1989 Program Schedule
Princeton University, 22-24 October 2009
(All links to papers are password protected for participant viewing only)
Thursday, 22 October
Frist Multipurpose Room B
1pm-1:15pm
Greeting:
Piotr H. Kosicki, History, Princeton University
Introduction:
Katherine Newman, PIIRS, Princeton University
Stephen Kotkin, History/Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
1:15pm-3:15pm
Panel: Networks of Democracy and Information: National or Transnational?
Chair: Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Papers
Lissette Olivares, University of California, Santa Cruz
Caterina Preda, University of Bucharest
Commentators
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
Paul Sigmund, Princeton University
3:30pm-5:30pm
Panel: Religious Beliefs and Institutions: Rebirth? Stillbirth?
Chair: Stanley Katz, Princeton University
Papers
Anastasiya Ilyina, Polish Academy of Sciences
Vera Vesela, Institute of International Relations, Prague
Commentators
Robert P. Finn, Princeton University
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
Dinner Break
8pm-9pm Frist Multipurpose Room B
Film Screening
Tales of the Round Table – presented by director Piotr Bikont
Friday, 23 October
Room 219 Aaron Burr Hall
8:30am-10:30am
Panel: The Youth: Activism and Its Afterlife
Chair: Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
Papers
Rowena He, Harvard University
Tom Junes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Commentators
Piotr Bikont, Independent Filmmaker, Poland
Carma Hinton, George Mason University
10:45am-12:45pm
Roundtable: The Poland Story
Adam Michnik, Gazeta Wyborcza
Janusz Reykowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
Moderator: Piotr H. Kosicki, Princeton University
Break
2:15pm-4:15pm
Roundtable: The China Story
Perry Link, University of California, Riverside
Carma Hinton, George Mason University
Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania
Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics
Moderator: Jeremy Friedman, Princeton University
4.30pm-6.30pm
Panel: The Ethno-National Imaginary: Linchpin? Red Herring?
Chair: John Borneman, Princeton University
Papers
Jeremy Lamoreaux (with Tyler Stoddard), Brigham Young University – Idaho
Sevan Beurki Beukian, University of Alberta
Commentators
Mark Beissinger, Princeton University
Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Dinner Break
8:15pm-10pm
Film Screening
Gate of Heavenly Peace – presented by producer/director Carma Hinton
Saturday, 24 October
Room 219 Aaron Burr Hall
8:30am-10:30am
Panel: The Arts: Culture? Political Culture?
Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Papers
Yauheni Kryzhanouski, University of Strasbourg
Riikka Nisonen-Trnka, University of Helsinki
Commentators
Michael Gordin, Princeton University
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Break
10:45am-12:45pm
Panel: Ideas of 1989
Chair: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Papers
James Krapfl, McGill University
Hulda Proppé, Cambridge University
Commentators
Paul Berman, New York University
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland
Break
2:15pm-4:45pm
Roundtable: Revolution, Freedom, Truth: Global Perspectives
Breyten Breytenbach, New York University
Martin Krygier, University of New South Wales
István Rév, Central European University
Adrian Guelke, Queen’s University, Belfast
Moderator: Piotr H. Kosicki, Princeton University
6:00 Dinner