| First
Nevada Conference on Soviet Culture*
November
23, 1992
Introduction.
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Opening
Statement
Dmitri N. Shalin, Conference Director, UNLV
Welcome
to Conference Participants
Robert Maxson, President, UNLV
Panel
I. Political and Civic Culture
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Political
Culture: Dispensing with the Communist Legacy
Vladimir Shlapentokh, Michigan State University
Civic
Culture: Public Opinion and the Resurgence of Civic Culture
Yuri Levada, National Center for Public Opinion Research in Moscow
Discussant
Robert Tucker, Princeton University
Panel
II. Economic and Labor Culture
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Entrepreneurial
Culture: Privatizing the Soviet Economy
Anthony Jones, Northeastern University
Labor
Culture: Work Ethics under Perestroika
Vladimir Magun, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Discussant
Edward Beliaev, Columbia University
Lunch
Break. 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Panel
III. Moral and Pedagogical Culture
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Moral Culture:
Public Morality and Private Responsibility
Igor Kon, Institute of Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Pedagogical
Culture: Reschooling Soviet Society
Margarita Zhamkochian, Moscow Independent University
Discussant
Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
Panel
IV. Psychological and Everyday Culture
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Psychological
Culture: Ambivalence and Resistance to Social Change
Alexander Etkind, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Everyday
Culture: From Communal Living to Private Life
Svetlana Boym, Harvard University
Discussant
Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reception
for the Conference Participants and Guests
UNLV, Engineering Center Lobby, 6:00 p.m.
November
24, 1992
Panel
V. Historical and Intellectual Culture
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The God
that Failed: Revolution in Russia and Eastern Europe
Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intellectual
Culture: The End of Russian Intelligentsia
Dmitri N. Shalin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Discussant
Eugene Halton, Notre Dame University
Panel
VI. Literary and Artistic Culture
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Literary
Culture: "New Soviet Man" in the Mirror of Literature
Maurice Friedberg, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Artistic
Culture: The Trial by Freedom
Daniil B. Dondurei, Moscow Institute of Cinema Art
Discussant
Boris Paramonov, Radio Liberty
Reception
for Russian Scholars
Residence of Lonnie Hammargren,
Member, UNLV Board of Regents, 6:00 p.m.
*The Conference
is held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4255 Paradise R., Las Vegas, NV
9109. Call 702-369-4400 for reservations. Conference participation
is free. An optional $95 fee covers a luncheon, dinner reception,
and day trip to the Grand Canyon. For more information write to Dr.
Dmitri Shalin, Sociology Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
NV 89154-5033, email: shalin@nevada.edu.
Web
Links
Russian
Culture at the Crossroads. Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness
Russian
Culture at the Crossroads. Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness.
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