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PROMISES OF 1968: CRISIS, ILLUSION, AND UTOPIA (Washington D.C., November 6-7, 2008) |
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NOVEMBER 6TH, 2008 Venue: Embassy of Romania, 1607 23rd Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20008 8.30 – 9.00 a.m. - Registration 9.00 – 9.30 am - Welcome address by Ambassador Adrian Vieriţa Opening Remarks - Horia - Roman Patapievici, President of the Romanian Cultural Institute 9.30 – 10.20 am - Keynote Lecture Ambassador Martin Palouš , Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations: On Revolutions and Revolutionaries: the Lessons of the Years of Crisis 10.20-10.30 – Coffee break 10.30 am – 12.20 pm - Re-thinking the Political and the Dynamics of Modernity Discussant: Charles King, Ion Raţiu Professor of Romanian Studies & Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University Dick Howard, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook: Experiencing 1968 in Prague and Paris Jeffrey Isaac, Rudy Professor, Indiana University Bloomington: Hannah and Me: Reflections on 1968, and on Growing Up Not So Absurd in New York City Jan-Werner Müller, Associate Professor, Princeton University: What Did They Think They Were Doing? The Political Thought of ‘68 Tereza Brânduşa Palade, Associate Professor, The National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest: Post-Marxist Mentality and the Intellectual Challenge to Ideology after 1968. 12.20 – 2.00 pm: Lunch buffet 2.00 – 4.30 pm - Marxist Revisionism, Dissent and the Struggle for Civil Society Discussant: Charles Gati (Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, School of Advanced International Studies/Johns Hopkins University) Jiři Pehe, Director of New York University in Prague: The Prague Spring and its Post-Communist Memory Bradley Abrams, Associate Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University & President of the Czechoslovak Studies Association: From Revisionism to Dissent: The Creation of Post-Marxism in Central Europe in the Wake of 1968 Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History, University of Maryland College Park: The Questions of Communism and Violence in West Germany Cătălin Avramescu, Associate Professor, University of Bucharest: Socialism Liberalism Democracy: Lessons from Eastern Europe Karol Sołtan, Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland in College Park: The Divided Spirit of the Sixties ********** NOVEMBER 7th , 2008 Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – Auditorium, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 9.00 – 9.15 am: Welcome address Christian Ostermann, Director Cold War International History Project 9.15 – 10.00 am: Keynote lecture Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University: 1968 in Context: ‘East”-‘West’ and ‘North’-‘South’ 10.00 – 10.15 am: Coffee break 10.15 am - 12.00 pm - The Crisis of ‘Really Existing Socialism’ and the Failure of “Socialism with a Human Face” Discussant: John Lampe, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University & Senior Fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies: The Kremlin and the Prague Spring Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, New School University: East European Left before and after 1968 Nicholas J. Miller, Chair of the Department of History, Boise State University: Yugoslavia in 1968: Hopes, Crisis, Disappointment Cristian Vasile, Researcher, „Nicolae Iorga” History Institute, the Romanian Academy: 1968 Romania: Intellectuals and the Failure of Reform 12.00 – 1.30 pm: Lunch break 1.30 – 3.20 pm - Post-Marxist Utopia and the Rediscovery of Radicalism Discussant: Jiři Pehe, Director of New York University in Prague: The Prague Spring and its Post-Communist Memory Paul Berman, Distinguished Writer in Residence, New York University: Beyond Ideology: the Politics of Utopia and the Utopia of Politics Victor Zaslavsky, Professor of Political Sociology, LUISS - the Free International University for Social Sciences, Rome: The Prague Spring: Resistance and Surrender of the Italian Communist Party Aurelian Crăiuţu, Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington: Thinking Politically: Raymond Aron and the 1968 Moment in France Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Research Scholar, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University: Remembering March 1968 3.20 – 3.30 pm: Coffee Break 3.30 – 4.50 pm: Closing Session Concluding Paper: Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics & Director, Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, Government and Politics University of Maryland at College Park & Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania and Bogdan Cristian Iacob, PhD Candidate, Central European University: Betrayed Promises: Ceauşescu, The Romanian Communist Party, and the Crisis of World Communism in 1968. Final Remarks: Vladimir Tismaneanu: From 1968 to 1989 5.00 – 6.30 pm: Dinner buffet |
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