Programme VSU 2011
"Post-Socialist Cultures and Societies"
European-University Frankfurt (Oder) - Germany
19th June - 05th July 2011
Supported by DAAD with funding from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
Schedule VSU 2011 - overview (pdf)
Welcome Adress:
Dr. Gunter Pleuger (President of the European University Viadrina)
Keynote Lecture: "Building European Integration. A Visit to Three Current Construction Sites"
Prof. Dr. em. Claus Offe (Berlin):
Core Courses
Core Course I: The role of history and cultural legacies in post-socialist politics
Apl.-Prof. Dr. Gert-Ruediger Wegmarshaus
Core Course II: Post-socialist political regimes and socio-economic developments
Dr. Jan Wielgohs
Seminars / Lectures / Workshops / Excursions
Prof. Dr. Dieter Bingen (German Institute for Polish Studies Darmstadt)
Lecture: "Landscapes of meories after commuism: processes of remembering and forgetting"
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft (University Erfurt)
Lecture: "EU Foreign and Neighborhood Policy"
Prof. Dr. Beverly Crawford (University of Berkeley, California)
PD Dr. Thomas Schaarschmidt (ZZF Potsdam)
Lecture: "Revolution, Transformation and Reform" and Seminar "Transformation Theroies"
PD Dr. phil. habil. Raj Kollmorgen (University Magdeburg)
Workshop: "GDR Biographies in Oral History"
Maria Hiebsch (IAH)
Seminar: "City Study Tour. Collective Memories in FFO and Slubice"
Dr. Felix Ackermann (IAH)
Exkurxion: 25th June: Eisenhuettenstadt
Excursion: 26th June: Berlin
Lecture (CC I): "Poetry and Memory in Soviet and Independent Lithuania: The Stoic and the Neurotic: Tomas Venclova and Sigitas Parulskis"
Dr. Claudia Sinnig (Freelance Writer)
Workshop (CC I): "Pride and prejudice. History in Polish-German relations"
Dr. Maciej Gorny
Workshop: "Forms of Memory of war and injustice"
Alice von Bieberstein / Dr. Felix Ackermann (IAH)
Workshop: "Reflections and Conclusion on the Workshop "Forms of Memory"
Alice von Bieberstein / Dr. Felix Ackermann (IAH)
Lecture: "Peculiatities of Post-Socialist Party Systems"
Dr. Claudia Matthes (HU-Berlin)
Lecture and Seminar "Church and Religion in Post-Socialist Europe"
Dr. Olaf Müller (University Muenster)
Lecture: "The way of FIDESZ from the Young Democrats' oppositon party to the governing populist party"
Istvan Hegedüs, PhD
Seminar: "The European Neigbourhood Policy: Towards Post-Socialist Europe"
Dr. Anne Faber (EUV)
Seminar (CC II): "Social Inequality in CEE"
Prof. Dr. Anna Schwarz (European-University Viadrina)
Seminar: "The Stasi in German and European Memory"
Dr. Jens Gieseke (Center for Contemporary History Potsdam)
Workshop: "The Communist State Security Police (Stasi) Files"
Dr. Bernd Florath
Lecture and Seminar: "The Long Shadow of Stalinism in Central and Eastern Europe"
Prof. Dr. Olaf Mertelsmann
Lecture and Seminar (in Core-Course II) "Post-Socialist Economies"
Prof. Dr. Raul Eamets (University of Tartu/ Estonia)
Lecture (CC I): "Katyn"
Prof. Dr. Werner Benecke (EUV)
Workshop and Excursion: 02nd July: Oder-River
Stephan Felsberg (IAH)
Excursion 03rd July: Dresden
Seminar: "Legal Culture and the Rule of Law in CEE"
Stefan Hanisch, M. A. (EUV)
Lecture (CC 1): "The culture of Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Russia"
Dr. Michael Hagemeister (EUV)