European Protest Movements since the Cold War: The Rise of a (Trans-)national Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere

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European Protest Movements since the Cold War: The Rise of a (Trans-)national Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere

Organizer
Martin Klimke (HCA Heidelberg, Germany), Joachim Scharloth (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Kathrin Fahlenbrach (University Halle, Germany)
Venue
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany
Location
Halle/Germany
Country
Germany
From - Until
22.11.2006 - 25.11.2006
Website
www.protest-research.eu
By
Klimke, Martin

In recent years, various disciplines have made the protest movements after the Second World War the object of their study. In the field of sociology, an analysis with methodological tools and theorems from the field of social movement research has prevailed. Furthermore, the focus in political science as well as in communication and media studies is shifting towards a closer examination of the legacies of protest movements in terms of their impact on institutions and long-term processes of social change. Especially with respect to the transnational level, studies are increasingly emphasizing the role protest movements played in the rise of contemporary networks of NGOs and the emergence of a "global community." Examinations of their impact on the transformation of the public sphere, the evolution of political systems as well as comparative views on the roots of political violence in various
countries, are illustrative of this trend. This workshop will critically discuss the heuristic potential of all these approaches by looking at European protest movements after 1945.

Since the 1960s, protest movements in Europe have increasingly acted within a transnational public sphere. On the one hand, their political, social, and cultural goals reflect international political developments (e.g. in their opposition to military intervention or protest against global economic developments). On the other hand, national protest movements have strategically used transnational mass media to effectively mobilize and address both a domestic and an international public, which they additionally tried to influence by creating alternative media networks.

Although the social and political sciences, as well as media studies, have begun to analyze these various aspects, there seems to be a lack of international comparison that could not only systematically describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also evaluate how they contributed to the evolution of a (trans-)national civil
society in Europe. Especially during the Cold War, the (albeit difficult) diffusion of Western media, cultural items and practices into Eastern Europe was an important interface across the ideological divide. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw bloc system, the various political, social, and cultural developments provided vastly new possibilities for the evolution of a European public sphere. The systematic research of these developments can only be realized within an international and interdisciplinary dialogue that we wish to reinforce with this workshop.

Programm

Wednesday November 22, 2006 / Location: Aula, Löwengebäude, Unversitätsplatz

3.15-3.30
Welcome by the Organizers
Subsequent Opening Remarks by:

3.30-3.45 Prof. Dr. Reinold Viehoff (Dean, University of Halle, Germany)

3.45-4.00 Marc De Cock (European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)

4.00-4.15 Prof. Dr. Angelika Linke (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

4.15-4.30 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Detlev Junker (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

4.30-5.00 Reception

5.15-6.45 Keynote Address:
Between Reality and Dream: Eastern European Media, Transition, Transformation, Consolidation and Integration
Prof. Dr. Peter Gross, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

7.00 Conference Dinner, Hallescher Saal, Universitätsplatz

Thursday, November 23, 2006 / Location: Frankesche Stiftungen
9.00-11.30 WORKSHOP SESSION
SOCIOLOGY I: Donatella Della Porta (European University
Institute, Florence, Italy): Social Movements and the Democratic Process? (I)

MEDIA I: Reinhold Viehoff (University of Halle, Germany): Globalisation of the European Public Sphere? (I)

11.30-11.45 COFFEE

11.45-1.00 PRESENTATION OF WORKING PAPERS
A: Protest Movements in Eastern Europe I
-Aron Buzogany (Free University Berlin, Germany): With a Little Help of my Friends or I Did it My Way. The Many Uses of Europe for New Social Movements from Eastern European Member
-Tamas Kanyo (University of Fribourg, Belgium): Borders of the Civil Sphere behind the Iron Curtain

B: '68 in Eastern and Western Europe I
-Birgit Hofmann (University of Freiburg, Germany): The Reception of Prague Spring in Western Europe
-Marya Ivancheva (Central European University, Sofia, Bulgaria): The End of Utopia: 1968, 1989 and the Social Movements in Eastern Europe

1.00-2.30 LUNCH

2.30-4.00 WORKSHOP SESSION
SOCIOLOGY I: Donatella Della Porta (European University Institute, Florence, Italy): Social Movements and the Democratic Process? (II)

MEDIA I: Reinhold Viehoff (University of Halle, Germany): Globalisation of the European Public Sphere? (II)

4.00-4.30 COFFEE

4.30-5.45 PRESENTATION OF WORKING PAPERS
A: Protest Movements in Eastern Europe II
-Mikhail Suslov (European University Institute, Italy): 'Western Civilization Requires Wrong': The Image of the West in Soviet Right-Wing Samizdat
-Taras Kuzio (George Washington University, USA): Democratic Transition and Revolution in Ukraine 2000-2004

