Day 1–UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

16 Taviton Street,
London,
WC1H 0BW
Room 433

8.45-9.15 Registration, Tea & Coffee

9.15-9.45 Introduction
Alexey Tikhomirov (University College London)

9.45-10.45 Keynote lecture
Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Too Much Trust in Trust?

Chair: Mary Fulbrook (University College London)

10.45-11.15 Tea & Coffee

11.15-12.15 Panel
Regimes of Trust and Distrust: Institutions, Mechanisms, Normative Orders

Chair: Simon Dixon (University College London)

Piotr Oseka (Polish Academy of Science)
Trust, Resignation and the Legitimacy of the Communist System in Poland

Laszlo Kürti (University of Miskolc)
“Dear Comrades, I am Reporting a Scandal”: the Committee of Grievances during Kadarism in Hungary in the 1970s

Discussant: Steve Smith (Universit of Oxford)

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 Keynote lecture

Geoffrey Hosking (University College London)
How Do Social Scientists Understand Trust?

Chair: Alena Ledeneva (University College London)

14.30-14.45 Tea & Coffee

14.45-15.45 Panel
Trust in Science: (Ir-)Rationalities, Expert Knowledge, Measuring Normality

Chair: Anna Afanasyeva (Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Doubravka Olsakova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Building Trust in Stalinist Science and Challenges of De-Stalinization

Tuomas Laine-Frigen (University of Jyväskylä)
Psychology as a Tool for Managing ‘Difference’ in Post-1956 Hungary

Discussant: Daniel Siemens (University College London)

15.45-16.15 Tea & Coffee

16.15 -17.45 Panel
Generations, Youth Cultures, Alternative Spheres

Chair: Dmitri Zakharine (Konstanz University)

Rory Yeomans (University of Oxford)
Restless Generation: Student Distrust, Party Suspicion and Nationalist Ideology during the Croatian Spring, 1968-1972

Ljubica Spaskovska (University of Exeter)
“Comrades, I don’t Trust You”: Youth Cultures and Yugoslav Supranationalism in Late Socialism

Jeff Hayton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Trust and Distrust in the Making and Breaking of the East German Punk Scene

Discussant: Juliane Fürst (University of Bristol)

18.00 The end of the first day

Day 2– UCL, Roberts Building
Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE
Room 309

9.00-10.00 Panel
Topographies and Collective Imaginations of Trust and Distrust

Chair: Alexey Tikhomirov (University College London)

Zdenek Nebrensky (Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller´s University Jena)
“We had to Combat Distrust”: Building Student Clubs in Czechoslovakia, 1956-1968

Keith Brown (Brown University)
"Unbridled in the Meadows:" Self-Censorship and Trust-Maintenance in Late Yugoslav Macedonian Media

Discussant: Libora Oates-Indruchova (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna)

10.00-10.15 Tea & Coffee

10.15-11.45 Panel
(Mass) Media of Trust and Distrust: Solidarities, Reciprocity, Identities

Chair: Susan Morrissey (University College London)

Kirsten Bönker (University of Bielefeld)
Trusting the Rouble? Money, Private Life, and Politics in the Late Soviet Union

Maria Pirogovskaya (European University at St Petersburg)
Taste of Trust. Documenting Solidarity in Soviet Private Cookbooks, 1950-1980s

Patryk Pleskot (Warsaw Institute of National Remembrance)
Television Society in the People’s Republic of Poland: Between Resistance and Seduction, 1956-1989

Discussant: Kirill Postoutenko (Queen Mary, University of London)

11.45-12.00 Tea & Coffee

12.00-13.00 Keynote lecture
Mary Fulbrook (University College London)
Trust, Distrust, and Normalisation in Postwar Perspective

Chair: Geoffrey Hosking (University College London)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Panel
Religion, Culture, Society: Practicing Trust and Distrust

Chair: Dina Gusejnova (University College London)

Anat Plocker (Haifa University)
Too Loyal to be Trusted: Communists and Jews in Poland, 1956-1968

Galina Goncharova (Sofia University)
Distributers of Trust among the Cultural Elites: The Case of Bulgarian Poet Lubomir Levchev

Bradford Martin (Bryant University)
Cultural Exchanges in the Age of Détente and Their Impact on Trust

Discussant: Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary, University of London)

15.30-15.45 Tea & Coffee

15.45-17.15 Panel
Working, Living, Going on Holiday under State Socialism

Chair: Anna Toropova (University College London)

Nadezhda Galabova (Independent Scholar, Sofia)
The Socialist “Dolce Vita”: Regimes of (Dis/Trust) Production in the Bulgarian Confectionery Factory REPUBLICA

Anna Tikhomirova (University of Bielefeld)
Trust in the West: Consumption of Western Goods by Soviet Intelligentsia Women in Russia’s Yaroslavl Province

Ana Luleva (Bulgarian Academy of Science)
Behind the Socialist “Glass-Case”. Networks of Trust and Informality in the Bulgarian Tourist Resort Borovetz

Discussant: Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford)

17.15-17.45 Conclusion remarks and general discussion

17.45 The end of the second day

The conference is supported by the UCL Grand Challenge for Intercultural Interaction, the European Community FP7 2007-2013 and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Registration is required:

£50 general

£25 student (non-UCL)

Free for members of UCL community