Thursday 25th November
5:00pm
Arrival and Registration
Bielefeld University, Room K4-114
6:00-8:00pm
Opening lecture and podium discussion, Room A3-126
Moderation:
Professor Thomas Welskopp, Director of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
Keynote:
Professor Chris Hann, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale:
„Moral Dispossession. Two decades of ‘Postsocialist Studies’ in Anthropology”
Comments:
Professor Tatiana Barchunova, Novosibirsk State University, Recourse Centre of Humanitarian Education
Professor Stephan Merl, Bielefeld University, Department of History
Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Lux, Leipzig University, Department of Cultural Sociology at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaften
8:15pm
Dinner (Restaurant “Univarza“, individually covered, à la carte
around 10 €)
Friday 26th November
09:00 – 09:30am
Arrival, Morning Coffee, Room K4-129
09:30 - 11:00am
Panel One: Discourses on Authority and Political Leadership in Ossetia and Yemen
Chair: Chris Hann
Marie-Christine Heinze, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology: “This generation will grow up loving arms”: Remembering a “peaceful, civilized” state in postsocialist southern Yemen.
Nadia Proulx, University of Montreal: National in Form and Content: The everyday ethical choices of the post-soviet generation in North Ossetia-Alania.
11:00 - 11:30am
Coffee Break
11:30am - 1:00pm
Panel Two: The Impact of Social Institutions on Dealing with the Socialist Past in East German and Romanian Communities
Chair: Thomas Schmidt-Lux
Jeannette Prochnow, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology: “But we realized that we didn’t fit in there”: The impact of generational belonging on community building and network formation in post unified Germany.
Simona Adam, West University of Timişoara: Three Generations of change: Life histories from the Romanian Banat Region.
1:00 - 2:00pm
Lunch Break (“Westend-Restaurant”, individually covered, à la carte around 5 € per lunch menu)
2:00 - 3:30pm
Panel Three: Participation in Nation Building Processes and Political Action in the ‘New States’ of Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Tatiana Barchunova
Marie-Therese Filip, University of Vienna: Collective memory and national identity in independent Ukraine - Perspectives of a young Generation.
Kirsten Gerland, Georg-August-University Göttingen: „Nasze pokolenie“ – Our generation: Generation-talk and political ideas of the „young protest-generation” in Poland during the 1980s and 1990s.
3:30 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:45pm
Panel Three, Part Two
Elena Glushko, Russian Academy of Sciences: Too free to be in politics: Slo-vakia 1952.
7:00pm
Dinner („Kaiserpalast“, individually covered, buffet or à la carte around 15 € per main course and drink)
Saturday 27th November
09:00 – 09:30am
Arrival and Morning Coffee, Room A3-126
09:30 - 11:00am
Panel Four: The Reinvention and Transformation of Political Stances in the Course of System Change in Russia and Romania
Chair: Stephan Merl
Yelena Biberman, Brown University: Does the post-soviet generation really exist?
Ionuţ Biliuţă, Central European University: Sanctifying, judging, or recover-ing the past? Post-1990s understandings of Romanian fascism in the young generation’s environments.
11:00 - 11:30am
Coffee Break
11:30am - 1:00pm
Panel Five: Transnational Life Concepts of Young Russian and Bulgarian Adults
Chair: Tatiana Barchunova
Vihra Barova, Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia: Postsocialist youth subculture identity: From dissidents to workers.
Caterina Rohde, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology: Russian au-pair migration: Is it an inter-generational project?
1:00 - 2:00pm
Lunch Break (“Mensa”)
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Panel Six: Labelling and Symbolising Territories after 1990 in Romania and Slovenia
Chair: Stephan Merl
Anda Becut, Centre for Research and Consultancy on Culture, Bucharest: From rural producers to urban vendors: Economic and social change in Voinesti village over three generations.
Sandra Blum, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz: Young people as a guarantee: Revitalization of a German speaking minority in Slovenia.
3:30 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00pm
Closing Remarks and Final Discussion
Moderation: Caterina Rohde and Jeannette Prochnow
7:00pm
Informal Get-Together