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color:#333399;font-weight:bold'>Please join us…<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=6
color="#993300" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt;
color:#993300;font-weight:bold'>MIT Anthropology Colloquium<br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=6><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-weight:
bold'><br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>The Making of a Post-Soviet Public:<br>
Exhibiting Gifts to Soviet Leaders at the <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><b><font
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Kremlin</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font
size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, 2006<br>
</span></font></b><font size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><br>
</span></font><b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Nikolai
Ssorin-Chaikov (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, Department
of Anthropology)<br>
</span></i></b>and<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Olga Sosnina (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kremlin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<br>
</span></i></b><br>
<br>
<font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Monday, November 26<br>
4:15-5:30<br>
</span></font><br>
MIT, Room 16-220<br>
<br>
How is the anthropology of socialism to be situated in post-socialist context?
In Autumn 2006, we curated the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kremlin</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s exhibition
of public gifts to Soviet leaders. This exhibition is part of our ongoing research
project on Soviet-era gift giving practices. This paper explores the exhibition
not as a presentation of research results, but as itself an ethnography of
post-socialism in its complex discursive and affective relation to socialism.
We discuss such materials as visitors’ comment books and Russian and
foreign media coverage of the exhibition in relation to our ethnographic
self-observations of making and running the exhibition. The paper charts how a
conceptual gesture that ‘we’ (anthropologists and curators) made,
in creating a material and visual presentation of the anthropological concept
of Soviet state gift economy, ‘lives’ in ­ and indeed participates
in the making of ­ complex modalities of post-socialism.<o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Amberly
Steward<br>
Administrative Assistant</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Anthropology
Program</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:navy'>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">77 Massachusetts Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
Bldg. 16-267<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02139</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
p) 617.253.3065<br>
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