PROGRAMME
Thursday - 21 June 2018
09:30 Opening Welcome
Heiderose Kilper - IRS - Erkner
10:00 Introduction
Christoph Bernhardt - IRS - Erkner
10:30 Exploring Postwar Exchange on Urbanization and Architecture
Tobias Wolffhardt - Bundeswehr University Munich -
Trade Solutions for the Global South? Urbanization,
the UN and International Policies of Development
Jonas van der Straeten - Mariya Petrova - Technical University Darmstadt -
In the Shadows of Socialist Architecture: Transregional
Perspectives on Private House Building in Samarkand,
1950-1970
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Cold War Politics of Construction
Max Trecker - Institute of Contemporary History Berlin -
Forging the Indian Steel Industry: The Economic Side
of the Cold War in the Global South
Jelica Jovanovic - University of Technology Vienna -
Interna(tiona)lizing Architecture: Yugoslav Actors on
the Global Scene. Just Follow the Lead of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs!
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Hotspots of Architectural Exchange I: China
Susanne Stein - University of Tübingen -
Between „Self Sovietization” and Soviet Assistance:
Bourgeois Specialists, Soviet Manuals and the Development
of Urban Planning in China, 1950s-1960s
Tao Chen - Tongji University Shanghai -
Exporting the German Know-how: East German
Specialists in China (1952-1964)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Keynote Lecture
Christina Schwenkel - University of California Riverside -
The Afterlife of Aid: On the Repurposing of GDR
Architecture in Vietnam
Friday - 22 June 2018
09:30 Hotspots of Architectural Exchange II: Ghana
Lukasz Stanek - The University of Manchester -
Made in Ghana: Architecture and Socialist Modernization
Anne-Kristin Hartmetz - GWZO/University of Leipzig -
Between Factory and Fiction - Planning and Implementation
of Industrial Development Projects in Ghana in Cooperation with CMEA Countries, 1960-1972
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 The GDR and Socialist Architectural Transfer
Hans-Georg Lippert - Technical University Dresden -
Cold War in the Media? Architectural Journals in West and East Germany
Andreas Butter - Monika Motylinska - IRS Erkner -
A Success Story? Industrial Architecture of the GDR in Asia
Tanja Scheffler - Dresden -
The Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium in Tripoli
13:30 Lunch Break
14:30 Trade Fairs as Hubs for Architecture and Planning
Patryk Babiracki - University of Texas-Arlington -
The Poznań International Trade Fair in the Cold War:
How It Was Packaged and Perceived
Jasna Galjer - University of Zagreb -
International Trade Fair in Zagreb: Between East and West
Olga Kazakova - Higher School of Economics/Institute of
Modernism, Moscow -
1967 Moscow World Expo: A Territory of Friendship or
a Battlefield?
16:30 Conclusion and Final Discussion
17:00 End of Conference