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Subject: [balkans] CfP: The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the
Socialist City in Global Perspective, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 24-26.6.2009
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Call for Proposals
The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global
Perspective


2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 24-26, 2010


The 1960s witnessed an explosion of cross-cultural fertilization in a time
of world competition for the hegemony of two enduring "systems" -
capitalism and socialism. As a moment when decolonization created immense
possibilities for liberation movements throughout the world, the 1960s
became the heyday of the "Second World" appeals to the newly decolonized
societies of the "Third World," as well as the reemergence of a European
"First World" as a postwar consumer society in reaction to American
hegemony.  This was the moment when the "orderedness" of the three worlds
was arguably the most prominent in popular discourse and culture, and a
moment when that order was contested and destabilized.  The patterns that
first emerged in the 1960s - cultural contest, political mobility,
urbanization and the rise of urban youth movements, women's rights, the
hegemony of popular over "high" culture driven by technology - form the
bases of today's discussions of globalization, its challenges, dangers,
and contestation.

The purpose of this conference will be to use the Second World, the
socialist societies of the 1960s, as the center from which to explore
global interconnections and uncover new and perhaps surprising patterns of
cultural cross-pollination. This forum will be structured around cities as
the units of analysis, and it will focus on the arena of popular culture
as played out in these city spaces.   More specifically, we invite paper
proposals that focus on one of three realms of  urban popular culture -
media (including cinema, television, popular music); material culture
(including spaces and their uses as well as commodities), and leisure
(including tourism and other activities).  We consider these exemplary of
the circulation of objects, images, sounds, and impressions on a level
different from political programs, literature and "fine arts." Several
thematic threads will tie together this consideration of the circulation
of popular culture around and through the Second world: mobility and
cultural transmission; youth cultures and student movements; gender;
consumerism and hedonism; the state and cultural exchange; technology and
cultural dissemination; cosmopolitan political mobilization.  Our aims
will be to consider what the "1960s" meant in socialist countries, and to
discuss the balance in the 1960s between cultural global integration and
continuing political differentiation.

The core of the forum will be the socialist societies of eastern Europe
and the Soviet Union, but the forum would be enriched by participation
from scholars who study other socialist societies.   We anticipate that
the conference will result in a published volume: submissions should be
original work, not previously published.

The conference organizers are Diane P. Koenker, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (dkoenker la illinois.edu) and Anne E. Gorsuch, University
of British Columbia (gorsuch la interchange.ubc.ca).  We welcome advance
inquiries.

Please send proposed paper title and abstracts to each of the organizers
by October 15, 2009.  Proposals should indicate which of the conference
themes the paper addresses, and the term "Sixties" or "1960s" should be
explicit in the paper title. Selection of participants will be made by
November 30, 2009, and conference papers should be submitted by April 1,
2010.

The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum is held in conjunction with the Summer
Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The conference
is made possible by Mary and Hal Zirin's generous gift to the Ralph and
Ruth Fisher Endowment Fund in honor of Professor Ralph Fisher and his wife
Ruth. Ralph Fisher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of
Illinois and founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
and the Summer Research Lab.


Tracie L Wilson, PhD
Associate Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
104 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217.333.6022
wilsont la illinois.edu
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