The Social Sciences since 1945 in East and West:
Continuities, Discontinuities, Institutionalization
and Internationalization
Central European University,
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Popper Room
April 27 – 30, 2015
MONDAY, 27. APRIL
16.00 Welcome address by Matthias Riedl, head of the History Department of the CEU
16,10 –18,30 Processes of institutionalization. Chair: Yves Gingras (Université du Québec
à Montréal - UQAM)
16,00 .Christian Fleck (University of Graz) and Mathias Duller (pre-doc researcher INTERCO-SSH,
University of Graz), Mapping institutionalization comparatively: seven countries, seven disciplines.
16,30 Victor Karady (CEU, Budapest), The institutionalization of the SSH in Hungary
17,00 Rob Timans (PhD student INTERCO, Amsterdam) and Johan Heilbron (Erasmus University of
Rotterdam), Institutionalization of SSH in The Netherlands, 1945 - 2010.
17,30 Fernanda Beigel (CONICET, Argentina), The SSH in Argentina's academic field: discontinuities,
structural heterogeneity and segmented circuits.
18,00 Mariana Heredia (CONICET/IDAES-UNSAM/UBA, Buenos Aires), Argentinian economics: from a
state-discipline to a governmental tool (1945-2001).
19,00 RECEPTION (COCTAIL and COLD DISHES) in the Conference premises
TUESDAY, 28. APRIL
9,00 –11,00 Internationalization and exchange patterns. Chair: Jean-Louis Fabiani
(EHESS – Paris, CEU – Budapest)
9,00 Yves Gingras (University of Montreal) and Johan Heilbron (CNRS. Paris), Internationalization of
Research in the Social and Human sciences in Europe (1980-2014).
9,30 Thibaud Boncourt (INTERCO-SSH, Paris): Carving out a space for international science. A
comparison of the international political science and sociology associations.
10,00 Ioana Popa (CNRS, Paris), International Scientific Transfers and Institutionalization of an Area
Studies Program in France during the Cold War.
10,30 Gustavo Sorá (CONICET- National University of Córdoba) and Alejandro Dujovne (CONICET –
Institute of Economic and Social Development), The Publishing of Social and Human Sciences in
Argentina. A Translation of the Transnational Field of Social Sciences and Humanities?
11,00 COFFEE BREAK
11,30 Rafael Schögler (University of Graz), Translating Social Sciences: Translators and Paratext
Writers.
12,00 Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS-EHESS, Paris), The circulation of SSH books in translation between France
and the United States.
12,30 Marek Skovajsa (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
and Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences), Czech sociology in the international circulation
of ideas. A study based on the Czech Sociological Review (1965-2013)
13,00 LUNCH BREAK
14,30 –16,30 Reception and importation patterns. Chair: Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS, EHESS –
Paris)
14,30 Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge) and Marcus Morgan (post-doc, INTERCO), A Case Study of
the Reception of Structuralism in English Studies in the United Kingdom.
15,00 Marco Santoro (University of Bologna): The Global circulation of Gramsci.
15,30 Barbara Grüning (INTERCO-SSH, Berlin): Becoming 'Hannah Arendt': the reception of a Jewish
intellectual woman in Germany and in Italy
16,00 Jean-Michel Chahsiche (INTERCO-SSH, Paris): The importation of Karl Polanyi’s work in France
(1974-2014).
16,30 COFFEE BREAK
17,00 Lucile Dumont (EHESS/TEPSIS/INTERCO, Paris): The circulation of French Literary Theory in the US:
the reception of Roland Barthes and Gérard Genette's works (1960s-1980s).
17,30 Christian Fleck (University of Graz), Matthias Duller (University of Graz) and Rafael Schögler
(University of Graz), SSH Scholars in the Press: A comparative analysis of public interventions of SSH
scholars during the EU parliamentary campaign 2014.
18,00 Stefania Maffeis, (Freie Universitat Berlin), The totalitarian paradigm in the work and the
reception of Hanna Arendt at the beginning and the end of the Cold War (USA, German Federal
Republic, German Democratic Republic)
19,00 DINNER
WEDNESDAY 29. APRIL
9,00 –11,00 East-East and East-West relations in the Cold War and after. Chair: Peter
Tibor Nagy (ELTE University and John Wesley College – Budapest)
9,00 Calin Goina (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania), Romania in the 70’s: ethnographic
encounters between East and West
9,30 Bogdan C. Iacob, (New Europe College, Bucharest) Emancipating the Balkan Episteme: The
Internationalization of Southeast European Studies in the Cold War (1960s-1980s)
10,00 Grigore Moldovan (Romanian Academy, “George Bariţiu” Institute of History, Cluj), The System
of Planned Science during Romanian Cultural Stalinism: The case study of the “Institute for RomanianSoviet Studies” (1947-1963)
10,30 Nataliia Laas, (Carnegie Fellow, Harvard University, Institute of History of Ukraine at the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv), Blurring boundaries between “Eastern” and
“Western” knowledge: The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System of the 1950s.
