49th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference: Borders and Belonging

View of Caucasus Mountains as seen near Yergi Kek, Azerbaijan.
Date
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Event Sponsor
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (UC Berkeley); Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (Stanford)
Location
University of California, Berkeley
Sproul Room
International House
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Started in 1976, the Berkeley-Stanford Conference celebrates its 49th year on the Berkeley campus. An annual tradition and day-long conference covering various topics related to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia by colleagues from UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

Schedule

  • Panel 1 - 9:45am-11:45am
    • Valentina Viktorovskaia, History, UC Berkeley: “‘It’s not a chaikhana, it is the House of the Military General!,’ or how some Jews became imperial intermediaries in Russian Turkestan”
    • Daniel Lehmann, CREEES, Stanford: “The Double-Edged Border: The Bolsheviks’ experience in the Bukharan People’s Soviet Republic”
    • Ryan Gourley, Music, UC Berkeley: “Experiencing the Russian Revolution in Harbin: Music, Migration, and Accidental Diaspora”
  • Panel 2 - 1:30pm-3pm
    • Eric Kim, Slavic, Stanford: “Imagining a Hyperprosaic Identity: Jewish Identity in Tsypkin’s Photography”
    • Ivan Sokolov, Slavic, UC Berkeley: “The Soviet Poet Viktor Sosnora in the Grey Zone of ‘Being-Vnye’”
    • Mat Muntz, Music, UC Berkeley: “Fugal Structures, Exilic Counterpoint, and the Limits of Literature in ‘The Ministry of Pain’”
  • Panel 3 - 3:15pm-5:15pm
    • Matthias Melcher, ISEEES, UC Berkeley: “Us against them. On the importance of belonging in starting a viral story in East Central Europe’s 19th century”
    • Meng Yang, ISEEES, UC Berkeley: “‘Unwilling to awaken’: The special status of the Poland-China route and Polish-Sino shipping cooperation in the early 1950s”
    • Beatrice Smigasiewicz, Art History, Stanford University: “The Social Self: Paweł Kwiek and the Construction of the Subject in 1970s Neo-Avant-Garde of Communist Poland”
    • Maryna Antaniuk-Prouteau, Slavic, Stanford University: “Belarusian Language and Identity in Times of Political Upheaval: Evolution Beyond Borders”

Admission information

This is free and open to the public. There is no need to register. There is no virtual option.

Access Coordinator

Disability Access and Compliance, access [at] berkeley.edu (access[at]berkeley[dot]edu), 510-643-6456