A joint annual SOYUZ* and Havighurst Center Young
Researchers conference on The Topos of Justice, February 27-March 1,
2014, Miami University (Ohio).
In 20th- and 21st-century socialist and post-socialist countries various theories and practices of justice
dramatically affected the lives of millions of people. While states
engaged in various experiments from constitutional to moral governance, from
People’s Courts to human rights policies, citizens actively contributed,
subverted, and renegotiated official regimes of justice. This conference will
explore experiments in law and regulations, narratives and theories of justice,
translations and material objectifications of justice, and ethic and affective
circulations of justice and morality in its local and global forms.
We invite comparative and interdisciplinary research-based
contributions on various issues interconnected with the topic of justice in various
socialist and post-socialist societies and in the regions affected by socialism
and post-socialism. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
·
law, justice, morality
·
justice, nationalism, and the state
·
local, national, and transnational
regimes of justice
·
art, science, religion, and justice
·
justice and citizenship
·
philosophical perspectives on justice
·
grassroots moral economies and
ethical frameworks
Keynote speakers: Kim
Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) and Robert M. Hayden (University of
Pittsburgh)
Please send a 300 word abstract and a
short CV by November 1st, 2013, to Lynn Stevens at havighurstcenter@muohio.edu. Please include your full name, paper title, and academic affiliation.
Write “YRC, SOYUZ 2014” in the subject line. Papers will be selected and
notifications made by January 1, 2014. Funding will be
available to cover accommodation, shuttle service from airports, and meals
of participants. If selected to
participate in the conference, you will be expected to submit a completed paper
to the Havighurst Center by February 1st, 2014.
The 2014 conference organizing committee includes Neringa
Klumbytė (anthropology, Miami University), Ted Holland (geography, Miami
University), Susanne Cohen (anthropology, University of Chicago). If you have any
questions, please contact Neringa Klumbytė at klumbyn@miamioh.edu.
*SOYUZ, the
Post-Communist Cultural Studies interest Group of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA) and the official unit of the Association for Slavic, East
European Studies and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) began in 1991 as a regionally
focused group responding to the fall of the Soviet and socialist states. Since
then, it has broadened to include graduate students and scholars working in any
region affected by socialism and post-socialism. http://www.aaanet.org/sections/soyuz/. SOYUZ unites young and senior scholars and graduate students and
organize conferences every year, which are hosted by different institutions.
Young Researchers
Conferences have been organized by the Havighurst Center for Russian and
Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University since 2000 and have attracted young and
senior scholars for discussions of various topics related to socialism and
post-socialism and the region of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. See http://www.units.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter/conferences/youngresearchers.html.
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