Past Symposia

1992  Symposium on Soviet Cultural Studies, Columbia University (pre-Soyuz founding symposium)

1993  Symposium on Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Studies, Columbia University (pre-Soyuz)

1994  Symposium at Columbia University (pre-Soyuz)

1995  “Soyuz: Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Studies,” Columbia University (the year of Soyuz’s official founding)

1996

1997

1998  Soyuz: Post-Communist Cultural Studies Symposium: “Out of the Ruins: Cultural Negotiation in the Soviet Aftermath,” Columbia University

1999  Soyuz: Post-Communist Cultural Studies Symposium: “Peripheral Visions: Views from the Margins,” Indiana University Bloomington

2000  Soyuz: Post-Communist Cultural Studies Symposium: “Views from Within: Ethnographic Perspective on Post-Communist Culture and Society,” Columbia University

2001  Soyuz Post-Communist Cultural Studies Symposium: “From the ‘Internationale’ to the Transnational: Repositioning Socialist and Post-Socialist Cultures,” University of California Berkeley

2002  “New Directions in Postsocialist Studies,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2003  “Ethnographies of Postsocialism,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2004  “Memory and the Present in Postsocialist Cultures,” Reed College

2005  “Post Post Socialism,” Indiana University Bloomington

2006  “Walls and Bridges: Refiguring ‘Socialist’ and ‘Postsocialist’ Spaces in a Deterritorializing World,” Bryant University

2007  “Locating ‘Eurasia’ in Postsocialist Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming,” Princeton University

2008  “Contemporary Critical Inquiry through the Lens of Postsocialism,” University of California Berkeley

2009  “Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms,” Yale University

2010  “Old and New Discourses and Ideologies of Power: Postsocialist Perspectives,” Northwestern University

2011  “New Postsocialist Ontologies and Politics,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2012  “Affections/Afflictions/Afterlives,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2013  “Authoritarianism and Beyond: Lessons from Postsocialism,” Columbia University

2014  “The Topos of Justice,” Miami University of Ohio

2015  “Shifting Territories: Historical Legacies and Social Change,” University of Washington

2016  “Politics of Difference: Migration, Nation, Postsocialist Left and Right?,” University of Chicago

2017  “Embracing Confusion and Questioning Clarity: On Matters of Method in Postsocialist Studies,” Indiana University Bloomington

 

Previous Officers

Convenor: Amy Ninetto, Erin Koch, Heidi Bludau

Secretary: Elitza Ranova, Patty Gray, Kristen Ghodsee, Larisa Kurtovic

Programming Coordinator: Joseph Crescente, Kristen Ghodsee, Susanne Cohen, Jen Carroll

Webmaster: J. Dickenson, Jessica Lockrem, Fabio Mattioli

Student Representative: Inna Leykin, Heidi Bludau, Natalja Czarnecki, Jonathan Stillo

H-Soyuz List Editor: Elitza Ranova, Amy Garey, Cristina Bradatan

H-Soyuz Book Review Editors: Johanna Bockman, Leyla Keough