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TransnationalContactsintheSocialistWorld:
AWorkshopatTuftsUniversity
March27,2015
CenterfortheHumanitiesatTufts(CHAT)
FungHouse‐48ProfessorsRow
SponsoredbytheCenterfortheHumanitiesatTufts(CHAT),theDepartmentofHistory,theDepartmentofGerman,Russian,and
AsianLanguages&Literatures,andtheAndrewW.MellonFoundation
9:30–9:45
Introduction(RachelApplebaum,TuftsUniversity)
9:45–11:00
PanelI:IntermediariesofSocialistInternationalism
1.ZacharyScarlett(ButlerUniversity)"The(Re)BirthoftheSocialistWorld:TransnationalContactinMaoistChina"
2.EricAllina(UniversityofOttawa)“BuildingtheRevolutionAbroad?MozambicanWorkersintheGermanDemocraticRepublic”
Chair:RachelApplebaum(TuftsUniversity)
Discussant:DavidEngerman(BrandeisUniversity)
11:00–11:15 CoffeeBreak
11:15–12:30 PanelII:FriendshipacrosstheBloc
1.AlexHazanov(UniversityofPennsylvania)“ReceivingDearGuests:EastEuropeanTouristsandtheLimitsofSovietSoftPower”
2.NicholasLevy(StanfordUniversity)“AFriendshipForgedinSteel?TheConstructionofHutaKatowiceandSoviet‐Polish
Collaborationinthe1970s”
Chair:GregoryCarleton(TuftsUniversity)
Discussant:JessieLabov(TheOhioStateUniversity/TheDavisCenter,HarvardUniversity)
12:30–1:45
Lunch
1:45–3:00
PanelIII:ImaginingtheSocialistWorldafterStalin
1.KatharineHolt(St.AndrewsUniversity)“MatureLiteraryAmbassadors:TikhonovandSkosyrevinthePostwarEra”
2.ElizabethBanks(NewYorkUniversity)““Humankind’sFirstZoneofFreedom:FrelimoImaginestheSocialistWorld,1965–1980”
Chair:ElizabethFoster(TuftsUniversity)
Discussant:MargaretLitvin(BostonUniversity)
3:00–3:15
CoffeeBreak
3:15–4:00
BrainstormingSessionforFurtherResearchonTransnationalContactsintheSocialistWorld(allparticipants)
*Paperswillbepre‐circulated.PleasecontactRachel.Applebaum@Tufts.eduifyouwishtoattend.
OrganizedbyRachelApplebaum,MellonPostdoctoralFellow,theCenterfortheHumanitiesatTufts(CHAT)