CfP Conference “Privacy Outside Its ‘Comfort Zone’: Late Socialist Eastern and East-Central Europe between the Private and the Public”
Dec 8, 2017 – Dec 10, 2017 Passau, Germany Submission Deadline Feb 28, 2017 “Privacy” is a well-researched yet highly disputed concept in Western scholarship. While most privacy research comes from and concentrates on Western liberal societies, great potential of privacy studies beyond this traditional framework still remains largely unexplored. The framework of Western liberal societies may therefore be seen not only as a...
The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the Eastern Bloc
The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the Eastern Bloc Köln, Department for Eastern European History, Aachener Str. 197-199 26.05.2016 – 28.05.2016 We are pleased to announce the program of this year’s workshop on ‘The Many Faces of Late Socialism. The Individual in the Eastern Bloc’ to be held at the University of Cologne ffrom May 26th through May 28th, 2016 The workshop presentations are passed on pre-circulated...
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,...
CfA: Late Socialism (1956-85)
Late Socialism (1956-85): The Forgotten Years between Stalinism and Perestroika Venue: Tallinn Period: JUly 24-31, 2015 Application deadline: rolling basis The last three decades of the Soviet Union prior to perestroika have been labelled the time of “thaw” and “stagnation” but also “mature” or “late” socialism. The controversies and legacy of that period have not rendered a simple overarching theory. The Tallinn Summer School in...
Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985
ed. by N. Klumbyte, G. Sharafutdinova Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution...
