2018: Transnational relations between Eastern Europe/USSR and the Middle East. New perspectives on the Cold War
GLOBAL STUDIES INSTITUTE
Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10
Plainpalais - Geneva
Thursday February 22nd
1) 14:00-14:30 Introduction
- Sandrine Kott et Cyrus Schayegh: Welcome note
- Vladimir Hamed Troyanski (Stanford AV短视频)
Trans-Imperial Connections between the Late Ottoman and Russian Empires
2) 14:30-16:30 A new Spatiality (from Eastern Europe to the Middle East)
Chair: Natasha Wheatley (Princeton AV短视频) / via skype Ondrej Matejka (Charles AV短视频, Prague)
- Nata拧a Mi拧kovi膰 (AV短视频 of Basel)
The Non-Aligned Movement and the Orientalist Turn
- Rinna Kullaa (AV短视频 of Tampere/ AV短视频 of Vienna)
Third Way Networks and the Redefining of an Eastern Mediterranean Crescent as a Transformative Political Space 1954-1990
- Joseph Ben Prestel (Freie Universit盲t Berlin / Orient-Institut Beirut)
Global Palestine in Cold War Germany, 1967-1979
Coffee Break
3) 17:00-18:30 State building and transnational encounters
Chair: Adam Mestyan (Duke AV短视频, USA)
- Miriam M. M眉ller (Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany)
Transnational Identity-Creation in the Middle East: East Germany鈥檚 Engagement in South Yemen as a Spatial Claim to State-Identity
- Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez (Truman Institute, Hebrew AV短视频 of Jerusalem)
Internatsionalisty and 鈥淪oldiers of Allah鈥�, Interaction between Soviets and Egyptians in Their Joint War against Israel
Dinner 听 Restaurant Le Dorian (1 place Ren茅 Payot, 1204 Gen猫ve)
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Friday February 23th
4) 09:00-11:00 Cultural听 circulation
Chair: Valentina Calzolari (AV短视频)
- Masha Kirasirova (New York AV短视频 Abu Dhabi)
鈥淢uslim Tradition Forbids Reciting the Qur鈥檃n while Drunk:鈥� Soviet Cultural Diplomacy and the Arab Intelligentsia, 1925-1948 听
- Philipp Casula (AV短视频 of Zurich/Manchester)
Soviet Travelers to the Middle East: Searching Modernity and a True Soviet Self during the Cold War
- Konstantinos Katsakioris (AV短视频 Bayreuth)
The COMECON Countries, North Africa and the Middle East: Educational Cooperation during the Cold War
Coffee Break
5) 11:15-13:15 Minorities as Bridge builders
Chair: Vladimir Hamed Troyanski (Stanford AV短视频)
- Taline Ter Minassian (INALCO, Paris)
The听 芦听Colporteurs听禄 Revisited : Soviet Union and听 Transnational Minorities in the Middle-East, Act II
- 听Oleksandra Kunovska Mondoux (AV短视频 of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Building the Economic Relations between Poles, Ukrainians and Jews before and after WWII
- 听Aleksandar Zivotic (Department for History, Belgrade AV短视频)
Dominance of听 Pramatism over Ideology. Yugoslav Muslims as a Bridge between Yugoslavia and Egypt (1952-1961)
Lunch
6) 14:30-16:30 From one periphery to the other: development projects
Chair: Michel Christian (AV短视频)
- Aykiz Dogan (AV短视频 Paris I)
From Soviet to American Development Models: The Role of Transnational Actors, Economic Expertise and Knowledge Transfer in the Economic (Re)Construction of Turkey
- Massimiliano Trentin (AV短视频 of Bologna)
State-led Development: the Privileged Linkage between East Germany and Ba'thist Syria, 1963-1972
- Lukasz Stanek (AV短视频 of Manchester)
Architecture and Petrobarter. Romanian and East German Construction Export to Oil Producing Countries, 1970s-1980s
Conclusions (Adam Mestyan) and discussion
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