Wednesday, June 5
19:00 Public Key Note Lecture
Rinna Kullaa (Tampere): To Connect and to Control the Globe: History of the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet
Reception at MWS – Georgia Branch Office
Thursday, June 6
10:00 Andreas Hilger (Tbilisi): Welcome
10:15 Helena Holzberger (Tbilisi / Munich): Introduction
10:30 Panel 1: Soviet Fish(ing)
Elizabeth Banks (Edinburgh): Soviet Fisheries, International Organizations and the Cold War of the Sea
Natalia Telepneva (Glasgow): Soviet Fishing and Social Democracy in 1970s Guinea Bissau
Karina Simonson (Vilnius): Maritime Journeys and Visual Narratives of Soviet Lithuanian Fishermen
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Panel 2: Making and Working of Socialist Navies
Alexander Herbert (Worcester, MA): On Waves and in Caves: The Soviet Pacific Fleet as Heterotopia, 1918-1925
Gabriel Wolfson (Tübingen): Anchor, Hammer, Sickle: The ,Politische Erziehung' in the East German naval forces (1970-1990)
Alexander Hill (Calgary): Cold War Soviet Navy in Sub-Saharan Waters
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel 3: Global and Transnational Maritime Encounters
Katja Castryck-Naumann (Leipzig): Socialist Contributions to International Shipping Policy: Polish Emigrants, Experts and State Officials (1950s-1970s)
Julia Laius (Helsinki): Soviet marine sciences on the international scene in the mid 1950-1960s
Sarah Lemmen (Madrid): Contact zone, loophole, or Communist bulwark? The Czechoslovak Port in Hamburg during the Cold War
Friday, June 7
10:00 Panel 4: Red Pacific
Ryan Tucker Jones (Eugene, OR): The Port Vladivostok and „Socialist Cosmopolitanism”
Derek Kramer (Sheffield): In the Nation's Wake: North Korean Maritime Mobilization and the Search for a Socialist Plenty
Yu Yao (Shanghai): Global Cold War and the Initial Development of Zhanjiang Port
12:00 Coffee Break
12:30 Panel 5: Soviet Georgia in Cold War Waters
Giorgij Ghvinjilia (Tbilisi): Revolution of 1905 in Batumi and Soviet Historiography
Helena Holzberger (Munich / Tbilisi): Contested Contact Zones: The Soviet (and) Georgian Merchant Fleet during the Cold War
Irakli Javakhishvili (Tbilisi): The Military-Naval Base of Poti
14:30 Lunch Break
15:30 Commentary (Andreas Hilger) and Concluding Discussion
16:00 only for participants in person: Filmscreening “The Port that never was” and (tbc) Q&A with the director Stefan Tolz
To participate in the workshop online via Zoom, please register here: https://maxweberstiftung.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MkdumurjojGdMUyejesd92m2krdMWjfhdG#/registration