Social Social Transformations and Social Identities in East-Central and Southeastern Europe under Socialism, 1944/45–1989/91
Program
28 September, Friday
9:00 Opening
9: 30-11:15 The Socialist Normal Biography
John Borneman (Princeton) Ethnopsychological Aspects of the Lifecourse under East-Central European Socialism
Daniela Koleva (Sofia) Bulgarian socialism: the Normal Biography and the Actual 'Muddling through'
Blazej Brzostek (Warsaw) Warsaw 1945-1989: Some Social Continuities in a Destroyed City
Coffee break
11:45-13:00 Public and Private
Ulf Brunnbauer (Berlin) The Family as Private space? Or a State Agency? Reflections on a Pervasive Dichotomy
Paulina Bren (New York) The Greengrocer and His T.V.: Privatized Citizenship and Late Communist Soap Opera
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 Mobility
Tibor Valuch (Budapest) Social Mobility and Identity Problems in the Hungarian Society after WWII
Daniel Logemann (Jena) Private Contacts between Germans and Poles in Leipzig (1970-1989)
Coffee break
Karin Taylor (Graz) On Holiday without the State: Individual Vacationing and Social Difference in Yugoslavia
Igor Duda (Pula) On Holidays with the State: Social Tourism and Social Background in Socialist Yugoslavia
29 September, Saturday
9:00-13:00 The Socialist Consumer
Milla Mineva (Sofia) Consumer Citizenship in Socialist Bulgaria
György Majtényi (Budapest) Socialist Luxury: Lifestyles of the Elite in Hungary during the 1950s and 1960s
11:00 Coffee break
Susan Reid (Sheffield) Becoming a Home-maker and Consumer in the Soviet Union of the 1960s
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Shaping the Socialist Worker
Sándor Horváth (Budapest) Under the Shadow of the Great Tree: a Youth Gang in Budapest in the Sixties
Mark Pittaway (Milton Keynes) – Eszter Bartha (Budapest-Florence) Working-Class Culture, Socialist Models of Work and Leisure in Hungary, 1948-1989
Coffee break
16:15-18:15 Transformation of Rural Cultures
Péter Apor (Budapest) Rural Anti-Semitism and the Communist Take-over in Postwar Hungary
Olaf Mertelsmann (Tartu) From Farm to Kolkhoz: Transforming Rural Life in Soviet Estonia
Constantin Iordachi (Budapest) Collectivisation in Romania
30 September, Sunday
10:00-12:00 Concluding discussion: The Role of Social Networks in the transformations of the socialist dictatorships
Michal Pullman (Prague) Perestroika as a Challenge: Groups, Conflicts, and Networks within the Dynamics of the Project in Czechoslovakia
Eszter Zsófia Tóth (Budapest) The Cultural Identity Forms of Semi-skilled Women Workers in Socialist Hungary