Organizers

Dr. Elisa Satjukow, Leipzig University (elisa.satjukow@uni-leipzig.de) and Dr. Friedrich Cain, University of Vienna (friedrich.cain@univie.ac.at) in cooperation with the Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe” (University of Vienna), the Center for Transdisciplinary Historical-Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), the Southeast Europe Association, and The University of New Europe.

=> Further information, a programme etc. will be published here in early August 2023.

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Programme

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
18:00–19:30 Public Roundtable Universities at War
in coop. with The University of New Europe and the Research Plattform Transformations and Eastern Europe
Alte Kapelle, Campus of the University of Vienna
(Spitalgasse 2/4, Hof 2.8, 1090 Vienna)

The roundtable will provide a panorama of case studies analysing how universities have been implicated and affected by wars and conflicts from the Second World War and the Cold War. It will conclude with a reflection on the way academic communities are affected by Russia’s war against Ukraine. They have also been sites of conflicts such as gender wars. This panel concentrates on European academic institutions as sites, agents, collaborators, resisters, as well as victims of military conflicts from the Second World War to Russia’s War against Ukraine.

Chair: Philipp Schmädeke (Science at Risk, Berlin)
Discussants: Alexander Etkind (CEU), Andrea Pető (CEU), Dina Gusejnova (LSE)
Mykola Makhortykh (Univ. Bern), Kirstine Arentoft Kristensen (Univ. of Vienna)

After the roundtable discussion we invite for an informal reception.

Thursday, 28 September 2023
10:00–10:30 Introduction
Elisa Satjukow (Leipzig Univ.), Friedrich Cain (Univ. of Vienna)

10:30–12:00 Panel 1: Universities during WW II and Repercussions
Chair: tba.
Comment: Anna Echterhölter (Univ. of Vienna)
Olena Dobosh (SoftServe, L’viv): The Impact of Territorial Shifts and Political Censorship on University Place Memory. A Comparative Study of L’viv, Wroclaw, and Vilnius Universities
Friedrich Cain (Univ. of Vienna): University Projects in Occupied Poland, 1939–1945
Dina Gusejnova (LSE): Internment Universities During the Second World War

12:00–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 Panel 2: From Late Socialism into the 1990ies
Chair: Julia Anna Tyll-Schranz (Univ. of Vienna)
Comment: Claudia Kraft (Univ. of Vienna)
Vedran Duančić (Univ. of Klagenfurt): What’s the Point of Higher Education in Late Self-Managerial Socialism? A Collective Autobiography of Yugoslav Universities
Irina Antoshchuk (Univ. of Amsterdam): Late Soviet Universities: Embeddedness in Scientific Networks and Its Effects
Axel Kahl (Univ. of Potsdam): The Transformation of East German Higher Education in the 1980/90s Potsdam in Comparative Perspectives
Mitchell Ash (Univ. of Vienna): “As in the West, so on Earth”? Theses (or Remarks) on the Transformations of Higher Education in Eastern Germany after Unification

16:00–18:00 Panel 3: New Projects between Democracy and Privatisation
Chair: Dorine Schellens (Leiden Univ.)
Comment: Miranda Jakiša (Univ. of Vienna)
Elisa Satjukow (Univ. Leipzig): (Re)making Postsocialist Academia – The Case of CEU
Matei Gheboianu (Univ. of Bucharest): The Private Higher Education System in Romania after 1989. The Case of the “Spiru Haret“ University
Andrei Ilyin (Moscow): Founding New Universities in the “New” Russia in the 1990s: Innovation and Continuity with Soviet and International Legacies
Filip Balunović (Univ. of Belgrade): “Subversive Film Festival” and “Open University”: The Importance of Non-Institutional Education for Critical Consciousness in Former Yugoslavia – the Case of the Open University Sarajevo

19:00 Joint Dinner

Friday, 29 September 2023
9:00-11:00 Panel 4: Backlash: Neoliberalisms, Conservatisms, Authoritarianisms
Chair: Rebekka Pflug (Univ. of Vienna)
Comment: Jan Surman (Masaryk Inst. and Archives, Prague)
Iuliia Gataulina (Tampere Univ.): De/re/composing Authoritarian-Neoliberal Assemblages: Ethnography of Russian Universities and Beyond
Pavjo Gjini (Graz Univ.): The Autonomy between the University and Neoliberalism: The Case of Albania
Ádám Havas (Univ. of Barcelona) / Ágoston Fáber (Budapest): The Rise of Heteronomous Academia on the EU’s Borderlands
Ingrid Verebes (ELTE, Budapest): The Rise and Institutionalization of Family Science in Hungary

11:30-13:30 Panel 5: Re-Conceptualisations: (New) University Practices
Chair: Jan C. Behrends (Europ. Univ. Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder)
Comment: Ellen Rutten (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Alla Morozova (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): A Pedagogy of Equity and Cooperation among Dissenting Educators of post-Soviet Russia: Revisiting the ideas of Alexander Bogdanov and Paulo Freire in Contemporary Pedagogical Practices – the Case of the Free University Moscow
Victoria Pardini (Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.): The Case of DOXA in Critiquing Academic Freedom at Russian Universities
Nikola Lero (Univ. of Sheffield): From a college dropout to a Fulbright Scholar: Memories of Academic Charlatanism and Academic Failure in post-war Bosnia
Lidia Yatluk (Univ. of Groningen): Military Censorship in Russian Universities

13:30-14:00 Closing Comments

Supported by    

Vienna University
Leipzig University
UNE – The University of the New Europe
Southeast Europe Association

PARTICIPATION

The roundtable on Wednesday (27 Sept. 2023) is open to the public.
Guest participation on Thursday and Friday (28 and 29 Sept. 2023) is possible, but due to limited room capacity we ask to register in advance. Please contact friedrich.cain@univie.ac.at