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This talk is based on fieldwork data obtained during recent research in Transnistria, a disputed “frozen conflict” region in the former Moldovan SSR governed by the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic. Special attention will be paid to a museum in the town of Dubossary as a public space for the representation of history and identity construction.

Olga Filippova is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kharkiv National University and a pioneer of socio-cultural anthropology in the Ukraine. Her research interests include post-communist societies (the Ukraine in particular) and post-socialist transformations, globalization, transnationalism, identity, citizenship, social (re)construction, cyber-ethnography, and childhood. She will spend a month at the Institute (October 25-November 24) collaborating on a research project, “Anthropology at the Crossroads: Globalization and Its Discontents in the Post-Soviet City,” with her primary sponsor, Sarah Phillips, Anthropology, IUB. She will also consult with colleagues in Anthropology, the Russian and East European Institute, and History. On Tuesday, November 17, she will lecture on Identity in an Unrecognized State: A Transnistrian Museum as a Public Space of History Representation and Identity Construction at 1:00-2:15 p.m. in the Oak Room, Tree Suites, Indiana Memorial Union. For more information contact her primary sponsor Sarah Phillips (sadphill@indiana.edu), Anthropology, IUB, or the Institute.