[ALST-L] Fwd: Postcommunist Transitions Conf. (3pp)

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:22:48 -0500
From: Lisa Eschenbach <lmeschen at fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Postcommunist Transitions Conf. (3pp)

September 28, 1999

Dear Colleague,

We are writing to invite you to attend a conference at the Minda de
Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, from October
15-17, 1999, entitled "Postcommunist Transitions a Decade Later: How Far
East Can Western Europe Go?"  This conference is funded by the Program for
the Study of Germany and Europe of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies, Harvard University.  A program detailing the panels and
presenters is attached.

The conference will provide a forum for an intellectual reassessment of the
first decade of postcommunist political, economic, and cultural change.
The event will consist of two parts.  First, distinguished senior scholars
will speak on roundtables dealing with changes since 1989 in the region's
political economy and in the articulation of new forms of ideology,
identity, and culture.  The roundtables will be followed by a series of
panels where younger scholars of the region will be asked to present
empirical papers on selected specific theoretical issue areas.

We hope that you will be able to join us for what we expect will be an
interesting and stimulating few days.  Please contact Lisa Eschenbach
(email:  lmeschen at fas.harvard.edu; tel:  617-495-4303 x231) to confirm your
attendance.  We look forward to hearing from you very soon.

Sincerely,

Grzegorz Ekiert
Professor of Government,
 Harvard University

Stephen Hanson
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Washington

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Program

Postcommunist Transitions a Decade Later:
How Far East Can Western Europe Go?
October 15-17, 1999

Friday, October 15

1:00-3:00
Roundtable 1: The Postcommunist Political Economy
Chair:  GRZEGORZ EKIERT, Harvard University
Panelists:
VALERIE BUNCE, Cornell University
ELLEN COMISSO, University of California at Los Angeles
STEPHEN HOLMES, Princeton University
HERBERT KITSCHELT, Duke University
DAVID STARK, Columbia University
JAN ZIELONKA, European University Institute

3.00-3:30
Coffee break

3:30-5:30
Roundtable 2:  Postcommunist Identities
Chair: STEPHEN HANSON, University of Washington
Panelists:
DANIEL CHIROT, University of Washington
KEN JOWITT, University of California at Berkeley
GAIL KLIGMAN, University of California at Los Angeles
JACQUES RUPNIK, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
VLADIMIR TISMANEANU, University of Maryland at College Park


6:00
Reception


Saturday, October 16

10:00-12:00
Panel 1: Democracy, Partisanship, and Party Politics
Chair:  STEPHEN HANSON, University of Washington
Panelists:
ANNA GRZYMALA-BUSSE, Harvard University
JASON WITTENBERG, Harvard University
ALLISON STANGER, Middlebury College
Commentator:
HERBERT KITSCHELT, Duke University

 12:00-1:30
Lunch

1:30- 4:00
Panel 2: Post-communist States
Chair: 	GRZEGORZ EKIERT, Harvard University
Panelists:
JULIET JOHNSON, Dartmouth College
M. STEVEN FISH, University of California at Berkeley
TOMASZ INGLOT, Minnesota State University
MITCHELL ORENSTEIN, Syracuse University
Commentator:
DAVID STARK, Columbia University

4:00-4:30
Coffee break

4:30-6:30
Panel 3: Social Forces
Chair:	STEPHEN HANSON, University of Washington
Panelists:
AKOS RONA-TAS, University of California at San Diego
VESNA PUSIC, University of Zagreb
CECILIA CHESSA, Lewis and Clark College
Commentator:
KEN JOWITT, University of California at Berkeley

6:30-7:30
Wine and Cheese


Sunday, October 17

9:30-12:00
Panel 4: Institutional Diffusion and Culture
Chair:	GRZEGORZ EKIERT, Harvard University
Panelists:
ARISTA CIRTAUTAS, University of Virginia
JAN KUBIK, Rutgers University
JEFFREY KOPSTEIN, University of Colorado
DAVID REILLY, University of Colorado
Commentator:
VALERIE BUNCE, Cornell University

12:30-1:30
Lunch

This conference has been funded by the Program for the Study of Germany and
Europe at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies through a grant
from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany.


Lisa Eschenbach, Program Administrator
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge MA  02138
Tel:  617.495.4303 x231
Fax: 617.495.2198 or 617.495.8509
lmeschen at fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~ces