Schedule

Friday, October 28, 2022

10:15 a.m. | Davis Center Seminar Series (Optional Event)

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

  • Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland | “The Aral Sea: Environment, Society and State Power in Central Asia”

*Registration is required to attend. To register, please email Jennifer Goldman at jhoule@princeton.edu.

1 – 1:15 p.m. | Welcome & Opening Remarks

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

1:15 – 3 p.m. | Session 1: Policies

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

  • Epp Annus, Ohio State University/University of Tallinn | “Neoliberal Revolutionaries: The Idea of Economic Self-Management in the Late 1980s Estonian SSR”
  • David Brandenberger, University of Richmond | “Imagining the Communist Future: Soviet Nationality and Development Policy in the 1947 Party Program”
  • Nikolay Mitrokhin, University of Bremen | “How Belarusians Helped Gorbachev: The Minsk Clan in Soviet Economic Policy in the 1980s”
  • Chair: Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University

3 – 3:15 p.m. | Break

Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

3:15 – 5 p.m. | Session 2: Interactions

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

  • Aleksandr Korobeinikov, Central European University | “‘Gold and Furs are the Alpha and Omega of the Yakut Economy’: The Sakha Intellectuals in the Early Soviet Nationality and Economic Policy”
  • Beatrice Penati, University of Liverpool | “Cotton, Capitalism, and Colonial Legacies in Central Asia’s Own ‘Agrarian Debate’”
  • Tamar Qeburia, Ilia State University/Georg August University of Göttingen | “The Social Fabric of Industrial Technology: The Closed-Top Furnace Caught Between the Socialist and Nationalist Identity”
  • Chair: Claire Roosien, Yale University

5 – 5:15 p.m. | Break

Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

5:15 – 6: 45 p.m. | Keynote 

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

  • Artemy Kalinovsky, Temple University | “Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective”

The keynote lecture will be offered as a hybrid session, both in-person and via Zoom.  Registration is required for either option. Visit the registration page to register your attendance.

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Saturday, October 29, 2022

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Session 3: Labor

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

  • Zoé Allen-Mercier, University of Turku/Sciences Po | “‘From Backward Outskirts of Tsarist Russia to a Republic with Developed Industry, Mechanized Agriculture and Advanced Socialist Culture’: The Intersection of Economy and Nationality in Soviet Karelia”
  • Kateryna Burkush, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study | “Industrious but Inglorious: On Regional History of Seasonal Workers from Transcarpathia and Their Public Image, 1950s–1980s”
  • Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University | “The War Economy: Central Asian Workers and Labor Mobilization”
  • Jonathan Raspe, Princeton University | “Creating National Workers: Industrial Recruitment Campaigns in Kazakhstan and Belarus, 1944-1959”
  • Chair: Artemy Kalinovsky, Temple University

12 p.m. – 1 p.m. | Lunch

Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

1 – 2:45 p.m. | Session 4: Communities

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

  • Robert Geraci, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | “Out of the Bazaar and Back Again”
  • Sohee Ryuk, Columbia University | “Locating the Nation in the Handicraft Carpet Industry in the Soviet Caucasus”
  • Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University | “Rivers and Visions of Nation in Late Soviet Georgia”
  • Chair: Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland

2:45 – 3 p.m. | Break

Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

3 – 4:45 p.m. | Roundtable

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

The roundtable discussion will be offered as a hybrid session, both in-person and via Zoom.  Registration is required for either option. Visit the registration page to register your attendance.

4:45 – 5 p.m. | Closing Remarks

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall