Events
Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster
Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 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 […]
Film Screening: “For Marx”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFilm Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster "For Marx" (2012) Directed by is Svetlana Baskova "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 […]
Joes Segal: “Cultural Integration”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by betraying the essence of true art. Baselitz’s statement exemplifies a remarkable feature of public discourse in 1990s Germany: the return of a Cold War rhetoric […]
Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal Like 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 […]
Anna Björk: “Ex-hombres, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature”
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Christina Schwenkel – Designing the Rational City: Gender and the ‘Housing Question’ Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside Professor 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 […]