CFP: Yale Graduate Student Conference, April 2016

Dear SHERAns,
I will post this CFP on the SHERA website, but am also forwarding it to the
listserv in case the conference is of interest to some of you or your
students. Apologies that this duplicates an earlier SEELANGS e-mail, which,
I'm sure, some of you have seen.
Ksenya Gurshtein
SHERA Web News Editor

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From: Megan Race <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:34 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] CFP: Yale Graduate Student Conference, April 2016
To: [email protected]

*Cold War Narratives Reimagined*

Yale University, April 8-9, 2016

Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2015

Keynote speaker: Lilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor of Slavic,
Comparative Literature, and Film at University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign.



The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University is
pleased to announce “Cold War Narratives Reimagined,” an interdisciplinary
graduate conference on April 8-9, 2016.



More than twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, scholars are
able to refocus, recast, and reevaluate the discussions centered on this
period of global tension, military non-conflict and cultural polarization.
Whether within the United States or in the international arena, it is
typified by physical and imagined borders, walls, spheres of influence and
missile gaps. This conference seeks to engage with these physical and
symbolic spaces, to challenge the East-West dichotomy in Cold War
narratives, and to examine what happens after these zones and margins
dissolve. “Cold War Narratives Reimagined” is an interdisciplinary
conference that centers on the intellectual, cultural, and environmental
legacies of the Cold War era in the United States and in the former Soviet
Union, both those of its immediate aftermath and of contemporary reframings
of these legacies.



We invite papers that explore the Cold War and its enduring legacies. How
do we consider its reverberations in a globalized world? How have Cold War
assumptions and stereotypes been expressed in literature, film,
historiography or policy, and do they persist after the fall of the Soviet
Union? At what point, if any, does a shift in these assumptions and
stereotypes occur? What could be gained by reading texts from Cold War
countries comparatively? How did literary language, vernacular, or
technical jargon change during and directly after the Cold War? What has
changed since the first round of reimaginings that followed the collapse of
the Soviet Union? By asking and addressing such questions, this conference
aims to foster interdisciplinary conversations within and around Slavic
Studies.


*The list of potential topics includes but is not limited to:* Cultural
diplomacy; Space race; the Cold War and the archive; Cold War in the Soviet
Republics; Nuclear diplomacy; Émigré culture; Post-Soviet spaces; Language
of the Cold War (rhetoric, propaganda, translation); Cold War abstractions
and the arts (détente, deterrence, containment); Satire under McCarthyism
and/or Soviet censorship; the Cold War in contemporary media coverage; the
Cold War, genre, and representation.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to
*[email protected]
<[email protected]>* by December 15th, 2015. Replies will be
sent out by mid-January, 2016.

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