Conference Program: "Imperial Reverb: Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism" (Princeton, May 13-15, 2016)

PRINCETON CONJUNCTION – 2016
AN ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

IMPERIAL REVERB:
Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism

https://imperialreverb.princeton.edu

May 13-15, 2016  •  120 Lewis Library
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 


FRIDAY, May 13, 2016

10.00 – 12.30                  PANEL I: PROVINCIALIZING THE POSTCOLONIAL 

Chair: EKATERINA PRAVILOVA (Princeton University) DIRK UFFELMANN (University of Passau)
      Varieties of Nationalism in Polish and Russian Appropriations of Postcolonial Theory VIACHESLAV MOROZOV (University of Tartu)
      Postcolonial Russia: The Figure of the Native and the Obstruction of Popular Subjectivity DIANA T. KUDAIBERGENOVA (University of Cambridge)
      Unidentified Diffusion: The Use and Abuse of Postcolonial Discourse in Post-Independent Kazakhstan
Discussant: HARSHA RAM (UC Berkeley)


14.00 – 16.30                  PANEL II: WHEN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK

Chair: ELENA FRATTO (Princeton University) ROSSEN DJAGALOV (New York University)
      Premature Postcolonialists: the Afro-Asian Writers' Movement from Tashkent to Luanda IVAN SABLIN & LILIA BOLIACHEVETS (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg)
      The Second or the Fourth World: Critique of Communism and Colonialism in Contemporary North Asian Literatures EMILY LASKIN (UC Berkeley)
      Four Perspectives on the Second World, Tajik Realism, and Soviet Socialism
Discussant: ARVIND RAJAGOPAL (New York University)


17.00 – 19.00    KEYNOTE ADDRESS
DAVID CHIONI MOORE (Macalester College)
East, West, and South: Complex Asymmetries in Postcolonial / Post-Soviet Debates Since 2001

SATURDAY, May 14, 2016

10.00 – 12.30                  PANEL III: POST-IMPERIAL CLAIMS

Chair: MARGARET H. BEISSINGER (Princeton University) SAYGUN GÖKARIKSEL (Boğaziçi University)
      Misadventures of Transitional Justice: Rightwing Lustration in “Postcolonial” Poland CHOI CHATTERJEE (California State University)
      Whom Does a Woman Speak For in a Post-World Order? The Case for and against Anna Politkovskaya and Arundhati Roy ALBERT DOJA (University of Lille)
      Post-imperial Truth Claims and Postcolonial Knowledge Production in the Post-Communist Balkans
Discussant: RONALD GRIGOR SUNY (University of Michigan)


14.00 – 15.45                  PANEL IV: DEVELOPMENT AND ITS AFTERMATH 

Chair: KATHERINE M.H. REISCHL (Princeton University) MALIKA BOHAVODINOVA (Indiana University) & ARTEMY M. KALINOVSKY (University of Amsterdam)
      Internationalism and (Post)Colonialism: Central Asia and the Soviet Development Paradigm YURI BOYANIN (La Trobe University)
      Civilization Lost: Visual and Sound Narratives of Communism in Ruins
Discussant: JOHANNA BOCKMAN (George Mason University)


16.00 – 18.30                  PANEL V: BORDERS IN FLUX

Chair: MICHAEL KUNICHIKA (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

ZSUZSA GILLE (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
      Postcoloniality in 3D: The East-European New Right Wing’s Cognitive Map KEVIN M. F. PLATT (University of Pennsylvania)
      White Skin, Black Masks: Dual Domination on the Border of the Soviet Post-Colony NATALIYA TCHERMALYKH (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
      A Metaphor, a Map and a Flag: Art as a (Public) Space of Reflection on Post-Soviet Coloniality
Discussant: EDYTA BOJANOWSKA (Rutgers University)


SUNDAY, May 15, 2016


10.00 – 12.30                  PANEL VI: POSTCOLONIAL ASSEMBLAGES 

Chair: PERRY SHEROUSE (Princeton University) MEHRENEGAR ROSTAMI (UCLA)
      “Frozen Music:” Imperialist Formations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia MARIA SONEVYTSKY (Bard College)
      Ethno-Chaos: Provincializing Russia through Ukrainian “World Music”
VESSELA WARNER (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
      Performing Imperialism in Postcommunist Yugoslavia: Nation and Memory in the “Skopje 2014” Project
Discussant: NARIMAN SKAKOV (Stanford University)


13.00 – 14.30                  PANEL VII: STRUCTURES OF DECOLONIZATION

Chair: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (Princeton University) ŁUKASZ STANEK (University of Manchester)
      Memories of an Encounter. Eastern European Architects in West Africa during the Cold War NARI SHELEKPAYEV (Université de Montréal)
      Astana as an Imperial Project: Kazakhstan and its Wandering Capitals.
Discussant:  TARIK CYRIL AMAR (Columbia University)


THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Serguei Oushakine, Chair (Princeton); Tarik Cyril Amar (Columbia); Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers); Michael Kunichika (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton); Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton)

This conference is a part of Princeton Conjunction, a series of annual conferences that has been taking place at Princeton University in the last few years. The series is organized by the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and made possible by the generous funding from Princeton’s institutions.

https://imperialreverb.princeton.edu


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