Veranstaltungen | Conferences - Part 64

posted by hana on 2007/09/10 23:00

[ Veranstaltungen | Conferences ]

International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on September 28-30, 2007 in Budapest. Social Transformations and Social Identities in East-Central and Southeastern Europe under Socialism, 1944/45 1989/91

Program:

28 September, Friday, Central European University, Budapest, Room TBA

9:00 Opening

9:30-11:15 - THE SOCIALIST NORMAL BIOGRAPHY
John Borneman (Princeton): Lifecourse as a Structuring Device after Socialism
Daniela Koleva (Sofia): Bulgarian socialism: the Normal Biography and the Actual 'Muddling through'
Blazej Brzostek (Warsaw): Warsaw 1945-1989: Some Social Continuities in a Destroyed City

Coffee break

11:45-13:00 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
Ulf Brunnbauer (Berlin): The Family as Private space? Or a State Agency? Reflections on a Pervasive Dichotomy
Paulina Bren (New York): The Greengrocer and His T.V.: Privatized Citizenship and Late Communist Soap Opera

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:30 MOBILITY
Karin Taylor (Graz): On Holiday without the State: Individual
Vacationing and Social Difference in Yugoslavia
Igor Duda (Pula): On Holidays with the State: Social Tourism and Social Background in Socialist Yugoslavia

Coffee break

Tibor Valuch (Budapest): Social mobility and identity problems in the Hungarian society after WWII
Daniel Logemann (Jena): Private Contacts between Germans and Poles in Leipzig (1970-1989)

20:00 Dinner

29 September, Saturday

9:00-13:00 THE SOCIALIST CONSUMER 1.
Andreas Ludwig (Eisenhüttenstadt): Recalling the Ordinary - Reshaping the Past? Material Culture of the Everyday in Use and Cultural Significance
Breda Luthar (Ljubljana): Popular Representations of Good Life and the Performance of the Middle-class Self ‘50s and ‘60s Yugoslavia
Mila Mineva (Sofia): Consumer Citizenship in Socialist Bulgaria

11:00 Coffee break

Jonathan Zatlin (Boston): Money for Nothing, Goods for Free? Purchasing Power and Consumerism in the GDR, 1971-1990
György Majtényi (Budapest): Socialist Luxury: Lifestyles of the Elite in
Hungary during the 1950s and 1960s

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:45 THE SOCIALIST CONSUMER 2.
Susan Reid (Sheffield): Becoming a Home-maker and Consumer in the Soviet Union of the 1960s
Zuzana Burikova (Bratislava): Consumption and the Story of Socialist Progress: A Domesticated Socialist Shop in the Slovak Village

Coffee break

16:15-18:15 SHAPING THE SOCIALIST WORKER
Peter Heumos (Munich): Collective Identity of Industrial Workers in
Czechoslovakia 1945-1968 and Comparative Comments on the GDR and
Poland
Sándor Horváth (Budapest): Under the Shadow of the Great Tree: a Youth Gang in Budapest in the Sixties
Mark Pittaway (Milton Keynes), Eszter Bartha (Budapest): Working-Class Culture, Socialist Models of Work and Leisure in Hungary, 1948-1989

20:00 Dinner

30 September, Sunday

9:00-11:00 TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL CULTURES
Péter Apor (Budapest): Rural Anti-Semitism and the Communist Take-over in Postwar Hungary
Olaf Mertelsmann (Tartu): From Farm to Kolkhoz: Transforming Rural Life in Soviet Estonia Constantin Iordachi (Budapest) Collectivisation in Romania

Coffee break

11:15-13:00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIPS
Michal Pullman (Prague) - Perestroika as a Challenge: Groups,
Conflicts, and Networks within the Dynamics of the Project in Czechoslovakia

13:00 Lunch Departures

Sponsors: Volkswagen Foundation


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