Friday, 17th of November
13h-15h: Introduction: Socialist Internationalisms and Solidarity
Berthold Unfried/Claudia Martínez Hernández, Wien: Introduction: The Socialist World and the Three Continents
Radoslav Yordanov, Harvard: Cuba-CMEA: Inter-continental entanglements at the highest level in the Cold War.
Commentary: Ulrich Mücke, Hamburg
15h15-17h15 Panel 1: Entanglements and disruptions: The personal side I
Chair: Ingrid Miethe
Berthold Unfried, Wien: Contacts and Conflicts in "internationalist" encounters on the ground
Claudia Martínez Hernández, Wien: The institutional framework for Cubans in transcontinental movement. 1972-1990
Marcia Schenck, München: Entanglements and Disruptions in the Case of Angolan Contract Workers in the GDR
Commentary: Christian Cwik, Graz-Wien
17h30-18h50 Panel 2: Entanglements and disruptions: The personal side II
Chair: Berthold Unfried
Pavel Szobi, Praha-Wien: From Prague to Luanda and Alto Catumbela – Czechoslovak Experts in Angola during the 1970s and 1980s
Goran Music, Wien: Socialist Businessmen in the Global South: Yugoslav Managers in Zambia and Peru
Commentary: Jelena Dureinovic, Wien
19h: Book Presentation:
Marcia Schenck: Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1
Commentaries: Dirk Hoerder/Claudia Martínez/Kirsten Rüther/Berthold Unfried
Saturday, 18th of November
9h-10h30: Panel 3: Education and Transfers I
Chair: Ulrich Mücke
Ingrid Miethe, Gießen: Building Socialist Universities in Africa: The Example of Mozambique
Arianna Pasqualini, Bologna: Solidarity and socialist education: Namibian students in the GDR
Commentary: Claudia Kraft, Wien
10h45-12h45: Panel 4: Education and Transfers II
Chair: Marcia Schenck
Lea Börgerding, Berlin: The Queen of Condoms – Monika Krause, socialist women’s organizations, and the circulation of knowledge on sex education between the GDR and Cuba in the 1970s
Constantin Katsakioris, Praha-Bagdad: Algerians after their return from Soviet schools of higher education
Rafael Pedemonte, Poitiers: Cuban "becarios" in the Soviet Union (1960s)
Commentary: David Mayer, Wien
12h45-13h30: Concluding Discussion