2018: Transnational relations between Eastern Europe/USSR and the Middle East. New perspectives on the Cold War

Thursday February 22nd

1) 14:00-14:30 Introduction

Vladimir Hamed Troyanski (Stanford University)
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 University) / via skype Ondrej Matejka (Charles University, Prague)

Nataša Mišković (University of Basel)
The Non-Aligned Movement and the Orientalist Turn

Rinna Kullaa (University of Tampere/ University of Vienna)
Third Way Networks and the Redefining of an Eastern Mediterranean Crescent as a Transformative Political Space 1954-1990

Joseph Ben Prestel (Freie Universität 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 University, USA)

Miriam M. Müller (Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany)
Transnational Identity-Creation in the Middle East: East Germany’s Engagement in South Yemen as a Spatial Claim to State-Identity

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez (Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Internatsionalisty and “Soldiers of Allah”, Interaction between Soviets and Egyptians in Their Joint War against Israel

Dinner Restaurant Le Dorian (1 place René Payot, 1204 Genève)
https://www.le-dorian-cafe-restaurant.ch/

4) 09:00-11:00 Cultural circulation

Chair: Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva)

Masha Kirasirova (New York University Abu Dhabi)
“Muslim Tradition Forbids Reciting the Qur’an while Drunk:” Soviet Cultural Diplomacy and the Arab Intelligentsia, 1925-1948

Philipp Casula (University of Zurich/Manchester)
Soviet Travelers to the Middle East: Searching Modernity and a True Soviet Self during the Cold War

Konstantinos Katsakioris (University 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 University)

Taline Ter Minassian (INALCO, Paris)
The « Colporteurs » Revisited : Soviet Union and Transnational Minorities in the Middle-East, Act II

Oleksandra Kunovska Mondoux (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Building the Economic Relations between Poles, Ukrainians and Jews before and after WWII

Aleksandar Zivotic (Department for History, Belgrade University)
Dominance of 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 (University of Geneva)

Aykiz Dogan (University 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 (University of Bologna)
State-led Development: the Privileged Linkage between East Germany and Ba'thist Syria, 1963-1972

Lukasz Stanek (University of Manchester)
Architecture and Petrobarter. Romanian and East German Construction Export to Oil Producing Countries, 1970s-1980s

Conclusions (Adam Mestyan) and discussion

13 déc. 2017