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FYI and an invitation to those who are in/around Sofia end of
this/beginning of next week to join in
Summer School “Between (post)Socialism and (neo)Liberalism”
a third annual Summer School on the neo-liberalization of post-socialism,
in 2013 sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Germany*July 20-24, 2013*
Social Center Xaspel, Sofia,
<http://xaspel.net/english/>
8 Madrid rd. (house in the inner courtyard)
PROGRAM
*20th of July, Saturday*
08:45 – 09:10
*Mary Taylor*
Opening
*Panel: The rise of the Entrepreneurial City in the East After 1989:
Neoliberalization, Gentrification and Resistances*
Chair: Mary Taylor
10:00 – 11:30
*Daniel Saric*
The Right to the City Movement and its Contestation of Urban Transformation
Policies in Post-socialist Zagreb
*Márton Czirfusz*
Mobilising the creative city: the case of Budapest
*Themis Pellas*
Contemporary urban social movements in Greece and possible cross-national
autonomous movement building in eastern Europe.
* *
*Panel: Struggles Over the Right to Housing in the Neoliberal City in the
East*
Chair: Agnes Gagyi
12:00 – 14:30
*Anže Zadel*
Urban Struggles and Housing in Late Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies
*Mariya Ivancheva and Stefan Krastev*
The Role of the State in Cases of Urban Squatting: Comparing Sofia and
Caracas.
*Csaba Jelinek*
Non-liberal Answers to the Housing Crisis in Hungary
Lunch Break
*WORKSHOP I:*
14:30 – 18:00
*Urban Theory Lab (Mary Taylor, Anze Zadel, Themis Pellas)*
*WORKSHOP II:*
18:15 – 19:30
*Socialism, Postsocialism, Neoliberalism – Interconnections in CEE (Don
Kalb)*
* *
*****
*21st of July, Sunday*
*Panel: (Neo)liberalization of (Post)socialism and the European Debt Crisis
in the East*
Chair: Jana Tsoneva
*Zsuzsi Posfai*
Privatization of utilities in Hungary
*Mariglen Demiri*
Neoliberalisation of Post-Socialism in Macedonia
*Sandra Martinsone*
Neoliberal economic reforms (taxes, privatization, FDI and trade) in Latvia
after Independence
*Andreja Živković*
From the Market to the Market: the Origins of the Debt Crises in the Balkans
*Luka Mesec*
Debt Crisis in the East and the Eurozone
*Olexiy Viedrov*
Tax Havens for Ukrainian oligarchs and Austerity in Cyprus
12:20 – 12:40
*Ajkuna Hoppe*
Financializing the Periphery? Europeanization and the Future of Money in
Kosovo
Lunch Break
* *
*WORKSHOP III:*
14:30 – 18:00
*Mapping the Postsocialist Left (Rossen Djagalov)*
* *
* *
*****
*22nd of July, Monday*
*Panel: Neoliberalization of Higher Education and the New Production of
Knowledge*
Chair: Mariya Ivancheva
09:30 – 11:10
*Razvan Dumitru*
“Neoliberal” values and practices in the Moldovan Twitter Revolution.
*Daryna Korkach*
Student resistance and neoliberal tendencies in Ukrainian education
*Bartosz Ślosarski*
The Limitations of the Polish Student Movement in the Times of Higher
Education Reforms (2008-2013)
Coffee Break
* *
*Panel:Resisting Neoliberal Austerity and Capitalism in Eastern Europe*
Chair: Martin Marinos
11:10 – 15:00
*Vladimir Unkovski-Korica*
The making of the Serbian working class: some critical remarks on the
transitions literaturе
*Anej Korsika*
Resisting Austerity and Capital in Slovenia: From the Recent Uprising to
the Initiative for Democratic Socialism.
*Volodymyr Ishchenko*
Radical left strategies, social movements, and the coming political crises”
*Open Discussion*
Comparing the political economy of the recent protest mobilizations in
Eastern Europe
Coffee Break
* *
*WORKSHOP IV:*
15:00 – 17:00
*The Recent Wave of Protests in East-Central Europe in Comparison (Mariya
Ivancheva)*
* *
*****
*23rd of July, Tuesday*
*Panel: Critique of Liberal Ideologies*
Chair: Martin Petrov
09:00 – 16:30
*Mary Taylor*
Liberal critique of populism; the othering and enclosure of people power
*Andreja Jovanovic and Aleksandar Stojanovic*
“Strategy of the Left in the context of Liberal Anti-populism”
*Alexandra Novozhenova*
Neoliberalization of culture in Russia
*Martin Marinos*
The Far Right and the Liberal Media
*Dimitra Kofti*
The dominance of ‘rationality’ through anti-populism.
*Rossen Djagalov*
The Liberal Anti-Utopianism
Lunch Break
* *
*Zhivka Valiavicharska*
Unsettling the Hegemony of Post-Socialist Liberal Historiography. Marxist
Humanist Thought from the East-European 1970s
*Georgi Medarov*
Post-democratic Liberalisms after 1989 in Bulgaria. From
anti-totalitarianism to anti-populism
*Jana Tsoneva*
Bulgarian Winter: Towards a Post-liberal Democratic Presentism
Coffee Break
*Ilya Budraytskis*
Russian Liberalisms
*Stanimir Panayotov*
The people’s anti-liberal rationalization of inequality: the case of LGBTs
in Bulgaria.
* *
*****
*24th of July, Wensday*
11:00 – 14:00
*Milos** Jadzic and Vladimir Simovic*
Presenting the Fruška Gora Summer School 2013
* *
*WORKSHOP V:*
14:00-16:00
*Neoliberalizing Socialism – A Rearrangement of a Moral Universe (Agnes
Gagyi & Razvan Dumitru)*
* *
*WORKSHOP VI:*
16:00 – 19:00
*Institutionalizing our project: Political Platform and Intellectual
Cooperation (Agnes Gagyi)*
http://countermovements.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/summer-school/
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