Attendance of this workshop is free, but registration is required. Please register by completing this form until June 4, 2017 the latest!
Workshop program
9:20 Registration
9:30 - 9:40 Opening Remarks
9:45 - 11:15 Globalizing Socialism: Cultural Exchanges and Internationalism in the European Cold War
Chair: Marsha Siefert, Central European University
On Moving and Being Moved: Professional and Amateur Dance Journeys in Socialist Yugoslavia - Dunja Njaradi: Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
Rocking in and Outside Romania: Cultural Exchanges and Rock Music in 1970s and 1980s Socialist Romania - Claudiu Oancea, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
Borderless Screens? Television, Transnationalism and the Cold War - Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University, UK
11:25 - 12:30 Keynote address: Entangled Peripheries? Eastern and Southern Europe during and after the Cold War - James Mark, University of Exeter
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Travelling Across the Iron Curtain and Beyond It
Chair: Aaron Kappeler, Institute for Advanced Study
Tourist Encounters: Foreign Tourists and “Sex Workers” in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970s - Adelina Stefan, Institute for Advanced Study/ Central European University
From Scandinavia With Love: Leftist Travel Companies Between Business and Politics - Sune Bechmann Pedersen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Crossing Cold War Boundaries: Travelling from West Germany to The Eastern Bloc in the 1960s-1980s - Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Bangor University, UK
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break
15:50 - 17:20 Consumption, Cities, and Economic Exchanges across the Iron Curtain
Chair: Judit Bodnár, Central European University
Mobility Between Portugal and Czechoslovakia during the 1960s and 1980s- Pavel Szobi, EUI, Florence, Italy
“A Marvelous World I Can’t Stop Thinking About”: Supermarkets, Department Stores, and Discourses of Modernization, Globalization, and Mobility in Franco’s Spain, 1956-1980” - Alejandro J. Gomez-Del-Moral, The University of Southern Mississippi, United States
Cities on the Road. Cooperation Between Bulgarian and Greek, Hungarian and West-German Cities in the Last Decade of the Cold War (1983-1989)”- Sarolta Klenjánszky, CAS Sofia, Bulgaria
17:30 Reception - Nador u. 15, Rooftop terrace