A joint the Havighurst Center Young Researchers’
and SOYUZ, a Post-communist Studies Group of the American
Anthropological Association and the Association for Slavic, East European
Studies and Eurasian Studies, conference
The Topos of Justice, February 27 - March 1, 2014
Miami University (Ohio)
The Topos of Justice, February 27 - March 1, 2014
Miami University (Ohio)
Sponsors: The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies; Co-sponsors: The Humanities Center, The College of Arts & Science, The Center for American & World Cultures, the International Studies Program, and the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Political Science
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Introduction and welcome by Karen Dawisha, Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
Keynote Lecture 5:30 – 7:00 pm Harrison Hall 111
Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh, “Justice as Unfairness”
Reception and dinner 8pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Session 1 9:00 – 10:40 am
Global Legalities: Democratization, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights
Chair: Carl T. Dahlman, Miami University
Digressing towards Europe: Narratives of Moral Transit through Violence
Timothy William Waters, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Promoting Justice and the Rule of Law in Central Asia: The European Union Rule of Law Initiative as Part of a Comprehensive Democratization Strategy?
Vera Axyonova, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Liberal Legality in Unlikely Places: Constitutional Debates in Post-Genocide Cambodia
Michelle C. Grisé, Yale University
Challenging Power through the Power of Morals:
The Role of Human Rights and Humanitarianism from Communism to Post-Communism in Romania
Cristian Capotescu, University of Michigan
Discussant: Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Break 10:40 am – 11:00 am
Session 2 11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Topographies of Justice: Borderlands, Sovereignty, and Ethnicity
Chair: Venelin Ganev, Miami University
In Search of Parity: Historicizing “Contested Territory” and its Regulation at a Central Asian Border
Madeleine Reeves, University of Manchester
Northern Crossings: Development and Sovereignty in the Afghan-Soviet Borderscape
Timothy Alexander Nunan, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Uzbek Patronage between Ethnic Particularism & Soviet Universalism in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Morgan Y. Liu, The Ohio State University
Identities and the Rule of Law: Ethnic Profiling in the Republic of Tatarstan
Leisan Khalioullina, Institute of Economics, Management and Law, Kazan
Discussant: Edward C. Holland, Miami University
Lunch 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Session 3 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Time and Truths: History and the Politics of Memory
Chair: Stephen Norris, Miami University
Dissident Reburial and Documentary Film in the Soviet Union
Tom Rowley, University of Cambridge
Historical Justice, Contemporary Discord: Examining the Rise of Resistance to Holocaust Remembrance in Lithuania
Christine Beresniova, Indiana University
Nationalism and Construction of Justice in Belarusian Legal History Textbooks
Marharyta Fabrykant, Belarusian State University
Discussant: Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton University
Keynote Lecture 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University, "Constitutions and Counter-Constitutions: Understanding the New Constitutional Revolution in Hungary"
Dinner 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, MARCH 1
Session 4: 9:00 – 10:40 am
Moral Citizenship: the State and Everyday Justice
Chair: Neringa Klumbytė, Miami University
Workers of the World, Connect?: Everyday Justice Online in Post-Soviet Russia
Susanne Cohen, University of Chicago
The Tyrannies of Intimacy: Notes on a Post-Socialist Welfare State
Liene Ozoliņa, London School of Economics and Political Science
Public Resonance as a Method: Seeking “Hope for Justice and the End of Lawlessness” in Novosibirsk, Russia
Maria Sidorkina, Yale University
Soviet Vigilante Justice and Grassroots Activism: People’s Patrols in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union
Gleb Tsipursky, The Ohio State University – Newark Campus
Discussant: Nancy Ries, Colgate University
Break 10:40 – 11:00 am
Session 5: 11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Rights and Bodies: Health, Caring, and Biological Citizenship
Chair: Cameron Hay-Rollins, Miami University
Ability to Carry Rights or Ability to Work?: The Meaning of Justice for the Russian Deaf in the Revolutionary Period
Maria Galmarini, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
(Dis)order and Civilization: The Topos of Justice in Post-Socialist Medicine
Maryna Y. Bazylevych, Luther College
Justice in a Jar: Biotic Collectives and Fungal Politics in Post-Yugosphere
Larisa Jasarevic, University of Chicago
“Bittersweet”: Ambiguity of Care in Lithuania
Rima Praspaliauskienė, University of California Davis
Discussant: Michele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina
Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Session 6: 2:00 – 3:40 pm
Justice Sacred: Authority, Morality, and the Transcendental
Chair: Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
Struggling Towards Moral Selfhood: Conversational Analysis of Post-Socialist Miracle Narratives
Marc Roscoe Loustau, Harvard Divinity School
Andrey Sheptytsky – The Fourth Path to Justice
Yuriy Koshulap, Central European University
Religious Justifications in the Citizens’ Complaints to Authorities in Contemporary Russia
Elena Bogdanova, University of Eastern Finland
Priesthood and Divination or Practicing Magic as a Part Time Job. A Case Study from Bucovina, Romania
Alexandra Coţofană, Indiana University
Discussant: John Cinnamon, Miami University
Break 3:40 – 4:00 pm
Session 7: 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Justice Reframed: New Judges and Juries
Chair: Erin Koch, University of Kentucky
Either by Coercion or Consent: Human Rights Law and Thieves in Law in Kyrgyzstan
Austin Cowley, University of Colorado
The Bosnian Babylution: Political Impasse and Popular Justice after Dayton Accords
Larisa Kurtovic, DePaul University
"The Revolution will be Live-streamed: Social Media and the Maidan"
Jennifer Dickinson, University of Vermont
Discussant: Sarah Phillips, Indiana University
Roundtable 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Justice and Corruption
With Karen Dawisha, Miami University, and Ivan Ninenko Deputy Director, Transparency International – Russia
Dinner 7:00 pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Introduction and welcome by Karen Dawisha, Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
Keynote Lecture 5:30 – 7:00 pm Harrison Hall 111
Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh, “Justice as Unfairness”
Reception and dinner 8pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Session 1 9:00 – 10:40 am
Global Legalities: Democratization, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights
Chair: Carl T. Dahlman, Miami University
Digressing towards Europe: Narratives of Moral Transit through Violence
Timothy William Waters, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Promoting Justice and the Rule of Law in Central Asia: The European Union Rule of Law Initiative as Part of a Comprehensive Democratization Strategy?
