EASTERN EUROPE WITHOUT BORDERS: Programme
UCL
10 November
The workshop will ask how East European studies can engage in a world
of people, objects, ideas and practices in motion. How does looking beyond
geographically bounded nation-states and regions enrich the possibilities of East
European studies? The workshop will address the transnational turn in East
European studies, with a focus on three topics: cities, travellers, and networks.
Workshop organizers:
Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS): www.ceelbas.ac.uk
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES): www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
Academic contacts:
Wendy Bracewell w.bracewell@ucl.ac.uk
Administrative contact: Anna Tremain a.tremain@ucl.ac.uk
Part of the 2015 SSEES Centenary:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/centenary
Morning sessions:
Welcome
9.15
Prof Wendy Bracewell (SSEES, UCL)
Cities
Dr Michał Murawski (Mellon Fellow, SSEES, UCL)
Strelsau is Everywhere: Towards an (Eastern European) Urban Area Studies
Dr Carmen Popescu (Sorbonne)
Housing the New Man. Looking at the concept
Dr Vladimir Kulić (FAU School of Architecture, Fort
Lauderdale; American Academy in Berlin)
The Hospitality Complex: The Spaces of Yugoslavia's Non-Aligned Globalization
11.00-11.30 coffee/tea
Networks
11.30-1.30
Prof Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München)
Networks of the Prague Spring and the Czech dissidents after 1968
Dr Łukasz Stanek (University of Manchester)
Architecture and Mondialisation
Prof James Mark (University of Exeter)
Expert Cultures, State Socialism and Global Circulation in the Cold War
Prof David Crowley (Royal College of Art)
The New Primitives – New wave art and music in Eastern Europe in the 1980s
1.30-2.30 lunch
Afternoon sessions:
Travellers
2.30-4.00
Dr Bernard Struck (University of St Andrews)
Travel and “biggish” data visualisation as spatial history. Thoughts on a changing
research environment, disciplinary boundaries, and the practice of transnational
history'
Dr Jan Grill (University of Manchester)
Unsettling Roma migration. Re-bordering (Eastern) Europe and relational
ethnography of transnational fields
Dr Anca Parvulescu (Washington University St Louis)
East European Bloc/East European Area: What Does the ‘East European’ in ‘East
European Migration’ Mean?
4.00-4.30 coffee/tea
The state of play in transnational East European studies
4.30-6.00
Dr Diana Mishkova (Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia)
Transnational Traditions of EE/ECE/SEE Studies
Dr Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Challenges of Teaching Across Regions. Countercultures: Alternative Art in
Eastern Europe and Latin America 1959-1989"
Dr Maciej Maryl (Institute of Literary Research, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Crossing borders digitally. Eastern-European scholars and digital humanities
networks
Dr Andrzej Tymowski (ACLS, New York) [Funding horizons]
and
Dr. Krzysztof Jasiewicz (EEPS; Washington and Lee
University)
Where next?
6.00-7.30 wine reception