FRIDAY, APRIL 27
2.30-3.00 Registration

3.OO-5.OO ROUND TABLE “EURASIA”: OLD THEMES AND NEW APPROACHES
Sergei Glebov (Smith College): Russia, Eurasia, and the Mongol-Bolshevik Revolution: in Search of Non-Eurocentric History
Stefan Wiederkehr (German Historical Institute in Warsaw): Forging a Concept: “Eurasia” in Classical Eurasianism
Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University): Eurasia and Its Uses: The History of an Idea and the Mental Geography of post-Soviet Space
Moderator: Michael Gordin (Princeton University)

5.3O-6.3O KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University): Eurasia: Disease Masquerading as the Cure?

7.OO-9.OO RECEPTION followed by an informal meeting with Mark Beissinger, the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

SATURDAY, APRIL 28
9.OO – 11.OO PANEL 1: NAMES AND SPACES IN EURASIA
Chair: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University)
Steven Seegel (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University): Metageography Unbound? Late 19th-Century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space
Artak A. Dabaghyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan): Renaming Practices in Post-war Karabakh/Artsakh
Abel Polese (Hannah Arendt Institute fur Totalitarismusforschung, Germany): The Fluidity of the Eurasian Borders, (Mentally) Mapping the Self and the Other in Odessa
Michael Denison (University of Leeds): Reluctant Eurasians? Great Patriotic War Commemoration as Geocultural Anchor in Turkmenistan
Discussant: Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton University)

11.3O – 1:30 PANEL 2. TRAVELING IDEAS: NATURAL FUSION?
Chair: Krista Hegburg (Columbia University)
Anya Bernstein (New York University): Pilgrims, Fieldworkers, and Secret Agents: Buryat Buddhologists and Eurasian Imaginary
Catherine Wanner (Pennsylvania State University): Missionizing Eurasia: The Global Networks of Ukrainian Evangelicals
Sonja Luehrmann (University of Michigan): “Only Russians Can Convert the Muslim World:” Eurasian Spaces in the Geopolitical Imagination of Russian Evangelicals
Katerina Seraïdari (Centre d’anthropologie de Toulouse): Greece and the 1990s Balkan Crisis: Political Manipulations of the Notion of Eurasia
Discussant: Ruth Mandel (University College London)

2.3O- 4:3O PANEL 3. ECONOMIES OF BACKWARDNESS AND MODERNIZATION
Chair: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University)
Leyla J. Keough (University of Massachusetts): The Gendering of Migration Management in a Postsoviet Borderland: Limiting Moldovan Women’s Mobility and Legitimating a New “Backwardness Project”
Neringa Klumbyte (University of Pittsburgh): The Geopolitics of Provincialism and Political Economy of the Orient in post-EU Lithuania
Carroll (Corey) T. Patterson (Johns Hopkins University): Diverging Pathways to the Periphery: The Case of Georgian and Moldovan Wines
Alla Kassianova (Tomsk State University/Stanford University): Between .ru and .com: Geopolitics of the Virtual Space
Discussant: Bruce Grant (New York University)

4.30- 4.45 Break

4.45.-6.45 PANEL 4. MARKETING POSTSOCIALIST IDEAS
Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)
Michal Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan): The Invention of Postsocialist Anthropologists and Anthropology by Anthropologists
Elena Gapova (European Humanities University, Vilnius): On (Not) Getting Lost in the Vast Spaces of Eurasia: Intellectuals and Symbolic Markets
Johanna K. Bockman (George Mason University): The Economics Profession in Post-Socialist Hungary: The Continuity of East-West Connections and Practices
Edgar Hoffmann (University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna): Eurasia Between Cultural Studies and Marketing & Management
Discussant: John Borneman (Princeton University)

SUNDAY, APRIL 29
9.OO-11.OO PANEL 5. EURASIAN SPECTACLES: IDENTITIES IN PERFORMANCE
Chair: Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania)
Joseph Crescente (Indiana University): Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine
Michael R. Rouland (Miami University): Images of Eurasia: Conceptualizing Central Asia through Film Aimar Ventsel (Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu)
Sakha Pop Music: Selling the “Exotic” i.e. European in Asia and Asian in Europe Aida Nemat Huseynova (Baku Music Academy): Contemporary Music of Azerbaijan: Restructuring “Eurasian” Phenomenon
Discussant: Alexei Yurchak (Berkeley)

11.15 – 1:15 PANEL 6. NEW BORDERS AND PERIPHERIES: POLITICS IN BETWEEN
Chair: Kristen Ghodsee (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Justine Buck Quijada (University of Chicago): Etigilov between East and West: The Border Politics of Buryat Buddhism
Eunice Blavascunas (University of California Santa Cruz): Primeval Forest and Relic Dictatorship on the EU's External Border: Bialowieza, Poland
Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt University, Berlin): Locating the Homeland. Armenia between East and West, Between the “Second” and the “Third World”
Jenifer Patico (Georgia State University): In Search of Serious Husbands and Sincere Ladies: Power and Meaning in the Russian-American Matchmaking Industry
Discussant: Nancy Ries (Colgate University)

1.15- 2.00 Concluding remarks; an informal discussion of the Soyuz’s plans and future.