11,00 COFFEE BREAK
11,30 –13,00 The Case of Social Studies Old and New (Economics and Law). Chair :
Peter Tibor Nagy (ELTE University and John Wesley College – Budapest)
11,30 Thierry Rossier (Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales, Laboratoire d'analyse de la
gouvernance et de l'action publique en Europe, Faculté des Sciences sociales et politiques, Université
de Lausanne), Economics and Business Professors in the Swiss Academic Field since 1945: from
Marginal to Central Actors.
12,00 Ágnes Gagyi (George Masons University), A moment of economic critique in late socialist
Hungary: “Upturn and reform” and the Financial Research Institute in context.
12,30 Kinga Pétervári (Faculty of Law, University of Budapest), Institutionalisation of different legal
professions in the legislative process in Hungary: The case of the new Civil Code of 2013.
13,00 LUNCH BREAK
14,30 –16,00 Social Disciplines specialized and compared. Chair : Fernanda Beigel
(CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)
14,30 Corina Dobos Palasan (University of Bucarest), Romanian demography in the international
arena during the 1970s. Constructing knowledge for political goal
15,00 Tobias Dalberg, (Institute of Sociology, Uppsala University), Institutional development of
Swedish Social Sciences and Humanities 1960-2005
15,30 Mikael Börjesson, Donald Broady (Institute of Sociology of Education and Culture, Uppsala
University), Educational Science – between Academia and the State. The Case of Sweden, 1945–2015
16,00 Anna Birkás (Eötvös Loránd University, Atelier Department of European Social Sciences and
Historiography), Institutionalization of Party History in Socialist Hungary in Different Contexts of 1956.
16,30 COFFEE BREAK
17,00 András Németh, Éva Szabolcs, Zsuzsana Hanna Biró (Institute of Education, ELTE University,
Budapest), Characteristics of the disciplinary shift and communication networks of the Hungarian
educational science in the 1950s and 1960s.
17,30 Ferenc Gyuris (ELTE University, Department of Regional Science, Budapest), The Communist turn
in Hungarian geography
18,00 Zoltán Gyimesi (ELTE, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Budapest), Towards a
globalized understanding of Cold War geography in Hungary
19,00 DINNER
THURSDAY, 30 APRIL
9,00 –11,00 Soviet sociology. Chair : Balázs Trencsényi (CEU – Budapest)
9,00–11,00 A Panel: the SSH in the post-war Soviet Union: institutional expansion and diversification
of perspectives
9,00 Olessia Kirtchik (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National
Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), The development of economic cybernetics in postwar Soviet Union.
9,30 Sergei Alymov (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow).
Ethnography, War, and the Cold War.
10,00 Alexander Dmitriev (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities,
Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Regional and methodological diversification of the late Soviet
philosophical canon
10,30 Jan Levchenko (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Towards the (pre)requisites of semiotic
production in the late USSR.
11,00 COFFEE BREAK
11,30 –13,00 Social sciences under state control. Chair : Balázs Trencsényi (CEU – Budapest)
11,30 Vida Savoniakaité (Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilna), Continuities or discontinuities? Cases
of Lithuanian anthropology and ethnology since 1945
12,00 00 Veranika Bursevich ( University of Minsk, Bielorussia), Scientific communication in the field
of Belarusian sociology: history, state and perspectives (a case study of the journal “Sociology”)
12,30 Zoltán Rostás (University of Bucarest, Arts Faculty), The background of the rehabilitation of
sociology in 1960s Romania
13,00 LUNCH BREAK
14,30 –16,30 Social sciences: continuities and ruptures (East and West). Chair : Victor
Karady (CNRS – Paris, CEU – Budapest)
14,30 Peter Tibor Nagy (ELTE University and John Wesley College, Budapest), Break and continuity in
the Hungarian social disciplines (productivity and achievements)
15,00 Bruno Monteiro (Institute of Sociology, University of Porto), From an impasse to another:
Portuguese sociology in tensions (1930-2010).
15,30 Balázs Berkovits (Institute of Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Science), How to read Foucault
in Hungary? The causes of a peculiar (non-)reception
16,00 Ágoston Fáber (ELTE University, Budapest, EHESS Paris), Bourdieu in Hungary. Reception and uses
of Bourdieu’s key concepts in Hungarian academia
16,30 COFFEE BREAK
17,00– Final discussion, conclusions, prospects. Chair: Victor Karady, Peter Tibor
Nagy, Balázs Trencsényi
With generous support of the INTERCO-SSH research project of the European Commission and its Hungarian program (managed by the John Wesley
Theological College), the Central European University (CEU) and Pasts Inc. , Centre for Historical Research of the History Department of the CEU