CfP: Post-Communism 25+
Post-Communism 25+: Reflections on Social, Economic & Political Transitions Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan 6-8 October 2016 Deadline for submitting abstracts: 29 July 2016 On collapse of the Soviet Union, George Kennan, the American author of the seminal 1947 cable “Sources of Soviet Conduct,” wrote in 1995 that he found it “hard to think of any event more strange and startling, and … more inexplicable, than the sudden and total...
CfP: The Many Faces of Late Socialism
The Many Faces of Late Socialism: The Individual in the “Eastern Bloc,” 1953-1988 (May 26-28, 2016, University of Cologne, Germany) Deadline: November 6th, 2015 How did individuals who grew up under state socialism experience and, in turn, influence what we now call ‘Late Socialism’? Individuals figure prominently in narratives about state socialism’s repressive character and passive or open resistance to “the system.” At the time,...
CfP: The memory of Communism in Europe
The memory of Communism in Europe: actors, norms, institutions May 15-16, 2014 Paris, France Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 1, 2013 Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet bloc, contested memories of Communism are being constantly reactivated by political and social actors in the former Eastern bloc. Conflicting narratives on the Communist past are simultaneously getting torn out of their national frameworks through...
