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CSEES Discussion Group

The Center for Slavic and East European Studies is announcing the creation of a CSEES Discussion Group which aims to provide an opportunity for the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion of ideas related to Russia, the former Soviet Union (including Central Asia), Central and South-Eastern Europe. The group proposes to examine concepts such as (national, ethnic, religious, and gender) identities, citizenship, democracy, security, empire, and post-communist legacy. In light of recent conflicts in the Balkans and Central Asia, the group will consider how to talk about the responsibility of the humanities and social sciences in encouraging a (renewed) debate about the nature and origin of social bonds, a debate that makes possible better political responses to new challenges: for instance, in the modern clash of religions and the ghettoizing of communities.

Winter Quarter 2009 - Post-Communism and/or Post-Colonialism
February 27, 2009 at 12:00p.m.
Articles
Chari, Sharad & Verdery, Katherine. "Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War"

Kujundzic, Dragan. ""After': Russian Post-Colonial Identity"

Stenning, Alison & Horschelmann, Kathrin. "History, Geography and Difference in the Post-socialist World: Or, Do We Still Need Post-Socialism?"

Autumn Quarter 2008 - Slavic Diaspora and Displaced Identity
November 12, 2008 at 4:00p.m.
Book
Hemon, Aleksandr. Nowhere Man

Spring Quarter 2008 - Minorities and States: Central Asia, Russia, and the Balkans
April 9, 2008 at 4:00p.m.
Articles
Reeves, Madeleine. "Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands"

Suny, Richard. "Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations"

Zahra, Tara. "Reclaiming Children for the Nation: Germanization, National Ascription, and Democracy in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1945"

Winter Quarter 2008 - The Veil
February 25, 2008 at 4:00p.m.
Articles
Edgar, Adrienne. "Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet “Emancipation” of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective"

Neuburger, Mary. "Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe"


The Center for Slavic and East European Studies
The Ohio State University
1712 Neil Ave. 303 Oxley Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-8770
Fax: (614) 292-4273

Email: csees@osu.edu