Pre-Arrival Instructions:
Please complete the following items by the dates indicated below:
Submit a biography and headshot to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Friday, February 15, 2013.
Complete the Jordan Center Media Release Form and email to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
RSVP to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com and confirm attendance at the Thursday March 14th dinner by 3:00 PM EST on Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
Read and consider the papers submitted by your colleagues. Papers will be uploaded and available on the public Movement of Ideas: Neoliberalism page on the Jordan Center website at: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/the-movement-of-ideas-neoliberalism-in-the-us-russia-and-south-asia/. Please make a note that your work will be accessible by the larger public as a part of your participation in this conference. Please place a disclaimer or guidelines for use statement at the start of your paper prior to submission if you feel it is necessary. The Jordan Center will not be adding one on your behalf and will upload papers as PDF version of the format in which they were submitted.
Diasporas Project Description:
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 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.
Format:
Participants are asked to submit their full-length papers by February 26, 2013 to the Jordan Center administrator (jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu). Each panelist will speak for approximately 10 minutes about his / her contribution, after which discussants (to be announced) will facilitate conversation among the panelists and audience.
Location:
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
Session Schedule
14 March 2013
2:30 – 6:00 PM EST
Kanchan Chandra, NYU
The New Indian State (paper not available for distribution)
Gerry Easter, Boston College
Neoliberalism Meets Russian Realism: Post-Communist Reconfigurations of State-Society Relations
Barbara G. Katz, NYU Stern
The Washington Consensus: Origin, Role in the Economies in Transition and Persistence
Molly Nolan, NYU
Discussant
Steven Solnick, President, Warren Wilson College
Discussant
Dinner
Knickerbocker
33 University Pl New York, NY 10003
