Summer 2008

SRL Noontime Scholars Lecture Series

12:00 p.m., 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign (unless otherwise indicated)

Wednesday, June 11

'Since You've Been Gone: Family Stability and Labor Migration in the Southern Caucasus'

Cynthia Buckley ( Sociology, University of Texas at Austin)

Tuesday, June 17

TBA

Tuesday, June 24

TBA

Tuesday, July 1

'Soft Borders: an argument against the hard borders of ethnocracy'

Julie Mostov ( Associate Vice Provost for International Programs, Drexel University )

*Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

Spring 2008

Tuesday, January 29

"Azerbaijan: a Country in Political, Social, and Educational Transition"

Mohammad Babadoost (Crop Sciences, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, February 12

''Gender and Transition: Responses to Economic Change in Siberia"

Elizabeth Sweet (Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, February 26 CANCELLED

"Animal Farms, or How Socialist Pigs Overthrew an Empire"

Tuesday, March 11

"Cultural Contestation in the Caucasus"
Natasha Kipp (Musicology, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, March 25

“The Political Role of the Internet in the Russian Federation”
Heather Macleod (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, April 15 DATE CHANGE

"Tolstoy and Herder: Nationalism and Brotherhood in Tolstoy's War and Peace"

Lina Steiner(Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)

Tuesday, April 22

"Re-dimensioning the Boundaries of Nationality: 'Albanians of Kosovo' vs. 'Kosovars'"

Eda Derhemi (Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois)

Fall 2007

Tuesday, August 28

"Mass Inventing Friendship: Propaganda for the USSR in Stalinist Poland"

Jan C. Behrends (Research Fellow, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin; Humboldt Scholar, University of Chicago)

Tuesday, September 11

''The Ecstasy of Big Ideas': Building Yugoslav Tourism through the Five Year Plan, 1947-1951"

Kate Meehan Pedrotty (History, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, September 25

"The Revolutionary Implications of Russian Alcohol Prohibition, 1914-1925: New Insights from the Archives"

Tuesday, October 9

"Hip-Hop, Migration, and the Racialization of Class Identities in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine"
Adriana Helbig (Musicology, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, October 23

"Europeanness and Modernity in the ‘Uttermost East’: Sakhalin Island in the Imperial Russian Imagination"

Sharyl Corrado (History, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, November 6

"Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes: S. I. Witkiewicz vs. the Polish Avant-Garde (1919-1939)"

George Gasyna (Slavic and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, November 27

"The Ironies and Challenges of Soviet Expropriation in a Russian Province"

Susan Smith (History, Bradley University)

Summer 2007

SRL Noontime Scholars Lecture Series

Spring 2007

Tuesday, January 23

"The Transnational Recruitment of Post-communist Elites: Emigres, Linguists and Resume Managers"

Carol Leff (Political Science, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, February 6

"Healers and Pilgrims: Syncretism and Shrine-based Islam in Kazakhstan"

Margarethe Adams (Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, February 20

"Authority, Legality, and the Disintegration of the Jewish Community in the Western Borderlands"

Eugene Avrutin (History, University of Illinois)

Tuesday, March 13

"Contested Sovereignties: The Russian Empire and Indigenous Siberian Political Culture in the 17th Century"
Alexandra Haugh (History, Northwestern University)

Tuesday, April 3

"Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915"

Judge Stephen Williams (United States Court of Appeals)

Tuesday, April 17

"Articulation and Perceptions of National Ideology in 19th Century Plovdiv"

Andreas Lyberatos (Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University)

Fall 2006

Tuesday, September 5 (with PSAMES)

"Governance Reform in Tajikistan: A Report from the Field"

Thomas Ginsburg (Law, UIUC)

*Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

Tuesday, September 19

"'We Have Never Been German,' or What Kaliningrad Can Teach Us about Historical Memory and Identity"

Olga Sezneva (Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago)

Tuesday, October 3

"Drafting the New Soviet Man: Masculinity, Empire, and Resistance in Postwar Conscription Efforts"

Erica Fraser (History, UIUC)

Wednesday, October 18 (with History)

"Living the Soviet Dream: Encounters with Leonid Potemkin"

Jochen Hellbeck (History, Rutgers University)

*Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

Tuesday, October 24 (with Art History)

"Modern Soviet Art Meets America, 1935"

Christina Kiaer (Art History, Northwestern University)

Thursday, November 9

"Ideology, Identity and the Reconstruction of Medieval Monuments in Ukraine"

Olenka Pevny (Art and Art History, University of Richmond)

*Gallery, Architecture Building

Tuesday, December 5

"How to Make a 'Nation'? Reflections on the Moldovan Nation-Building Policies during the Soviet Period and After"

Octavian Ticu (Head of the International Relations and Political Science, International Free University of Moldova, Chisinau; REEEC Fulbright Visiting Scholar)

Summer 2006

SRL Noontime Scholars Lecture Series

Spring 2006

Tuesday, January 24

"Ivan Mestrovic: Sculpting a Yugoslav Heimat"

Fedja Buric (History, UIUC)

Tuesday, February 7

"The Political Science of Putin's Body"

Richard Tempest (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UIUC)

Tuesday, February 21

"The ABC's of Literary in Turkmenistan, 1904-2004"

Victoria Clement (Post-doctoral Fellow in Central Asia-Caucasus Studies, REEEC, UIUC)

Tuesday, February 28

"What Do We Know about Siberian Shamanism?"

Minjong Yang (Russian Literature, Busan National University, South Korea; REEEC Visiting Scholar, UIUC)

Tuesday, March 14

"Reflecting on the Health of Political Color: 2006 Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections"

Olena Betlii (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, REEEC, UIUC)

Tuesday, March 28

"Rom Musicians - Endangered Mediators in Kosovo?"

Svanibor Pettan (Cultural Anthropology & Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Visiting Faculty, Musicology, UIUC)

Thursday, April 6 (with ACDIS)

"Confessions of an Arms Control Junkie"
Daniel Burghart (National Security and Eurasian Studies, Joint Military Intelligence College; former Senior National Security Policy Advisor at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency)
* 356 Armory Building

Tuesday, April 18

"Baron Ungern's Mongolian Pogrom: The Genealogy of an Imperial Massacre"

Willard Sunderland (History, University of Cincinnati)

Fall 2005

Tuesday, August 30

"Land Record Reforms in Russia, Armenia, and Tajikistan"

Peter Maggs (Law, UIUC)

Tuesday, September 20

"Hagiography, History, and Sexual Violence in Bosnia"

Judith Pintar (Sociology, UIUC)

Tuesday, October 4

"'Lichens Are Not Our National Treasure': the Battle over Science and Sustainable Forestry in Post-Soviet Latvia"

Katrina Schwartz (Political Science, University of Florida)

Tuesday, October 18

"A Vanishing Act: Communist Prisons and Post-Communist Romanian Discourse"

Oana Popescu-Sandu (Comparative Literature, UIUC)

Tuesday, November 1

"Russian Film-Media Research's Substitute for On-Line "Britannica"

Steven P. Hill (Slavic Languages and Literatures; Cinema Studies, UIUC)

Tuesday, November 29

"Making of the Body: Cultural History of Underwear in Soviet Russia (1917-1980s)"

Olga Gurova (History, Tver State University, Russia; REEEC Fulbright Visiting Scholar)