38th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference: Emancipation

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What is emancipation today? Which movements and forces currently at work in the vast area spanning Eastern Europe to Asia should be considered emancipatory and why? Which among the rich history of socio-political, cultural, and economic events in the region -- events that have at different times either been linked to, or critically dissociated from, the ideas of progress, liberation, and equality -- are particularly worthy of continued, or renewed, scholarly attention?