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Saturday, November 21, 2015 Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 A.M This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Saturday, November 21, 2015 Registration Desk Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration Desk 1 and Grand Ballroom Prefunction Area - 5th Floor Cyber Café Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Franklin Hall Prefunction Area Exhibit Hall Hours: 9:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Franklin Hall B Morning Coffee Break sponsored by Central European University Press -9:45 a.m. - Franklin Hall B Session 8 – Saturday – 8:00-9:45 am Council of Regional Affiliates - Conference Suite 3 Society for Slovene Studies - Meeting Room 310 8-01 Russia's First World War: War and Revolution - Franklin Hall A Room 1 Chair: Matthias Neumann, U of East Anglia (UK) Papers: Anthony John Heywood, U of Aberdeen (UK) "Russia's 'Secret' Mobilisation in July 1914" Scott W. Palmer, Western Illinois U "Russian Technology through War and Revolution" Peter Waldron, U of East Anglia (UK) "1914: War and Russia's Public Organisations" Disc.: Matthias Neumann, U of East Anglia (UK) 8-02 Regional Governance in Russia: Bureaucracy, Business, and Elections - Franklin Hall A Room 2 Papers: Quintin H. Beazer, Florida State U "Who's to Blame? Punishing Poor Economic Performance in a Centralized Political System" Noah Buckley, Columbia U "Structure and Turnover in Hybrid Authoritarian State Structures" David Szakonyi, Columbia U "Firm-Level Returns from Connections to Elected Politicians: Evidence from Russia" Disc.: Graeme Robertson, UNC at Chapel Hill 8-03 Russian Intellectual History: Futures and Pasts - (Roundtable) - Franklin Hall A Room 3 Chair: Robert Bird, U of Chicago Alyssa DeBlasio, Dickinson College Gordon Jeffrey Love, Clemson U Marina B. Mogilner, U of Illinois at Chicago Mark D. Steinberg, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Justin McCabe Weir, Harvard U 8-04 Sciences of Culture, Cultures of Difference: Poles and Jews as Ethnographers and Sociologists, 1920-1950 - Franklin Hall A Room 4 Chair: Olga Linkiewicz, Institute of History PAN (Poland) Papers: Sarah Ellen Zarrow, New York U "Jewish Ethnography and the Changing Politics of Interwar Poland" Grazyna Kubica-Heller, Jagiellonian U (Poland) "Feliks Gross, the Jews and Ethnography" Katherine A. Lebow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (Austria) "Methodologies of Witness: Interwar Polish Sociology and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1945-47" Disc.: Olga Linkiewicz, Institute of History PAN (Poland) Leila Zenderland, California State U, Fullerton 8-05 Studying and Musealizing State Socialism in Bulgaria: Debates and Interpretations - Franklin Hall A Room 13 1 | ASEEES 2015 Convention Preliminary Program This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Chair: Milena Benovska-Sabkova, New Bulgarian U (Bulgaria) Papers: Ana Luleva, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum BAS (Bulgaria) "Anthropology of Socialism and Post-socialism in Bulgaria: Comments on the State of the Field" Nikolay Nenov, Rousse Regional Museum of History (Bulgaria) "Images of Socialism: Memorial Albums of Factories" Dilyana P. Ivanova, American Research Center in Sofia (Bulgaria) "The Qualitative Research Methods in Anthropology as a Tool for Revealing the Individual and Group Experiences of Everyday Life during Socialism in Bulgaria" Disc.: Chap Kusimba, American U Evelina Kelbecheva, American U (Bulgaria) 8-06 Alumni Relations: The Enterprise of Staying in Touch - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon A Chair: Zachary Kelly, UC Berkeley Olga Bueva, Indiana U Eileen M Kunkler, Ohio State U Jennifer Ryan Tishler, U of Wisconsin–Madison 8-07 Interwar Biographies Permeating into the Communist Period - Grand Ballroom Salon B Chair: Irina Livezeanu, U of Pittsburgh Papers: Anca Maria Sincan, "Gheorghe Sincai" Institute for Social Sciences of the Romanian Academy (Romania) "Writing the Nation: Parallel Biographies of Two Church Historians from the Birth of the Romanian National State to Their Communist Demise" Corina Dobos, U of Bucharest (Romania) "Sex, Regional & Ethnical Structure Membership: A Digital Prosopographical Study of the Communist Party of Romania in Its Underground Years" Ionut Florin Biliuta, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (Austria) "From Martyrdom to Canonization: The ‘Broken Biographies’ of the Legionary Priests in the interwar and Communist Prisons" Disc.: Narcis Sorin Tulbure, U of Pittsburgh / Bucharest U of Economic Studies (Romania) 8-08 ‘We Communists are people of a special mold’: Tracing the Contours of State Socialist Subjectivity - Grand Ballroom Salon C Chair: Mate Rigo, Cornell U Papers: James Phillips, New York