14.11.2018 bis 16.11.2018
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum
Workshop: State-Led Modernization – a Tool to Analyze and Explain Wider Developments
Day 1: Wednesday November 14, 2018
Universitätsbibliothek, Veranstaltungsraum 1/09
18:15-19:45 Uhr Key Note I
Russian Modernization – Choices, Structures and Agencies
Sari Autio-Sarasmo (Aleksanteri-Instutite Helsinki/University of Tampere)
Day 2: Thursday November 15, 2018
GD 02/156
9:00-9:45 Uhr Impulse Lecture by Sari Autio-Sarasmo
9:45-11:00 Uhr Part I Discussion of pre-circled articles on theories regarding modernization
11:00-11:30 Uhr Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Uhr Part II Discussion of pre-circled articles on theories regarding modernization
12:30-13:30 Uhr Lunch
13:30-14:15 Uhr Matthias Völkel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Analyzing science: Theories of modernization vs. Sociology of scientific knowledge?
14:15-15:00 Uhr Paper Presentation
Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (Central European University, Budapest)
Self-Service and Self-Management?: Department Stores and the Modernization of Retail in Socialist Yugoslavia in the 1960s
15:00-15:45 Uhr Coffee Break
15:45-16:30 Uhr Veera Laine (University of Helsinki)
Pride or prejudice? Meanings and contexts of 'nationalism' in Russia 2008-2018
16:30-18:00 Uhr Key Note II
Post-Stalin Soviet State as a model of illiberal governmentality
Prof. Alexander Bikbov (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Maurice Halbwachs Research Center (Paris))
18:30 Uhr Conference Dinner
Day 3: Friday November 16, 2018
GD 02/156
9:00-9:45 Uhr Susan Ikonen (University of Helsinki)
Isn't empirical research enough? Some problems with finding suitable theories to help study Soviet cultural life on a micro level between 1946 and 1991
9:45-10:30 Uhr Iwar Matern (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Modernization through Indoctrination? The Russian-Orthodox Church as Agent of Patriotic Education and State-led Nationalism in the Imperial Army
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Uhr Saskia Geisler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Class struggles, forbidden spaces and Eigen-Sinn. Can theories of modernization help to characterize everyday interactions across the “Iron Curtain”?
11:45-12:15 Final Discussion
Contact person for registration or further questions:
Saskia Geisler