Here is the final programme for this University of Nottingham conference.
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There is only a nominal registration fee of £10 per day, or £20 for the
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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
To be held in The Department of History, Lenton Grove
University Park, Nottingham
Final Programme
Friday 29 October
2.00pm - 5.00pm The Former GDR
Chair: Prof Dick Geary (Nottingham)
Dr Patrick Major (Warwick) 'The Berlin Wall as History'
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'
5.15pm - 7.00pm Economics (1)
Chair: Prof Mike Wright (Nottingham)
Dr Guy Standing (ILO, Geneva) 'Babble of Euphemisms'
Dr Igor Filatotchev 'Privatisation and Enterprise Restructuring in the FSU:
What has been Achieved?'
Prof George Blazyca (Paisley) 'Post-Communist Poland'
Prof Anna Pollert (Greenwich) 'Enterprise Change and the Workers'
Response: The Czech Republic'
8.00pm East European Buffet University Club
9.00pm Prof Michael Kaser (Oxford and Birmingham) 'Thirty Paths in
Thirty Transitions: is There a Common Destination?'
Saturday 30 October
9.00 Registration and Coffee Welcome by Prof Lesley Milne (Chair of
IRSCEES)
9.30am - 12.15pm Post-Communist Nation Building
Chair: Dr D Spring (Nottingham)
Prof John Hiden (Bradford) 'Re-joining Europe: The Baltic Republics in the
90s'
Dr Galina Yemelianova (Birmingham) 'The Role of Islam and Ethnicity in the
Self- Determination of Muslims in the Post Soviet Russian Federation'
Dr Stuart Horsman (Sheffield) 'Post Communist Uzbekistan'
Dr Tim Edmunds (Nottingham) 'Searching for Nationalism: Foci for Kazak
Identity in the 1990s'
12.30pm - 2.00pm Lunch University Club
2.00pm - 5.00pm Politics
Chair:
Prof Peter Frank (Essex)
Dr Martin McCauley (London) 'Russia and Good Governance'
Prof Federigo Argentieri (John Cabot, Rome) 'Patterns of Party Systems in
Central and Eastern Europe'
Dr Matt Henn (Nottingham Trent) 'Opinion Polls and Political Communication
in Bulgaria'
Dr Vanessa Pupavac (Nottingham) 'Political Developments in Yugoslavia'
5.00pm - 7.45pm Defence and International Relations
Chair: Dr Roy Bradshaw (Nottingham)
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 Andrew Cottey (Cork) 'Central and East European Security since 1989'
Dr Peter Boyle (Nottingham)'American Policy towards Russia in the Yeltsin
Years'
8.15pm Dinner The Ballroom, Portland Building
9.00pm Prof Ros Marsh (Bath)
Sunday 31 October
9.00am - 10.00am Young Scholars Session
Chair: Dr Stuart Thompstone (Nottingham)
David Betz (Glasgow) 'If they are Ordered "Die of Hunger" they will Die'
Andrew Robinson (Nottingham) 'Beyond Chaos: Reconceptualising Russian
Organised Crime'
10.00am - 1.00pm Society
Chair: Prof Nick Manning (Nottingham)
Prof David Lane (Cambridge) 'Chaotic capitalism'
Prof George Kolankiewicz (UCL) Poland
Dr Hilary Pilkington (Birmingham) 'Russian Youth Problems'
Dr Alastair McAuley (Essex) 'Income and Poverty in Central Asia'
Prof James Riordan (Surrey) 'Sport in the FSU'
1.00pm - 2.00pm Buffet Lunch Lenton Grove
2.00pm Brief Meeting on the Publication of Papers
Conference Organisers
Dr Roy Bradshaw Prof Nick Manning Dr Stuart Thompstone
Geography Sociology and Social Policy History
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