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To mark the twentieth anniversary of the watershed events of 1989, the Cornell Institute for European Studies and the Luigi Einaudi Chair program are sponsoring the interdisciplinary conference, “1989 in Europe and the World” to be held on November 19 and 20, 2009 at A.D. White House, Cornell University.

The conference seeks to broaden our perspective on the watershed year 1989 by discussing what came before and what happened after, in the broader European as well as in the global context. Too often discussion of 1989 is limited to the events themselves and their legacy in East-Central Europe. While these were indeed significant, the conference seeks to connect the events in East-Central Europe to broader movements and ideas in Europe and around the world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (Political Science, Literature, German Studies, Economics, Anthropology, History, and Sociology).

The conference will include participants from other universities as well as Cornell professors and graduate students. Three thematic panels will feature (1) reflections on/memories of 1989, wherein participants share their experiences of 1989 and how the changes brought on by the events of the time affected scholarship in their field; (2) 1989 in Eastern and Western Europe; and (3) 1989 in the World.

Cosponsored by the Cornell Institute for European Studies, Luigi Einaudi Chair Program, the East Europeanist Circle and the Institute for German Cultural Studies.

Time: Thursday, November 19 at 5pm and Friday, November 20 from 9am to 5pm

Location: All events will be held in A.D. White House.

November 19, 2009

5:00pm Keynote Speaker

Valerie Bunce (Cornell University)

“Lessons of 1989: Democracy, Diffusion and Dictatorship”

Reception to follow

November 20, 2009

9:45am Opening Remarks

Chris Anderson (Cornell University)

10:00am - noon Experiences of 1989

Panelists: 

Douglas Holmes (SUNY Binghamton)

Don Kalb (Central European University)

Bela Greskovits (Central European University)

David Ost (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)

Commentators:

Mabel Berezin (Cornell University)

Chen Jian (Cornell University)

1:00 - 3:00pm 1989 in Europe

Panelists:

Florian Bieber (University of Kent)

Yuliya Komska (Dartmouth College)

Fabio Armao (University of Turin)

Camille Robcis (Cornell University)

Commentators:

Chip Gagnon (Ithaca College)

Stas Shuripa

(Moscow Inst. of Contemporary Art)

3:30 - 5:30pm 1989 in the World

Panelists:

Ed Baptist (Cornell University)

David Patel (Cornell University)

Commentators:

Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)

Haiping Yan (Cornell University)

5:30pm Closing Comments

Holly Case (Cornell University)

Reception to follow