THURSDAY NOV 20

1:00-2:45pm    Left Perspectives on State- and Post-Socialism I

Alienation Theory and Socialist Practice in Postwar Eastern Europe (panel)

Participants: Elena Razlogova (Concordia), Adela Hincu (INZ Slovenia), Eliza Rose (UNC), Una Blagojević (Babeș-Bolyai U), Jesse Labov (Corvinus U)

 3:00-4:45pm       Left Perspectives on State- and Post-Socialism II

Ghosts of Revolution: Post-Soviet Resentment and the Rise of the Right (panel)

Participants: Zachary Hicks (Berkeley), Volodymyr Ishchenko (Freie U Berlin), Anatoli Ulyanov (UCLA), Olena Lyubchenko (York), Alex Jackson (Harvard), Rafael Khachaturian (Penn)

5:00-6:45pm       Left Perspectives on State- and Post-Socialism III

Bolshevik Marxism (panel)

Participants: Alexey Golubev (Houston), Anna Krylova (Duke), Evgeni Pavlov (Metropolitan State U Denver), Galina Babak (Konstanz), Dmitrii Blyshko (Houston)

FRIDAY NOV 21

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

Eco-Poetic Cinema from Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Yugoslavia (panel)

Participants: Daniel Schwartz (McGill), Brian Farley (Pittsburgh), Ana Cohle (Princeton), Filip Šestan (Berkeley), Anne Eakin Moss (Chicago)

 10:00-11:45am   Left Perspectives on Aesthetics Across Media II

Marxism, Poetry, and Poetics (panel)

Participants: George Kovalenko (NYU), Jacob Emery (IU Bloomington), Venya Gushchin (USC), Ros Herling (Berkeley), Isobel Palmer (Birmingham)

1:30-3:15pm       Left Perspectives on Aesthetics Across Media III

Periodicals, Poetics, and Politics: New Books on Print Media (roundtable)

Participants: Yoonmin Kim (Yale), Marijeta Božović (Yale), Robert Davis (Columbia/Cornell), Meghan Forbes (Independent), Bradley Gorski (Georgetown), Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner (Ohio State)

 3:30-5:15pm       Left Perspectives on Aesthetics Across Media IV

Transcultural Flows and their Socialist Valences: Different Scales of Second and Third World Exchange (panel)

Participants: Asher Maria (Penn), Sima Kokotović (Penn), Dasha Prokhorova (Pittsburgh), Michael Lavery (UMD College Park), Maria Corrigan (Emerson)

SATURDAY NOV 22

8:00-9:45am       Left Perspectives on Decolonization and Geopolitics I

Geopolitical and Class Agendas among Post-Stalin-Era Multinational Soviet Writers and National Intelligentsias (panel)

Participants: Ararat Sekeryan (Columbia), Erin Hutchinson (UC Boulder), Klavdia Smola (Dresden), Rossen Djagalov (NYU), Marsel Khamitov (UW Madison), Zukhra Kasimova (Bucknell)

10:00-11:45am   Left Perspectives on Decolonization and Geopolitics II*

Decolonization or Ethnonationalism? The Ups and Downs of Post-Soviet Decolonial Discourse (roundtable)

Participants: Anna Gomboeva (NYU), Azhar Dyussekenova (U Michigan), Tahmina Inoyatova (Simon Fraser), Nikolay Karkov (SUNY Cortland), Saltanat Shoshanova (Regensburg), Marina Solntseva (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

* ‎Note: takes place simultaneously with Yugoslav Internationalisms II (see below)

10:00-11:45am Yugoslav Internationalisms II*

‍          ‍Book Discussion: Nonaligned Imagination, by Nataša Kovačević

Participants: Sima Kokotović (Penn), Anca Parvulescu (Washington U. in St Louis), Claudia Sadowski-Smith (ASU), Masha Salazkina (Concordia), Bojana Videkanić (Waterloo), Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U)

Cross-listed with New Yugoslav Studies Association.

*Note: takes place simultaneously with Left Perspectives on Decolonization and Geopolitics II (see above)

12:00-1:45pm     Left Perspectives on Decolonization and Geopolitics III

Transnational Flows and the Falsifiable "Center" and "Periphery" (panel)

Participants: Michael Lerner (Berkeley), Jan Mervart (Inst. of Philosophy CAS), Jiří Růžička (Inst. of Philosophy CAS), Yoonmin Kim (Yale), Sasha Karsavina (Yale), Anna Nieman (Independent), Una Blagojević (Babeș-Bolyai U)

2:00-3:45pm       Left Perspectives on Labor in Higher Education I

Labor in Higher Education (roundtable)

Participants: Ros Herling (Berkeley), Siarhei Biareishyk (Penn), Samantha Farmer (U Michigan), Mathias Fuelling (Temple), David Kurkovskiy (Berkeley), Shudi Yang (Berkeley)

4:00-5:45pm       Left Perspectives on Method I

Slavic Studies beyond Slavic Studies: Methodologies, Pedagogies, Political Contributions (roundtable)

Participants: Marla Zubel (Western Kentucky U), Juliya Alekseyeva (Penn), Rossen Djagalov (NYU), Zachary Hicks (Berkeley), Dominic Leppla (Independent), Cate Reilly (Duke)

SUNDAY NOV 23

8:00-9:45am       Left Perspectives on Method II

Slavic Studies beyond Slavic Studies: New Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Soviet Cinemas (roundtable)

Participants: Masha Salazkina (Concordia), Julia Alekseyeva (Penn), Maria Corrigan (Emerson), Matthew Kendall (UIC), Zdenko Mandušić (Toronto)

10:00-11:45am   Left Perspectives on Method III

Neoliberal/Cultural Turn in Histories of Socialism (panel)

Participants: Renny Hahamovitch (U Michigan), Bryan Gigantino (Georgian American U), Alexander Herbert (WPI), Oscar Sánchez-Sibony (U of Hong Kong), Anna Krylova (Duke), Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State U)

12:00-1:45pm     Left Perspectives on Method IV

Uneven and Combined Development: Keywords for Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Culture (panel)

Participants: Daria Ezerova (Cambridge), Ilya Kliger (NYU), Harsha Ram (Berkeley), Bradley Gorski (Georgetown), Jennifer Flaherty (Duke)