Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950’s to 1991)
05-09 July 2022, Berlin
Organized by the Orient-Institute Beirut in cooperation with Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)

Program
 

Tuesday, 05 July
Arrival in Berlin; individual check-in at Motel One Berlin-Ku’Damm (Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin)
 

Wednesday, 06 July
Venue: Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

Live Streaming Link (StarLeaf)

09.30 – 10.00
Birgit Schäbler
Welcome and Introduction

10.00 – 11.15
Reka Krizmanics
Unlearning Boundaries? The Confluences of Area Studies and Global History

11.15 -11.30
Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.45
Masha Kirasirova
Radio Moscow Arabic: The First Generation of Arab Students in the USSR on Air

12.45 – 13.45
Lunch Break

13.45 – 15.00
Angela Harutyunyan
Historical and Dialectical Materialism & Aesthetics (online)

15.00 – 15.15
Coffee Break

15.15 – 16.30
Open Discussion

19.00
Dinner

Thursday, 07 July
Venue: Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

9.00 – 10.30
Panel 1 | Exile and Film
Constantin Katsiakoris: Boubaker Adjali: A Prague-educated Algerian Journalist and the Third World
Zaur Gasimov: Knowledge Circulation and Relations within Iranian Communist exile in Poland: The case of Kaweh Pur Rahnama (1937-2012)

10.30 – 10.45
Coffee Break

10.45 – 12.15
Panel 2 | Studying Art in the Eastern Bloc

Mustafa Switat: The Go-Betweens in the Polish-Arab Knowledge Exchange in Art
Olga Nevedova: Arab Students in the USSR Art Institutes in 1959-1979: Ideology and Life Worlds (Online)

12.15 – 13.00
Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.30
Panel 3 | Producing Socialist Media Knowledge

Elmin Alijev: Female Activists of “Bizim Radyo”: Contradictions in the TKP Foreign Bureau
Ekatarina Vasileva: How to Reach the Masses: Iraqi Students on Journalism in Soviet Academia

14.30 – 14.45
Coffee Break

14.45 – 16.15
Panel 4 | Students & Professors on the Move

Dorota Woroniecka: Architecture and Academic Mobilities during the Cold War: The Case of Mosul University
Stella Kneifel: Differing Perspectives within the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the GDR between Endorsement and Critique of Marxism-Leninism

16.15 – 17.00
Panel 5| Gendered student trajectories

Parang Niakan: Tudeh Party Women in Exile – Case studies of the life experience of three Tudeh party women in the GDR

19.00
Dinner

Friday, 08 July
Venue: tba

10:00
Final Discussion

14.00
Humboldt-Forum Berlin

16.30
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Guided Tour: Karl Marx & Capitalism

Saturday, 09 July
Departure from Berlin according to individual schedules