International Conference   Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia June 19-21, 2008 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 210 Illini Union 1401 W. Green St., Urbana Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080) Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana Free and open to the public.
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Keynote Address   Ronald G. Suny Professor of History, University of Michigan   Thinking about Feelings: Affective Dispositions and Emotions in the Study of the Past   Thursday, June 19 5:00pm 210 Illini Union
Conference Participants The conference is open to the public. To facilitate discussion, authors will introduce their papers with brief presentations. We therefore encourage all participants to read the full texts of the papers (see Program). Texts will become available as they are submitted to the REEEC.   Roann Barris, Assistant Professor of Art History, Radford University Anna Fishzon, Assistant Professor of History, Williams College Jack Friedman, Anthropology, NIMH Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA Victoria Frede, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley Laurie Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois Polly Jones, Lecturer in Russian, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Natalie Kononenko, Professor and Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta Anna Krylova, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Duke University Alexandra Oberlaender, Research Fellow, Humboldt-University, Berlin Serguei Oushakine, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Princeton University Lyudmila Parts, Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, McGill University Andrea Petö, Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Judith Pintar, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Carol Silverman, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon Valeria Sobol, Assistant Professor and Language Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Illinois Mark Steinberg, Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois; Editor, Slavic Review Ronald G. Suny, Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan Richard Tempest, Director, REEEC; Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois Glennys Young, Associate Professor of History and International Studies, University of Washington Ilya Vinitsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania Russell Zanca, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University Andrei Zorin, Professor of Russian, Fellow of New College, Oxford University   The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum is held in conjunction with the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.  The conference is made possible by Mary and Hal Zirin's generous gift to the Ralph and Ruth Fisher Endowment Fund in honor of Professor Ralph Fisher and his wife Ruth. Ralph Fisher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois and founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Summer Research Lab. Faculty Organizers Mark Steinberg, Department of History, University of Illinois Valeria Sobol, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois   Organizer Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois   Cosponsors Ralph and Ruth Fisher Endowment Fund College of Liberal Arts and Sciences School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Center for Advanced Study Center for Global Studies Department of Anthropology Department of History Department of Psychology Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Department of Sociology European Union Center Gender and Women’s Studies Program Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities International Programs and Studies Program in Comparative and World Literature Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory   For more information on the conference, please contact: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center University of Illinois 217.333.1244 or reec@uiuc.edu     top

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