International Conference   Post-Communist Nostalgia   7– 8 April 2006 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 314 Illini Union 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana All events are free and open to the public.
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Opening Address   “From Utopia to Propaganda and Back” Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois)   Friday, 7 April 9:00 am, 314 Illini Union
CAS/MillerComm Lecture   "The Spider Trap: Corruption, Organized Crime and Transition in the Balkans and Russia"   Misha Glenny (Award-winning journalist and author of The Balkans, 1804-1999)   Thursday, 6 April 7:30pm Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center	Documentary Film Screening   "Bastards of Utopia" (2006, 64 minutes - rough cut; Directors: Pacho Velez and Maple Razsa)   Friday, 7 April 5:30pm, 314 Illini Union   Balkanalia Spring Concert   Saturday, 8 April 8:00 pm, Smith Recital Hall 805 S. Matthews St, Urbana
Faculty Organizers:  Maria Todorova (History) Zsuzsa Gille (Sociolgy) Matti Bunzl (Anthropology)   Organizer: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois Cosponsors: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences European Union Center Department of History Department of Anthropology Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Department of Sociology Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
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Conference Participants
 
Laura Adams (Princeton University)
Daphne Berdahl (University of Minnesota)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell University)

Donna Buchanan (University of Illinois)
Cynthia Buckley (University of Texas)

Matti Bunzl (University of Illinois)

Fedja Buric (University of Illinois)

Victoria Clement (University of Illinois)

David Cooper (University of Illinois)

Gerald Creed (CUNY)

Diana Georgescu (University of Illinois)

Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois)
Bruce Grant (New York University)

Ted Hopf (Ohio State University)

Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois)

Diane Koenker (University of Illinois)

Carol Leff (University of Illinois)

Erica Lehrer (University of Illinois)

Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)

Tanja Petrovic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences)

Tim Pilbrow (University of Illinois)

Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)

Maple Razsa (Harvard University)

Cristofer Scarboro (University of Illinois)
Anna Szemere (Washington State University, Vancouver)

Maria Todorova (University of Illinois)
Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley)

 

 

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Past Center Conferences

 

2005

"Commercial Law Reform in Russia and Eurasia"