Dear Eurasia group members,
I received the message below from Professor Megan Swift at UVic, who is organizing what promises to be a fantastic Bolshevik Revolution centenary conference at UVic in October next year. Please see her message seeking speaker proposals below, and if you are interested in submitting a proposal, reply directly to her email listed below. Also feel free to pass this information on to anyone else you think might be interested in presenting at the conference.
Best wishes, and I hope you are enjoying a good start to fall!
Lisa Sundstrom
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Dear colleague,
I am organizing an international conference at UVic Oct. 25-27 2017 to celebrate the centenary of the Russian revolution and am writing to you as a scholar whose research could fit very well at this event. The theme of the conference is “1917 and Today” and focuses on the question of which cultural practices introduced by the Bolsheviks are still imbedded in Putin’s Russia, and why (see blurb below). This will be an interdisciplinary conference with Russianists representing film studies, literary studies, history, political science, anthropology, etc. I’m going to be preparing a SSHRC Connections grant proposal and will need talk titles, abstracts, and CVs from presenters in late October of this year. Please let me know if this is something that you think you would be interested in. If I get the grant I would be able to pay for travel and accommodation for all speakers, if not, the conference will still go ahead but only the keynote speaker, Mark Lipovetsky (U Colorado) and catering will be covered. If you have other colleagues or graduate students whose research would fit well at this conference, please do send me their names.
1917 and Today: Putin, Russia and the Legacy of Revolution
2017 marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution that proclaimed a total break from the culture of the imperial past and attempted to re-make society and cultural identity from the ground up. Nearly a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism, Russia’s Soviet decades have generally been dismissed as a failed experiment. But looking deeper, what practices, policies, institutions and cultural legacies rooted in the Soviet period continue to be imbedded in Putin’s Russia, and by studying them, how can we gain a more complex understanding of culture and identity in Russia today? From mass youth group movements and mass media to the public school curriculum, sport, state holidays and language policy, the research produced for this conference will explore which experiments stemming from 1917 still shape and inform post-Communist Russia. By discovering what is expedient, practical and/or desirable about these continuities, this conference and the ensuing book project will go beyond labels of success or failure to discover the root mechanisms behind the operation of post-Soviet culture and Putin’s Russia.
Megan Swift
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Associate Professor of Russian Studies
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC
V8W 2Y2 Canada
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