1989: Thinking Revolution in East-Central Europe
International Conference, October 2-3, 2014, Villa Lanna, Prague (V sadech 1, Praha 6)
Program in PDF version you can download HERE.
October 2, 2014
| 8:20 – 9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 – 9:30 |
Welcoming Words
Oldřich Tůma
Ondřej Ševeček
Michal Kopeček |
| 9:30 – 12:15 |
1st Panel: “Democratic, Liberal, or Neoliberal Revolution?”
Keynote speakers
Johanna Bockman
(George Mason University, USA)
1989 as a Thwarted Transition to Socialism: Mainstream Neoclassical Economists and their Socialist Programs
Jan Drahokoupil
(European Trade Union Institute, Belgium)
The ‘neoliberal’ strategy of economic transformation: Where did it come from and what were the alternatives?
Interventions
Tereza Stöckelová
(The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
Luka Lisjak Gabrielcic
(Central European University, Hungary)
Jan Komárek
(London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) |
| 12:15 – 13:45 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:45 – 16:10 |
2nd Panel: “Dissent, Post-Dissent, and the Ideas of 1989”
Keynote speakers
Padraic Kenney
(Indiana University, USA)
Ideas and the Generation of 1989
Michal Kopeček
(Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Republic)
The 1989 and the Ideas of Revolution in (post-)Dissent
Interventions
Piotr Wciślik
(Open Society Archives, Hungary)
Joe Grim Feinberg
(Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)
Kateřina Lišková
(Masaryk University, Czech Republic) |
| 16:30 – 18:50 |
3rd Panel: “The End of History or the End of the Future?”
Keynote speakers
Jenny Andersson
(Sciences Po, France)
Conceptualising European futures, 1968-1989
Dieter Segert
(University of Vienna, Austria)
From the “De-De-Errology” to the “Systemwechsel” – Conferences in Germany
Interventions
Pavel Barša
(Charles University, Czech Republic)
Vítězslav Sommer
(Sciences Po, France)
Balázs Trenscényi
(Central European University, Hungary) |
| 19:30 |
Dinner |
October 3, 2014
| 9:00 – 12:30 |
4th Panel: “Theories of Soviet-type Society”
Keynote speakers
Hillel Ticktin
(University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
The importance of the end of Stalinism for the crisis of capitalism
Boris Kagarlitsky
(Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Russia)
Revolution as a contradictory process
Interventions
Anna Ochkina
(Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Russia)
Soviet Welfare State: Warning and Lessons
Jerzy Kochan
(Institute of Philosophy, University of Szczecin, Poland)
The real socialism and the problem of the real and formal socialization |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 – 17:30 |
5th Panel: “The Second Life of the Prague Spring in 1989”
Keynote speakers
Alessandro Catalano
(University of Padova, Italy)
Complicated Legacy of Prague Spring during the Autumn of Communism
James Krapfl
(McGill University, Canada
Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)
89 is 68 Upside Down: The Significance of the Prague Spring in the Gentle Revolution
Interventions
Kacper Szulecki
(University of Oslo, Norway)
Juraj Marušiak
(Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
Tomáš Zahradníček
(The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) |
| 18:00 |
Dinner |