POST-SOVIET DIASPORA: IDENTITIES, LINKAGES, AND TRANSFORMATION
Conference Senate Room, Robertson Hall Carleton University March 20-21, 2014
Draft program - subject to change
Thursday, March 20
9.00-9.45 Opening - Keynote speaker: Dr. Jeff Sahadeo, Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University
9.45-10.10 Coffee break
10.10-11.40 Panel 1
FROM ÉMIGRÉS TO DIASPORAS: THE DISCOURSE OF IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION
Alexia Bloch (University of British Columbia) “Other Mothers”: Assessing discourses on nurturing and histories of mobility in post-Soviet space
Tunç Aybak (Middlesex University) Russians in Istanbul: Melancholic cosmopolitanism in liminal sites
James Casteel (Carleton University) Post-Soviet Migration and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany: Narratives of Soviet times among Jewish quota refugees and ethnic German Aussiedler
11.40-12.40 Lunch
12.40-14.10 Panel 2
DIASPORA AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES
Ryan Buchanan (University of Toronto) Making Home in (Un)Familiar Places: The experience of emplacement among the Meskhetians of Georgia
Walter Sperling (Ruhr University Bochum) “Dreaming of Grozny”: Nostalgia, memory and politics of belonging to multiethnic community
Stanislav Budnitskiy (Carleton University) Russian Diaspora in Estonia’s Nation Branding Discourse: From “National Catastrophe” to “Ethnic Diversity”
14.10-14.40 Coffee break
14.40-16.30 Panel 3
GLOBAL MOBILITY AND LINKAGES
Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan) The Consequences of Russian Jewish Migration
Moshe Semyonov (Tel Aviv University) Formation of Identities among Soviet Immigrants in Israel: Soviet and Post - Soviet Jewish Immigration
Anna Slavina (University of Toronto) Jewish Russians, Russian Israelis and “Jewski” Canadians: Youth and the Negotiation of Identity and Belonging
18.00 Reception
Friday, March 21
9.00-9.45 Keynote speaker. Timothy E. Heleniak, American Geographical Society, University of Maryland Diasporas, Development, and Homelands in Eurasia
10.00-11.40. Panel 4
POST-SOVIET MIGRATION AND ETHNIC DYNAMIC IN EUROPE
Anna Pechurina (Leeds Metropolitan University) New Russian Diasporas Abroad: Exploring the global and UK geography of post- Soviet Russian speaking migration
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (University of Saskatchewan) Migrants No More: Ukrainians in southern Europe as new diasporas (comparative perspectives from Italy and Portugal)
11.40-12.40 Lunch
12.40-14.20 Panel 5
REMITTANCES AND THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF DIASPORAS IN THEIR HOME STATES
Vanessa Ruget (Salem State University) Labour Migration and Diaspora Engagement in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Murad E. Ismayilov (University of Cambridge) Baku and the Azerbaijani Diaspora: How much interaction and influence?
Irina Molodikova (Central European University) Russian Policy Toward Compatriots: Diversities and confraternities of its implementation
14.20-14.50 Coffee break
14.50-16.30 Panel 6
EXPATS AND PROFESSIONAL DIASPORAS
Marina Sorokina (Alexander Solzenitcyn Center for the Study of the Russian Diaspora) Community in Transition: Russian academics home and abroad in the XX-XXI centuries
Polina Kliuchnikova (Durham University) The ‘USSR in Newcastle’: The language for shared identities and community- building practices of Russian-speaking post-Soviet migrants of the UK
Jennifer Solveig Wistrand (Georgetown University, CERES) The Social Consequences of Seasonal Labor Migration: A case study from rural Azerbaijan