SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
2008 SOYUZ ANNUAL MEETING
University of California, Berkeley
April 24-27, 2008
To apply for the conference please send: a paper abstract (no longer than 500 words) and a brief CV by February 15, 2008
(decisions concerning acceptance will be announced by March 1, 2008)
send applications to: Alexei Yurchak: yurchak@berkeley. edu
THE CONFERENCE THEME:
“Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through the Lens of Postsocialism”
The disintegration of Soviet and Eastern European socialisms not only ushered in rapid and overwhelming transformations in the former socialist lifeworlds, but also engendered the emergence of the problem-space of “postsocialism” that spans well beyond the boundaries of the former socialist states. In this year’s Soyuz conference, we would like to consider: how can theoretical insights gained in our critical engagements with postsocialism shed new light on questions central to contemporary anthropology and critical social inquiry more broadly.
For example, how might our inquiry of postsocialism illuminate:
• current global configurations of liberalism and neoliberalism, democracy and neo-conservatism, sovereignty and citizenship, biopower and international law, religion and secularism, risk and security, global capitalism and labor outsourcing?
• complex parallels between late socialist and late capitalist social formations at the level of institutions, practices, sentiments, knowledge, subjectivity, aesthetics?
• current postcolonial engagements (considering that the ideological opposition capitalism/socialis m, in relation to which postcolonial criticism emerged, is now in the past)?
We are now inviting submissions for the conference. The selected papers will interrogate the relevance of the theoretical insights gained in engagements with postsocialism for other contexts, areas and problems of contemporary world. They will consider the implications of postsocialism, both as a historical formation and as a problem-space, for the problems interrogated in contemporary anthropology and social inquiry.
The conference organizing committee:
Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell)
Dace Dzenovska (UC Berkeley)
Larisa Kurtovic (UC Berkeley)
Alex Beliaev (UC Berkeley)
Nina Aron (UC Berkeley)
To apply for the conference please send an abstract (no longer than 500 words) and a brief CV by February 15, 2008
to: Alexei Yurchak: yurchak@berkeley. edu
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