International and Interdisciplinary Workshop
“Social Transformations and Social Identities in East-Central and Southeastern Europe
under Socialism, 1944/451989/ 91”
Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation
Organised by Past Inc., CEU, Budapest and the Institute for East European
Studies, Free University of Berlin
Convenors: Peter Apor, Ulf Brunnbauer
Central European University, Budapest
2830 September 2007
Room TBA!
Program
28 September, Friday
9:00 Opening
9:30-11:15 THE SOCIALIST NORMAL BIOGRAPHY
John Borneman (Princeton) Lifecourse as a Structuring Device after Socialism
Daniela Koleva (Sofia) Bulgarian socialism: the Normal Biography and the
Actual 'Muddling through'
Blazej Brzostek (Warsaw) Warsaw 1945-1989: Some Social Continuities in a
Destroyed City
Coffee break
11:45-13:00 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
Ulf Brunnbauer (Berlin) The Family as Private space? Or a State Agency?
Reflections on a Pervasive Dichotomy
Paulina Bren (New York) The Greengrocer and His T.V.: Privatized
Citizenship and Late Communist Soap Opera
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 MOBILITY
Karin Taylor (Graz) On Holiday without the State: Individual Vacationing
and Social Difference in Yugoslavia
Igor Duda (Pula) On Holidays with the State: Social Tourism and Social
Background in Socialist Yugoslavia
Coffee break
Tibor Valuch (Budapest) Social mobility and identity problems in the
Hungarian society after WWII
Daniel Logemann (Jena) Private Contacts between Germans and Poles in
Leipzig (1970-1989)
20:00 Dinner
29 September, Saturday
9:00-13:00 THE SOCIALIST CONSUMER 1.
Andreas Ludwig (Eisenhüttenstadt) Recalling the Ordinary - Reshaping the
Past? Material Culture of the Everyday in Use and Cultural Significance
Breda Luthar (Ljubljana) Popular Representations of Good Life and the
Performance of the Middle-class Self ‘50s and ‘60s Yugoslavia
Mila Mineva (Sofia) Consumer Citizenship in Socialist Bulgaria
11:00 Coffee break
Jonathan Zatlin (Boston) Money for Nothing, Goods for Free? Purchasing
Power and Consumerism in the GDR, 1971-1990
György Majtényi (Budapest) Socialist Luxury: Lifestyles of the Elite in
Hungary during the 1950s and 1960s
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 THE SOCIALIST CONSUMER 2.
Susan Reid (Sheffield) Becoming a Home-maker and Consumer in the Soviet
Union of the 1960s
Zuzana Burikova (Bratislava) Consumption and the Story of Socialist
Progress: A Domesticated Socialist Shop in the Slovak Village
Coffee break
16:15-18:15 SHAPING THE SOCIALIST WORKER
Peter Heumos (Munich) Collective Identity of Industrial Workers in
Czechoslovakia 1945-1968 and Comparative Comments on the GDR and Poland
Sándor Horváth (Budapest) Under the Shadow of the Great Tree: a Youth Gang
in Budapest in the Sixties
Mark Pittaway (Milton Keynes) Eszter Bartha (Budapest) Working-Class
Culture, Socialist Models of Work and Leisure in Hungary, 1948-1989
20:00 Dinner
30 September, Sunday
9:00-11:00 TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL CULTURES
Péter Apor (Budapest) Rural Anti-Semitism and the Communist Take-over in
Postwar Hungary
Olaf Mertelsmann (Tartu) From Farm to Kolkhoz: Transforming Rural Life in
Soviet Estonia
Constantin Iordachi (Budapest) Collectivisation in Romania
Coffee break
11:15-13:00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE
TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIPS
Michal Pullman (Prague) Perestroika as a Challenge: Groups, Conflicts, and
Networks within the Dynamics of the Project in Czechoslovakia
13:00 Lunch
from: ulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de
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