March 14, 2013 | 2:30 to 6:00 PM | The Jordan Center's Diasporas Project
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Sponsored by the the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This session takes the case of market fundamentalism, neoliberalism, and market-driven reform as a case in the spread and translation of ideas. The idea that the market should be left to decide is tackled by economists and specialists on Russia who have studied and lived it, alongside the parallel case of India. In Russia we call it the fall of communism, but does it make sense to place it alongside Reaganomics and Thatcherism?
The Diasporas Project at NYU
The Diasporas Project is a series organized by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia in spring 2013. It is part of the Center’s inaugural year and we are grateful to the many units around NYU that have been offering help and guidance. Sessions are co-organized with Ireland House (31 January - 1 February), Kevorkian (14 - 15 March), and Hebrew and Judaic Studies (25 26 April).
The overarching purpose of the project is twofold: to consider the shared characteristics and shared assumptions that underpin the idea of a diaspora, and in the process erode our parochialisms; and to better grasp what is at stake and what is assumed when we cast movement as a diaspora rather than say an emigration, a migration, sex trafficking, slavery, or a flow of refugees. The project in no way aims to settle these questions one way or another; rather it aims to address them intelligently and forthrightly, as a guide to students and colleagues.
14 March 2013
2:30 - 6:00 PM EST
Kanchan Chandra, NYU
Gerry Easter, Boston College
Barbara G. Katz, NYU Stern
Molly Nolan, NYU
Steven Solnick, President, Warren Wilson College
For more information, please contact jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu.
