Inter-continental personal entanglements and disruptions in the socialist world, 1970-1990

Inter-continental personal entanglements and disruptions in the socialist world, 1970-1990

Veranstalter
Berthold Unfried/Claudia Martínez Hernández
Veranstaltungsort
Seminarraum Geschichte 1, Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 10, University of Vienna
PLZ
1010
Ort
Wien
Land
Austria
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
17.11.2023 - 18.11.2023
Von
Claudia Martínez Hernández

Our FWF-research project: Entanglements Cuba-GDR: mobilities, exchanges, circulations within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (https://socialist-entanglements.univie.ac.at) has investigated inter-continental personal flows as an expression of such "internationalist" practices in the socialist world. This resuming conference will look into situations where such personal flows created situations of entanglement or, alternatively, where such encounters led to conflict and disruption.

Inter-continental personal entanglements and disruptions in the socialist world, 1970-1990

The European socialist states' assistance to countries and liberation movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America was called "Internationalism" - in Cuba Internacionalismo - or "International Solidarity". In this encounter, we will explore that world of politico-economic connections. Our FWF-research project: Entanglements Cuba-GDR: mobilities, exchanges, circulations within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (https://socialist-entanglements.univie.ac.at) has investigated inter-continental personal flows as an expression of such "internationalist" practices in the socialist world. This resuming conference will look into situations where such personal flows created situations of entanglement or, alternatively, where such encounters led to conflict and disruption.

For online participants via Zoom
17.11.2023
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18.11.2023
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Programm

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

Kontakt

berthold.unfried@univie.ac.at; claudia.martinez-hernandez@univie.ac.at

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