This event will be hosted in hybrid format. RSVP to attend in person. Register for the Zoom meeting.
This symposium brings together scholars, community organizers, artists and activists to explore complex histories of empire, colonization, nationalities policy, climate change and contemporary political and social marginalization. Through dialogue among Indigenous academics and activists, the symposium envisions Indigenous futures amid ongoing geopolitical conflicts.
One of the key questions we raise at the symposium is how social class complicates ethnic and, in particular, Indigenous identities. There is a growing call for global Indigenous solidarity, including greater involvement of the Siberian diaspora in Indigenous rights organizations in North America. But important issues and differences remain. How do post-Soviet Indigenous identities – shaped by 20th-century progressive socialist reforms that created a class of educated urban elite in every Indigenous community – differ from North American Indigenous identities formed under a capitalist system? In what ways do Soviet primordialist frameworks of race and nationality continue to shape post-Soviet politics and diaspora dynamics today? How do they influence the ways we perceive nationality, race and class in Russia? And finally, what insights can more contemporary anthropological frameworks offer us in navigating these questions?
PROGRAM
9:30-10:00 AM - registration
10:00-10.15 AM - opening, word from organizers: Anna Gomboeva, Victoria Maladaeva, Marina Khankhalaeva
10.20 AM - Marina Mogilner “Empire as an Analytical Challenge - The Difficult Case of the ‘Russian’/ Udmurt, Grigorii Vereshchagin”
10.40 AM - Anna Gomboeva “Anti-Communist Anti-Imperialism? Wins and Failures of Post-Soviet Decolonial Movements”
11.00 AM - Discussant comments
11.20 AM - Audience questions
1.00 PM - Vera Solovyeva “Climate Change: Research, Resilience, and Resistance”
1.20 PM - Marat Ilyasov. “Post-Soviet Colonialism. The Nokhchi People”
1.40 PM - Discussant comments
2.00 PM - Moe Romanoff “Spectacles of Energy and Aesthetics of Extraction"
2.20 PM - Saas Ksenofontov ”Sustainability of Indigenous Peoples in the context of global
change: perspectives from Sakha Sire”
2.40 PM - Discussant Comments
3.00 PM - Audience Questions
3.20 PM - 4.30 PM - Fishbowl discussion for audience and speakers. Moderator: Victoria Maladaeva. Ru-Eng translation provided for the fishbowl.
