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Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
Defining Ourselves and Being Defined:
Globalization, Regionalism and Multiculturalism
February 23-25, 2007
Friday, February 23. 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
2:00 pm-2:30 pm – Formal Greeting and Introduction
Dr. Bob Donnorummo, Associate Director of REES and Department of History
3:30 – 5:30 pm -- Panel 1: Religion and the Defining of National Identity
Chair/Discussant: Alexander Orbach, Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
“Race and Religion in Interwar Romania”
Roland Clark, University of Pittsburgh
“European Integration and the Theological Nationalism
of the Romanian Orthodox Church”
Mihnea Vasilescu, University of Pittsburgh
“Polish and Yugoslav Religious Policy from 1945-1990:
How variations in Religious Policy let to different free spaces”
Alex Minescu, The New School for Social Research
6:00-7:30pm -- Dinner
7:30-10:00pm --Trip to the Andy Warhol Museum
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Saturday February 24. William Pitt Union, Dinning Room B
8:00- 9:15 am -- Breakfast (Dinning Room A)
9:30 – 11:30 am – Panel 2: Issues of Multiculturalism: Post Communist Identities
Chair/Discussant: Gerald McCausland,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
“Multinational Pluralism – Redefining Multiculturalism”
Robert Sata, Central European University
“Regional Mergers in Contemporary Russia:
Between Administrative Rationality and Ethnic Autonomy”
Brandon Wilkening, Indiana University
“European Enlargement and the Behavior of Ethnic Minority Groups
in Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe”
Deyan Peykov, University of Pittsburgh
“School desegregation: Viden Bolgaria and the United States”
Solase R. Duncan, Howard University
12:00 – 2:00 pm – Panel 3: Defining Urban/Rural Relations
Chair/Discussant: Jennifer Cash, Professor
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
“The Nation as Epistemic Regime: Dimitrie Gusti
and the Mapping of Rural Romania”
Ion Matei Costinescu, University of Illinois
“Defining Romanianness: The Institutional Agency
of the National Theater of Bucharest in Transylvania”
Pompilia Burcica, University of Illinois
“The Urban-Rural Divide: Rural Immigrants in Post Socialist Romanian Cities”
Réka Geambasu, St Hugh’s College
“Identity Construction of Gypsy/Roma Community in Lüleburgaz”
Begüm Uzun, Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
2:00 – 3:15pm – Lunch (Dinning Room A)
3:30 – 5:30 pm – Panel 4: Appropriating the Past: Memory and Memorialization
Chair/Discussant: Terry Smith, Professor
History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
“The Dead amongst the Living: Ion Antonescu”
Cristina Popescu, University of Pittsburgh
“Politics of Representation: Archaeology and the Appropriation of the Past”
Jim Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
“Problematics of Postcolonial Dislocation in the Case
of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest”
Cristina Albu, University of Pittsburgh
“Balkanizing Minimalism: The War Memorial at the Church of St. George
in Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina”
Azra Aksamija, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6pm – Dinner (William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge)
7pm – Keynote Address -- "Who Needs Identity?
Scholarly Agendas and Social Change in Eastern Europe and Eurasia"
Dr. Charles King, Ion Ratiu Associate Professor of Romanian Studies, International Affairs, and Government, Georgetown University
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Sunday February 25. William Pitt Union, Dinning Room B
8:00 – 9:15 am – Breakfast (Dinning Room A)
9:30 – 11:30 am – Panel 5: Negotiating Global and Regional Policy
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Bob Donnorummo, Associate Director of REES
Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
“NGOs and their role in the development of the transitional states”
Serhiy Sybirtsev, East Carolina University, Greenville
“The “Astonishing Armistice:” Domestic Performance and the International
Gaze in the Era of the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic Winter Games”
Kate Pedrotty, University of Illinois
"Role of Private sector in strengthening of democracy in Kyrgyzstan;
global and regional context"
Marat Djanbaev, Charles University
“Border Blues: A Socio-Economic Needs Assessment of Ukrainian
Economic Migrants Post-Poland’s European Union Accession”
Amanda Laichak, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 – 2:00 pm – Panel 6: Representations of Identity in Visual Culture
Chair/Discussant: Helena Goscilo, Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
“Representations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Polish Art”
Kristen Koblik, San Francisco State University
“BABEL IN THE BALKANS: The Legacy of Zenithism”
Tijana Vujosevic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Constructing the Zakopane Style Again: Problems of Nineteenth Century
Regionalism in the Architecture of a Modern Nation”
Mathew Mattison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 pm – Closing Remarks
Andrew Chapman, President, GOSECA
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