Labor History in Eastern Europe
2nd and 3rd of November, 2012
Organizer: CEU, History Department
Friday, 2nd November, 4.30 p.m.
Opening Lecture
Venue: CEU, Nador utca 11, Room 004
Gijs Kessler, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Transitions in Labour Relations in Eastern Europe: Russia, 1500 - 2000
Saturday, 3d November, 10 a.m. – 16.30 p.m.
Workshop on Labor and State Socialism in East Central Europe
(doctoral students’ work in progress)
Venue: CEU, Nador utca 13, Room 002
Session I
Chair: Adrian Grama
10:00 introduction
10:15 Alina Cucu (Sociology, CEU): The Factory as Knowledge Producing Unit
during Socialism
11.00 coffee break
11:15 Hanna Szemző (History, CEU.): Pension and Work: a Story of Unintended
Consequences during Socialism
12:30 lunch break
Session II
Chair: Hanna Szemző
13:30 Adrian Grama (History, CEU): Labour’s Logic: The Social Limits of
Stalinization in Romania, 1941-1945
14:30 Dan Cîrjan (History, CEU): Organizing the ‘Wide Participation of the
Working Class’ in Socialist Romania
15:30 coffee break
16:00 final discussion on the state of labour studies and state socialism
From 16:30 farewell drink in the Central Bistro
Guest Comments:
Joszef Böröcz, Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Gijs Kessler, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Collection Development Russia and
Eastern Europe at International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
CEU Faculty:
Jacek Kochanowicz, Visiting Professor, CEU, History Department
Marsha Siefert, Associate Professor, CEU, History Department
Susan Zimmermann, Professor, CEU, History Department, Department of Gender Studies