From: "Lynda Park" <lypark@uiuc.edu>
The Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
International Conference on "Post-Communist Nostalgia"
April 7-8, 2006
314 Illini Union
1401 W. Green Urbana
For a complete program see
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/annual.html Opening Address
"From Utopia to Propaganda and Back"
Maria Todorova (History, University of Illinois)
Documentary Film Screening
"Bastards of Utopia"
(2006, 64 minutes - rough cut; Directors: Pacho Velez
and Maple Razsa)
Other Presenters
Laura Adams (Princeton University)
Daphne Berdahl (University of Minnesota)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell University)
Donna Buchanan (University of Illinois)
Cynthia Buckley (University of Texas)
Fedja Buric (University of Illinois)
Victoria Clement (University of Illinois)
Gerald Creed (CUNY)
Diana Georgescu (University of Illinois)
Bruce Grant (New York University)
Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois)
Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)
Tanja Petrovic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences)
Tim Pilbrow (University of Illinois)
Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)
Oana Popescu-Sandu (University of Illinois)
Maple Razsa (Harvard University)
Cristofer Scarboro (University of Illinois)
Anna Szemere (Washington State University)
Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley)
Related Events:
Thursday, 6 April
CAS/MillerComm Lecture
"The Spider Trap: Corruption, Organized Crime and
Transition in the
Balkans
and Russia"
Misha Glenny (Award-winning journalist and author of
The Balkans,
1804-1999)
7:30pm, Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
Saturday, 8 April
Balkanalia (UI Balkan Ensemble) Spring Concert
8:00 pm,
<http://webtools.uiuc.edu/ricker/CampusMap?target=search&building=60>Smith
Recital Hall
805 S. Matthews St, Urbana
