Confirmed speakers
Note paper topics are only preliminary.
Keynote Speaker
David
Smith (University of Glasgow)
Border
personhood and paperwork: the post-Soviet Baltics and beyond
Icarus careers: rapid rise and fall and its paperwork under Stalin
Igal
Halfin (Tel-Aviv University)
Notions of culpability under Stalin: how
interrogations were documented and what it meant
Golfo
Alexopoulos (University of South Florida)
Health documents and personhood in
the Gulag
Yoram
Gorlizki (University of Manchester)
Personal letterheads and typescripts in
Soviet Communist Party correspondence
Nikolai
Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge)
Material object as text and text as
material object: gifts to Soviet leaders
Madeleine
Reeves (University of Manchester)
Clean fake passports and Central Asian
migrant personhood in post-socialist urban Russia
Mantas
Kvedaravicius (University of Cambridge)
Purloined life: the document, the
typeface and the misplaced grapheme in the counter-terror zone of the Chechen
Republic
Sergei
Sokolovskii (Moscow Institute for Ethnology)
Luxury versus ‘normality’: shop receipts and
taxable self in post-Socialist Russia
Alaina
Lemon (University of Michigan)
Diplomas on the office walls: presentation of
the self in post-socialist Moscow
