WORKSHOP ON
IDENTITY FORMATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES
IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
May 11-15, 1998
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
An international workshop organized by the University
of Michigan Center for Russian & East European Studies
Workshop sessions will be held in Room 1644 at the
U-M International Institute,
1080 South University Avenue (corner of South and East University
Avenues).
Workshop sessions will be organized around discussion of participants'
papers without formal presentations. Copies of the papers will
be available at the Center for Russian & East European Studies,
Suite 4668, 1080 South University Ave (4th floor of the new building
across from Ulrich's) starting May 8, 1998 and they will be available
at all workship sessions.
The workshop is made possible by grants from The
Ford Foundation: "Crossing
Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies," awarded to the University
of Michigan International Institute, and "Identity
Formation and Social Issues in Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan,"
awarded to the University of Michigan Center for Russian and East
European Studies.
PROGRAM
Monday, May 11
10:00-11:00 I. INTRODUCTION AND AGENDA-SETTING
- Overview of the Project on Identity Formation and Social
Issues in Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
Michael Kennedy, Director Center for Russian and East
European Studies, University of Michigan
- Overview of "Baltica" Study on Social Problems
around the Baltic Sea
Jussi Simpura, Research Professor and Director, Social
Research Unit for Alcohol Studies, National Research and Development
Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki
11:30-1:00 II. SYSTEMIC IDENTITIES
AND PROBLEMS
Moderator: Ronald G. Suny, Professor of Political Science,
University of Chicago
Discussants: John Knodel, Professor of Sociology, University
of Michigan
Miroslawa Marody, Professor
of Sociology, University of Warsaw
- The ‘New Poor’ as a Phenomenon of the Transition
Period
Alisher Ilkhamov, Director, "Expert" Sociological
Center, Tashkent
- Narratives of Region in the Articulation of Problems and
Identities: Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan through Focus Groups,
Michael Kennedy
2:30-4:00 III. GENDER THROUGH FOCUS
GROUPS
Moderator: Müge Goçek, Associate Professor
of Sociology and Women’s Studies
Discussants: Nilüfer Göle, Professor of Sociology,
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
Stephanie Platz, Alex Manoogian Assistant Professor of
Armenian History, University of Michigan
- Gendered Narratives and Narratives of Gender in Ukraine
Lisa Fein, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, University of Michigan
- Gender Identity and Social Problems in Estonia
Rein Vöörmann, Chairman, Research Group of Social
Stratification, Institute of International and Social Studies,
Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn
Tuesday, May 12
10:30-12:00 IV. WINNERS, LOSERS, AND
THE NATURE OF THE GAME
Moderator: Brian Porter, Assistant Professor of History,
University of Michigan
Discussants: Vesna Pusic,
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Zagreb
Richard Candida Smith, Associate Professor of History,
University of Michigan
- Naturalizing Miseries: Popular Tales of ‘The Transition’
to a More ‘Normal’ Future
Ted Hopf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mershon Center for Education
in National Security & Public Policy, Ohio State University
- Becoming an Agent of Change: Interactions of Social &
Personal Experiences as Told by Leaders in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Victor Susak, Research Associate, Institute for Historical
Research, Lviv State University, Lviv
1:30-3:00 V. INTEGRATING SURVEYS AND
FOCUS GROUPS
Moderator TBA
Discussants: Miroslawa Marody,
Jussi Simpura
- Changing Social Priorities and the Increased Salience of
the Economy in Estonia: 1991-96
Barbara Anderson, Professor of Sociology, University of
Michigan
John Romani, Professor Emeritus of Public Health, University
of Michigan
- Regional Influences in Ukrainian Politics
Oksana Malanchuk, Senior Research Associate, Institute
for Social Research, University of Michigan
Wednesday, May 13
10:30-12:00 VI. IDENTITIES
OF SURVIVAL
Moderator: TBA
Discussants: Stephanie Platz, Vesna
Pusic
- Environmental Identities and Issues in Ukraine: Liquidators,
Chornobylets and Masonic Ecologists
Janice Brummond, M.A. in Russian and East European Studies
and M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment, University of
Michigan
- Jewish Self-Identification in Ukraine and Narratives of the
Nationality Issue
Jeremy Shine, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, University
of Michigan
1:30-3:00 VII. GENDER AND THE
ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION
Moderator: Alaina Lemon, Visiting Professor of Anthropology
and Postdoctoral Scholar-Michigan Society of Fellows, University
of Michigan
Discussants: Nilüfer Göle
Alford Young, Jr., Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant
Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies,
University of Michigan
- Gender, Work and Economic Restructuring in a Zakarpattja
Village
J. Dickinson, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University
of Michigan
- Expressing Gender in Uzbekistan: Data from Oral Histories
and Focus Groups
Marianne Kamp, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of
History, Whitman College
Thursday, May 14
10:30-12:00 VIII. WRAP-UP AND DISCUSSION
Moderator: Michael Kennedy
Friday, May 15
10:30-12:00 IX. THE RECONFIGURATION OF EUROPE AND EURASIA:
CHALLENGES FOR SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING, & COLLABORATION
Moderator: Kathleen Canning, Director, Center for European
Studies, University of Michigan
Michael Kennedy
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