Friday, December 8
16.00–17.00 Registration
17.00–17.15 Organizers’ greetings and opening remarks
17.15–18.45 Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
Keynote
Kak u sebia doma: The Personal, the Private and the Question of Privacy in State Socialist Societies
18.45–19.45 Reception
Saturday, December 9
09.00–11.00 Fluid Borders between the Private and the Public
Discussant: David Gillespie, University of Bath
Christina Jüttner, Ruhr University Bochum
The Private and the Public in the Life Writing of Soviet Russian Dissenters (1960s–1980s)
Agnieszka Sadecka, Jagiellonian Univesity in Kraków
The Subversive Force of Everyday Life: Private Becoming Public in Polish Reportage from Socialism
Irina Souch, University of Amsterdam
Without Witnesses: Privacy and the Normal Life in late Soviet Cinema
11.00–11.30 Coffee break
11.30–13.30 Music, Youth, and Private Practices
Discussant: Rüdiger Ritter, Chemnitz University of Technology
Andra-Octavia Drăghiciu, University of Graz
When the Private Meets the Public: Youth and Private Life in the Last Decade of the Romanian Socialist Republic
Claudiu Oancea, New Europe College
Rocking Out Within Oneself: Rock and Jazz Music between Private and Public in Late Socialist Romania
Xawery Stańczyk, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
‘There’s No Silence in a Block of Flats’: Fluid Border between Private and Public Spheres in Representations and Practices of Punks in Socialist Poland
13.30–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00The State, the Self, and Society: Dynamic Relationships
Discussant: Tatiana Klepikova, University of Passau
Éva Forgács, ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA
Passages between Private and Public in Late Communist Hungary
Mirja Lecke, Ruhr University Bochum
Privacy, Political Agency and Construction of the Self in Texts Written by Dissidents
Vytautas Starikovičius, Vilnius University
Silenced Disability in Public and Political Discourses in Soviet Lithuania: Law, Ideology and Biopolitics
17.00–17.30 Coffee break
17.30–19.30 Privacy and Identity in Crime and Law Disocurses
Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
Lesia Kulchynska, National Academy of Sciences
Construction of Personality Through the Crime Narratives of Late Soviet Cinema
Lucia Moravanská, Masaryk University
Spousal Murders and the Disruption of the Private Sphere in Czechoslovak Criminological Discourse after 1968
Abigail Bratcher, University of Chicago
Comrades’ Courts in Khrushchev's Russia: A Gendered Reading
Sunday, December 10
09.00–11.00 On Both Sides of Surveillance
Discussant: Natali Stegmann, University of Regensburg
Thomas Goldstein, University of Central Missouri
Privacy as a Weapon? The Mysterious Health of Hermann Kant
Krisztina Slachta, Historical Archive of the Hungarian State Security
Summer in the Socialism: Holiday under Control
Jon Berndt Olsen, University of Massachusetts
Cars, Cottages, and camping: Tourism and Personal Freedom in East Germany
11.00–11.30 Coffee break
11.30–13.15 Roundtable: Late Socialist Eastern and East-Central Europe between the Private and the Public
Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
David Gillespie, University of Bath
Rüdiger Ritter, Chemnitz University of Technology
Natali Stegmann, University of Regensburg
Juliane Fürst, University of Bristol