The workshop ist organized by the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF Potsdam)
Conception: Dr. Patryk Babiracki University of Texas-Arlington) and Dr. Jan C.Behrends (ZZF Potsdam)
An international publication on the subject is planned.
Program
Thursday 19 June
18.00 Keynote Lecture
Alfred Rieber (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
"Blocking” : Opportunities and Obstacles to Exchanges among Commu
nist Regimes in Eastern Europe
19.30 Snack (Am Neuen Markt 9d)
Friday 20 June
Panel 1:
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe under Stalin
9.00-12.30
Jan C. Behrends (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany)
Poland’s Lost Son. Konstantin Rokossovski’s Mission to Warsaw between Nationalism
and Internationalism (1949-1956)
Balázs Apor (Trinity Colleg Dublin, Ireland)
The Dynamics of the Stalin Cult in Hungary in the
Early Cold War Years (1949-53)
Coffee break
Lars Peder Haga (Norwegian Military Academy, Norway)
Dealing with Unpleasant Discoveries: Two Soviet Soldier-Writers’ Strategies to Make
Sense of the Red Army’s Encounter with East Central Europe
12.30–14.00 Lunch
Panel 2:
Internationalism and the Iron Curtain
14.00–17.30
Pia Koivunen (University of Tampere, Finland)
“As if a Friend, as if our own, but had been such an Enemy”: Reimagining Friendship in
Soviet Media and Authorities’ Reports on the Moscow 1957 World Youth Festival"
Margareta Tillberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
“Design for Man and Mankind”: VNIITE hosts ICSID’75 Moscow
Coffee break
Thomas Lindenberger (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany)
The Other Politics of Stardom: Yves Montand and his Concert Tour through Eastern
Europe in 1957
19.30 Dinner
Saturday 21 June
Panel 3:
The Second World: Post-Stalinist Entanglements
9.30–13.00
Tarik Cyril Amar (Columbia University, USA)
Heroes of Secrecy: Spies in Postwar Soviet and East European TV Series
David Crowley (Royal College of Art and Design, UK)
“The Ghosts of Constructivism in Eastern Europe after 1968”
Coffee break
Patryk Babiracki (University of Texas-Arlington, USA / ZZF)
Two Stairways to Socialism: Soviet Youth Activists in Polish Spaces, 1950s-
1960s
13.00–14.00 Lunch (Am Neuen Markt 9d)
Panel 4:
Socialist Internationalism between the Second and Third Worlds
14.00–18.00
Rossen Djagalov (Koç University, Turkey)
Multinational Late-Soviet Literature and the Dynamics of Uneven and Combined
Censorship
Marsha Siefert (Central European University, Hungary)
Second World Cinema: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy and Film from 1955-1975
Coffee break
Austin Jersild (Old Dominion University, USA)
People of Colour and the Socialist World: Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Guinea-Conakry,
1956-1965
Elidor Mëhill (Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA)
Elusive Embraces: Albania, China, and North Korea after Khrushchev
18.00–18.30 Final discussion
(wine & cheese)
Information on participating / attending:
Please register before June 12, 2014
by Roxanna Noll
eMail: noll@zzf-pdm.de
Date:
06/19/2014 18:00 - 06/21/2014 18:00
Registration deadline:
06/12/2014
Event venue:
Am Neuen Markt 9 d
Seminar room (ground floor)
14467 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
05/19/2014
Sender/author:
Marion Schlöttke
Department:
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event47341
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