.
Friday 10 July 2009
1.00pm-1.45pm Registration (with Coffee)
1.45pm-2.00pm Conference opening
2.00pm-3.00pm Opening lecture
Chair: Andy Byford (University of Oxford)
Anne de Tinguy (INALCO, Sciences Po, Paris) ‘Post-Soviet
States and their Migrations in Reflection’
3.00pm-3.15pm Short break
3.15pm-4.45pm Panel 1 Migrancy & Diaspora in the Late Soviet Era
Chair: Stephen Lovell (King's College London)
Anne Gorsuch (University of British Columbia) ‘Performing
on the International Stage: Soviet Tourism to the Capitalist West in the
Cold War’
Tanya Voronina (European University, St Petersburg) ‘Young
Workers and the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad Project
(1974-1984): Social Policy and Life Stories’
Erik Scott (University of California, Berkeley)
‘Tricksters
and Traders: Georgians in the Soviet Second Economy’
4.45pm-5.15pm Tea
5.15pm-6.45pm Panel 2 Soviet Migration in the Aftermath of WW2
Chair: Catherine Andreyev (University of Oxford)
Siobhan Peeling (University of Nottingham) ‘Disorder,
Disease and Deviance: The Treatment of Migrants as a Source of Social
Contamination during the Resettlement of Leningrad at the End of the
Second World War’
Nick Baron (University of Nottingham) ‘Reforming
the
Body Social: The Soviet “Filtration”
of
Returnees from Nazi Germany, 1944-49’
Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University) ‘First
Encounters: Non-Russian “Blacks” in Postwar Leningrad and Moscow’
6.45pm-7.45pm Reception (compliments of COMPAS)
7.45pm Conference Dinner (Wolfson)
Saturday 11 July 2009
9.15am-11.00am Panel 3 Post-Soviet Diasporas: Memory, Belonging, Homecoming
Chair: Mette Berg (University of Oxford)
Natalya Kosmarskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAN, Moscow) ‘Demythologising
Diasporas: Some Lessons from the Study of Everyday Ethnicity in the Post-Soviet
Context’
Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt University, Berlin) ‘Post-Soviet
Homecomings: Some Insights into the German, Kazakh & Armenian Diasporas
in Motion’
Ulrike Ziemer (SSEES-UCL) ‘Diaspora
and Belonging: Armenian Youth Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location
in Southern Russia’
Sayana Namsaraeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle),
‘Liberation from a “Confusing” Past:
Social Memory of Buryat Diasporas in China and Mongolia’
11.00am-11.30am Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm Panel 4 Migration in the CIS: Recent Trends
Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (University of Oxford)
Irina Molodikova (CEU, Budapest) ‘Transformations of the CIS Migration System in the New Century: The
Influence of Russia’s New Migration Policy of “Open Doors” on Migration
Patterns in the Post-Soviet Space’
Amandine Regamey (Paris I, Sorbonne), ‘Representations of Migrants and Policy-Making in Russia’
Franck Düvell (University of Oxford) ‘(Irregular) Transit Migration on Europe’s Eastern Borderlands: The
Case of Ukraine’
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.45pm Panel 5 Astride Russia & Central Asia: Networks, Flows & Pathways
Chair: Alisher Ilkhamov (SOAS)
Julien Thorez (University of Nantes) ‘Transport-Traffic-Transfer: Migration Networks between Russia and
Central Asia’
Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester) ‘Going
to Town: Exploring the Micro-dynamics
of Labour Migration from Southern Kyrgyzstan’
Olivier Ferrando (Sciences Po, Paris), ‘Nationalities,
Minorities, or Diasporas? The National Question at the Heart of Migration Politics in Central Asia’
Sébastien Peyrouse (Johns Hopkins University) ‘The
Repatriation Issue of Russians from Central Asia: Migratory Flows and the
Russophonia Question’
3.45pm-4.15pm Tea
4.15pm-6.00pm Panel 6 Post-Soviet Eastern Crossroads: Kazakhstan, Russia, China
Chair: Isabelle Ohayon (CERCEC, EHESS, Paris)
Marlène Laruelle (Johns Hopkins University) ‘Kazakhstan
as a New Pole of Immigration in Central Asia: Regional Context, National
Modalities, and Socio-Economic Impact’
Elena Sadovskaya (Centre for Conflict Management, Almaty) ‘Myths
and Realities of Chinese Migration to Kazakhstan:
Dynamics and Structure, Challenges and Perspectives’
Anne Le Huérou (CERCEC, EHESS, Paris) ‘Emigration,
Immigration and Transit Migration in the Omsk Region: Old and New Patterns of
Labour Migration on the Russia-Kazakhstan Border’
Vladimir Boyko (Altai State Pedagogical Academy) ‘Migration
and Diaspora Formation in Russia’s Kazakh-Chinese Borderland: The Case of
Western Siberia’
7.30pm Informal Dinner (Cherwell Boathouse Restaurant)
Sunday 12 July 2009
10.00am-11.15am Panel 7 Immigrants in Russia: The Case of St Petersburg
Chair: Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford)
Olga Tkach & Olga Brednikova (Centre for Independent Social
Research, St Petersburg) ‘Female
Migration in the Post-Soviet Space: (Net)working and Making Home in St
Petersburg’
Aleksandra Piir (European University, St Petersburg) ‘“Get
off that desk! You’re no longer in your aul!”:
Formation of Ethnic Identity in Migrant Children’
11.15am-11.45am Coffee
11.45am-1.00pm Panel 8 East-West Migration I: Labour & Mobility
Chair: Christopher Davis (University of Oxford)
Nick Harney (University of Western Australia)
‘The East Gets its Mediterranean Port: Ukrainians in Naples,
Italy’
Olga Bronnikova (INALCO, Paris) ‘The International Mobility of Highly Skilled Migrants: The Example of
Post-Soviet Russian Migration to Paris and London’
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.30pm Panel 9 East-West Migration II: New Diasporic Identities
Chair: Petra Heyse (University of Antwerpen)
Sergey Ryazantsev (Institute of Social-Political Research, RAN, Moscow) ‘The
Modern Russian Diaspora:
Questions
of Formation, Identity and
Assimilation’
Andy Byford (University of Oxford) ‘The Russian Diaspora in International Relations: “Compatriots” in Britain’
Oksana Morgunova (Glasgow University) ‘“Borders Become Us”: Russian-Ukrainian Dialogue in the UK’
3.30pm-3.45pm Closing remarks
Enquiries: russian-nationalism@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk