Thursday 6 November, 15.00-16.15

Official Opening of the Conference

Introductory lecture:
“Beyond transformation. Reflections on the impact of 1989 on European history.”
Philipp Ther, Department of History and Civilisation, EUI

“Presentation of the nascent interdisciplinary research programme on the impact of 1989 on Europe, East and West.”
Chris Armbruster, Executive Director, Research Network 1989 and MPG Berlin

Thursday, 16.15-18.45

Explaining the causes and consequences of 1989: competing explanations

Chair: Philipp Ther, Professor of 20th century European history, European University Institute

"From external other into the forgotten insider of Europe: Eastern European communism and European identity before and after 1989"
Benoit Challand, Marie Curie Fellow, Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute

“Old problems in a new context: welfare before and after 1989”
Christoph Boyer, Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Salzburg

“The demise of the socialist state and the disintegration of the communist parties in Central Europe”
Mills Kelly, Associate Director, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

“Remembering 1989 in United Germany”
Martin Sabrow, Director and Professor, Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam

Friday 7 November, 09.00-11.00

Integrated flows but divisive perceptions? Intra-European migration since 1989

Chair: Ettore Recchi, Professor of Sociology, University of Florence

“East Europeran Westbound Income-seeking Migrants: Some Unwelcome Effects on the Sender- and Receiver-Societies (A report on a Study in Progress)”
Ewa Morawska, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex

“The imagined European: The Polish plumber (le plombier polonais – der Polnische Klempner) and the Bolkestein directive”
Kornelia Konczal, Research Associate, Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Berlin

“Graduating as a Migrant? Professional mobility since 1989”
Joint Presentation by
Nina Wolfeil, Department of Georgraphy, University of Vienna
Marcin Galent, European Studies, Jagellonian University, Cracow
Mihaela Nedelcu, Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchatel
Raluca Prelipceanu, EUREQua, Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris
Julda Kielyte, London School of Economics

Friday, 11.30-13.00

How the transformation of the East changes Europe: China (Eastern Asia) and Russia (CIS)

Chair: Chris Armbruster, Executive Director, Research Network 1989 and Max Planck Society, Berlin

"Is the Centre of Modernity Shifting Eastwards? The Rise of (East) Asia and What it Means for Europe"
Volker H. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore

“1989 – Bringing in a Global Europe?”
Laure Delcour, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégique, Paris

Friday, 14.30 – 17.30

Democracy and the European Left after 1989

Chair: Thomas Mergel, Professor of European History, Humboldt University Berlin

Session 1 (14.30-16.00)

“1989 in the history of the Left in Western Europe: social democracy, communism, utopia”
Maud Bracke, Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Glasgow

“The German Left since 1989”
Peter Thompson, Senior Lecturer in German, Sheffield University

“Transition without Emancipation? 1989 and the Fate of the European Social Model”
Albena Azmanova, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Kent at Brussels

Session 2 (16.30-17.30)

“From Minority Rights to Multiculturalism? The legal understanding of diversity in post-1989 Europe”
Julie Ringelheim, Chargée de recherches au FNRS, Universite de Louvain

“The impact of 1989 on perceptions of democracy”
Paul Blokker, Marie Curie Fellow, Sociology, University of Sussex

Saturday 8 November, 10.00 – 12.00

Ideas and institutions of Europe after 1989

Chair: Marise Cremona, Professor of European Law, European University Institute

“1989 as a Return to Europe: on revolution, reform and reconciliation with a traumatic past”
Dragos Petrescu, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Bucharest

“Return to Europe? How Central European debates on Europe have impacted European Union norms”
Christian Domnitz, Faculty of Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder

“Justifying and Communicating Eastward Enlargement: Enthusiasm, impatience and pragmatism from the perspective of the European Commission”
Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez, Research Associate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence

“Making a New Constitutionalism: legal discourses from East to West after 1989”
Zdenek Kühn, Associate Professor, Law School, Charles University, Prague

Saturday, 13.00-15.00

Re-assessing the consequences of 1989: institutional integration but ideational divergence?

Chair: Kiran Klaus Patel, Professor of European Union History and Transatlantic Relations, European University Institute

“Discerning the Global in the European Revolutions of 1989”
Chris Armbruster, Executive Director, Research Network 1989 and Max Planck Society, Berlin

“1989 and the consequences for writing European history”
Jürgen Kocka, Research Professor, Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin

"Western transitology and Eastern social science: parallel universes?"
Marek Skovajsa, Editor-in-Chief, Sociologicky casopis / Czech Sociological Review, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

“Traces in the Sand: On the Impact of the 1989 Revolutions on Economic Thought in the West”
Janos Matyas Kovacs, Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna