Thursday, Polnisches Insitut Leipzig
3:00 pm: Opening
3:30 pm: Panel 1
Thomas Kolitsch (Leipzig)
"Die Monotonie des Yeah, Yeah, Yeah": Official Ways of Dealing with Western Popular Music in the GDR
Leonard Schmieding (Leipzig)
HipHop in the GDR
7:00 pm: Keynote
Reinhold Wagnleitner (Salzburg)
Jazz - the Classical Music of Globalization (with Günter Wagnleitner, Piano)
Friday, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum
9:30 am: Panel 2
Ewa Grzeszczyk (Warsaw)
American Models of Consumption and their Presence in Poland
Magdalena Ziolek (Poznan)
American Culture in the Disocurse of Globalization from the Perspective of the Polish Youth Generation
11:30 am: Panel 3
Nadine Swibenko (Bangkok)
"Because I am an 'Ossi'" - Asserting Identity by Buying East German Goods
2:15 pm: Panel 4
Katja Kanzler (Leipzig)
The Soviet Wizard of Oz
Nevena Dakovic (Belgrade)
East/West Soap
4:15 pm: Panel 5
Sebastian M. Herrmann (Leipzig)
Plastics and Modernity in the GDR
Anne Koenen (Leipzig)
Mail-Order Catalogues in the GDR
Saturday, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
9:30 am: Panel 6
Malgorzata Gajda-Laszewska (Warsaw)
America in Polish Poster Art 1945-1956
Zoe A. Kusmierz (Leipzig)
Electrifying the Iron Curtain: American Home Appliances at the US Exhibition in Moscow, 1959
11:00 am: Response and Discussion
Heike Paul (Erlangen)
Response