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[Alexandra Hrycak]

FYI:

CFP, The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in 
Global Perspective

Call for Proposals
The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global 
Perspective
Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2009

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 at illinois.edu) and Anne E. Gorsuch, 
University of British Columbia (gorsuch at 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 at illinois.edu


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 at illinois.edu


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Alexandra Hrycak
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199


E-mail: hrycak at reed.edu		
Telephone: 503-517-7483 		
Fax: 503-777-7776 		
Personal web page: http://academic.reed.edu/sociology/faculty/hrycak/



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