This gathering invites experts to recount and explain how the disappearance of the USSR changed the way in which scholars research, write, and think, when the very object of the subfield in multiple disciplines ceased to exist. The presenters and invited discussants have written extensively on the intellectual and professional transformation that the milestone of 1991 required. With the memory of the USSR back in new ways, from nostalgia to spectre and much else in between, this workshop will consider where we might be headed next.
Papers will be presented by Sheila Fitzpatrick (“What happened to Sovietology at the end of the Cold War?”) and Mark Kramer (“Sovietology and Key Moments of Change in the USSR”), with commentary by David Engerman, followed by general discussion.
The workshop will be held at the Jordan Center from 11 am to 6 pm. NYU colleagues and students are welcome, but are required to register in advance.
