[Aaus-list] FW: CFP (final): 2013 Symposium: "Authoritarianism and Beyond?" Columbia University, New York, March 22-23, 2013

Chernetsky, Vitaly A. Dr. chernev at muohio.edu
Wed Dec 12 10:47:38 EST 2012


Dear Colleagues,
FYI. Please see the CFP below.
Best,
VC

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Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky
Associate Professor
Dept. of German, Russian & East Asian Languages
Director, Film Studies Program
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
chernev at muohio.edu
tel. (513) 529-2515
fax (513) 529-2296
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From: Susanne Cohen (smcohen at uchicago.edu)
Date:  Wednesday - December 12, 2012 12:08 AM

Call for Papers (submission deadline of December 15
quickly approaching)

SOYUZ, the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies,
is an interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field
research in postsocialist countries, ranging from Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union to Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin
America. The Symposium has met annually since 1991 and offers
an opportunity for scholars to interact in a more personal setting.

2013 Annual Soyuz Symposium
“Authoritarianism and Beyond? Lessons from Postsocialist
Societies”

Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, March
22-23, 2013

Theme:

Authoritarianism has become the common denominator for
political regimes of many contemporary postsocialist societies.
Authoritarianism highlights strong presidential authority, lack
of democratic succession of rule and insufficient public
representation. Within this analytic, authoritarianism is the
opposite of liberal democracy, deficient in terms of active civil
society and critical public sphere, and plagued by state-led
oppression and violence.

The 2013 SOYUZ symposium invites papers that would extend
interpretive work on authoritarianism beyond this dualistic
framework. We solicit field-research-based presentations that
explore political and social processes in postsocialist societies
in ways to complicate this top-down understanding of the state-
society relationship. What kinds of alternative analytical
frameworks are there to approach these processes? What kind
of interpretation might the understanding of politics drawing,
for example, on Foucault or Agamben offer to this conversation?
Overall, we seek to extend the scope of this symposium beyond
the concerns of postsocialist societies and to explore analytical
limits and possibilities of the term authoritarianism itself.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-       working through/making sense of authoritarian pasts
-       specters of the state
-       agencies of state: law, the military, borders, and taxation
-       the role of media and cultural production
-       conjuncture of capitalism and authoritarianism
-       non-state authoritarianism
-       neoliberalism as a type of authoritarianism

The deadline for abstracts is: December 15, 2012.  Please send
abstracts of 250 words by email to Zhanara Nauruzbayeva
(zn2123 at columbia.edu). Please include your full name, paper
title, and academic affiliation, and write "SOYUZ 2013" in the
subject line.  Papers will be selected and notifications made by
January 15, 2013.



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