The Ghosts of the Past

Openning and Guest Lectures Room: WB.G.02

Introduction by Marta Rabikowska

Guest Lecture by Tomasz Mickiewicz, UCL, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies

The Ghost of the Command Economy: Twenty Years After

Post -Introduction by Pawel Jedrzejko

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Plenary: Room: WB.G.02

Fatima Festic, University of Zagreb and Columbia University

Coming to Terms with Horror: the ghosts of the ex-YU wars and psycho-politics after communism.

Calin Andrei Mihailescu University of Western Ontario in London, Canada

Securing What? The Romanian Secret Services Twenty Years After (and counting)

LUNCH

Room: WB. 2.02

Urszula Michalik, University of Silesia, Poland

The ghosts of communism in the contemporary Polish business culture

George - Marian Isbasoiu Free University of Brussels

Varieties of Capitalism and Industrial Relations in Eastern Europe.

Galina Miazhevich Christ Church, Oxford

Hybridisation of management in two post-Soviet countries: communist ideals, popular mentality and business practice today

Chair: Mariana Fotaki

Room: WB. 2.03

Celina Juda, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Constructing/creating of cultural and literary narratives focussed on the functioning of the idiom of communism in Slavic cultures (with an emphasis on Bulgaria) has an open/labile character.

David Williams University of Auckland

Outflanked by History: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Literature of the Eastern European Ruins

Rina Lapidus Bar-llan University

The Man as Instrument for Acquiring Benefits in the Soviet Reality: A Post-Soviet View

Chair: Jeniffer Suchland

Room: WB. 2.02

Steven Saxonberg Masaryk University, Brno

Family Policies after 1989 in Poland, the Czech republic, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Magdalena Lopez Rodriguez Institute of Education (EFPS), London

The legacy of communism; the ‘innocent’ look of East-European migrant parents into educational in/e/qualities in the UK.

Malgorzata Domagala, University of Silesia

Decentarlisation of the administrative system after 1989 in Poland: the role of the local power.

Chair: Ricardo Zugasti

Room: WB.2.03

Stephen White University of Glasgow

Looking Back: Russians and the USSR in Retrospect.

Petre Petrov Slavic Department, Princeton University

The Unbearable Light of Being: Socialism as a Sublime Object of Socialist Realism.

Peter Kosta University of Potsdam Institut für Slavistik

Conflict Indication and Overcoming Dissent in the Parliamentary Discourse of the Countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Chair: Paul Reynolds

Room: WB.2.02

Creative workshop:

Writing Workshop: Beyond Nostalgia
By: Blagovesta Momchedjikova New York University

Room: WB. G.02

David Chapman & Adrian Palka Artists, University of East London

Performative Presentation: S5 - in the drivers cab of history.

An audio visual journey from east to west Berlin, from now to then.

And by the same authors:

Film screening and the musical accompaniment by an experimental steel instrument, the steel cello and bass.

Grace Schwindt Artist, University of Westminster, University of Ljubliana,

Everyday: Nothing Stays the same. Film Screening and Theatre Perfomance on Film.

Nina Simões, "Rehearsing Reality", an interactive documentary about the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST)

Chair: David Mabb

Room: WB.2.03

Round table:

‘Communism and Post 2004 migration from Eastern Europe to the West.’

Dirk Uffelmann

University of Passau, Germany

Joanna Rostek

University of Passau, Germany

Kathy Burrell

De Montfort University, UK

Aleksandra Galasińska

University of Wolverhampton, UK

Chair: Magdalena Lopez-Rodriguez

TEA BREAK

Room: WB: 2.02

Pavla Alchin artist

Legless (East-West)

Aleksandra Demenkova Photographer

Amy Bryzgel, The Bronze Man and the Homeless Man: Performance Art in Latvia Then and Now.

Chair: David Mabb

Room: WB.2.03

Hannah Schling, University of Oxford

Constructing the Enemy: Anti-Semitism, Dehumanisation and Physical Metamorphosis in Czechoslovak Communist Party Caricature of the Slánský Trials of 1952

Mariana Markova, University of Washington, Seattle, Continuity and Change in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Biography of the “Last Soviet Generation”

Svetla Kazalarska St. Kliment Ochridski” University of Sofia
Michael Meznik University of Vienna

Much Ado About... Socialism?
Dealing With The Recent Past: The Bulgarian Case

Chair: Rina Lapidus

Room: WB.G.02

A panel discussion by: Jeremy Gilbert (discussant) University of East London, Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, Means of Reproduction/Means of Mediation: Social Revolution on Film.

and David Cunningham, University of Westminster, Communism, Everyday Life and the Returns of the Avant-Garde.

