Labor and State Socialism in East Central Europe

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
CEU Community Only
Building: 
Nador u. 13
Room: 
001
Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 9:00am
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Date: 
Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Workshop on Labor and State Socialism in East Central Europe

(doctoral students’ work in progress)

 

Date & Venue: Saturday, 3rd of November, Room 002, Nador utca 13

Organizer: CEU, History Department

 

Session I

Chair: Adrian Grama

 

10:00 introduction

 

10:15 Alina Cucu (Sociology, CEU): The Factory as Knowledge Producing Unit

during Socialism

 

11.00 coffee break

 

11:15 Hanna Szemző (History, CEU.): Pension and Work: a Story of Unintended

Consequences during Socialism

 

12:30 lunch break

 

Session II

Chair: Hanna Szemző 

 

13:30 Adrian Grama (History, CEU): Labour’s Logic: The Social Limits of

Stalinization in Romania, 1941-1945

 

 

14:30 Dan Cîrjan (History, CEU): Organizing the ‘Wide Participation of the

Working Class’ in Socialist Romania

 

15:30 coffee break

 

16:00 final remarks on the state of labour studies and state socialism

 

Guest Comments:

 

Gijs Kessler, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Collection Development Russia and Eastern Europe at International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam

 

Joszef Böröcz, Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

 

CEU Faculty:

 

Jacek Kochanowicz, Visiting Professor, CEU, History Department

 

Marsha Siefert, Associate Professor, CEU, History Department

 

Susan Zimmermann, Professor, CEU, History & Gender Departments