MAW

Old Conflicts and New Media: Commemorating the Socialist Experience Online

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 17:11

Event Date:

Wed, 31/08/2011 - 10:00 - Fri, 02/09/2011 - 20:00

Location:

Os, Norway

External Website Address:

http://www.web- wars.org/conference/call-for-papers

Postgraduate Conference in East European Memory Studies

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 17:07

Event Date:

Fri, 11/03/2011 - 10:00 - Sat, 12/03/2011 - 20:00

Venue:

University of Cambridge

Location:

Cambridge, UK

External Website Address:

www.memoryatwar.org

Dr. Sander Brouwer

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 17:04

Project Role:

Title:

Assistant Professor of Russian Literature and Cultural History

Institution:

University of Groningen

Address:

Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen, The Netherlands

E-mail:

sander.brouwer@rug.nl

Telephone:

:+31 (0) 50 363 6062

Publications:

2009 (forthcoming) Re-Entering Memory: Viktor Erofeev's 'The Good Stalin'. Festschrift für Rainer Grübel . Oldenburg. (forthcoming) Wat te doen...? met pulp, porno en poen. Publicaties van het Centrum voor Oost- en Midden-Europa Studies , 1. Groningen. (forthcoming) First Love, but not First Lover. Turgenev’s Poetics of Unoriginality. Aspects of Turgenev . Edited by Joe Andrew & Robert Reid (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics). Amsterdam and New York , NY : Rodopi. (forthcoming) Review of: Goscilo, Helena and Stephen M. Norris (eds.), Preserving Petersburg. History, Memory, Nostalgia (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008). Slavonica , Vol. 15, No. 2, 2009. 2008 What Is It Like to Be a Bat-Author? Viktor Pelevin’s Empire V in Dutch Contributions to the fourteenth international congress of Slavists, Ohrid, September 10 - 16, 2008. Literature . Ed. by Sander Brouwer. Amsterdam and New York , NY : Rodopi: 243-256 (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 51).

Dr. Maria Mälksoo

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 16:59

Project Role:

Title:

Senior Researcher

Institution:

Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu

Address:

Insitute of Government and Politics Tiigi 78 50410 Tartu  Estonia

E-mail:

maria.malksoo@ut.ee

Telephone:

+372 536 50 672

Fax:

+3727375582

External Website Address:

https://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuCV.aspx?LastNameFirstLetter=M&PersonVID...

Research Interests:

Culture and Society, Social Sciences, IR theory: constructivist and poststructuralist IR theory, critical security studies, political anthropology, European identity and memory politics, NATO's strategic developments.

Publications:

The Memory Politics of Becoming European: The East European Subalterns and the Collective Memory of Europe, European  Journal of International Relations, 15 (4), 653-80 (2009) The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of  Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries. London & New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd. (2009) "Liminality and Contested Europeanness: Conflicting Memory Politics in the Baltic Space," in Berg, E.; Ehin, P. (Eds.). Identity and Foreign Policy: Baltic-Russian Relations in the Context of European Integration (65-83). Aldershot: Ashgate.

Dr. Markku Kangaspuru

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 16:38

Project Role:

Title:

Director of Research and Adjunct Professor

Institution:

Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Address:

Aleksanteri Institute  P.O.Box 42 (Unioninkatu 33)  FI-00014 University of Helsinki

E-mail:

markku.kangaspuro@helsinki.fi

Telephone:

+358-(0)9-191 23650

Fax:

+358 9 191 23615

Research Interests:

Markku Kangaspuro is specialized on Russian politics, political history, theories and discourse of Russia's development, identities and nationalism and in particular on relations between Europe and Soviet Union / Russia. His recent research interests are modernisation and transformation of Russia; the political use of history in identity politics; and European new identities within and outside of the European Union.

Publications:

The Bolshevik Modernisation Project - Modernisation in Russia since 1900. Edited by Markku Kangaspuro and Jeremy Smith. Tampere: Studia Fennica Historica 12, Finnish Literary Society, 2006 Constructed Identities in Europe. Edited by Markku Kangaspuro. Kikimora Publications (Aleksanteri Series 7/2007) Saarijarvi, 2007. The Soviet Depression and Finnish Immigrants in Soviet Karelia. - Karelian Exodus: Finns in North America and Soviet Karelia during the Depression Era. Edited by Ron Harpelle,Varpu Lindstrom and Alexis Pogorelskin. Special issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Aspasia Books, Inc., 2004, pp. 132-140 Russian Patriots and Red Fennomans. Rise and Fall of Soviet Karelia, Edited by Antti Laine and Mikko Ylikangas. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications, 2002, pp. 24-48. Neuvosto-Karjalan taistelu itsehallinnosta. Nationalismi ja suomalaiset punaiset Neuvostoliiton vallankaytossa 1920-1939. Helsinki: Bibliotheca Historica 60, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2000.

