The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the ‘Eastern Bloc’, 1953 – 1988


Köln


 


Department for Eastern European History, Aachener Str. 197-199


 


The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the ‘Eastern Bloc’; UoC Advanced Postdoc Grant Project


 


26.05.2016 – 28.05.2016


 


http://osteuropa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/1134.html


 


 


We are pleased to announce the program of this year’s workshop on ‘The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the Eastern Bloc’ to be held at the University of Cologne ffrom May 26th through May 28th, 2016


 


Programm


Thursday, May, 26th


1:00 pm: Registration


1:30 pm: Welcome & Introduction


The Many Faces of Late Socialism (Maike Lehmann)


 


Ascriptions – Conceptualizations – Negotiations. Defining the Role of the ‘Individual’ under Late Socialism


 


2:00 – 3:10 pm


Chair: Philine Apenburg (University of Cologne)


Anatoly Pinksy (European University, St. Petersburg):


“The Leader Will Wither Away. Or: The Ideal of Individuality, 1953-1955”


Kyrill Kunakhovich (William & Mary):


“Socialism’s Cultural Revolution. Art and Public Opinion in the Soviet Bloc”


Discussants: Simon Huxtable (Loughborough University) & Jaromír Mrňka (Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies Munich)


3:40 – 4:50 pm


Chair: Philine Apenburg (University of Cologne)


Alexander Bikbov (Lomonossov Moscow State University):


“Origins of the Late Socialist Personhood: an (Un)controlled Result of Governmental Reforms”


Esther Wahlen (European University Institute, Florence):


“’Self-control’ and ‘Self-knowledge’: Fashioning Consumer Subjectivities in Late Socialist Romania


Discussants: Juliane Fürst (University of Bristol) & Jaromír Mrňka (Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies Munich)


 


Mediating the ‘Individual’ and the Collective


 


5:20 – 6:40 pm


Chair: Volker Benkert (Arizona State University)


Polly Jones (University College, Oxford):


“The Problem of lichnost’ in Late Soviet Biography”


Adela Hîncu (CEU, Budapest):


“Narrowing Down on the Individual in Late-Socialist Romania: Transnational Analytical Concerns in the Sociological Sciences”


Moritz Florin (University Erlangen-Nürnberg):


“Traitors, turncoats, prostitutes. Chyngyz Aitmatov and the Scandal of Individuality in Soviet Central Asian Literature”


Discussants: Maike Lehmann (University of Cologne) & Uku Lember (New Europe College, Bukarest/Upsala University)


 


Friday, May 27th


 


Late Socialist Milieus – Community, Cohesion and Pluralism


 


09:00 – 10:10 am


Chair: Sebastian Lambertz (University of Cologne)


Alfrid Bustanov (European University, St.Petersburg):


“Bridging Socialism and Shari‘a. The Languages of Textual and Visual Self-Representation”


László Kürti (University of Miskolc):


“Citizens and Party Secretaries: Trust and the Workings of Grievance Committees in Hungary in the 1970s”


Discussants: Gregor Feindt (University of Bremen) & Walter Sperling (LMU Munich)


10:40-11:50 am


Chair: Sebastian Lambertz (University of Cologne)


Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu (European University Institute, Florence):


“Affective Community: Jacek Kuroń’s Political Milieu in Late-Socialist Poland”


Roman Abramov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow):


“The Milieu of the Provincial Soviet Intelligentsia: The Case of Penza’s District “Zapadnaya Poliana”, 1960-1980”


Discussants: Gregor Feindt (University of Bremen) & Alissa Klots (Rutgers University)


 


Of a Certain Generation – Individual Perspectives on Age and Ideology


 


1:30pm – 2:40 pm


Chair: Rebecca Großmann (University of Cologne)


Volker Benkert (Arizona State University):


“Negotiated Spaces – Negotiated Careers – Negotiated Lives: Young East Germans and Late Socialism”


Natasha Wilson (UCL, London):


“‘Room 242, Lomonosov Prospekt’: The Dissident Experience of the Young Socialists within Moscow State University and IMEMO”


Discussants: Alexandra Oberländer (Research Center for East European Studies Bremen) & Rory Archer (University of Graz)


3:10 – 4:30 pm


Chair: Rebecca Großmann (University of Cologne)


Péter Vukman (University of Szeged):


“The Political Views, Strategies and Self-understanding of Obrad Doroslovački, Yugoslav Political Emigrant in Hungary”


Alissa Klots (Rutgers University) & Maria Romashova (Perm University):


“Lenin’s Cohort: The First Mass Generation of Soviet Pensioners and Public Activism of the Khrushchev’s Era”


Discussants: Galina Goncharova (Sofia University) & Anatoly Pinsky (European University, St. Petersburg)


 


Be/longing under Late Socialism


 


5:00 – 6:10 pm


Chair: Alfrid Bustanov (European University, St.Petersburg)


Uku Lember (New Europe College, Bukarest/Upsala University):


“Ethnicity, Ideology and Belonging in Russian-Estonian Mixed Families in Soviet Estonia during Late Socialism”


Galina Goncharova (Sofia University):


“Love Stories from the Times of the ‘Mature Socialism’: The Case of the Female Admirers of the Bulgarian Young Poet Kalin Yanakiev”


Discussants: Kyrill Kunakhovich (William & Mary) & Alexandra Oberländer (Research Center for East European Studies Bremen)


 


Saturday, May 28th


 


Be/longing under Late Socialism – continued


 


09:00 – 10:10 am


Chair: Alfrid Bustanov (European University, St.Petersburg)


Nadezhda Galabova (Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia):


“A Married Couple In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Socialist Ideology): The Maritime Stories Of/ About Doncho and Julia Papazovs”


Galina Zelenina (RGGU, Moscow):


“‘We had nothing to do with melukha’ vs ‘we knew how to live’: Late-Soviet Jews and the System: between defiance and collaboration”


Discussants: Juliane Fürst (University of Bristol) & Sebastian Lambertz (University of Cologne)


 


Institutionalized Practices and Individuals’ Understandings of Late Socialism


 


10.40 – 12:00 pm


Chair: Natasha Wilson (University College London)


Rory Archer (University of Graz):


“Workers’ Understandings of Self-managing Institutions and Hierarchies in the Yugoslav Late Socialist Workplace”


Miwako Okabe-Suzuki (Helsinki University):


“Envisioning Socialism in Late Socialism: Student Cabaret Group ‘Rat der Spötter’ and the SED/FDJ in Leipzig, 1958-1962”


Courtney Doucette (Rutgers University):


“Glasnost and the Individual during Perestroika, 1985-1988”


Discussants: Simon Huxtable (Loughborough University) & Volker Benkert (Arizona State University)


12:00 pm Lunch & concluding remarks


 


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