The conference is one of events organised in cooperation with ENRS on the 30th anniversary of the democratic revolutions of 1989.
Venue: National University of Public Service, Széchenyi Assembly Hall
Ludovika square 2. Budapest, 1083
3 Dec, Budapest
Transition. International Aspects of the Fall of Communism (1989)
Programme
3/12/2019 Tuesday
10:00
Welcome address
Boglárka Koller, vice
rector for international affairs, National University
of Public Service
10:10
Mark Kramer (Harvard University)
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc. A Reassessment
30 Years Later
10:30
Réka Kiss (Committee of National Remembrance)
Specific Features and International
Aspects of the Transition in Hungary
10:50
Zoltán Garadnai (Hungarian National
Archives)
President François Mitterrand’s Policy of
Opening Towards the East, 1988–1991
11:30
Coffee break
11:40
Peter Ruggenthaler (Ludwig-Boltzmann-
Institut)
The Role of Violence in 1989
12:00
Ferenc Gazdag (National University of
Public Service)
The Last Agreement. Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces
12:20
Łukasz Kamiński (University of Wrocław)
The Polish Year 1989 – from Reform of Communism
to Democratic Transition
12:40
Sandwich Lunch
13:30
Jaromír Mrňka (Institute for the Study of
Totalitarian Regimes, USTR)
17th November 1989 in
Czechoslovakia. Where the Memory Met the Social
Change
13:50
Beáta Katrebová Blehová (National
Memory Institute, UPN)
Annus Mirabilis 1989 and
Slovakia
14:10
István Bandi (Historical Archives of the
Hungarian State Security)
Specific Features of the
1989 Transition in Romania
14:30
Gergely Prőhle (National University of
Public Service)
Cults and Facts. The Aspects of the
Transition Regarding German–Hungarian Relations
Partners
Organisers
General partner
Event organised as a part of the 1989. Changes and Challanges framework
