THURSDAY, NOV 21

12:00-1:45pmLeft Perspectives on Cultures of Decline I

Forgotten Futures of Late- and Post-Socialism (panel)

Participants: Ania Aizman (Chicago), Leah Feldman (Chicago), Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State U), Dominick Lawton (Stanford), Steven Lee (UC Berkeley, organizer)

2:00-3:45pm       Left Perspectives on Cultures of Decline II

Cultural Biopolitics in Post-Soviet Russia (roundtable)

Participants: Marijeta Bozovic (Yale), Fabrizio Fenghi (Brown), Maksim Hanukai (U of Wisconsin-Madison, organizer), Sofie Sabbioni (U of Basel), Ellina Sattarova (USC)

4:00-5:45pm       Left Perspectives on Cultures of Decline III

Economic Downturn and Second World Cultural Production I (panel)

Participants: Jinyi Chu (Yale), Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley, organizer), Elena Razlogova (Concordia), Daniel Schwartz (McGill), Myka Tucker-Abramson (U of Warwick), Ros Herling (UC Berkeley)

FRIDAY, NOV 22

 8:00-9:45amLeft Perspectives on Cultures of Decline IV

Economic Downturn and Second World Cultural Production II (panel)

Participants: Nikita Allgire (USC), Katie Frevert (UC Berkeley), Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley, organizer), Ryan Hoaglund (U of Michigan), James Robertson (UC Irvine), Yana Skorobogatov (Columbia), Olena Tsykynovska (Chicago)

10:00-11:45am   Left Perspectives on State Socialism IV

Land, Soil, Communes, and the Rural (panel)

Participants: Sarah Craycraft (Harvard), Mieka Erley (Colgate), Olena Lyubchenko (York), Victoria Myznikova (LMU Munich), Vera Smirnova (Kansas State U, co-organizer), Zhivka Valiavicharska (Pratt Institute, co-organizer)

1:30-3:15pm       Left Perspectives on State Socialism III

Red Migrations (roundtable)

Participants: Irina Denischenko (Georgetown), Philip Gleissner (Ohio State U), Bradley Gorski (Georgetown, organizer), Jessie Labov (Corvinus U of Budapest), Sasha Senderovich (U of Washington-Seattle), Kimberly St. Julian Varnon (U of Pennsylvania)

3:30-5:15pm       Left Perspectives on State Socialism II

The USSR and the Creation of Cold War International Spaces (panel)

Participants: Elias Angele (U of Bremen, organizer), Elena Aronova (UC Santa Barbara), Pey-Yi Chu (Pomona), Ksenia Tatarchenko (SMU Singapore), Darin Volf (LMU Munich)

3:30-5:15pm       Left Perspectives on Narrative III(1st Floor / Tremont)

Book Discussion: Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism, by Ilya Kliger (roundtable)

Participants: Jennifer Flaherty (Duke), Kate Holland (Toronto), Harsha Ram (UC Berkeley), Kirill Ospovat (U of Wisconsin-Madison, organizer)

SATURDAY, NOV 23

8:00-9:45am       Left Perspectives on State Socialism I

Post-Stalinist Marxism in East Central Europe (roundtable)

Participants: Michal Kopeček (Czech Academy of Sciences), Jan Mervart (Czech Academy of Sciences, organizer), Ying Qian (Columbia), James Robertson (UC Irvine), Jiří Růžička (Czech Academy of Sciences), Zhivka Valiavicharska (Pratt Institute)

10:00-11:45am   Left Perspectives on Discipline I (co-organized w/ New Yugoslav Studies)

Cultures of Comparison (panel)

Participants: Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U), Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State U, organizer), Bojana Videkanić (U of Waterloo)

10:00-11:45am   Rethinking Yugoslav Art I (co-organized w/ Black Sheep; 3rd Floor / Simmons)

The Catalyzing Dreamworlds of Late and Post Socialist Art (panel)

Participants: Marijeta Bozovic (Yale), Amy Bryzgel (Northeastern), Nadezhda Gribkova (Chicago), Nicoletta Rousseva (Indiana U Bloomington, organizer), Jasmina Tumbas (SUNY Buffalo)

12:00-1:45pm     Left Perspectives on Narrative I

Literature as Political Practice and Critique (panel)

Participants: Jennifer Flaherty (Duke), Ilya Kliger (NYU, organizer), Dominick Lawton (Stanford), Kirill Ospovat (U of Wisconsin-Madison)  

2:00-3:45pm       Left Perspectives on Aesthetics III

Fight Club of the Forgotten Future: Second and Third World Solidarity and Struggle on Screen (panel)

Participants: Iuliia Glushneva (Concordia), Sima Kokotović (University College Dublin), Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U), Cate Reilly (Duke, organizer)

4:00-5:45pm       Left Perspectives on Aesthetics II

Translation, Modernists and Communist World Literature (panel)

Participants: Jacob Emery (Indiana U Bloomington), Zachary King (independent, organizer), María Morales (Harvard), Elena Ostrovskaya (U of Strasbourg), Geordie Kenyon Sinclair (Harvard), Zsuzsanna Varga (U of Glasgow)

SUNDAY, NOV 24

8:00-9:45am       Left Perspectives on Aesthetics I

Poetry as/and Political Action (panel)

Participants: Victoria Buyanovskaya (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Carlotta Chenoweth (West Point), Irina Denischenko (Georgetown, organizer), Ludmila Lavine (Bucknell U), Zachary Rewinski (College of Wooster)

8:00-9:45am       Left Perspectives on Discipline III(1st Floor / Tremont)

Organizing Labor at the University: Perspectives across Ranks (lightning round)

Participants: Jason Cieply (Hamilton), Ros Herling (UC Berkeley), Ryan Hoagland (Michigan, co-organizer), Katie Kasperian (Michigan), Dominic Leppla (Rutgers), Elisa Purschke (Princeton, co-organizer)

10:00-11:45am   Left Perspectives on Narrative II

Processing the Revolution in Media and History (panel)

Participants: Julia Alekseyeva (U of Pennsylvania), Stanislav Khudzik (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, organizer), Semyon Leonenko (UC Berkeley), Lora Maslenitsyna (Yale), Konstantin Mitroshenkov (Columbia), Anna Yegorova (UC Santa Cruz)

12:00-1:45pm     Left Perspectives on Discipline II

Cold War Legacies and the Poverty of Cultural History: History-Writing in the Twenty-First Century (roundtable)

Participants: Rossen Djagalov (NYU), Alexander Herbert (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Anna Krylova (Duke, organizer), Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (U of Hong Kong)