THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 2020
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome and Opening
Thomas Lindenberger (Dresden), Philipp Ther (Vienna) and Ana Kladnik (Dresden)
8:45 – 10:30 Panel 1: Transformations in Volunteering and Civil Society
Chair: Philipp Ther (Vienna)
1. Thomas Land (Berlin), The Origins of the Civil Society. The ‘Discovery’ of Collective Self-Organization as Means for the Solution of the Crisis in the 1970s and 1980s in West-Germany
2. Karel Müller (Prague), Czech Civil Society 30 Years Down the Road
3. Norbert Götz (Stockholm), The Voluntary Sector in Sweden from Corporatism to Corporationism?
Comments: Sven Reichardt (Konstanz)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:45 Panel 2: Volunteers and Volunteering between East and West
Chair: Nicole Kramer (Frankfurt)
1. Christie Miedema (Amsterdam), The Amnesty Activist: Western-Grown Rules Versus Eastern European Realities
2. Helena Ratté (Oxford), Women’s Organizations Impact on Civic Culture in Former Yugoslavia from Wartime to the Era of EU Conditionality
3. Steffi Unger (Dresden), In All Beginnings Dwells a Magic Force: First Encounters and the Care of Voluntary Fire Fighting Twinnings between East and West Germany during the Time of Transition
Comments: Agnes Arndt (Berlin)
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:45 Panel 3: Voluntary Action on the Local Level
Chair: Mojmír Stránský (Vienna)
1. Kathrin Meißner (Erkner), ‘Staged’ Civic Engagement: The Interrelations between Civic Engagement and Public Communication in Urban Planning during the 1980s in East and West Berlin
2. Ana Kladnik (Dresden), Volunteering in Local Communities between Socialist Self-Management and Post-Socialist Transformation in Slovenia
Comments: Christine Krüger (Gießen)
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45 Panel 4: Green Volunteering in Socialist States: The Case of Environmentalism
Chair: Ana Kladnik (Dresden)
1. Tatiana Perga (Kiev), Voluntary Environmental Movement in the Ukrainian SSR: Strength and Weakness
2. Tatjana Šarić (Zagreb), Volunteering or Socially Useful Work: an Example of Actions to Protect the Human Environment in the Socialist Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s
Comments: Melanie Arndt (Regensburg)
17:45 – 18:15 Coffee break
18:15 – 19:30 Keynote
Pavol Frič (Prague), Civil Engagement in the Season of Populism: Volunteering in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Chair: Thomas Lindenberger (Dresden)
20:00 Dinner
FRIDAY, 10 JANUARY 2020
9:00 – 10:45 Panel 5: Autonomy or Indoctrination? Children and Youth as Volunteers
Chair: Christine Krüger (Gießen)
1. Viktoriya Sukovata (Kharkiv), Children’s Volunteering organizations in Soviet Union:
Heroic Narratives and Practices
2. Mojmír Stránský (Vienna), Involving the Youth: The Volunteer Fire Department and its Education System in the State Socialist CSSR
3. Julia Nietsch (Paris), First-Time Volunteering Experiences in Kosovo in the 1990s: Founding the “Post-Pessimists” Youth Group in a Time of Crisis
Comments: Friederike Kind-Kovács (Dresden)
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Panel 6: Women’s Rights and the Gendered Nature of Voluntary Work
Chair: Steffi Unger (Dresden)
1. Maren Hachmeister (Ratingen), Volunteering in Socialist Red Cross Societies
2. Merita Poni (Tirana), Women Volunteer Associations’ Role in Women Political Representation in Post-Socialist Albania
3. Caitriona Beaumont (London), Female Networks, Voluntary Action and Identity in Late Twentieth Century England: The Mothers’ Union and Female Activism 1960 to 1980
Comments: Nicole Kramer (Frankfurt)
13:00 – 13:30 Closing Remarks
Thomas Lindenberger, Philipp Ther, Christine Krüger, Nicole Kramer, Ana Kladnik, Steffi Unger and Mojmír Stránský