The Russian Corporation / The Corporation in Russia Conference

Event time: 
Saturday, February 23, 2019 - 9:30am to 6:00pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 202 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Day 2 Schedule of the Annual Conference in Russian Studies

Note Different Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

10:00-11:45 Panel IV: Soviet Corporations

Chair: Victoria Smolkin (Wesleyan University)

• Adam Leeds (Columbia University), “The First and Lowest Stage of Socialism: The Corporation in the Marxism of the Second International”

• Steven Harris (University of Mary Washington), “Hearts and Minds and Hard Currency: How Aeroflot Defeated Pan Am and Survived the Cold War”

Discussant: David Engerman (Yale University)

1:00-2:45 Panel V: Post-Soviet Corporations, Part I

Chair: Thomas Graham (Yale University)

• Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University), “The Russian Corporation Today: Between Neolibralism and the Security State”

• Susanne Wengle (University of Notre Dame), “Russian Agrifood Corporations as a Force of Change”

• Nina Poussenkova (Russian Academy of Sciences), “Rosneft, a Triple-A Company: Ambitions, Acquisitions, Alliances”

Discussant: Douglas Rogers (Yale University)

3:15-4:30 Panel VI: Post-Soviet Corporations, Part II

Chair: Andrei Semenov (Yale University)

• Dominic Martin (Yale University), “Corporation, Education, and Knowing Your Station: Social Estates Between a Closed City and an Oxbridge College”

• Benjamin Krupp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ), “Stop Exercising, Stop Training: The Mutual Making of Russian Bodies and Nike Data”

Discussant: Justine Buck Quijada (Wesleyan University)

4:45-5:45 Concluding Discussion