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Ten Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall:
Contemporary Change in Central and Eastern Europe
29 - 31 October 1999
A Multi-disciplinary Conference Organised by the
Institute of Russian, Soviet, Central and East European Studies (IRSCEES)
and The Department of History, University of Nottingham
Preliminary Programme
Conference After Dinner Speaker: To Be confirmed {Boris Nemtsov?)
Key Regional Overview Speaker: Prof Michael Kaser (Oxford and Birmingham)
'Thirty paths in thirty transitions: is there a common destination?'
Conference Sessions
The Politics of East/Central Europe:
Chair Prof Paul Heywood (Nottingham)
Keynote Speaker: Prof Peter Frank (Essex)
Dr Martin McCauley ( London) Contemporary Russia
Prof Federigo Argentieri (John Cabot, Rome) 'Patterns of Party Systems in
Central and Eastern Europe'
Matt Henn (Nottingham) 'Opinion Polls and Political Communication in Bulgaria'
Dr Vanessa Pupuvacs (Nottingham) Political Developments in Yugoslavia
Society:
Chair: Prof Nick Manning (Nottingham)
Keynote Speaker: Prof David Lane (Cambridge) Chaotic Capitalism
Dr Hilary Pilkington (Birmingham) Russian Youth Problems
Dr Barbara Einhorn (Sussex) Gender and citizenship
Prof George Kolankiewicz (UCL) Poland
Dr Alastair McAuley (Essex) Income/poverty in Central Asia
Prof James Riordan (Surrey) Sport
Dr James Muckle (Nottingham) Education
Economics:
Chair: Prof Mike Wright (Nottingham)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Guy Standing (ILO, Geneva)
Prof George Blazyca (Paisley) Post-Communist Poland
Dr Igor Filatochev (Nottingham) 'Privatisation and enterprise
restructuring in the FSU; what has been achieved?'
+ another (tbc)
Defence and International Relations:
Chair: Dr Roy Bradshaw (Nottingham)
Keynote Speaker: Dr S J Main (Conflict Studies Research Centre) Military
Reform in Russia
James Sherr (Conflict Studies Research Centre) Military Security and The
Ukraine
Charles Blandry (Conflict Studies Research Centre) The North Caucasus: is
radical Islam a threat?
Dr Peter Boyle: American Policy towards Russia in the Yeltsin Years
Dr Andrew Cottey (UCC) 'Central and East European security since 1989'
Literature and Culture:
Chair: Prof Malcolm Jones
Keynote Speaker: Prof Ros Marsh (Bath) (tbc)
Prof Henrietta Mondry (Canterbury, NZ) 'Misuse of Russian literature in the
Russian and Jewish Press (1996-1999)
Dr Harold Shukman (Oxford) title of paper tbc
Dr David Norris (Nottingham) 'Culture and Society in Serbia of the 1990s'
Post-Communist Nation Building:
Chair: Dr D Spring (Nottingham)
Keynote Speaker: Prof John Hiden (Bradford) 'Re-joining Europe: The
Baltic Republics in the 1990s'
Dr Galina Yemelianova (Birmingham) 'The Role of Islam and Ethnicity in
the Self-Determination of Muslims in the Post-Soviet Russian Federation
Dr Stuart Horsefield (Sheffield) 'Post Communist Uzbekistan'
Dr Tim Edmunds 'Searching for Nationalism: foci for Kazak Identity in the
1990s'
The Former GDR: (N.B. This Session is likely to be scheduled on Friday
Afternoon, 29 October)
Chair: Prof Dick Geary (Nottingham)
Prof David Childs (Nottingham) Political and Economic Developments in
the former GDR
Prof Roger Woods (Nottingham) 'Reconstructing the Past: Autobiography and
Interview Literature in East Germany since Unification'
Dr Kerstin Mey (Dundee) 'Cultural Policy in Berlin since Unification'
Vanessa Beck (Birmingham) 'Unemployed Women in the Former GDR'
Postgraduate Session:
David Betz (Glasgow) Russian military Reform
Steve Pritchard (Nottingham tbc) The Russian Army
Andrew Robinson (Nottingham) 'Organised crime in the FSU'
+ 1 others tbc
Conference Organisers
Dr Roy Bradshaw Prof Nick Manning Dr Stuart Thompstone
Geography Social Policy/ Sociology History
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