[Sci-tech-public] Today! Anthropology Colloquium "The Making of a Post-Soviet Public" at 4:15

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>From: "Amberly Steward" <asteward at MIT.EDU>
>
>
>Please join us

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>MIT Anthropology Colloquium
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>The Making of a Post-Soviet Public:
>Exhibiting Gifts to Soviet Leaders at the
>Kremlin Museum, Moscow, 2006
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>Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge, Department of Anthropology)
>and
>Olga Sosnina (Kremlin Museum)
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>Monday, November 26
>4:15-5:30
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>MIT, Room 16-220
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>How is the anthropology of socialism to be 
>situated in post-socialist context? In Autumn 
>2006, we curated the Kremlin Museum’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.
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>
>Amberly Steward
>Administrative Assistant
>Anthropology Program
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Bldg. 16-267
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>p) 617.253.3065
>f) 617.253.5363
>
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