Vera Axyonova, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Liberal Legality in Unlikely Places: Constitutional Debates in Post-Genocide Cambodia
Michelle C. Grisé, Yale University
Challenging Power through the Power of Morals:
The Role of Human Rights and Humanitarianism from Communism to Post-Communism in Romania
Cristian Capotescu, University of Michigan
Discussant: Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Break 10:40 am – 11:00 am
Session 2 11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Topographies of Justice: Borderlands, Sovereignty, and Ethnicity
Chair: Venelin Ganev, Miami University
In Search of Parity: Historicizing “Contested Territory” and its Regulation at a Central Asian Border
Madeleine Reeves, University of Manchester
Northern Crossings: Development and Sovereignty in the Afghan-Soviet Borderscape
Timothy Alexander Nunan, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Uzbek Patronage between Ethnic Particularism & Soviet Universalism in Southern Kyrgyzstan
Morgan Y. Liu, The Ohio State University
Identities and the Rule of Law: Ethnic Profiling in the Republic of Tatarstan
Leisan Khalioullina, Institute of Economics, Management and Law, Kazan
Discussant: Edward C. Holland, Miami University
Lunch 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Session 3 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Time and Truths: History and the Politics of Memory
Chair: Stephen Norris, Miami University
Dissident Reburial and Documentary Film in the Soviet Union
Tom Rowley, University of Cambridge
Historical Justice, Contemporary Discord: Examining the Rise of Resistance to Holocaust Remembrance in Lithuania
Christine Beresniova, Indiana University
Nationalism and Construction of Justice in Belarusian Legal History Textbooks
Marharyta Fabrykant, Belarusian State University
Discussant: Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton University
Keynote Lecture 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University, "Constitutions and Counter-Constitutions: Understanding the New Constitutional Revolution in Hungary"
Dinner 7:30 pm
SATURDAY, MARCH 1
Session 4: 9:00 – 10:40 am
Moral Citizenship: the State and Everyday Justice
Chair: Neringa Klumbytė, Miami University
Workers of the World, Connect?: Everyday Justice Online in Post-Soviet Russia
Susanne Cohen, University of Chicago
The Tyrannies of Intimacy: Notes on a Post-Socialist Welfare State
Liene Ozoliņa, London School of Economics and Political Science
Public Resonance as a Method: Seeking “Hope for Justice and the End of Lawlessness” in Novosibirsk, Russia
Maria Sidorkina, Yale University
Soviet Vigilante Justice and Grassroots Activism: People’s Patrols in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union
Gleb Tsipursky, The Ohio State University – Newark Campus
Discussant: Nancy Ries, Colgate University
Break 10:40 – 11:00 am
Session 5: 11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Rights and Bodies: Health, Caring, and Biological Citizenship
Chair: Cameron Hay-Rollins, Miami University
Ability to Carry Rights or Ability to Work?: The Meaning of Justice for the Russian Deaf in the Revolutionary Period
Maria Galmarini, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
(Dis)order and Civilization: The Topos of Justice in Post-Socialist Medicine
Maryna Y. Bazylevych, Luther College
Justice in a Jar: Biotic Collectives and Fungal Politics in Post-Yugosphere
Larisa Jasarevic, University of Chicago
“Bittersweet”: Ambiguity of Care in Lithuania
Rima Praspaliauskienė, University of California Davis
Discussant: Michele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina
Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Session 6: 2:00 – 3:40 pm
Justice Sacred: Authority, Morality, and the Transcendental
Chair: Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
Struggling Towards Moral Selfhood: Conversational Analysis of Post-Socialist Miracle Narratives
Marc Roscoe Loustau, Harvard Divinity School
Andrey Sheptytsky – The Fourth Path to Justice
Yuriy Koshulap, Central European University
Religious Justifications in the Citizens’ Complaints to Authorities in Contemporary Russia
Elena Bogdanova, University of Eastern Finland
Priesthood and Divination or Practicing Magic as a Part Time Job. A Case Study from Bucovina, Romania
Alexandra Coţofană, Indiana University
Discussant: John Cinnamon, Miami University
Break 3:40 – 4:00 pm
Session 7: 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Justice Reframed: New Judges and Juries
Chair: Erin Koch, University of Kentucky
Either by Coercion or Consent: Human Rights Law and Thieves in Law in Kyrgyzstan
Austin Cowley, University of Colorado
The Bosnian Babylution: Political Impasse and Popular Justice after Dayton Accords
Larisa Kurtovic, DePaul University
"The Revolution will be Live-streamed: Social Media and the Maidan"
Jennifer Dickinson, University of Vermont
Discussant: Sarah Phillips, Indiana University
Roundtable 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Justice and Corruption
With Karen Dawisha, Miami University, and Ivan Ninenko Deputy Director, Transparency International – Russia
Dinner 7:00 pm