Pavel Kolar, Ph.D.
THURSDAY, June 24th
Venue: Faculty of Political Sciences Sarajevo; Fakultet Polititičkih Nauka Sarajevo, Skenderija 72
9.15-9.30: Welcome and Introduction:
Husnija Kamberović (Sarajevo), Martin Sabrow (Potsdam), Pavel Kolář (Potsdam/Prague)
9.30-11.00: Panel 1
Chair: Pavel Kolář (Potsdam/Prague)
Keynote Lecture: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg): Rethinking Late Socialism
Comments: Michal Kopeček (Prague), Jonathan Larson (Iowa/Prague)
11.00-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15-13.00: Panel 2
Chair: Vera Katz (Sarajevo)
Lidija Vujanić (Podgorica): Redefining of (Tourist) State’s Image by Means of Contents of Popular Culture – From the Socialistic to the Glamour Montenegro
Annina Gagyiova (Prague): Consumerism Culture in Hungary since the late 1960s
Igor Duda (Pula): Yugoslav Socialist Ideology and the Everyday Consumer Practice
13.00-14.45: Lunch
14.45-16.30: Panel 3
Chair: Philipp Ther (Florence)
Nina Vodopivec (Ljubljana): Why Social Memories and Not Post-Socialist Nostalgia? The Case of Textile Workers
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Cracow): Everyday Life and Social Identities in the Late People’s Poland: The Case of Cracow
Amir Duranović (Sarajevo): Islamic Religious Community after 1968: A New Beginning
16.30-16.45: Coffee Break
16.45-18.30: Panel 4
Chair: Jan C. Behrends (Berlin)
Zarko Trajanovski (Skopje): Lustration Process in the Republic of Macedonia: Re-imagining of the Late Socialism
Agnes Kuciel (Prague): Communist Representations of Gender Order in the Late People’s Poland
Tanja Petrović (Ljubljana): Workers in Socialist Yugoslavia as Subjects of Ideology and Politics
FRIDAY, June 25th
9.15-11.00: Panel 5
Chair: Muriel Blaive (Vienna)
Radina Vučetić (Belgrade): “Americanization” of Yugoslav everyday life in the 1960s
Larisa Kurtović (Berkeley/Sarajevo): After normal and absurd: Djed Mraz, Vučko and the struggle for national futures in postwar/postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina
Árpád von Klimó (Pittsburgh): Pop Culture and Legitimacy in State Socialism
11.00-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15.-13.00: Panel 6
Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)
Celia Donert (Potsdam): Defeated Universalism: Human Rights of Women in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Iva Lučić (Uppsala): The Pluralism of Nationalisms. Census Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia 1970-71
Eli Krasniqi (Prishtina): Women in the Underground Movement in Kosovo
13.00-14.45: Lunch
14.45-16.30: Panel 7
Chair: Martin Sabrow (Potsdam)
Peter Ápor (Budapest): Radical Social Criticism to Late Socialist Governance after 1968
Albrecht Wiesener (Potsdam): Lost in Utopia? Socialist Spaces and the Decline of Communist Power in East-Central Europe
Michal Pullmann (Prague): Expert Culture and Late Socialist Utopia: Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in the 1980s
16.30-16.45: Coffee Break
16.45.-18.30
Round Table: Late Socialism and Beyond
Chair: Claudia Kraft (Erfurt)
Thomas Lindenberger (Vienna), Michal Kopeček (Prague), Călin Morar-Vulcu (Cluj-Napoca), Igor Duda (Pula)