Monday 3rd November
9.30 a.m. Opening/Welcome
9.45 a.m. I: CONCEPTS: GLOBALISATIONS, GLOBAL CIRCULATION, AND THE SOCIALIST WORLD SYSTEM
Jonas Flury (Bern), The idea of a socialist world system 1950s - 1970s. Conceiving an alternative global system;
theories of growing interconnectedness and exchange in the socialist world.
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (Macau), An Economic Cold War? The Soviet Union and the Decolonization Vortex
Artemy M. Kalinovsky (Amsterdam), Colony, Model, Colony: Soviet Central Asia and Cold War Development
Bogdan C. Iacob (Center of Advanced Studies, Sofia), From Periphery to Cardinal Borderland: The Balkans into
UNESCO
1 p.m. II: ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN ‘EAST’ AND ‘SOUTH’
Massimiliano Trentin (Bologna), Tough Negotiations: the partnership between the German Democratic Republic and B'athist Syria, 1963-1970.
Berthold Unfried (Vienna), Encounters and transfers between GDR development workers and their African counterparts
Sara Lorenzini (Trento), Changing Perceptions: The GDR in Africa.
Małgorzata Mazurek (Columbia), Bandung Economics: Polish
Economic Advisors in India, 1955-1960
III: INTELLECTUAL CULTURES AND EXCHANGE
Łukasz Stanek (Manchester), Tropical Modernism and Socialist Internationalism: The Case of Ghana National Construction Corporation (1960—66).
Andreas Butter (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) and Christoph Bernhardt (TU Darmstadt), Networking across the iron curtain, competing for the global south: The International Union of Architects (UIA) and the export of East-German socialist architecture to the global south (1949-1989)
Christine Varga-Harris (Illinois State), Orientalism, Soviet-Style: Cultural Exchange and the Inevitability of Communism in the World of Soviet Woman
KEYNOTE: Professor Andreas Eckert
Tuesday 4th November
10 a.m. IV: ASIA AND THE ‘SECOND WORLD’
Jan Zofka (Leipzig), China as a Role Model? Transnational power relations and economic regulation in the ―socialist world seen through the Great Leap Forward in Bulgaria
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College), The Maoist Enemy: China‘s Challenge in 1960s East Germany
Péter Vámos, (Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
China and the Eastern Bloc in the Global South
Hanna Jansen (Amsterdam), Soviet Oriental Studies as a Platform to Negotiate Asian Relations and Identities
1.15 p.m. V: LATIN AMERICA AND THE ‘SECOND WORLD’
Péter Apor (Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
and James Mark (Exeter), The Discovery of Latin America in Socialist Hungary 1956-1989
Anne Gorsuch (Universityof British Columbia), Visiting the ̳Island of Freedom‘: The Soviet Encounter with Cuba in the 1960s
David Mayer (Vienna), Latin America‘s History Wars inthe 1960s and exchanges between Latin American and Second World intellectuals
3 p.m. VI: THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’ AND CHALLENGES TO STATE SOCIALISM
Vladimir Boyko (Altai State Pedagogical Academy), Soviet-Afghan discoveries in the 1920s-70s: diplomacy, intelligence, and scholarship
Kim Christiaens & Idesbald Goddeeris (KU Leuven), Solidarność and the Global South
Piotr Wciślik (Central European University), Non-violence and Double Standards: Solidarity with Fighting Afghanistan in late-dissident Poland
4.45 p.m.-Final Discussion Early Career/ PhD ‘Poster Presentations’
Ela Drążkiewicz (NUI Maynooth), Polish Aid to Africa during the Cold War
Dan Gashler (Binghamton), Reimagining Slovenia‘s National Liberation War, in Vietnam: Understanding the Chaos of 1968
Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm), The Soviet education of internationalism between ―othering and bringing closer: the case of Latin America
Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter), We have gathered from all continents of the Globe...‘–Cold War youth encounters in late socialism
Kamil Szmid (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), A communist journalist in the midst of political transformation. Ryszard Kapuściński‘s travels through Africa.
Bálint Tolmár (Central European University, Budapest), Labor Migration between Eastern Europe and the Third World: the Case of Cuban Temporary Workers in Socialist Hungary, 1980-1988
Natalia Telepneva (London School of Economics), The Soviet Union and the Development of the Embryo State‘ in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, 1967-1970.