14 October 2009
6 – 8 pm Key note lecture (Oskar-Halecki-Lecture of the GWZO) by Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany: “Auf dem Wege zum und im Epochenjahr 1989”
Introduction: Frank Hadler (GWZO)
15 October 2009
9:30 – 11:00 Opening/ Words of Welcome by
Rainer Eckert, Director of the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum
Franz Häuser, Rector of the University of Leipzig
Burkhard Jung, Mayor of the City of Leipzig
Bernd Faulenbach, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
Introduction to the Conference Topic by
Ulf Engel, Frank Hadler & Matthias Middell “Global structures and the events of 1989”
11:30-1:00 pm
Ivan Berend (UCLA), Global financial architecture before and after 1989
Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University Melbourne), The coming of Fukuyama
2:30 – 4:30 pm Parallel sessions of sections 1, 2, and 3 (part 1)
Section 1: “1989 – events, places, comparisons”
Chair: Frank Hadler
Konrad H. Jarausch (U Chapel Hill): Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution?
Alexandr Shubin (Moscow): International Influence on Gorbacovs Reform and on Civil Movement
Oldrich Tuma (Academy of Sciences, Prag): Czechoslovakai in 1989
Section 2: “Towards an entangled history of 1989”
Chair: Ulf Engel
Christoph Boyer (Universität Salzburg): The socio-economic causes of “1989” in a comparative perspective
Pradipta Chaudhury (U Delhi): India in 1989
Hartmut Elsenhans (U Leipzig): New fundamentalist movements in Asia and North Africa compared
Section 4: “1989 in processes of remembrance and re-conceptualisation of the world”
Chair: Matthias Middell
Michael Geyer (U Chicago): The United States in 1989 – A Brief History of the Future
Bernhard H. Bayerlein (U Mannheim): Communism – A History of Erosion
László Borhi (Budapest): The International Context of the Hungarian Transition, 1989
5:00 – 6:30 pm Parallel sessions of sections 1, 2, and 3 (part II)
Section 1: “1989 – events, places, comparisons”
Chair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Duke U)
Chris Saunders (U Cape Town): 1989 and southern Africa
Gero Erdmann (GIGA, Hamburg): East Africa in 1989
Section 2: “Towards an entangled history of 1989”
Chair: Michael Mann (U Hagen)
Doug Bond (Harvard): South Korea, Birma and the Philippines in the late 1980s – the imaginary of a peaceful movement for democratization
Rüdiger Steinmetz (U Leipzig): Televison as a Universal Therapist and Entertainer. An Analysis of Programmes in the Transition Period between the Opening of The Berlin Wall and the Unification of Germany
Section 3: “1989 in processes of remembrance and re-conceptualisation of the world”
Chair: tbc
Michael Zeuske (U Köln): 1989 in the Carribbean: Social Rebellion in Venezuela and Conflicts over Reforms on Cuba
Klaus Mühlhahn (Columbia U): The Power of 1989 - Contention and Conflict in Contemporary China
16 October 2009
9:30 – 12.00 am: Parallel sessions of sections 1, 2, and 3 (part III)
Section 1: “1989 – events, places, comparisons”
Chair: Colin Lewis (LSE) tbc
John French (Duke): Without Fear of Being Happy': The 1989 Presidential Election Campaign of the 'Brazilian Lech Walesa' Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
Heidrun Zinecker (U Leipzig): Colombia in 1989
Klaas Dykmann (U Leipzig): El Salvador in 1989
Section 2: “Towards an entangled history of 1989”
Chair: David Wank (Tokyo) tbc
Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB): Storm Clouds of Global Religious Rebellion in 1989
Scarlett Cornelissen (U Stellenbosch): Sports, Popular Culture, and the global moment of 1989
Stefan Troebst (GWZO, Leipzig): 1989 - the beginning of the end of Tito's Yugoslavia
Section 3: “1989 in processes of remembrance and re-conceptualisation of the world”
Chair: Beata Ociepka (U Wroclaw) tbc
Jie-Hyun Lim (U Seoul): South Korea 1988
Claudia Kraft (U Erfurt): Remembering the End of Polish Communism
Mihai Manea (U Bucharest): 1989 in Romania. A Violent Popular Oust. Different Interpretations
1:30-2:30 pm Plenary Section 5
chair: Erin Wilson (Melbourne)
Frank Hadler: Report from parallel session 1
Ulf Engel: Report from parallel session 2
Matthias Middell: Report from parallel session 3
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee break
3:00 – 4:30 pm Concluding plenary session
chair: Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB)
Introductory comment: Dietmar Rothermund (U Heidelberg) - tbc