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Debatte. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
"1989-2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective"
Conference announcement and call for papers and panel proposals
Location and date
London, 17-18 October 2009.
Keynote speakers
Caroline Humphrey, Boris Kagarlitsky, Gáspár Miklós Tamas, Peter Gowan,
Alex Callinicos, Bernd Gehrke, Catherine Samary.
Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals
22 June, 2009. (A list of most of the abstracts submitted to date is
appended.)
Rationale
Debatte is marking the twentieth anniversary of the revolutionary
upheavals of 1989 by inviting scholars and students of Central and
Eastern Europe to reflect upon the events of that year, their causes
and processes, and the ensuing transformation of the region.
In line with Debatte´s credo, the conference encourages critical and
inter-disciplinary contributions. Especially welcome are papers that:
o examine the part played by social movements in overthrowing regimes
and bringing about democratic change;
o explore the power relations involved in the post-1989 restructuring
of Central and Eastern Europe;
o look afresh at the seminal contributions and debates in this area of
research;
o investigate ways in which research on 1989 and the transition has
affirmed, deconstructed or challenged dominant ideological conventions.
Topics for inquiry
Promising areas for papers include:
o The dissolution of the Soviet system. The roles played by relative
economic decline, military competition, social and cultural change, the
Western media. Comparison with the trajectory of `communism´ elsewhere:
China, North Korea, Cuba etc.
o Revolution and social change. The question of the `revolutionary´
nature of the events of 1989. Comparative revolutions and pseudo-
revolutions. The contribution of social movement theories to analysing
processes of mobilisation etc. in 1989. The history of dissident,
resistance and reform movements.
o Post-1989 transitions.
o Geopolitical: Russia and the West; E.U. enlargement;
o Geo-economic: Central and Eastern Europe´s changing location within
the global division of labour; labour migration.
o Geo-ideological: what has become of the Cold War mentality?; the
repositioning (`othering´?) of Central/Eastern Europe within Western
discourse.
o Economic: neoliberal reform; `shock therapy´; comparative economic
policy.
o `Bringing labour back in´: working-class recomposition and industrial
relations.
o Political and social: expansion and privatisation of the public
sphere; the restructuring of social power ; elite continuities and
discontinuities; democratisation and `managed democracy´; the evolution
of Communist parties and of pre-1989 currents of dissidence and
resistance; changing gender roles and relations; old and new
nationalisms (including the break-up of Yugoslavia); the environment,
transport and climate change.
o Anthropological: cultures of everyday life; the ethnography of
societies in `transition´; new forms of division and exclusion;
o Cultural: new freedom, new censorship; the changing role of the
artist; developments in cinema, literature, art and music; the creation
of collective memories and narratives of the pre-1989 era.
o Historiography of post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: assessing the
debates and breakthroughs; identifying gaps and silences in the
scholarly literature.
Papers and panel proposals
Submission of a panel proposal: The proposal should be no longer than
500 words, and should include the panel convenor's full name and e-mail
address, as well names and e-mail addresses of at least two other panel
participants.
Contacts
For updates go to http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0965156X.asp
Questions, as well as submissions of panel proposals and abstracts,
should be directed to Gareth Dale, <[log in to unmask]>
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List of papers received (March ´09)
The changing role of East- and West German writers before and after
1989
The Impact of Social and Economic Change on Politics: Mongolia in the
Post-Soviet Period
Transformation processes in Post-Soviet Central Asia - the Case of
Turkmenistan: from Command Economy to centrally planned vulnerability?
Historicizing 1989. Transnational Culture, epistemic communities, and
the political transformation of East-Central Europe.
Literature in the "Other" Europe Before and After the Democratic Change
Writing Public Culture from the Solidarity Text(s): Post-Revolutionary
Remembering in the Re-imagined Poland
The Second Being: Transitional Polish-Jewish Identity in Poland post
1989
Russia's Caesarist Journey: Post-Communist Russia and its
(dis)integration into the global political economy.
Neopatrimonialism by default: Georgia after the Rose Revolution.
The Transition in the Szeklerland. The Ethnic Dimension of the Romanian
Transition.
The Changing Image of the Roma during the Regime Change in Slovakia and
Hungary.
Lessons from Yugoslavia: The role of traditional nationalisms and the
importance of contemporary economic differences for the break-up of
states in Central and Eastern Europe, 1990-1992.
The "Orange revolution" in the Ukraine.
Who´s Afraid of the `New Europe´? Nationalism and the post-1989 project
of European unity.
Communications between Western and Eastern Europe.
Organised crime in Eastern Europe.
The Polish Round Table of 1989.
East Central Europe and the European `Double-Movement´: Contextualising
Accession Preparations and EU Membership.
Neoliberal globalization, regressive nationalism, and labour in the
`new' Europe.
The impact of transnational discourses on Poland's transition.
The Wages of Germanness: Working-Class Recomposition and (Racialized)
Nationalism after Unification.
Marxism in Eastern Europe: From Socialist Dissidence to Liberal
Restoration
The GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary: Socialist development
paths in comparative perspective.
Unfinished transformation? Institutional problems of Polish economy
after two decades of reforms.
The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty, 1991)
and Moldova´s reluctance towards it.
From the `Self-governing Theory´ to Capitalism in Poland
The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and oil extraction
Key developments in the system change of Soviet Russia.
Political Change and the National Question During the Transition in
Bulgaria
Belarus or Belorussia: historical roots and the possible causes of an
unfinished transition
The Croatian regime change in the mirror of nationalism.
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