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Afterlives" - University of Michigan, March 23-24, 2012

> H-ASIA
> November 4, 2011
>
> Call for papers: 2012 Annual SOYUZ Symposium: "Affections/ Afflications/
> Afterlives" - University of Michigan, March 23-24, 2012
> *********************************************************************
> From: Susanne Cohen <susannemcohen@gmail.com>
>
> 2012 Annual SOYUZ Symposium
>
> "Affections/Afflictions/Afterlives"
>
>
>
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
>
> March 23-24, 2012
>
> SOYUZ, the Post-Communist Cultural Studies Interest group, invites paper
> proposals for its 2012 meeting. The symposium has met annually since
> 1991,
> and is an intimate forum where scholars (from graduate students to senior
> faculty) from across the world can exchange ideas.
>
> The 2012 symposium will ponder the sentiments, the failures, and the
> successes around making do with those ongoing, productive connections that
> are afforded by infrastructures and procedures conceived during (or in
> response to) socialism.
>
> How to speak about what lives ?after? without abjecting the 'remains'?
> Topical foci might draw upon themes current in the humanities and social
> sciences: biopolitics and biopowers (for instance, bricolage in ways of
> dealing with affliction, means of training the body, etc.);
> knowledge-making or sentiment-forming (e.g. recombination of religious,
> ethnic-folk, scientific, poetic ideologies and resources); material and
> narrative repurposing; modes of redistribution or (re)portioning of
> entitlements.
>
>
> The 2012 symposium will feature a keynote address by Judith Farquhar, Max
> Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Chair,
> Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
>
> SOYUZ began in 1991 as a regionally focused group responding to the fall
> of
> the Soviet and socialist states. Since then, it has broadened to include
> scholars working in any region touched by socialism, by the oppositions of
> socialism to capitalism, or by those phenomena formerly known as
> 'post-socialist.' The 2012 conference organizing committee includes
> University of Michigan anthropologists working across regions where
> socialism has figured in important ways: Kelly Askew (Tanzania), Anya
> Bernstein (Buryatia), Krisztina Fehervary (Hungary), Alaina Lemon (Russia,
> Romani diaspora), Erik Meuggler (China), Damani Partridge (Germany).
>
>
> Presentations may work in any discipline (anthropology, history,
> sociology,
> literary criticism and film studies, etc.) and may focus on any aspect of
> social life (religion, politics, kinship, sexuality, exchange,
> performance,
> etc.). At the same time, papers must strive to combine ethnographic
> evidence with theory.
>
> We hope to make a limited number of travel subsidies available to graduate
> students as well as to presenters from outside the United States.
>
> *The deadline for abstracts is December 15, 2011*
>
>
>
> Please send abstracts of 250 words by email to:
> amlemon@umich.edu*<amlemon@umich.edu>
>
>
>
> Please include your full name, paper title, and academic affiliation, and
> please write "SOYUZ 2012" in the subject line. Papers will be selected
> and notifications made by January 15, 2012.
>
>
> Sponsors: U-M's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies;
> African Studies Center; Center for Chinese Studies; Department of
> Anthropology; Institute for the Humanities; International Institute;
> College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Office of the Vice President
> for Research; and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
>
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