Dr. Ellen Rutten

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 16:03

Project Role:

Title:

Postdoctoral fellow

Institution:

University of Bergen

Address:

Dept. of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities, UiB, Pb 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway

E-mail:

contact@ellenrutten.nl

Telephone:

+47 55 58 23 40

Fax:

+47 55 58 42 60

External Website Address:

www.ellenrutten.nl

Ellen Rutten studied Russian literature at the universities of Groningen, St Petersburg and Berlin (Humboldt), and lectured at the universities of Amsterdam, Leiden and Cambridge. From 2007-2009, she was affiliated to the University of Cambridge for the project 'Reclaiming the Reader: New Sincere Trends in Post-Soviet Literature' funded by the netherlands Scientific Organisation. At Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities she co-convened the Contemporary Russian Culture Studies group.

Research Interests:

Having started her career by exploring political gender metaphors, Rutten's current interests include Russian postmodernism,new sincere trends, and Russian cyberculture. As a post-doctoral fellow of the Future of Russian project, Rutten focuses on linguistic imperfection in Russian literary weblogs - whose apparent laconism, rather than a result of authorial sloppiness, is often consciously and meticulously constructed.

Publications:

Book: Unattainable Bride Russia. Gendering Nation, State, and Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press (in press) Edited journal: 2009 (with Henrike Schmidt) Russian Literature and the Internet issue, Kultura, 1, available online on www.kultura-rus.de Articles 2009, Literary Blogs? Creative Writing in Russian Weblogs, Kultura, 1, available online on www.kultura-rus.de 2009, More Than a Poet? Why Russian Writers Didn't Blog on the 2008 Elections, Russian Cyberspace. Available online on www.russian-cyberspace.org 2008, Strategic Sentiments. Pleas for a New Sincerity in Contemporary Russian Literature, Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists, ed. Brouwer, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 201-217.

Dr. Alexander Etkind

Submitted by ub217 on Tue, 14/12/2010 - 14:49

Project Role:

Project Leader

Title:

Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History

Institution:

University of Cambridge

Address:

Kings College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST

E-mail:

ae264@cam.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)1223-331242

Fax:

+44 (0)1223335062

External Website Address:

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/staff/ae264/

Alexander Etkind has two PhDs, in Psychology from Bekhterev Institute, Leningrad, and in Slavonic Literatures from the University of Helsinki. Before coming to Cambridge, he taught at the European University at St.Petersburg and, as a visiting professor, at New York University and Georgetown University. He was also a resident fellow at Harvard, Princeton, and Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Current research interests are internal colonization in the Russian Empire; narratology from Pushkin to Nabokov; and comparative studies of cultural memory.

Research Interests:

Current research interests are internal colonization in the Russian Empire; narratology from Pushkin to Nabokov; and comparative studies of cultural memory.

Publications:

Post-Soviet Hauntology: Cultural Memory of the Soviet Terror - Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 16 (1): 182-200 2009 Vozvraschenie tritona: Sovetskaia katastrofa i postsovetskii roman, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 94, 174-206 (with Mark Lipovetsky)  2008 Bare Monuments to Bare Life: The Soon-to-Be-Dead in Arts and Memory, Gulag Studies, vol.1, 27-33. 2007 Non-fiction po-russki pravda. Kniga otzivov. Moskva. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 336 pp.  2005 'Soviet Subjectivity: Torture for the Sake of Salvation?', Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, 1 (winter) 171-186. 2001

Memory at War inaugural workshop

Submitted by ub217 on Fri, 22/10/2010 - 14:54

External Website Address:

http://www.memoryatwar.org/#

The Memory at War project kicked off with a workshop attended by all participants. The keynote address was delivered by Professor Jay Winters.

Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (MAW)

http://www.memoryatwar.org/

In post-communist Eastern Europe, disruptions of politics, trade, and security collide with paroxysms of suspicion that take the unusual shape of heated debates about the traumatic moments of the twentieth century. A Memory War is raging in Eastern Europe, a cultural conflict that is increasingly leading states in the region to act against their own economic and political interests. Understanding this conflict is the subject of a HERA Collaborative Research Project led by the University of Cambridge, ‘Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine’ (MAW).