CRASSH

9.30 - 10.00

Registration

10.00 - 10.30

Welcome and Introduction by Madeleine Reeves ( Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester) and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

10.30 - 12.30

10.30 - 11.30

Session 1: Hermeneutics of suspicion
Chair: Jana Howlett ( Slavic Studies, University of Cambridge, UK)

Igal Halfin (History, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Notions of culpability under Stalin: how interrogations were documented and what it meant

Ivan Peshkov (History, University of Poznan, Poland)
Soviet passports for non-Soviet subjects: quasi-indigenousness, limited citizenship and double exclusion of Russians in Mongolia and China

11.30 - 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 - 12.30

Sergei Sokolovskii (Moscow Institute for Ethnology)
Luxury versus ‘normality’: shop receipts and taxable self in post-Socialist Russia

13.15 - 14.15

Lunch break

14.15 - 15.15

Session 2: Health, sensation and documented self
Chair: Eeva Kesküla (Anthropology, University of London, Goldsmith’s, UK)

Golfo Alexopoulos (History, University of South Florida, USA)
Health documents and personhood in the Gulag

Alaina Lemon (Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA)
Reading through paper: sensation, extrasens and bureaucratic authority in post-socialist Moscow

16.00 - 16.30

Tea  break

16.30 - 17.30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Victor Buchli (Anthropology, University College London, UK)

Robert J. Kaiser (Geography, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)
Documented Alienation: Alien Passports and the Production of Statelessness in the Russian-EU Borderlands

9.30 - 10.30

Session 3: Tracks of persons
Chair: Laur Vallikivi (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

Malte Griesse (History, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
In the shadow of Icarus careers under Stalin: precariousness of party cards and of revolutionary past under the auspices of imposture and dissimulation

Madeleine Reeves (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester, UK)
Clean fake: navigating 'legal residence' in migrant Moscow

Discussant: Olga Ulturgasheva (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

11.15 - 11.45

Coffee break

11.45 - 12.45

Session 4: Texts as material objects
Chair: Tristan Platt ( Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, UK)

Yoram Gorlizki (Politics, University of Manchester, UK)
Personal letterheads and typescripts in Soviet Communist Party correspondence from 1950s to 1970s

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK)
Material object as text and text as material object during late socialism: gifts to Soviet leaders 

13.30 - 14.30

Lunch break

14.30 - 15.30

Session 5: Paperwork and space
Chair: Aliaa Remtilla (Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK)

Mantas Kvedaravicius (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK)
Purloined life: the document, the typeface and the misplaced grapheme in the counter-terror zone of the Chechen Republic

Sarah Carton de Grammont (Laboratoire d'anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales/École des hautes études en sciences socials, Paris, France)
Entangled personhoods in entangled places: post-socialist house-craft, district-craft and personhood-craft through paperwork in the ‘garden city’ of Sokol, Moscow 

16.15 - 17.00

Tea and concluding discussion