DAY 2 (17 May 2014, Saturday)

08:30 – Breakfast

09:00–11:00 – Panel 3: The Three C’s: Criticism, Censorship and Celebrations

• Pavel Janáćek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Czech Literature, The Czech Republic). From Literature Censored by Poets to Literature Censored by the Party: Evolution of the Stalinist Censorial System within the Czech Literary Culture of 1945-1955.

• Tomáš Glanc (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany). Two Kinds of Czechoslovakian Mayakovsky: The Power of the Voice (1927) and theDeath Celebration (1950).

• Imre József Balázs (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). The Impact of the Mihai Eminescu School of Literature and Literary Criticism on the Literatures of Romania, 1950-1955.

• Tamás Scheibner (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary). Competing Sovietisations: Book Publishing and Censorship in Post-WWII Hungary.

 

11:00–11:30 – Coffee break

11:30–13:30 – Panel 4: Formative Divisions

• Benjamin Robinson (Indiana University, USA).Representing Opportunity in the Early GDR—Between Behavior and Initiative.

• Helen Fehervary (Ohio State University, USA). Competing Visions: East German Writers and Intellectuals' Efforts to Create a Socialist Culture under Soviet/GDR Governance and in the Cold War Context of a Divided Nation.

• Anne Hartmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany). The Cultural Renewal in Eastern Germany: Mission Impossible for Soviet Cultural Officers and German Antifascists?

• Carl Tighe (University of Derby, UK). Number Crunching the Engineers of Human Souls: Polish Writers in Figures.

 

13:30–15:00 – Lunch

15:00–17:00 – Panel 5: Establishing the Literary Establishment

• Bavjola Shatro (Aleksandër Moisiu University, Albania). Albanian Literature during the Establishment of the Communist Regime: State, Ideology, Literary Tradition and the New Literature.

• Melinda Kalmár (Independent Researcher, Hungary). Poetics and Politics: Hungary Between Local and Central Visions on a New Mass Culture, 1945-1956.

• Zoran Milutinović (University College London, UK). ‘Yes, but…’: Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization of Socialist Realism in Serbia”.

• Katarzyna Śliwińska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland). The Institutionalization of a Doctrine: Socialist Realism in Poland.

 

17:00–17:30 – Coffee break

17:30–19:30 – Film Conspiracy of Doomed (1950) by Mikhail Kalatozov.

Introduction by Evgeny Dobrenko (University of Sheffield, UK)

 

20:00 – Dinner