MONDAY, 17 MAY
13:00 – 13:20 Welcome address by Marc Schalenberg (ZiF) and the convenors, Kirsten Bönker and Thoralf Klein
1a. Political, Military and Economic Strategies, part I
Chair: Thoralf Klein (Loughborough)
13:30 – 14:15 Jodie Yuzhou Sun (Shanghai): Chinese Support of Rebel Movements in the Congo Crisis (1963-65)
Commentary: Andreas Hilger (Moscow)
14:15 – 14:45 Coffee break on wonder.me
14:45 – 15:30 Jeremy Friedman (Harvard): The Economic Battle for Supremacy: The Sino-Soviet Competition for Africa in a Global Perspective
Commentary: Stephan Merl (Bielefeld)
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
1b. Political, Military and Economic Strategies, part II
Chair: Gesine Drews-Sylla (Würzburg)
15:45 – 16:30 Kirsten Bönker (Köln / Bielefeld): Representing Soviet Economic Aid Strategies or: Framing the Soviet Imagination of Being a World Power
Commentary: Svetlana Boltovska (Berlin)
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 18.00 Meet and Greet on wonder.me
TUESDAY, 18 MAY
2. The Imagination and Emotionalization of the ‘Other’
Chair: Rachel G. Hoffman (Cambridge)
10:00 – 10:45 Gesine Drews-Sylla (Würzburg): Soviet (post-)colonial imaginations of Africa
Commentary: Kirsten Bönker (Köln / Bielefeld)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Thoralf Klein (Loughborough): Fighting Imperialism – Forging Solidarity: Africa in PRC Propaganda, 1950s to 1970s
Commentary: Stephen Smith (Oxford)
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch break: optional meet on wonder.me
3a. Between Export and Migration. Education, Knowledge Exchange and Foreign Language Policies, part I
Chair: Kirsten Bönker (Köln / Bielefeld)
13:00 – 13:45 Viktor M. Shaklein (Moscow): Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War: Russian as a Foreign Language
Commentary: Gesine Drews-Sylla (Würzburg)
13:45 – 14:00 Coffee break
14:00 – 14:45 Andrea Kifyasi (Dar es Salaam / Basel): Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) and the Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1957-1967
Commentary: Poppy Cullen (Loughborough)
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break: optional meet on wonder.me
3b. Between Export and Migration. Education, Knowledge Exchange and Foreign Language Policies, part II
Chair: Stephan Merl (Bielefeld)
15:15 – 16:00 Svetlana Boltovska (Berlin): Soviet Educational Aid as State Project: Intention and Realisation, 1960-1991
Commentary: Tobias Rupprecht (Berlin)
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:00 Bahru Zewde (Addis Ababa): The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Left in the Context of the Sino-Soviet Rivalry
Commentary: Felix Brahm (GHI London)
17:15 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 18:00 Concluding Session: Results, Interdisciplinary Research Perspective, Publication Plans