Veranstalter:	Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) in cooperation with the Centre for East-Central Ulf Engel (GESI), Frank Hadler (GWZO), Matthias Middell (GESI), European History and Culture (GWZO), the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) and the Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Research Academy Leipzig (RAL)
Datum, Ort:	14.10.2009-16.10.2009, Leipzig

1989 in a global perspective
International conference
Leipzig, 14 - 16 October 2009

Venues: Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Semiar Building and Lecture Hall, University of Leipzig

20 years ago, Leipzig became the place famous for demonstrations, which have been perceived as the decisive breakthrough to the end of the communist regime in East Germany. However, when looking back to the event, we become aware that 1989 is not only of local or national importance, but it also marks a global caesura. The conference that is to be held in Leipzig in October in Leipzig is the first one that calls for a synchronisation of challenges to existing regimes and transformations happening all around the world, from China to South Africa, from Central America to the Soviet Union. In October, experts from all over the world will come together to discuss the causes and attempt a clarification of this surprising coincidence which made 1989 the signature of an epoch whilst also influencing the perception of global trends for many generations to come.

With international guests coming from Europe, America, Asia and Africa.
You will find the detailed programme of the conference under the link:
www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi.

Registration is possible during the conference. Please pre-register via e-mail to gesiuni-leipzig.de.

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)

Kontakt:	Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell University of Leipzig Global and European Studies Institute Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1 04105 Leipzig Email: middelluni-leipzig.de
URL:	http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi
Typ:	Konferenz
Land:	Germany
Sprache:	German English
Klassifikation:	Regionaler Schwerpunkt: Regional übergreifend Epochale Zuordnung: 1945-1989, 1990- Thematischer Schwerpunkt: Ohne thematischen Schwerpunkt
URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages:	http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/termine/id=12402