Stephanie Karmann, Kommunismus und Gesellschaft, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
Wednesday 23 October
Venue: Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole
17.30 – 18.00
Jan C. Behrends, Alexander Etkind, Juliane Fürst, Semion Goldin, Eli Lederhendler
Welcome
18.00 – 20.00
Kathleen Smith
Keynote Speech
Turning Point Years in Memory and History
Thursday 24 October
Venue: Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 121, I-50133 Florence
Session 1
Moderator: Juliane Fürst (ZZF Potsdam)
9.30 – 10.15
Semion Goldin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Russian/Soviet "prison of nations" and its double desintegration: a comparison between 1917 and 1991
10.15 – 11.00
Jan C. Behrends (ZZF Potsdam)
Inside vlast‘: the Kremlin’s view of 1991. Anatoly Chernayev's subjectivities
11.00 – 11.15
Coffee break
Session 2
Moderator: Corinna Kuhr-Korolev (ZZF Potsdam)
11.15 – 12.00
Juliane Fürst (ZZF Potsdam)
The Eye of the Photographer: Igor Palmin and the August 1991 Putsch
12.00 – 12.45
Uku Lember (Tallinn University)
Appearances of "1991" in the life-story interviews with members of Estonian-Russian families in Estonia
Session 3
Moderator: Jan C. Behrends (ZZF Potsdam)
14.15 – 15.00
Boris Morozov (The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University)
Soviet-Israeli Relations in 1991: the Year of Crucial Decisions.
15.00 – 15.45
Alexander Etkind (EUI)
Oral history of the Ukrainian workers in Siberian oilfields in the late 1980s
15.45 – 16.00
Coffee break
Moderator: Alexander Etkind (EUI)
16.00 – 16.45
Kateryna Chernii (ZZF Potsdam)
Declaration of independence and the birth of Ukrainian Football Association
16.45 - 17.30
Katharina Kucher (University of Tübingen)
Left behind? Pensioners and the Collapse of the Soviet State in 1991
Friday 25 October
Venue: Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 121 I-50133 Florence
Session 4
Moderator: Semion Goldin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
9.30 – 10.15
Vera Michlin-Shapir (INSS, Tel Aviv University)
The Rumors and Reality: the Rise of Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union in 1991
10.15 – 11.00
Samuel Barnai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Courageous Itzik vs. stinking Izya: attitudes towards Jews and Israel by the end of the Soviet Union
11.00 – 11.15
Coffee break
Session 5
Moderator: Stefano Bottoni (University of Florence)
11.15 – 12.00
Corinna Kuhr-Korolev (ZZF Potsdam)
Leningrad 1991
12.00 – 12.45
Artem Magun (Eur. Uni. St. Petersburg)
Dialectic of Soviet history: the Self-Annulment of the Communist Project
12.45 – 13.30
Anastasia De La Fortelle (Université de Lausanne)
Literature and History: 1991 as (post)apocalypse