February, 24 to February 26, 2022
Organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut in cooperation with the Democracy Institute,
Central European University, 24-26 February 2022, CEU Budapest Campus N15 103
RSVP for streaming link at democracyinhistory@ceu.edu
Thursday – 24 February 2022
09.00 – 10.00 Opening Session - Greetings and Introduction: László Kontler and Birgit Schäbler
10.00 – 11.15 Session 1
Dorota Woroniecka: "Architecture and Academic Mobilities during the Cold War: The Case of Mosul University"
Discussant: Karl Hall
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.00 Session 2
Stella Kneifel: "Differing Perspectives within the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the GDR between Endorsement and Critique of Marxism- Leninism"
Discussant: Máté Rigó
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch Break
14.15 – 15.30 Session 3
Ekaterina Vasileva: "Students at Work: The Media Production of Arab Journalism Graduates in USSR”
Discussant: Karl Hall
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.15 Session 4
Elmin Aliyev: “From State Pressure to Imaginary “Red Heaven”: Turkish Students in the Eastern Bloc within the Frame of Oya Baydar's Life Story”
Discussant: Brett Wilson
17.15 – 18.15 CEU Campus Tour
19.00 – 21.00 Conference Dinner – Restaurant Aszú
Friday – 25 February 2022
09.00 – 10.15 Session 5
Olga Nefedova: "Arab Students in the USSR Art Institutes in 1959-1979: Ideology and Life Worlds"
Discussant: Charles Shaw
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.00 Session 6
Constantin Katsakioris: “Boubaker Adjali: A Prague-educated Algerian Journalist and the Third World”
Discussant: Marsha Siefert
12.00 – 13.15 Session 7
Mikulas Pesta: "The World Marxist Review as a Cosmopolitan Space in Socialist Prague. Naim Ashhab and the Middle Eastern Delegates in the Editorial Office of a Global Journal"
Discussant: Róbert Takács
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch Break
14.15 – 15.30 Session 8
Panel Discussion: “Global Socialism and Knowledge Relations – Research Approaches” with
Balázs Trencsenyi, Matthieu Gillabert and Birgit Schäbler
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.15 Session 9
Mustafa Switat: “The Go-Betweens in the Polish-Arab Knowledge Exchange in Art” Discussant:
Szabolcs László
17.15 – 18.45 OSA-Archives Tour
19.00 – 21.00 Dinner – Restaurant Vak Varjú
Saturday – 26 February 2022
9.30 – 10.45 Session 10
Parang Niakan: “Tudeh Party Women in Exile - Case study of the life experience of three Tudeh party women in Eastern Bloc and DDR”
Discussant: Réka Krizmanics
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.15 Session 11
Zaur Gasimov: “Knowledge Circulation and Relations within Iranian Communist exile in Poland: The case of Kaweh Pur Rahnama (1937-2012)”
Discussant: Charles Shaw
12.15 – 13.15 Session 12
Ala Al-Hamarneh: “Evolving Alumni Associations: Graduates of Soviet Institutes of Higher Education in the Arab World between Knowledge Relations and Soft Power” Discussant: Birgit Schäbler
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch Break
14.15 – 16.00 Guided City Tour
