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SUMMARY:Christina Schwenkel - Designing the Rational City: Gender and the 'Housing Question' Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Christina Schwenkel\, Professor of Anthropology\, UC Riverside \nProfessor Schwenkel’s work addresses transnationalism\, historical memory\, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam.  Her book\, “The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war\, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical truth\, knowledge and objectivity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/socialismpostsocialism-cluster-with-christina-schwenkel-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joes Segal: "Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage"
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal \nLike street names\, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for the present state and the future direction of society. Taken together\, they constitute a canon of collective memory. However\, this canon is seldom uncontested\, and in times of revolution or regime change the new political leaders often try to redefine history in order to support their worldview and claim to power. Old heroes\, symbols and monuments suddenly become obsolete while new ones are created to evoke a sense of historical rupture or a brand new vision of historical continuity. Taking the fate of socialist monuments and their often ultra-nationalistic replacements after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a case study\, in this lecture I will explore the politics surrounding public monuments. \nJoes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City\, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture\, German cultural history\, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History\, Culture and Modernity (HCM). \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joes-segal-post-socialist-monuments-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T183000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "For Marx"
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster \n“For Marx” (2012)\nDirected by is Svetlana Baskova \n \n“While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be denied nor ignored this ideological direction produces at this moment more questions than answers. Baskova’s new film channels some of the most burning ones: can Marxism indeed be repeated in Russia? How might this new attempt deal with the earlier\, problematic incarnation? Who will be its new interpreters and how will they discern a new theory from practice? All these anxiety-producing questions\, raised vividly by For Marx\, make it contemporary\, controversial\, and one of the most worthwhile film experiences of 2012.” – quote from Polina Barskova\, Associate Professor of Russian Literature at Hampshire College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-for-marx-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160114T160000
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SUMMARY:Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
DESCRIPTION:The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989\, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization\, unemployment\, ethnic conflict\, poverty\, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world\, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect the whole of the capitalist world economy. The purpose of this project is not only to address the issues which capitalism creates and subsequently ignores in its unrestricted expansion; but also to provide viable alternatives and solutions to these problems by using the lens of socialism\, which\, conceived of both as a set of historical projects to achieve a post-capitalist society as well as a horizon of political perspective and activity\, retains its urgency today in the face of the recent crises and long term trends of global capitalism. \n\n\nAt the same time\, we view socialism not merely as a question of area studies\, but also as a global historical phenomenon\, and in this sense\, we aim to pose the problem of postsocialism as one that ramifies far beyond the territories of current or formerly socialist states\, intersecting in productive ways with any number of other “post”-discourses in contemporary debates\, from postcolonialism to postfordism. \n\n  \nElena Gapova is Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University; Founding Director\, Centre for Gender Studies\, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania). \nHunter Bivens\, Literature Department\, UCSC\nSara Blaylock\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nElena Gapova\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University\nNatalia Koulinka\, History of Consciousness Department\, UCSC\nLisa Rofel\, Anthropology Department\, UCSC\nAndrei Tcacenco\, History Department\, UCSC \nIntroduced and Moderated by Neda Atanasoski\, Feminist Studies Department\,\nUCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/socialism-and-postsocialism-roundtable-discussion-with-elena-gapova-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova \nSvetlana Alexievich\, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature\, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book\, she conducts\, over the period of five to ten years\, between 500 and 700 interviews with witness-participants or their surviving family members. In her montage of individual narratives\, she gives a voice to several Soviet generations\, if not to an entire Soviet society that has strained to make sense of the enormous suffering it experienced during the 20th century. Together\, Alexievich’s books make up a series that she calls “The Chronicle of the Big Utopia\, or The History of the Red Man.”  Some scholars claim that Alexievich created a genre of her own\, and in this presentation\, her work is treated as a form of moral philosophy\, a way to approach ethical issues through literature. The most prominent of these seems to be the question of the meaning of suffering\, as it is encountered by a post-Soviet man at the moment when the Soviet world is crumbling and falling apart. \nElena Gapova is Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University; Founding Director\, Centre for Gender Studies\, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania). \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-10-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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