Experts, Globalisation and Transformation in Late and Post-Socialism
Our workshop on Experts, Globalisation and Transformation in Late and Post-Socialism will be held at the University of Exeter on the 6 and 7 November, 2015.
Workshop Programme
Date: 6 November
Location: XFI Conference Room 1
ARRIVAL REFRESHMENTS (1 – 1.30pm)
Session 1: Why Study Experts in Late Socialism? Mapping a New Field
(1.30 – 2.30pm)
Chair: James Mark (Exeter)
Session 2: Legal Experts
(2.45 – 4.15pm)
Chair: Nelly Bekus (Exeter)
Michal Kopecek (Prague), Socialist Legality and Jurisprudence in ECE: From Discipline of Governance to Negotiating Change
Ned Richardson-Little (Exeter), Human Rights Experts in ECE
Raluca Grosescu (Exeter), International Criminal Law and Experts in ECE
REFRESHMENT BREAK
Session 3: Transnational Experts
(4.45 – 6.15pm)
Chair: Tobias Rupprecht (Exeter)
Corina Dobos (Bucharest), Romania/Transnational Demographers
Petr Roubal (Prague), Prague’s Urban Planners in the Late 1980s
Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter), Yugoslav Experts and the Discovery of Africa
Date: 7 November
Location: Forum Seminar Room 1
Session 4: Economic Experts
(9.30 – 11am)
Chair: David Thackeray (Exeter)
James Mark (Exeter), Hungary/Economic Experts and Re-imagining the World Economic System
Vitek Sommer (Prague), Czechoslovakia/Forecasting Expertise -“Prognostika” – and its Relationship to Economics
Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw), Poland/Industrial Transformation and Experts
REFRESHMENT BREAK
Session 5: Presenting the Overall Projects of Each Team
(11.30am – 12.45pm)
James Mark, Michal Kopecek, Raluca Grosescu, Corina Dobos,
Joanna Wawrzyniak + general discussion
LUNCH
Session 6: PhD panel
(2 – 2.30pm)
Anna Calori (Exeter), Yugoslav Economists and Globalisation
Session 7: Studying Experts in Late Socialism: Approaches, Methodologies, Archives, Oral Histories
(2.30 – 3.30pm)
REFRESHMENT BREAK