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2016: Models of Economic and Social Planning in Cold War Europe. Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s)

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Thursday May 26^th

10:00-10:30
Welcome and presentation of the project Shared modernities or competing modernities? Europe between West and East (1920s-1970s)

10:30-12:30 Panel 1 – Diverging regional projects
Chair and comments: Ludovic Tournès (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)

Simon Godard (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Paris 1-Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
COMECON and the failed coordination of economic planning in the socialist bloc in the 1960s

Lorenzo Mechi (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Padova)
European integration and economic planning: conflict, harmony or complementarity?

Michele Alacevich (Loyola AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Maryland)
Development and the balance of payments in postwar Europe

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12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

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13:30-15:30 Panel 2 – Building a common framework : trade regulations
Chair and comments: Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)

Sara Lorenzini (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Trento)
From plan to program: European Community aid and the Lomé revolution

Michel Christian (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
Planning the international trade? UNCTAD and the socialist economic planning

Francine McKenzie (Western AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Canada)Ìý
Planning peace and prosperity: the establishment of the GATT

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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

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16:00-18:00 Panel 3 – Experts in economic and social development between East and West
Chair and comments: Corinna Unger (European AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Institute, Florence)

Katja Naumann (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Leipzig)
East Central European experts in international institutions

Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, New York)
Shaping the canon of postwar economic thought: Polish economists and the UNESCO’s international social science

Sandrine Kott (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
Organizing work in socialism: the exportation of capitalist management culture to Eastern Europe during the Cold war

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20:00 Diner at the restaurant Le Dorian

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Ìý Friday May 27^th

9:00-11:00 Panel 4 – Learning from the East?
Chair and comments: James Mark (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Exeter)

Michal Pullmann, (Charles AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Prague)
Planning, efficiency and the socialist entrepreneurship

Isabelle Gouarné (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Amiens)
Mandatory planning versus indicative planning? Eastern itinerary of French planners (1960's-1970's)

Sari Autio-Sarasmo (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Helsinki)
Economic modernization: lessons from the Soviet experience

11:00-12:00 – Presentation of the project PanEur1970s
Pál Germuska (European AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Institute, Florence) will present the project PanEurope 1970s - Looking West: The European Socialist regimes facing pan-European cooperation and the European Community

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12:00-13:00 Lunch break

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13:00-15:00 Panel 5 – Peripheries of planning/Challenges for planning
Chair and comments: Davide Rodogno (Institut des hautes internationales et du développement, Geneva)

Jenny Andersson (Sciences po Paris)
A transnational history of prediction

Vitězslav Sommer (Institute for Contemporary History, Prague)
Expert knowledge and organization of state socialism: management studies, planning and governance in Czechoslovakia, 1960s-1970s

Ondrej Matejka (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
Social regulation, development and (de)humanization in the East and West: Christian-Marxist dialogues in the 1960s.

15:00-16:00 Concluding remarks
Corinna Unger (European AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Institute, Florence)

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