B: '68 in Eastern and Western Europe II
-Corina Petrescu (Kansas State University, USA): License to Legitimacy: The Romanian Protest of 1968
-Zdenek Nebrensky (Free University, Berlin): Young Intelligentsia in East-Central Europe 1960-1970 in Comparison

8.00 Visit of Memorial Place ?Roter Ochse? / Guided City Tour
through Halle

Friday, November 24, 2006 / Location: Frankesche Stiftungen
9.00-11.30 WORKSHOP SESSION
MEDIA II: Peter Gross (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA): Media and Public Sphere in Europe? (I)

POLITICS I: Roland Axtmann (University of Wales, Swansea, UK): Protest Movements and Participative Democracy in a Globalizing World? (I)

11.30-11.45 COFFEE

11.45-1.00 PRESENTATION OF WORKING PAPERS
A: European Protest in a Globalized World
-Swen Hutter (University Munich, Germany): Political Change in a Globalizing world. A Comparative Study of National and Transnational Campaigns
-Simon Teune (Social Science Research Center, Berlin): Communication Strategies in the Global Justice Movements

B: Labor Movements and Trade Unions in Europe
-Katarzyna Gajewska (University Bremen, Germany): Europeanizing Worker?s Solidarity
-Dominik Lachenmeier (University of Zurich, Switzerland): The Change of the Organization of European Trade Union's Communication. A Comparative Study of the Federations of Swiss, Austrian and German Trade Unions in a System's Theoretical Approach

1.00-2.30 LUNCH

2.30-4.00 WORKSHOP SESSION
MEDIA II: Peter Gross (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA): Media and Public Sphere in Europe? (II)

POLITICS I: Roland Axtmann (University of Wales, Swansea, UK): Protest Movements and Participative Democracy in a Globalizing World? (II)

4.00-4.30 COFFEE

4.30-5.45 PRESENTATION OF WORKING PAPERS
A: European Integration and Activism of Ethnic Minorities
-Simone Paoli (University of Firenze, Italy): Protest Movements and the European Integration Process: The Mutual Influences in a Historical Perspective
-Celia Donert (European University Institute, Florence, Italy): The Prague Spring and the 'Gypsy Question': A Transnational Challenge to the Socialist State

B: European Protest against Nuclear Armament
-Holger Nehring (University of Sheffield, UK): Protest and Survive: The European Protest Agains Nuclear Weapons 1979-1989
-Andrew Oppenheimer (University of Chicago, USA): Conflicts of Solidarity: Nuclear Weapons, Liberations Movements, and the Politics of Peace in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1974

8.00 Plenary Discussion 'Protest Movements in East Germany. Then and Now':
With Tobias Hollitzer, Frank Richter, Lothar Rochau, and Bernd Rieche

Saturday, November 25, 2006 / Location: Frankesche Stiftungen
9.00-11.30 WORKSHOP SESSION
SOCIOLOGY II: Dieter Rucht (Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany): Social Movements. Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence?(I)

MEDIA III:
Hans Kleinsteuber (Institute for Political Science, University of Hamburg, Germany): European Media Politics? (I)

11.30-11.45 COFFEE

11.45-1.00 PRESENTATION OF WORKING PAPERS
A: The Many Facets of European Protest I
-Peter Ullrich (University of Leipzig, Germany): The Conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left in Britain and Germany
-Gyula Virag (Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary): Protest Movements as a Mean of Legitimization of a Stalinist Regime. The 1950 Stockholm Peace Appeal and its Echo in Hungary

B: Theoretical Approaches to Social Movements
-Christoph Haug (Free University, Berlin): Decision-Making in Global Justice Movements on the Local, National and European Level
-Viktor Piorecki (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic): Complexities Theories and Social Movements

1.00-2.30 LUNCH

2.30-4.00 WORKSHOP SESSION
SOCIOLOGY II: Dieter Rucht (Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany): Social Movements. Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence? (II)

MEDIA III: Hans Kleinsteuber (Institute for Political Science, University of Hamburg, Germany): European Media Politics? (II)

4.00-4.30 COFFEE

4.30-5.45 PRESENTATION OF WORKING PAPERS
A: The Many Facets of European Protest II
-Lorenzo Bosi (University of Parma, Italy): Collective Action in a Deeply Divided Society: The Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
-Eduardo Romanos (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands): Anarchism, the Francoist Dictatorship and Post-War Europe: Ideology and Repertoire Changes in High-Risk Mobilisation

B: Human Rights and Reproductive Politics
-Zacharloula Kouki (European University Institute, Italy): Humans Rights History and Soviet dissidence (1961-1989)
-Lorena Anton (Universities of Bucharest, Hungary/ Bordeaux, France): 'It was as it was? 'Underground Protest' about Communist Romania's Pronatalist Policies

Contact (announcement)

Dr. Martin Klimke
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Email: <mail@protest-research.eu>

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