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    28 – 30 Oct 2019, Warsaw

    Myths, Memories and Economies: Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparison

    Genealogies of Memory

    Following a series of events within the Genealogies of Memory framework, the 2019 conference "Myths, Memories and Economies: Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparison" will aim to explore the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic post-'89 transformations, as well as their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure.

    Attendance is free, but prior registration is required. Please see the details below.

    In case of any questions, you can contact the event's coordinator at: genealogies@enrs.eu

     

    To know more about this year's edition, including information on keynote speakers and conference convenors: click here

    Programme

    Genealogies 2019

    28/10/2019 Monday

    8:30
    Registration
    9:15
    Introduction
    Rafał Rogulski – director of the ENRS
    Małgorzata Pakier – head of the Academic Department at the ENRS
    9:40
    Opening remarks
    Veronika Pehe, Joanna Wawrzyniak – conference convenors
    10:00
    Key-note speech, Johanna Bockman
    The Other Washington Consensus: Remembering Socialism in Washington, DC

    Chair: Veronika Pehe
    11:30
    Coffee break
    12:00
    Roundtable: From Socialist Internationalism to Capitalist Globalisation and Beyond
    James Mark
    Bogdan Iacob
    Tobias Rupprecht


    Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
    13:30
    Lunch
    14:30
    Panel 1. Key Narratives
    Florian Peters:
    Shock Therapy Mythologies: Contested Memories of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan
    Muriel Blaive:
    Velvet Revolution, Economic Reforms, and Lustration: A Trilogy Imposed by Circumstances or by Political Rivalry? Essay in Counterfactual History
    Wolf-Rüdiger Knoll:
    A “Bad Bank” of Transformation: The Role of the “Treuhandanstalt” in the Collective Memory of East Germans after Reunification

    Chair and discussant: James Mark
    16:15
    Coffee break
    16:45
    Panel 2. Social memory: contested or consensual?
    Rigels Halili:
    Post-communist Transformation, Social Memory and Blaming of the “Other” – the Case of Albania
    Jill Massino:
    Pluralism or Plutocracy? Popular Expectations and Perspectives of Economic Change in Post-socialist Romania
    Andrzej Pabisiak:
    Thirty Years After: The Collective Memory of Transition in Poland based on Research on Polish Sejm Transcripts

    Chair and discussant: Saygun Gökarıksel
    18:30
    Dinner

    29/10/2019 Tuesday

    9:30
    Panel 3. Memory and Agency
    Veronika Pehe:
    "Let's Start a Business": The Memory of Entrepreneurship and the Czech Student Generation of 1989
    Gazela Pudar Drasko:
    Post-Socialist Transformation in Serbia: Critical Perspective of Intellectuals
    Katarzyna Waniek:
    Biographical experiences of transformation in the cohort born 1980-1990. A case analysis

    Chair and discussant: Oldřich Tůma
    11:15
    Coffee break
    11:45
    Key-note speech, Thomas Lindenberger
    Transformation through Unification = Unification through Transformation? Regimes of Truth and the Discontent of Memories in the German Transformation Regime
    Chair: Muriel Blaive
    13:15
    Lunch
    14:15
    Panel 4. Cultural Memory and Economy
    Alex Condrache:
    That is how Billionaires Smoke: The Nouveau Riche of the Transition in Romanian Post-Communist Cinema
    Olga Gontarska:
    Cinema without an Audience: Experience of Transformation Depicted in Ukrainian films
    Saygun Gökarıksel:
    “The Great Betrayal”: 1989 and the “Secrets” of Poland’s New Capitalism

    Chair and discussant: Ksenia Robbe
    16:00
    Coffee Break
    16:30
    Film screening and discussion: Dług (Debt), dir. Krzysztof Krauze (1999)
    In Polish with English subtitles
    Commentators: Veronika Pehe, Mateusz Werner

    30/10/2019 Wednesday

    9:30
    Key-note speech, Adam Mrozowicki
    Coping with System Change: the ‘Grand History’ of Transformation and Biographical Experiences of Polish Workers

    Chair: Małgorzata Pakier
    11:00
    Coffe break
    11:30
    Panel 5. Memory and Labour
    Till Hilmar:
    Drawing Moral Lessons from Economic Transformations: Economic Memory, Deservingness and Social Relations in post-1989 (East) Germany and the Czech Republic
    Joanna Wawrzyniak,Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając:
    Nostalgia and Moral Economy in Post-socialist Industry: Poland
    Mariusz Jastrząb:
    How Did We Survive? Official Corporate Histories from the Period of Systemic Change

    Chair and discussant: Florian Peters
    13:15
    Lunch
    14:15
    Key-note speech, Martin Schulze Wessel
    Universalist and Particularist Policy Legitimations in the Transformation Period

    Chair: Rafał Rogulski
    15:45
    Coffee break
    16:15
    Panel 6. Current Echoes of the Transformation
    Sabine Stach:
    Guiding through Memory: A Case Study on (Post)Communism Tours
    Bartłomiej Krzysztan:
    Capitalizing Socialism in Postcolonial Georgia. Post-socialist Economic Reality and Structure of Memory on Peripheral Flea Market
    Mykola Makhortykh:
    We Were Hungry, but we also Were Free: (Counter)Narratives of the Russia’s first post-Soviet Decade on Instagram

    Chair and discussant: Bogdan Iacob
    18:00
    Final remarks
    Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak

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    Partners
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    Media Partners
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    Funding
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    Event organised as a part of the 1989. Changes and Challanges framework
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