14 June
13:00 // Welcome and Introduction, Michal Kopeček
13:15 // Panel 1: Market Liberalism Between ‘National Sovereignty’ and Globalization (Chair: Eva-Clarita Pettai)
Lars Fredrick Stöcker: Exiting Communism: Visions of ‘Economic Sovereignty’ and the Creation of a National Economy in Estonia 1987–1991
Vítězslav Sommer: Management Theory from Late to Post-socialism
Tobias Rupprecht: Pinochet in Prague: Latin American Neoliberalism and (Post-) Socialist Eastern Europe
Discussant: Philipp Ther
15:30 // Panel 2: Reimagining Europe (Chair: Paul Hanebrink)
James Mark: Europe and its Others: Re-imagining a Continental Space in Late Socialism
Martine Mespoulet: Europe by the Numbers: Social Indicators on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain 1960–1990
Tomasz Zarycki: The De-Spatialization and Europeanization of the Late Communist Imaginary: The Intellectual Trajectory of Polish Geographer Antoni Kukliński
Discussant: Steffi Marung
17:30 Keynote Speech
David Priestland: Regime Change: Market Liberal Transformations in Comparative Perspective
Chair & Introduction: Włodzimierz Borodziej
19:00 Reception (Griesbachsches Gartenhaus)
15 June
09:30 // Panel 3: (Re-)Constituting the State (Chair: Raphael Utz)
Marta Bucholc: Liberal Pedagogy in a Post-socialist Society
Paul Blokker: Building Democracy by Legal Means: The East-Central European Experience
Ned Richardson-Little: Lawyers, Human Rights and Democratization in Eastern Europe
Discussant: Michal Kopeček
11:45 // Panel 4: From ‘Socialist Personality’ to Liberal Individual (Chair: Holly Case)
Agnieszka Kosćiańska: Sex and Self-realization: Psychologizing Intimacy in Late State Socialist Poland
Maik Tändler: Psychological Experts and the ‘Western’ Liberal Self in the Late 20th Century
Mat Savelli: Medical Authority: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Rise of the ‘Trauma Society’
Discussant: Adéla Gjuričová
14:30 // Panel 5: Governance and Urban Planning (Chair: Diana Mishkova)
Brian Ladd: Professional Identities and Local Initiatives in a Party State: Late GDR Urban Planning and Preservation
Petr Roubal: Žižkov Battle: Urban Planners Transition from Heritage Protection to Neo-liberal Discursive Planning
Csaba Jelinek: Turning a ‘Socialist’ Policy into a ‘Capitalist’ One: Urban Rehabilitation Experts in Hungary During the Long Transformation of 1989
Discussant: Matěj Spurný
16:45 // Panel 6 – Summary Session (Chair: Joachim von Puttkamer)
Melissa Feinberg, James Mark, Philipp Ther, Joanna Wawrzyniak