Venue: Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Praha 1, Room No. 206
Program
FRIDAY May 20, 2011
9:00-9:20
Welcome and introductory remarks: Michal Kopeček (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague), Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University, Budapest)
09:20-10:20
Reconstitution of Liberalism in the Post-Socialist Era
Karolina Wigura (Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University): Towards Central-European Liberalism? Polish liberal tradition after 1989
Ferenc Laczó (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena): Between setting a new liberal agenda and confronting the 20th century: Political discourse in the Hungarian weekly Beszélő (1989-1995)
Chair/Discussant: Michal Kopeček (ICH, Prague)
10:20-10:40
Coffee Break
10:40-12:10
Reconstitution of Liberalism in the Post-Socialist Era II
Milan Znoj (Charles University, Prague): Czech liberal traditions after 1989
Irena Ristić (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade): Where have all the liberals gone? The case of Serbia
Martin Myant (University of the West of Scotland): The roots of the (partial?) triumph of neo-liberal economics in east-central Europe
Chair/Discussant: Paul Blokker (University of Trento)
12:10- 13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Varieties and Metamorphoses of Conservatism
Jan Filip Staniłko (Sobieski Institute, Warsaw): Three traditions of Polish conservatism
Petr Roubal (ICH, Prague): A conservative counterrevolution? The post-dissident conservatives in Czech politics after 1989
Adéla Gjuričová (ICH, Prague): Covert conservatism: Conservative approach to family and gender as a factor of Czech post-communist transition
Chair/Discussant: Maciej Ruczaj (Polish Institute, Prague)
15:00-15:20
Coffee Break
15:20-17:10
Populism and Democracy in East Central Europe
Andrej Findor (Comenius University, Bratislava): Populism as a category of political analysis in East Central Europe
Alexandar Martynau (Palacký University, Olomouc): Populism in Eastern Europe: success in Belarus, failure in Ukraine
Juraj Buzalka (Comenius University, Bratislava): The political lives of dead populists in post-socialist Slovakia
Chair/Discussant: Maria Falina (CEU, Budapest)
17:10-17:30
Coffee Break
17:30-19:00
Populism and Democracy in East Central Europe II
Camil Parvu (University of Bucharest): Transformations of liberalism and new populisms: recent debates in Romania
Ruzha Smilova (Sofia University): Debating the ‘flawed’ transition in Bulgaria and the populist response
András Bozóki (CEU, Budapest): Traditions and reinventions of populist politics in Hungary
Chair/Discussant: Balázs Trenscényi (CEU, Budapest)
20:00
Dinner, Café Louvre, Národní 22, Praha 1
SATURDAY May 21, 2011
9:30-11:00
In Search of the Left
Michał Łuczewski (Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University) From socialism to conservatism and decadence. Transformations of the Polish Left after 1989
Luka Lisjak Gabrielčič (CEU, Budapest): Post-Yugoslav Left between Radicalism and Conformism: the case of Slovenia
Luboš Blaha (Institute of Political Science, SAS, Bratislava): The left in Slovakia: a role model or heresy?
Chair/Discussant: Patrik Eichler (Masaryk’s Democratic Academy, Prague)
11:00-11:20
Coffee Break
11:20-13:20
Alternative Politics and Challengers of the ‘Liberal Consensus’
Allan Sikk (University College London): Postcommunism and postmaterialism? The foundations of green politics in Estonia
Zsófia Lóránd (CEU, Budapest): Feminist criticism of the “new democracies” in Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s
Larisa Kurtović (University of California, Berkeley) Wither the state? Crisis of youth and longing for the system in the post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
Chair/Discussant: Adéla Gjuričová (ICH, Prague)
13:20-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:30
Politics of History
James Mark (University of Exeter): 1989 after 1989 in East-Central Europe
Adam Hudek (Institute of History, SAS, Bratislava): Anti-national freethinkers, nationalists and Bolsheviks. Wars over history after the fall of Communism. The case of Slovakia
Dušan Spasojević (University of Belgrade): Social cleavages, Europeanization and competing discourses in Serbia
Aleksandar Jakir (University of Split): Politics of memory and political divisions in Croatia
Chair/Discussant: Luka Lisjak Gabrielčič (CEU, Budapest)
16:30-16:50
Coffee Break
16:50-18:20
Politics of History II
Piotr Wciślik (CEU, Budapest): “Totalitarianism” and dissident political languages in Central Europe: late Communism and after
Georgiy Kasianov (Institute of Ukrainian History, UAS, Kiyv): Historians and politics in Ukraine and Belarus
Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest): A fate for a nation. Concepts of History and the Nation in the Hungarian politics, 1989-2010
Chair/Discussant: Muriel Blaive (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Public Space, Vienna)
19:30
Dinner, Restaurant Kolkovna Olympia, Vítězná 7, Praha 1
SUNDAY, 22 May
10:00-12:00
Constitutionalism, Parliamentarianism, Transition
Paul Blokker (University of Trento): Constitutions as vehicle of transformation and democratization
Jiří Přibáň (Cardiff University): The rights revolution? On the emerging jurisprudence and theories of the democratic rule of law
Zoltán Gábor Szűcs (Miskolc University): The abortion of a ’conservative constitutionalization’ An analysis of the documents of making a new constitution in Hungary between 1994-98
Oleksandr Androshchuk (Institute of Ukrainian History, UAS, Kiyv): “Federal Ukraine”: discourses, projects and political games (1989 – to present)
Chair/Discussant: András Bozóki (CEU, Budapest)
12:00-13:00
Concluding Discussion
