1989 - Annus Mirabilis. Three Decades After

19 - 20 Nov 2019, Bucharest

1989 - Annus Mirabilis. Three Decades After: Desires, Achievements and Future

The conference is one of events organised in cooperation with ENRS on the 30th anniversary of the democratic revolutions of 1989.

The conference will be held in English and Romanian and simultaneously translated into Romanian and English.
Venue: Blvd. Expozitiei no.30A, Conference Hall

Programme

19/11/2019 Tuesday

10:00
Registration

10:30
Welcome & opening

11:00-11:45
Keynote lecture

Alina Bârgăoanu: Challenges to the post-1989 liberal order: the response from Central and Eastern Europe

12:00-13:45
Session One/First Panel: The end of the Cold War and the fall of communism in Europe

Adrian Pop: The role of geopolitical factors in the fall of communism in Central and Eastern European countries
Ferenc Miszlivetz: The fall of communism in Hungary
Anthony Kemp-Welch: 1989: The Polish paradigm

Moderators: Florin Abraham and Ion M. Ioniță

13:45-14:30
Lunch

14:30-16:15
Second Panel

Michael Gehler: The end of the communist regime in the German Democratic Republic
Oldřich Tůma: The fall of communism in Czechoslovakia (Czech perspective)
Peter Jašek: The collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia (Slovak perspective)

16:15-16:30
Coffee break

16:30-18:15
Third Panel

Jordan Baev: The fall of communism in Bulgaria
Dragos Petrescu: The collapse of communism in Romania (international dimension)
Constantin Hlihor: Romanian Revolution of December 1989 (internal dimension)

Moderators: Octavian Roske and Adrian Pop

18:30-19:30
Session Two/First Panel: Transition to democracy and market economy. Challenges of populism

Mihail E.Ionescu: The role of geopolitical factors in the transition to democracy in Central and Eastern European countries

20/11/2019 Wednesday

9:00–11:00
Second Panel

Attila Antal: Neoliberalization and democratization? Economic and political transition in Hungary
Łukasz Kamiński: The main features of political and economic transition in Poland
Daniela Kolenovská: Trends of political and economic transition in Czech Republic
Juraj Marusiak: Slovakia: features of political and economic transition

Moderators: Ana-Maria Cătănuș and Peter Jašek

11:00-11:15
Coffee break

11:15-13:15
Third Panel

Bogdana Todorova: Bulgaria: directions and outcomes of the political and economic transition
Daunis Auers: From the Soviet Union to the European Union: a quarter of a century of political and economic transformation in the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Dan Dungaciu: The main features of political and economic transition in the Republic of Moldova
Florin Abraham: The labyrinth of transition in Romania

13:15-13:30
End of conference

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

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19 - 20 Nov 2019, Bucharest