![]() ![]() In international politics, Vladimir Putin has repeatedly violated international borders, held sacrosanct by international organizations. National, elected, “mainstream,” officials also flout and defy public institutional norms. Transgressions are not limited to artists or social movements. Here, too, we might ask, who defines linguistic transgressions? How do the “acceptable” linguistic registers in which ethnic and religious categories are discussed emerge? How have artistic and cultural iconoclasts such as Zbigniew Libera or Petr Pavlesky transgressed, who defines these “transgressions,” and what are the cultural and political implications? Representatives of Western European countries have condemned what they see as parochial and xenophobic attitudes in Eastern Europe, but the acceptance of Muslim immigrants can also constitute a violation of local norms of religious and ethnic homogeneity. How do these actors negotiate strong advocacy in the face of hostile popular sensibilities? The migrant crisis illustrates how strong norms can clash. How are social norms challenged and re-constructed? For example, we see anti-clericalism and pro-LBGTQ movements in conservative and religious countries in the region, such as Poland or Lithuania. The anniversary of this fundamental transgression, the deliberate violation of the status quo, invites us to consider how social, linguistic, artistic and other orders in various domains are deliberately and explicitly defied-and how they are constructed in the first place. It justified the overthrow of the economic order and the elimination (physically and/or politically) of collective actors and individuals. Yet the revolution also invited new cultural iconoclasm and smashed existing social relations right down to individual families. ![]() The storming of the Winter Palace, in both popular history and cultural representation, exemplifies how revolutionaries violated physical and political boundaries and imposed a new organization of power. The 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution inspires the 2017 theme, and invites us to rethink the ways in which cultural, economic, political, social, and international orders are undermined, overthrown, and recast. The 2017 ASEEES Annual Convention will be held in Chicago, IL on November 9-12, 2017.Ģ017 ASEEES President, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford U ![]()
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