Conference
The Global 1989: A New Generation
A three day conference
October 22, 2009 - October 24, 2009,
October 22, 2009 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm Frist Campus Center, Multipurpose Room B
October 23, 2009 8:30 am-10:00 pm 219 Aaron Burr Hall
October 24, 2009 8:30 am-5:00 pm 219 Aaron Burr Hall
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Sponsored by:
- Department of History
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- University Center for Human Values, sponsorship provided by a gift in honor of James A. Moffett '29
- Program in Law and Public Affairs
- Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Thursday, 22 October
Frist Multipurpose Room B
1pm-1:15pm
Greeting: Piotr H. Kosicki, History, Princeton University
Introduction: Katherine Newman, PIIRS, Princeton University
Stephen Kotkin, History/Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
1:15pm-3:15pm
Panel: Networks of Democracy and Information: National or Transnational?
Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Papers
Lissette Olivares, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Conquest of Chile's Democracy: Rearticulating Democratic Imaginaries from 1989"Riikka Nisonen-Trnka, University of Helsinki
"The Wizard of Prague: The Czechoslovak Chemist Otto Wichterle Fighting for the Free Circulation of Information"
Commentators
Martin Bútora, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava
Paul Sigmund, Princeton University
3:30pm-5:30pm
Panel: Religious Beliefs and Institutions: Rebirth? Stillbirth?
Chair: Stanley Katz, Princeton University
Papers
Anastasiya Ilyina, Polish Academy of Sciences
"Rebirth of the Uniate Church in Belarus after 1989: Spillover or Nationalist Mobilization?"Vera Vesela, Institute of International Relations, Prague
"Understanding Islam in the Post-Cold War World: Comparative Analysis of Power and Limitations of Islamism in Afghanistan and Central Asia"
Commentators
Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge University
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
Dinner Break
8pm-9pm
Frist Multipurpose Room B
Film Screening
Tales of the Round Table – presented by director Piotr Bikont
Friday, 23 October
Room 219 Aaron Burr Hall
8:30am-10:30am
Panel: The Youth: Activism and Its Afterlife
Chair: Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
Papers
Rowena He, Harvard University
"Surviving 1989: A Life-based Inquiry into the Political Socialization Experiences of Three Tiananmen Student Exiles"Tom Junes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"So You Say You Want a Revolution: The "Generation of '89" in Poland and Youth Rebellion in South Africa"
Commentators
Piotr Bikont, Independent Filmmaker, Poland
Carma Hinton, George Mason University
10:45am-12:45pm
Roundtable: The Poland Story
Adam Michnik, Gazeta Wyborcza
Janusz Reykowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
Moderator: Piotr H. Kosicki, Princeton University
Break
2:15pm-4:15pm
Roundtable: The China Story
Perry Link, University of California, Riverside
Carma Hinton, George Mason University
Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania
Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics
Moderator: Jeremy Friedman, Princeton University
4.30pm-6.30pm
Panel: The Ethno-National Imaginary: Linchpin? Red Herring?
Chair: John Borneman, Princeton University
Papers
Jeremy Lamoreaux (with Tyler Stoddard), Brigham Young University – Idaho
"The Baltic Way? Expediency vs. Consistency in Baltic Values"Sevan Beurki Beukian, University of Alberta
"Politicization and Revival of National Movements in the 1980s Soviet Union"
Commentators
Mark Beissinger, Princeton University
Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Dinner Break
8:15pm-10pm
Screening (Optional)
Gate of Heavenly Peace – presented by producer/director Carma Hinton
Saturday, 24 October
Room 219 Aaron Burr Hall
8:30am-10:30am
Panel: The Arts: Culture? Political Culture?
Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Papers
Caterina Preda, University of Bucharest
"Art and Politics in Romania and Chile: 20 Years After"Yauheni Kryzhanouski, University of Strasbourg
"Rock Music as a Form of (Post)-Soviet Political Protest, 1989-2009"
Commentators
Lawrence Weschler, New York University
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
10:45am-12:45pm
Panel: Ideas of 1989
Chair: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Papers
James Krapfl, McGill University
"Revolution with a Human Face: Popular Ideas and Idealism in Czechoslovakia,1989-1990"Hulda Proppé, Cambridge University
"Studying an enemy, constructing an enemy? Politics of knowledge production, Sovietology, and the end of the Cold War"
Commentators
Paul Berman, New York University
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland
Break
2:15pm-4:45pm
Roundtable: Revolution, Freedom, Truth: Global Perspectives
Breyten Breytenbach, New York University
Lawrence Weschler, New York University
Martin Krygier, University of New South Wales
Claus Leggewie, Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut in Essen
István Rév, Central European University
Adrian Guelke, Queen's University, Belfast
Moderator: Piotr H. Kosicki, Princeton University
