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CBEES Annual Conference: Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2019 CENTRE FOR BALTIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES CBEES ANNUAL CONFERENCE 7–8 NOVEMBER 2019 Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2019: Orders and Freedoms Welcome to the CBEES Annual Conference 2019! The Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), founded in 2005, is a multidisciplinary research centre at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Its purpose is to develop, coordinate and conduct research on the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe, which is also the most important research profile at Södertörn University. CBEES conducts a wide range of activities, including advanced seminars, public lectures, courses, workshops, conferences, summer universities, and network meetings. It publishes Baltic Worlds, a printed scholarly journal that is distributed in more than 50 countries. Moreover, CBEES hosts the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), in which some 95 PhD students have successfully defended their doctoral theses. Presently, CBEES is also the National Centre for the Swedish part of the Baltic University Programme (BUP). The theme of the 2019 conference is “Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2019: Orders and Freedoms”. The autumn of 1989 and the early 1990s are often remembered as a time of euphoria and enthusiasm: the former communist states were supposedly “returning to Europe” and moving towards freedom and democracy within the framework of the emerging European Union. However, since then, developments have been far from euphoric. It appears that a combination of Euroscepticism, populism, illiberalism and nationalism is tearing the region apart. What remains of “1989” and where do we go from here? The aim of this conference is to discuss events, policies and ideas in the shaping of the contemporary European order in the social, political and cultural spheres. This conference – and CBEES as a research centre – is generously supported by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen). Thank you for making this annual conference possible! Also, I would like to express my gratitude to the organising committee at CBEES: Irina Sandomirskaja, Tora Lane and Irina Seits; as well as to our colleagues Ann-Mari Sätre (Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University) and Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa (Lund University), for collaborating with us on the planning and organisation of this year’s conference. Finally, I would like to thank Teresa Kulawik and Yulia Gradskova (Gender Studies, Södertörn University) for organising the witness seminar Tear Down this Wall: Feminists Revisit the Break- Ups and Breakthroughs of 1989, and for letting us use this as a pre-conference event. I wish you all an enjoyable and engaging conference! Joakim Ekman, Director of the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University Dear participants, Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) is pleased to fund the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, and its Annual Conference. The mission of the Foundation is to support research and doctoral studies, as well as academic infrastructure at Södertörn University. The Foundation’s regional focus is the Baltic and East European region. This year is the 25th anniversary of the Foundation. The theme of this year’s conference shows that the Foundation’s mission to fund research and research activities related to this area is as important today as it was 25 years ago. The programme of the conference is both interesting and timely, and I congratulate the organising committee on having created such an important agenda. I wish you a successful conference! Britta Lövgren, Research director Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2019: Orders and Freedoms The purpose of this conference is to commemorate and problematise the 30th anniversary of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall. The conference will be dedicated to this event and its aftermath, especially in association with the end of the Cold War and the Europeanisation of the former Second World. Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Eastern Bloc, 1989 is often remembered as a time of euphoria and enthusiasm. The former communist states were supposedly ”returning to Europe” and moving towards freedom and democracy within the framework of the European Union. However, since then, development has been far from euphoric: it appears that a combination of Euroscepticism, populism, nationalism and authoritarianism is tearing the region apart. What remains of ”1989”, and where do we go from here? What is important to remember and what has been left to oblivion? The aim of this conference is to discuss events, policies and ideas in the shaping of the contemporary European order in the social, political and cultural spheres. Organizing Committee: Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor, CBEES Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa, Professor, Lund University Irina Seits, Administrative support, CBEES Ann-Mari Sätre, Associate Professor, IRES, Uppsala University Tora Lane, Research Associate, CBEES Keynote speakers: • LAVINIA STAN Jules Leger Research Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University Lavinia Stan is a Comparative Politics specialist, working on democracy and demo- cratisation – especially religion and politics, as well as transitional justice – in post- communist Europe. My research has been generouslyfunded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) with multiple research grants. I obtained a doctorate from the University of Toronto, and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Ovidius of Constanta, Romania. Her publications include Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe, and Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania (co-authored with Dr. Lucian Turcescu, published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and 2007, respectively); Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience (co-edited with Dr. Nadya Nedelsky, Cambridge University Press, 2015), Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, 2009), as well as Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania: New Insights (edited with Lucian in 2017). • JUDITH PALLOT Professor (emeritus), Christ Church and University of Oxford, Director of Research, University of Helsinki, President of BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) From 2016-19 she was President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. She has been researching and teaching in Russian Area Studies for four decades. There are two major strands to her research. The first concerns the adaptations of rural household producers to the challenges of agrarian reform and economic transformation. The second is the treatment of difference in the Russian penal system and the Soviet legacies in penal culture throughout the region of the former USSR and ECE. In 2018, she was awarded an advance grant to continue her studies of penality in the former Soviet Union and communist successor states, which she conducts at the Aleksanteri Institute. She has published extensively in journals and is the author and co-author of over ten books, including Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin’s Project of Rural Transformation. (Oxford University Press, 1999); with Tatyana Nefedova, Russia Unknown Agri- culture (Oxford University press, 2007); with Elena Katz, Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women and Prisoners in Russia, (IB Tauris, 2016) and with Laura Piacentini, Gender, Geography and Punishment: Women’s Experiences of Carceral Russia, (OUP, 2012). WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER – THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER: Södertörn University, Stockholm – Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) 1 – 5 Stairwells A MB 503 – 5th floor, MB-wing B MB 505 - 5th floor, MB-wing C MA 796 – 7th floor, Main building D MA 756 – 7th floor, Main building E MA 624 – 6th floor, Main building F F11 – 11th floor, Building F G Restaurant Allé Elva – 4th floor, Library H Train station Flemingsberg http://bit.do/fb2DH FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER: Uppsala University – Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) IRES Library (room A533), 3rd floor – Rådhuset IRES Seminar room (room B519) 3rd floor – Rådhuset Sal 1/Lecture hall 1 (room B316), 1st floor – Rådhuset Sal 2/Lecture hall 2 (room A304), 1st floor – Rådhuset Brusewitz-salen (room 3312), auditorium, 3rd floor – Gamla Torget http://bit.do/fb2Ck PROGRAMME – CBEES Annual Conference 2019: WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER – THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER: PROGRAMME Wednesday 6 November – SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY Wednesday 6 November 2019 Södertörn University, Stockholm – 14.30- Early Registration for the Conference Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) 15.00 Venue: outside MA 624 15.00- Pre-Conference Witness Seminar: Tear Down This Wall 17.45 Venue: MA 624 Commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath from a gender and feminist perspective. What did fall of the wall mean for women? What do we know about feminist and women’s activism in different communist countries and regions around 1989? How is the role of women in the 1989 events remembered? And what consequences did the end of state socialism and demolishing of the Iron Curtain have for feminist theory and activism on both sides of the former line? Special guests: • Slavenka Drakulic (Croatia) • Annett Gröschner (Germany) • Tamara Hundorova (Ukraine) • Ewa Kulik-Bielińska (Poland) • Olga Lipovskaia (Russia) Moderated and
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