Friday, November 3, 2017
13:00 Registration of Participants
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome and introduction
Jan Arend and Franziska Davies (both LMU Munich)
14:00 – 16:00 Panel I: The Transformation of emotional regimes in the Soviet Union during Perestroika
Courtney Doucette (Conneticut College): “The Emotional Regime of the Soviet Public Sphere”
Aleksey Tikhomirov (Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main): “Stigmatized Identities, the Quest for Dignity and Tearing Off the Mask during Perestroika”
Commentary: Jan Plamper (Goldsmiths University of London)
Chair: Franziska Davies (LMU Munich)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 Panel II: Emotions and the breakdown of Communist regimes in Europe
James Krapfl (McGill University): “On This Holy Emotion We Must Found the Future of the ČSSR”: Emotion, Sacrality, and Narrativity in Revolutionary Czechoslovakia, 1989-92
Valerij Gretchko (University of Tokyo): “Subversive Laughter: The Role of Political Humor in the Collapse of the USSR”
Commentary: Walter Sperling (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Chair: Jan Arend (LMU Munich)
19:00 Joint dinner
Saturday, November 4, 2017
9:30 – 11:30 Panel III: Emotions before and after communism
Konrad Sziedat (LMU Munich): “Cross-bloc Emotional Communities: Western Solidarity with Eastern Dissidence, ca 1980-1994”
Jan Arend (LMU Munich): “Stress in East-Central Europe, 1970-2000. How (post-)socialist societies dealt with tension and strain”
Kathrin Zöller (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam): "Do I have to fear the future? Teenagers in Saxony, 1987-1995“
Commentary: Joachim Häberlen (University of Warwick) and Malte Rolf (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg)
Chair: Jana Osterkamp (Collegium Carolinum Munich)
12:00 – 13:00 lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Concluding discussion