Graduate s​tudent conference at the Eur opean University at Saint Petersburg

[Announcement re-posted from SEELANGS, originally posted by Anatoly Z.
Pinsky [email protected]
It looks as if they are looking for contributions from art historians--and
if you look at the end of the post, they are able to help with
transportation and accommodations.]
--Margaret Samu

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The European University at Saint Petersburg
Call for Papers
April 19 – 20, 2013
7th Annual Conference
Constructing the “Soviet”?
Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities

Since 2007 the conference «Constructing the “Soviet”? Political
Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities» has been held annually
upon the students’ initiative at the European University at Saint
Petersburg.
The mission of the event is to provide an international discussion of the
problems of Soviet history, to develop scientific links and to find fresh
approaches. The conference gives young researchers from Russia and abroad
an opportunity to discuss different aspects of Soviet everyday life,
politics, economics and art; to receive comments of well-known academics:
anthropologists, historians, sociologists and philologists on their
research.

At the conference in April 2013 we would like to discuss inter alia the
following topics:

- The Soviet economic system: beyond effectiveness? Plan and competition.
The hidden economy.
- War and society. The phenomenon of the “Soviet” in the context of the
Great Patriotic (World War II) and Cold Wars. Military and “peaceful”
hardware and technology.
- Postwar repressions. The fight with dissidence.
- Soviet childhood: Utopia and reality. Pedagogical theories. Toys and
games.
- Foreigners in the USSR and Soviet people abroad. Migration, tourism,
espionage. The image of “The Other”.
- Social, political and cultural borders: the history of soviet concepts
and practices.
- The language of official Soviet art: from socialist realism to
deideologization.
- Memory and oblivion of the “Soviet”.

We invite undergraduate and PhD students specializing in the humanities and
social sciences to send us their short papers to participate in the
conference. No remote participation is possible. The conference languages
are Russian and English.
A collected volume containing the papers will be published by the beginning
of the conference. The electronic version of last year’s collection is
available at: http://eu.spb.ru/history/projects/constructing-the-soviet

Requirements for papers: no more than 15 000 characters (including spaces
and footnotes); MS Word (versions 1997 – to 2003), automatic footnotes.
Please also include your contact information, university, department and
year of education.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2013 at:
[email protected]
The European University at St. Petersburg can pay for transportation and
accommodation only for a part of the conference participants.

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