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06/19/2014 - 06/21/2014 | Potsdam

Workshop "Exploring the Second World: Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War"

The workshop explores the transnational ties established by communist regimes and the relationship to their doctrine of "Socialist Internationalism". Starting in High Stalinism the papers presented will analyse relations between the USSR and countries of its European Empire, contacts between communist party-states and Western Europe and ties of the Soviet bloc to the emerging "Third World".
The Workshop is generously funded by VolkswagenStiftung.

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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