Conference Program
14 October 2009
6 – 8 pm Key note lecture (Oskar-Halecki-Lecture of the GWZO) by Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany: “Auf dem Wege zum und im Epochenjahr 1989”
Introduction: Frank Hadler (GWZO)
15 October 2009
9:30 – 11:00 Opening/ Words of Welcome by
Rainer Eckert, Director of the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum
Franz Häuser, Rector of the University of Leipzig
Burkhard Jung, Mayor of the City of Leipzig
Bernd Faulenbach, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
Introduction to the Conference Topic by
Ulf Engel, Frank Hadler & Matthias Middell “Global structures and the events of 1989”
11:30-1:00 pm
Ivan Berend (UCLA), Global financial architecture before and after 1989
2:30 – 4:30 pm Parallel sessions of sections 1, 2, and 3 (part 1)
Section 1: “1989 – events, places, comparisons”
Chair: Frank Hadler
- Konrad H. Jarausch (U Chapel Hill): Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution?
- Alexandr Shubin (Moscow): International Influence on Gorbacovs Reform and on Civil Movement
- Oldrich Tuma (Academy of Sciences, Prag): Czechoslovakai in 1989
Section 2: “Towards an entangled history of 1989”
Chair: Ulf Engel
- Christoph Boyer (Universität Salzburg): The socio-economic causes of “1989” in a comparative perspective
- Pradipta Chaudhury (U Delhi): India in 1989
- Stefan Troebst (GWZO, Leipzig): 1989 - the beginning of the end of Tito's Yugoslavia
Section 3: “1989 in processes of remembrance and re-conceptualisation of the world”
Chair: Matthias Middell
- Michael Geyer (U Chicago): The United States in 1989 – A Brief History of the Future
- Bernhard H. Bayerlein (U Mannheim): Communism – A History of Erosion
- László Borhi (Budapest): The International Context of the Hungarian Transition, 1989
5:00 – 6:30 pm Parallel sessions of sections 1, 2, and 3 (part II)
Section 1: “1989 – events, places, comparisons”
Chair: N.N.
- Chris Saunders (Cape Town): 1989 and southern Africa
- Ulf Engel (Gesi, Leipzig): Africa in 1989
Section 2: “Towards an entangled history of 1989”
Chair: Michael Mann (U Hagen)
- Doug Bond (Harvard): South Korea, Birma and the Philippines in the late 1980s – the imaginary of a peaceful movement for democratization
- Rüdiger Steinmetz (U Leipzig): Televison as a Universal Therapist and Entertainer. An Analysis of Programmes in the Transition Period between the Opening of The Berlin Wall and the Unification of Germany
Section 3: “1989 in processes of remembrance and re-conceptualisation of the world”
Chair: Michael Riekenberg (Leipzig)
- Michael Zeuske (U Köln): 1989 in the Carribbean: Social Rebellion in Venezuela and Conflicts over Reforms on Cuba
- Pierre Grosser (Paris): The 1989 Moment: Rethinking the
demise of East Communist Europe in a Global Context
16 October 2009
9:30 – 12.00 am: Parallel sessions of sections 1, 2, and 3 (part III)
Section 1: “1989 – events, places, comparisons”
Chair: Colin Lewis (London)
- John French (Durham): Without Fear of Being Happy': The 1989 Presidential Election Campaign of the 'Brazilian Lech Walesa' Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
- Heidrun Zinecker (Leipzig): Colombia in 1989
- Klaas Dykmann (Leipzig): El Salvador in 1989
Section 2: “Towards an entangled history of 1989”
Chair: David Wank (Tokyo)
- Mark Juergensmeyer (Santa Barbara): Storm Clouds of Global Religious Rebellion in 1989
- Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch): Sports, Popular Culture, and the global moment of 1989
- Hartmut Elsenhans (Leipzig): New fundamentalist movements in Asia and North Africa compared
Section 3: “1989 in processes of remembrance and re-conceptualisation of the world”
Chair: Beata Ociepka (U Wroclaw)
- Jie-Hyun Lim (Seoul): South Korea 1988
- Claudia Kraft (Erfurt): Remembering the End of Polish Communism
- Mihai Manea (U Bucharest): 1989 in Romania. A Violent Popular Oust. Different Interpretations
1:30-2:30 pm Plenary Section 5
chair: Erin Wilson (Melbourne)
Frank Hadler: Report from parallel section 1
Ulf Engel: Report from parallel section 2
Matthias Middell: Report from section 3
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee break
3:00 – 4:30 pm Concluding plenary session
chair: Mark Juergensmeyer Santa Barbara)
Introductory comment: Dietmar Rothermund (Heidelberg)