U "‘A Parody of Soviet Methods’? The Liquidation of Pedology and the Constitution of a New Soviet Subject in the 1930s’" Zhivka Valiavicharska, Pratt Institute "Marxist Humanism and the Rise of the Nationalist Subject in 1970s Bulgaria" James MacEwan Robertson, New York U "Urbanization and Political Subjectivity in Socialist Yugoslavia" Disc.: Yanni Kotsonis, New York U 8-09 Poland Goes Global - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon D Chair: Michael David Kennedy, Brown U Malgorzata Fidelis, U of Illinois at Chicago Piotr H Kosicki, U of Maryland, College Park Małgorzata Mazurek, Columbia U Brian Porter-Szucs, U of Michigan Philipp S Ther, U of Vienna (Austria) 8-10 Social and Economic Underpinnings of War in Ukraine - Grand Ballroom Salon E Chair: Mark Von Hagen, Arizona State U Papers: Wolfram Von Scheliha, U of Leipzig (Germany) "History Warfare: Vladimir Putin's Re-interpretation of History during the Ukrainian War" Anita Renda Kellogg, UCLA "Domestic Institutions and the Limits of Economic Statecraft: E.U.-Russian Relations during the 2 | ASEEES 2015 Convention Preliminary Program This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ Ukraine Crisis" Valery Dzutsati, Arizona State U "Hybrid Warfare and Its Limits: Evidence from Eastern Ukraine" Disc.: Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor U 8-11 (Un)Patriotic Internet? The State of Civic Discourse on post-Crimea Runet - (Roundtable) - Grand Ballroom Salon F Chair: Vera Zvereva, U of Edinburgh (UK) Floriana Fossato, Center for Media and Society (Russia) Michael S. Gorham, U of Florida Kevin James Rothrock, Global Voices / Meduza Steven Lloyd Wilson, U of Wisconsin-Madison 8-12 Identity in Ukraine in the 19th and the 20th Centuries - Grand Ballroom Salon G Chair: Patrice M. Dabrowski, U of Vienna (Austria) Papers: Olha Voznyuk, U of Vienna (Austria) "The Beginnings of the Galician Identity Narration in the XIX Century" Yuliya Biletska, Karabuk U (Turkey) "Cultural Traumas of 20th Century as a Component of National Identity in Ukraine" Ksenya I. Kiebuzinski, U of Toronto (Canada) "A Habsburg Physician, Przemyśl City Councilor, and Greek Catholic Patriot: Hybrid Identity and the Galician Professional Class in the late 19th Century" Disc.: Iryna Vushko, Hunter College, CUNY Huseyin Oylupinar, Inter-Ethnic and Cross-Cultural Relations Research Center (Ukraine) 8-13 The Fact of Violence II: Conscious Violence (soznatel'noe nasilie) 1941-1953 - Grand Ballroom Salon H Chair: Eric McCurdy Johnson, UC Berkeley Papers: Brandon Schechter, UC Berkeley "Your Weapon is Your Conscience, Learning to Kill in the Red Army 1941-1945" Masha Cerovic, Franco-Russian Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Russia) "The Joys of Killing: Partisans at War 1941-1944" Yana Skorobogatov, UC Berkeley "Istoricheskii akt: The Abolition of Capital Punishment in the Soviet Union in 1947" Disc.: Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey 8-14 Authorial Instructions in XX c. Slavic Metafiction - Grand Ballroom Salon I Chair: Kathleen Thompson, U of Virginia Papers: Jason Merrill, Michigan State U "Fedor Sologub and His Sources: Changing Approaches to Playing with Audiences in Sologub’s Dramas" Cheryl Berriman, Northwestern U "The One Man Show: Authorial Totalitarianism in Mandelstam’s Egyptian Stamp" Katherina Boicheva Kokinova, Sofia U (Bulgaria) "Writing the Reader, or How to Read Instructions?" Disc.: George Z Gasyna, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8-15 The Brezhnev Dynamo: New Narratives from Late Socialism - Grand Ballroom Salon J Chair: Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, Wesleyan U Papers: Rhiannon Dowling, UC Berkeley "'He Was a Man, but the Factory Ruined Him!': The Law, Science, and the Embezzlement of Milk Products in the Early Brezhnev Era" Adrianne Kathleen Jacobs, UNC at Chapel Hill "Neptune’s Riches: Promoting Seafood and Culinary Innovation in Late Soviet Russia" Jenifer L. Parks, Rocky Mountain College "A Communist City of Sport: Preparing Moscow to Host the 1980 Summer Olympic Games" Disc.: Ethan M. Pollock, Brown U 3 | ASEEES 2015 Convention Preliminary Program This version of the program was last updated on June 8, 2015 For the most up-to-date program, see http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees15/ 8-16 Tropes of Self-Orientalization in East European Cultural Histories - Grand Ballroom Salon K Chair: Jindrich Toman, U of Michigan Papers: Dirk Uffelmann, U of Passau (Germany) "The Crisis of 'Sarmatian' Self-Orientalization Around 1800 – a 'Saddle Period' in Poland’s Relationship to the Orient" László Kontler, Central European U (Hungary) "Revisiting the 'Ugrian-Turkic War': Self-Orientalization in 19th-Century Hungarian Linguistic, Cultural and Political Discourse" Dariusz
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