Friday (March 4, 2016)
14:30 Registration and coffee
15:00 Welcome and Introduction
15:30-17:00 Keynote lecture
Benjamin Ziemann (University of Sheffield, UK):
Beyond the Front Porch? Changing Contours of the Political in Western Europe from the 1960s to the 1980s
17:30-19:00 Panel I: New Approaches to Diplomatic History
Jan Kreuels (Universität Fribourg, Switzerland):
Reconsidering Cold War Summits
Cristian Capotescu (University of Michigan, USA):
“Pakethilfen nach drüben”: West German Humanitarian Aid to Communist Romania, 1970s–1980s
Stéphanie Gonçalves (Université Rennes II, France):
“Ballet as a weapon”: Ballet Tours and Propaganda in the Cultural Cold War, 1947–1968
Chair: Jan Hansen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Comment: Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Saturday (March 5, 2016)
09:30-11:00 Panel II: Institutional and Parliamentary Practices
Carla Hoetink and Harm Kaal (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands):
More than Words. The Material Culture of Parliament: Objects as Elements of Political Communication, 1945–2000
Jochen F. Mayer (University of Edinburgh, UK):
‘The Backbone of our Work’: File Cards, Allied Archival Protection, and the Persistence of Power in German Labour Offices, c.1935–1955
Chair: Phillip Wagner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Comment: Stefan Couperus (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)
11:30-13:00 Panel III: Consumer Cultures
Reinhild Kreis, (Universität Wien, Austria/Universität Mannheim):
“Join in” and “Do it Yourself”: Home Improvement in the GDR
Benjamin Möckel (Universität zu Köln):
Materializing Global Justice: Consumer Products, Boycotts, and the 1970s Human Rights Revolution
Natalie Scholz (Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands):
Everyday objects and the imagination of the political in postwar West Germany
Chair: Jochen Hung (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)
Comment: Jan Logemann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
14:00-16:00 Panel IV: New Forms of Political Activism
Stephen Milder (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands):
Political Questions, Grassroots Answers: Creating Green Politics in Western Europe, 1975–1983
John Nieuwenhuys (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium):
Land and Imperialism: Belgian Pro-Palestinian Activists in search of social Alternatives
Tobias Vetterle (Universität Trier/Université du Luxembourg):
Transforming the culture of political participation in Cold War Western Europe: The case of the Luxembourg environmental movement
Panagiotis Zestanakis (University of Crete, Greece):
Media change and the question of (de)politicization in late 1980s Greece.
Chair: Andrew Tompkins (University of Sheffield, UK/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Comment: Claudia Gatzka (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
16:30-17:00 Concluding discussion