Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Venue: SFB 1199, 5th floor, room 5.55
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Registration and Welcome Coffee
2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Opening and Introduction
Matthias Middell (Leipzig):
1989 – 30 years after a Global Moment
Stefan Troebst (Leipzig): The Re-Balkanization of the Balkans? 1989 in Southeastern Europe
Besnik Pula (Blacksburg): Theorizing structural change in and after 1989
Uwe Müller (Leipzig): Regional disparities and regional politics in East Central Europe before and after 1989
6.00 pm – 7.30 pm
Keynote
James Mark (Exeter): 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe
James Mark is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA).
The keynote and the reception are kindly sponsored by EEGA.
7.30 pm
Reception
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Venue: SFB 1199, 5th floor, room 5.55
8.30 am – 9.00 am
Registration and Welcome Coffee
9.00 am – 12.00 pm
Chair: Edoardo Tortarolo (Turin)
Katja Naumann (Leipzig): Regional and transregional patterns of social science research and research planning before and after 1989
Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt): The Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe and the Transformation of Illicit Global Markets
Shamasul Haque (Srinagar): Globalization and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Muslim World
Frank Hadler (Leipzig): Expectation vs. Explanation? Eastern Europe Future seen from the West before and after 1989
12.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Lunch Break
2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Mark Juergensmeyer (Santa Barbara): The impact of 1989 on the early years of global studies in the 1990’s
Veronika Wittmann (Linz): Old Terms and New Worlds: Challenges For Global Studies in the 21st Century
Vladimir Pacheco Cueva (Aarhus): Teaching Global Studies in a populist/ultranationalist political climate
William Bradley (Kyoto): From Internationalization to Global Studies in Japan’s Heisei Era
Karsten Krüger (Shantou): Media worlds and globalization. Chinese media perceptions of the belt and road initiative in Africa
7.00 pm – 10.30 pm
Summer Party with Barbecue and Drinks
Venue: Global and European Studies Institute, Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1, 04105 Leipzig
Friday, 14 June 2019
Venue: SFB 1199, 5th floor, room 5.55
9.00 am – 12.00 pm
Chair: David Simo (Yaoundé)
Robin Möser (Leipzig): Reverting to the Region: South Africa’s accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the roots of an African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, 1988–1991
Anna-Mart Van Wyck (Johannesburg): The end of the Cold War and its impact on global nuclear disarmament
Flavia Gasbarri (London): The 1989 Global Transformation and the African crises of the 1990’s
Timothy Scarnecchia (Kent): Shifting US diplomatic responses to 1989 in Southern Africa
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm
Lunch Break
1.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Venue: Villa Tillmanns (Wächterstraße 30, 04107 Leipzig)
This section will be part of the Summer School of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies
Populism, Anarchism, Protest Movements as a Consequence of 1989
Chair: Adamantios Skordos (Leipzig)
Stefan Telle (Leipzig): 1989–2019: From the End of History to the Golden Straitjacket and back?
Jonathan Eibisch (Jena): A revival of anarchism as the logical consequence of 1989, 2001, 2008 and 2013?
Chungse Jung (Binghamton): 2011, the Continuation of 1989? A Comparison of Two Protest Waves in the Global South on the World-Historical Perspective
Luka Ekhvaia (Leipzig): Patriot Camps in Georgia after the Rose Revolution
Comment: Gilad Ben-Nun (Leipzig)
Coffee Break
Diversity – an increasing discourse in the public sphere after 1989
Chair: Susanna Jorek (Leipzig), Jessica Steinman (Leipzig)
Sirarpi Movsisyan (Leipzig): Armenians in GDR: Migration waves and community formation
Jessica Steinman (Leipzig): From North-South to East-West: the Demarcation and Reunification of the Vietnamese Migrant Community in Berlin
Laila Elbaghazoui (Beni-Mellal): The Events That Sparked the Arab Spring: From the Virtual World to the Public Sphere
Susanna Jorek (Leipzig): Mapping contested cultures: Narratives of Black Life in the City Museum in Bristol
Comment: Antje Dietze (Leipzig)
8.00 pm
Concert Johann Sebastian Bach: “Das Musikalische Opfer”, BWV 1079
Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Nikolaikirchhof 3, 04109 Leipzig
Saturday, 15 June 2019
Venue: SFB 1199, 5th floor, room 5.55
9.30 am – 1.00 pm
Chair: Geert Castryck (Leipzig)
Chris Saunders (Cape Town): Southern African transformations, “1989” to 2019
David Moore (Johannesburg): Gone but not forgotten: traces of the Cold War in Zimbabwe
Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Leipzig): Transitions in Africa. How was “1989” relevant? A comparison of Ghana, Tanzania and Nigeria
Ulf Engel (Leipzig): A view from Addis Ababa: From “1989” to today’s revolution in Africa
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Farewell lunch