FRIDAY, APRIL 5
2:00 PM Welcome
2:10 PM Undergraduate Student Panel
Katie Ayanian, International and Area Studies:
Conflict Management in the Southern Caucasus: National Narratives and Geo-Politics
Erin Humphries, International and Area Studies:
Understanding Russian Decision-Making in Kosovo and Georgia
Matthew Lee, International and Area Studies:
Afghanistan's Bane: The Crippling Legacy of the Durand Line
4:00 PM Graduate Student Panel
Paula Doumani, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology:
Mobility, Technology Transfer, and Material Culture at the Heart of Eurasia: Prehistoric Nomads of Kazakhstan
Jacob Labendz, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of History:
"In unserem Kreise": Czech-Jewish Activism and Immigration in America, 1939-1994
5:30 PM Reception
6:00 PM Welcome
Tim Parsons, Director of International and Area Studies
Jan Musekamp, VW Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Area Studies
KEYNOTE
Dr. Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State University:
Repertoires and Regimes of Human Mobility: On the Move in 20th Century Eurasia
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
9:00 AM Welcome
Nicole Svobodny, Eurasian Studies Research Cluster
Paul Michael Lützeler, VW Foundation Liaison at Washington University
9:15 AM Panel I: Visions of Mobility
Dr. Jan Musekamp, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder (Germany)/ Washington University: Paris - St. Petersburg: Shrinking Spaces in the 19th Century
Dr. Harriet Murav, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign/ Stanford Humanities Center: Technology, the City, and Literature: Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin
Dr. Nathan Wood, University of Kansas: "A main station at one's front door': Bicyles, Automobiles, and Dreams of Personal Mobility in Poland, 1885-1939
11:15 AM Panel II: Circulating identities
Dr. Chia Yin Hsu, Portland State University:
The Ruble in Manchuria: The Circulation of Money and Conceptions of National Sovereignty at the Chinese and Russian Frontier, 1890s-1920s
Dr. Chris Ward, Clayton State University:
Far from Home: Railway Workers' Experiences Abroad during Construction of the Baikal-Amur-Railway (BAM), 1974-1984
Dr. Adrian Wanner, Pennsylvania State University:
Recent Post-Soviet Immigrant Writers in Germany: Russians, Jews, or Germans?
2:00 PM Panel III: Bodies in Motion
Dr. Keely Stauter-Halsted, University of Illinois-Chicago:
Sex-Trafficking as a Migration Problem in Partitioned Poland
Dr. Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University:
Composition and Authorship in the Manuscripts of Sybiracy from the Interrevolutionary Era
Dr. Tobias Brinkmann, Pennsylvania State University:
Invisible Borders and Missing Migrants: Retracing the Journeys of Russian Subjects through Central Europe and Canada, 1880-1914
4:00 PM Panel IV: Life in Translation
Anna Winestein, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford, UK / Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership, Boston: Dynamic Bohemians: The Russki Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe
Dr. George Gasyna, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign:
Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter
Dr. Nicole Svobodny, Washington University:
Performance-walks in the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
SUNDAY, APRIL 7
10:00 AM CONCLUDING ROUNDTABLE
Moderator: Dr. Anika Walke, "Migration, Identity, State" Research Cluster