UC Berkeley Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
615 Crothers Way
Started in 1976, the Stanford-Berkeley Conference celebrates its 50th year on Stanford's campus. Through presentations by colleagues and scholars from both universities, this annual tradition and day-long conference covers various topics related to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Conference Program:
9:50-10:00 Opening Remarks
Amir Weiner, Director, Stanford CREEES
10:00-12:00 | Panel: “Present”
Jana Hunter, Assistant Professor, History Department, Stanford University
"Out of Sync: The Politics of Time in Habsburg Bohemia”
Dominick Lawton, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
“Uneven and Combined: Historical Development through Literary Form in Viktor Shklovsky’s Sentimental Journey”
Djordje Popović, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
“The State of Literature: A New Yugoslav Perspective on Danilo Kiš”
Rebekah Ramsay, Assistant Professor, History Department, UC Berkeley
"Revolutionary Citizenship in Early Soviet Kazakhstan”
Chair: Jovana Lazić, Associate Director, Stanford CREEES
12:00-1:15 Lunch break
1:15-3:15 | Panel: “Future”
Hanna Folsz, PhD Candidate, Political Science Department, Stanford University
"Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality"
Ostap Kin, PhD Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
"Shades of Afterness: 1945 and Early Responses to the Holocaust in Lviv"
Filip Sestan, PhD Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
"What is New Yugoslav Cinema? A Bosnian Perspective on Uneven and (Im)mature Film Form"
Chair: Jeffrey Pennington, Executive Director, UC Berkeley ISEEES
3:15-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:15 | Roundtable: “Past” - The History and Current State of the Field
George Breslauer, Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department, UC Berkeley
John Connelly, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professorship of European History, UC Berkeley
David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emeritus, Stanford University
Nancy Kollmann, William H. Bonsall Professor in History, Stanford University
Norman Naimark, Robert & Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Anne Nesbet, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Amir Weiner, Faculty Director, Stanford CREEES
5:15 - 5:30 Closing Remarks
Aglaya Glebova, Faculty Director, UC Berkeley ISEEES