Thursday 19 June
18.00 Keynote Lecture
Alfred Rieber (Central European University, Budapest)
"'Blocking': Opportunities and Obstacles to Exchanges among Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe."
Friday 20 June
Panel 1: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe under Stalin
9.00 – 12.30
Jan C. Behrends, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany
“Poland’s Lost Son. Konstantin Rokossovski’s Mission to Warsaw between Nationalism and Internationalism (1949-1956)”
Balázs Apor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
“The Dynamics of the Stalin Cult in Hungary in the Early Cold War Years (1949-53)”
Lars Peder Haga, Norwegian Military Academy, Norway
“Dealing with Unpleasant Discoveries: Two Soviet Soldier-Writers’ Strategies to Make Sense of the Red Army’s Encounter with East Central Europe”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break
Panel 2: Internationalism and the Iron Curtain
14.00 – 17.30
Pia Koivunen, University of Tampere, Finland
“‘As if a Friend, as if our own, but had been such an Enemy’: Reimagining Friendship in Soviet Media and Authorities’ Reports on the Moscow 1957 World Youth Festival”
Margareta Tillberg, Sodertorn University, Sweden
“Design across the Iron Curtain”
Thomas Lindenberger, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany
“The Other Politics of Stardom: Yves Montand and his Concert Tour through Eastern Europe in 1957”
Saturday 21 June
Panel 3: The Second World: Post-Stalinist Entanglements
9.30 – 13.00
Tarik Cyril Amar Columbia University, USA
“A Public Secret Real-Socialist International: Spy Fiction in the Eastern Bloc”
David Crowley, Royal College of Art and Design, UK
“The Ghosts of Constructivism in Eastern Europe after 1968”
Patryk Babiracki, University of Texas-Arlington, USA / ZZF
“Two Stairways to Socialism: Soviet Youth Activists in Polish Spaces, 1950s-1960s”
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Panel 4: Socialist Internationalism between the Second and Third Worlds
14.00 – 18.00
Rossen Djagalov, Koç University, Turkey
“Multinational Late-Soviet Literature and the Dynamics of Uneven and Combined Censorship”
Marsha Siefert, Central European University, Hungary
“Second World Cinema: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy and Film from 1955-1975”
Austin Jersild, Old Dominion University, USA
“People of Colour and the Socialist World: Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Guinea-Conakry, 1956-1965”
Elidor Mëhilli, Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA
“Elusive Embraces: Albania, China, and North Korea after Khrushchev”
18.00 – 18.30 Final discussion