Ingrid Miethe, Institut für Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Jane Weiß (ehem. Schuch), Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
11th May 2018
10.00 – 10.15 Opening
10.15 – 11.15 Keynote: Tom Griffiths (University of Newcastle): Socialist Education and Educating for Socialism: What hope progress?
11.30 – 13.30 Panel: Transforming Ideas
- Sebastian Engelmann (University of Tübingen): La Escuela del Trabajo - Blonskij and Rühle in Mexico.
- Andreas Tietze (Herder-Gymnasium, Berlin): Copying, Innovating, Spreading: The Role of the GDR in Transnational Policy Borrowing in the Field of Polytechnical Education.
- Ingrid Miethe (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen): The Global Dissemination of Worker's Faculties.
- Susanne Timm (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): Parallel Universes of Educational Concepts. The collaboration between the Na-mibian SWAPO and the East German Socialist Party (SED).
14.30 – 16.00 Panel: Founding and Transforming
Institutions
- Aisi Li (Nazarbayev University): The Sovietisation of China’s Universities: The 1950s Experience of Shanxi University.
- Eric Burton (University of Vienna): From Adult Education to Party Cadre Training: The Kivukoni College in Socialist Tanzania.
- George Bodie (SSEES, University College London): Where do Correct Ideas Come From? The FDGB Institute for Foreign Students and the Coming of the Sino-Soviet Split.
16.30 – 18.00 Panel: Transforming educational systems
- Jane Weiß (Humboldt-University of Berlin): East Germany as Agent in the Transformational Processes of the Educational System in the Global South.
- Manfred Heinemann (Leibnitz-University Hannover): Isolation, Self-Sufficiency and the Replacement of Marxism-Leninism by the Chuch'e Movement in North Korea's Educational System through the lens of GDR-Diplomacy.
- Christine Hatzky (Leibnitz University Hannover): Globalizing the "New Men": The Cooperation in Education between Cuba and Angola 1976-1991.
12th May 2018
09.00 – 10.00 Keynote: Berthold Unfried (University of Vienna): Education as a Part of "International Solidarity".
10.30 – 12.30 Panel: Studying Abroad – Part I
- Svetlana Boltovskaja (Herder-Institute, Marburg): Educational Cooperation between the Soviet Union and Sub-Saharan African Countries.
- Barbora Buzássyová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava): The University of 17th November and the “Third World” Students in (Czecho)Slovakia 1961 – 1974: Life and Limits of Coexistence.
- Leonora Dugonjić (Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, Paris): Yugoslav Educational Collaboration with the “Third World”.
- Riikka Muhonen (Central European University): Moscow-based People's Friendship University as a case of Soviet educational Cooperation with the Developing World.
13.30 – 15.00 Panel: Studying Abroad – Part II
- Paige Newhouse (Duke University): Real People: The Limits of Student Exchange between East Germany and North Vietnam, 1963-1968.
- Blanka Koffer (Humboldt-University of Berlin): Socialist Solidarity by Teaching Ethnography: GDR Scholars Training Cultural Engineers from the Global South.
- Marcia C. Schenck (Humboldt University of Berlin): The “Black East” experienced from below: Angolan students in the German Democratic Republic 1979-90.
15.00 – 16.00 Final lecture: Marcelo Caruso (Humboldt-University of Berlin): Alternative globalities? Comparison, Transfer and the Socialist Construction of the Global.
Discussion and Closure