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 : 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

 Walter Sperling (Ruhr University Bochum) “Dreaming of Grozny”: Nostalgia, memory and politics of belonging to multiethnic community

 Stanislav Budnitskiy (Carleton University) in ’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 ) 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

 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 and

 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