Room WB.G.02

Matthew Hawkins amd Marta Rabikowska, Screening of fragments of a documentary: Violetta. A Private Life of a Polish Immigrant. Discussion

Room: WB.G.02

Stephen Hutchings

Commemorating the Past/Performing the Present: Television Coverage of World War 2 Victory Celebrations and the (De)Construction of Russian Nationhood.

Room: WB.2.02

Paul Reynolds , University of Edge Hill.

Ghosts, Specters, Myths, legacies: Disentangling Communism and Marxism - Past Present and Future.

Maxym Zherebkin, University of Essex

In Search of a Theoretical Approach to the Analysis of the ‘Colour Revolutions’: Transition Studies and Discourse Theory. The ‘Colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet Union:  mass mobilization and the response of political science.

Piotr Skudrzyk, University of Silesia, Poland,

The Ghost of Coldness in the Public Sphere

Chair: Svetla Kazalarska

Room: WB.2.03

Corina Cimpoieru, The National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest.

Objects and everyday life in communist Romania: a material and cultural history.

Vasilis Kitsos, NTUA School of Architecture, Urban and Regional planning, Greece

Not long ago forgotten ghosts in contemporary Tajikistan.

Petr Jehlička The Open University, Milton Keynes,

Riding Across regimes: Woodcraft Culture in Bohemia.

Chair: Petre Petrov

LUNCH

Polly Courtney will be signing her book! in WB.0.02

Room: WB.2.02

Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University

Lost Sidewalks/Lost Sidewalk Talks in Post-Communist Sofia.

David Mabb Goldsmith's University of London

Art into Everyday Life

Nela Milic Goldsmith's University of London

Balkanising Taxonomy.

Chair: Daniel Holloway

Room: WB.2.03

Sarah Birch, Department of Government

University of Essex

Elections as Spectacle in the Post-Communist World.

Karolina Ziolo, University of Sheffield
From Internationalism to the European Union: an ideological change in the Polish post-communist party?

Mariana Fotaki, University of Manchester,

The ghosts of the past, the dreamlands of the future…or why fantasies are bound to fail in socialism and the market: The case of public health policy development in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

Chair: Petr Jehlicka

Break

Room: WB.2.02

Ricardo Zugasti & Patricia Lafuente San Jorge University (Zaragoza, Spain)

Carmen Gayoso London School of Economics

Ties with Soviet Past. Evaluating Russian Regional Hegemonies Related to the Provision of Military Security.

Danilo Breschi LUSPIO University, Rome Which kind of post-Communism? The Italian Case Study.

Chair: Mariana Markova

Room: WB.2.03

Michael Goddard, University of Salford

Capitalist Critique in Contemporary Polish Cinema: From the New Cinema of Moral Concern to Youth Subcultures.

Ewa Mazierska, School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Representation of remnants of socialism in Polish postcommunist cinema.

Simona Nastac Pocket Revolutions.

Curator and art critic, London.

Chair: Darko Strajn

Room: WB.2.02

Darko Štrajn The Graduate School for Studies in Humanities (ISH), Ljubljana

Transforming meanings of civil society.

Tomasz Slupik, University of Silesia, Poland

Democracy after Communism

Jennifer Suchland, The Ohio State University

Is There a Postsocialist Critique?

Chair: Maxym Zherebkin

Room: WB.2.03

Kate Duncan The Rise andFall of the Ostampelmännchen

Daniel Holloway

Oxford University

www.songsfromtheothersideofthewall.co.uk The Ghost at my Shoulder: literary reflections on coming of age in post-communist Hungary.

Panos Farandatos NTU Athens

A House Re-counting: utopias and reality in the 20th century Prague.

Chair:David Williams

Plennary: Room: WB.G.02

Libora Oates Indruchova Chalrles University, Prague

Nightmares and Spectres of the Past: Narratives of ideology, censorship and subversion in state-socialist academia

Chair: Joanna Zylinska

Plennary: Room: WB.G.02

Peggy Watson University of Cambridge

Ghosts of the Past or Fighting for Life?: Capitalism, Democracy, and Gender in Postcommunist Health Care

of all the momentous.

Room: WB.2.02

Svitlana Shmel’ova

Dnepropetrovsk State Financial Academy

Western and Eastern European Aspects of Gender Issues for Higher Education Management.

Eva Turner University of East London

New Europe - New Attitudes?

Some Initial Findings on Women in Computing in the Czech Republic

University of East London

Chair: Joanna Rostek

Room: WB.2.03

Annabel Tremlett University of Portsmouth

'Images ofRoma (Gypsies)and the problems of representing 'reality'' .

Nadiya Chushak, University of Melbourne

Nostalgia for Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Chair: Carmen Gayoso

A presentation by Ian Kaplan on the Museum of Communism in Prague.

Open to the public

Closing Remarks

Wine reception