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