Tuesday June 25
9.15-9.30 - Welcome remarks
9.30 – 10.45 Keynote – Anikó Imre (University of Southern California):
Colorblind Nationalisms
10.45-11.00 – coffee break
11.00 – 12.40
Chair/ Discussant: Steffi Marung (University of Leipzig)
Colonialism and Imagining the Self in Eastern Europe
Monika Bobako (Adam Mickiewicz University) - White Skin, White Masks. Re-reading Frantz Fanon from Eastern European Perspective
Zoltán Ginelli (Open Society Archives) - Hungarian Indians: Racial and Anti-colonial Solidarity in Post-Trianon Hungary
Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) - Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory and Zoos (1870s-1940s)
12.45-14.15 - lunch
14.20 – 16.00
Chair/ Discussant: Agnieszka Kościańska (University of Warsaw)
Eastern European Whiteness and the Other: Race, Religion and Gender
Kristína Čajkovičová (Museum of Romani Culture in Brno) - Shifting to the Gadžo Question: The Role of Racialized Sexuality in the Process of Czechoslovak Collectivity
Bolaji Balogun (University of Leeds) - Whiteness - A Mechanism that Sustains Polishness
Cătălin Berescu (Romanian Academy) - White Savior, Black Savior: Pro-Roma Activists in Search of an Identity
16.00-16.15 - Coffee break
16.15-17.35
Chair/ Discussant: Emily Gioielli (Missouri Western State University)
Anti-Semitism and Whiteness in Eastern Europe
Paul Hanebrink (Rutgers University – New Brunswick) - Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Anti-Communist Legacy in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Raul Carstocea (Europa Universität Flensburg) - Ambiguous Whiteness and the Anti-Semitic Imagination: Jews in Eastern Europe between Colonised and Colonisers
20.00: Film Screening Cinema Union (Ion Câmpineanu 22, Bucharest, zip-code 030167): Guardian of the Frontier (intro Catherine Baker)
Wednesday June 26
9.30-11.10
Chair/ Discussant: Monika Bobako (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Eastern European Whiteness in Global Perspective
Dušan I. Bjelić (University of Maine), Transnational Analysis of Mexico and the Balkans: Racial Formations of Nations
Catherine Baker (University of Hull), The Yugoslav Wars and Transnational White Nationalist Historical Narratives
Špela Drnovšek Zorko (University of Warwick) - Re-routing East European Socialism, Historicising Diasporic Whiteness
11.15-11.30 – coffee break
11.30-13.10
Chair/ Discussant: Kristin Roth-Ey (University College of London)
Socialism as Ambivalent Whiteness
Irina Novikova (University of Latvia) - ‘White Gaze’ in the USSR? – ‘Race’ and Technology in the Soviet Films of the 1920s-1960s (from Lev Kuleshov to Mark Donskoi)
Zsuzsanna Varga (Central European University) - Hungarians and White Privilege in Africa: The World Hunting Expo of 1971
James Mark (University of Exeter) - A Revolution of Whiteness? 1989 and the Politics of Race
13.10-14.40 – lunch
14.45-16.25
Chair/ Discussant: Ivan Kalmar (University of Toronto)
Liminality, Post-Socialism, and Eastern European Whiteness
Bogdan G. Popa (University of Cambridge) - “We Belong to a Great Race, the Dacian Race”: Slavery and the Construction of an Anti-colonial White Race in Romanian Historiography
Chelsi West Ohueri (University of Texas at Austin) - The Jevg Factor: An Exploration of Whiteness, Blackness, and Racialized Identities in Albania
Kasia Narkowicz (University of Gloucestershire) - The ‘Muselmanner’ as the Ultimate Other
16.25-16.40 - break
16.40-17.15 – Concluding roundtable
20.00 – Film Screening Cinema Union (Ion Câmpineanu 22, Bucharest, zip-code 030167): Oktyabr and Rostov-Luanda (intro Kristin Roth-Ey)