Friday, 3 June 2011
Venue: ETH (Opening: Semper Aula; Panels: Alumni Pavillon)

8:30 Room HG G 60 (Semper Aula)
Opening Ceremony
Welcome Addresses:
Prof. Dr. Nada Boškovska, Chair of Eastern European History, UZH
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer, President, University of Zurich
Prof. Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig, Head, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences ETH
Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné, Chair History of the Modern World, ETH

Key Note Addresses:
Prof. em. Dr. Dietmar Rothermund, University of Heidelberg: „The Era of Non-Alignment“
Budimir Lončar, former Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia, Head of the President’s Advisory Board on Foreign Policy and International Relations, Zagreb (Croatia)

Reception

10:30 ETH Alumni Pavillon
Panel I: „Who invented Non-Alignment?“

Chair: Prof. Dr. Nada Boškovska (UZH)
Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren (University of Heidelberg): Introduction
Maria Framke (Jacobs University, Bremen): „The 1930s in India: the formative period for non-alignment?“
Prof. Dr. Mridula Mukherjee (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi): „Nehru and the Non-Aligned Movement: Some Reflections“
Prof. Dr. Čedomir Štrbac (Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgrade): „Coexistence and Non-Alignment in Yugoslav Foreign Policy“

12:30 Lunch buffet at ETH Alumni Pavillon

13:30 ETH Alumni Pavillon
Panel II: „Non-Alignment as a Political Movement of Postcolonialism“

Chair: Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH)
Carolien Stolte (University of Leiden): „‚The Asiatic Hour’: The Asian Relations Conference (New Delhi 1947) as a Transitional Phase in Asian Relations“
Prof. Dr. Kweku Ampiah (University of Leeds): „The Non-aligned Movement and its References to the Bandung Conference“
Jürgen Dinkel (University of Giessen): „‚To grab the Headlines in the World Press’. Non-Aligned Summits as Media Events“
Prof. Dr. Itty Abraham (University of Texas, Austin): „The Necessity of Recognition: A Prolegomena to Non-Alignment as Movement“

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 ETH Alumni Pavillon
Panel III: „NAM as a Project of the Postcolonial Elites“

Chair: Prof. Dr. Corinne Pernet (University of St. Gallen)
Ambassador Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (Former Indian Foreign Service, New Delhi): „India’s Relations with the Commonwealth and its Influence on Foreign Policy“
Prof. Dr. Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck College, University of London): „The Festival of Nations: A Cultural History of the Bandung Conference“
Dr. Elham Manea (Department for Political Science, University of Zurich): „Arab Elites in the Middle East during the 1950s“
Prof. Dr. Aditya Mukherjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi): „The Economic Foundations of Non-Alignment“

Saturday, 4 June 2011
Venue: University of Zurich (building KO2, entrance Karl Schmid-Strasse 4)

9:30 UZH KO2 F-174
Panel IV: „The NAM as a Cold War Necessity“

Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Wenger (ETH)
Prof. Dr. Gopalan Balachandran, Graduate Institute, Geneva): „Recuperating the Global South: Super-Power Rivalries, Non-Alignment, and the Politics of Historical Memory“
Dr. Bhashyam Kasturi (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi): „Nehru’s Strategic Vision and Non-Alignment“
Dr. Amit Das Gupta (Institute of Contemporary History, Berlin): „The Non-Aligned and the German Question“
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Lüthi (McGill University, Montreal): „The Non-Aligned: Apart from and still within the Cold War“

12:00 Lunch at Restaurant Linde

13:30 UZH KO2 F-174
Panel V: „Yugoslavia’s Role in Non-Alignment“

Chair: Prof. Dr. Jeronim Perović (UZH)
Prof. Dr. Jože Pirjevec (University of Primorska, Koper): „The First Steps of Yugoslav Non-Aligned Foreign Policy: Ambassadors Djerdja and Vilfan in New Delhi“
Dr. Svetozar Rajak (London School of Economics, London): „Yugoslav–Soviet Normalization, 1953-1956 and the Beginning of the Yugoslav Road to Non-alignment“
Dr. Nataša Mišković (UZH): „Belgrade and the First Summit of the Non-Aligned“
Prof. Dr. Tvrtko Jakovina (University of Zagreb): „Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s and 1980s“

15:30 Concluding Remarks
Prof. Dr. Mridula Mukherjee (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library)
Dr. Nataša Mišković (UZH)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 UZH KO2 F-175
Public Round Table: „The Non-Aligned Movement after 1989“

Chair: Dr. Bernard Imhasly, former correspondent Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Mumbai
— Budimir Lončar, former Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia, Head of the President’s Advisory Board on Foreign Policy and International Relations, Zagreb (Croatia)
— Ambassador Rajiv Sikri, Former Indian Foreign Service, New Delhi
— Prof. Dr. Ivan Iveković, American University in Cairo, former Yugoslav Ambassador to Egypt, Cairo
— Dr. Claude Altermatt, Special Emissary to State Secretary, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne