University of Exeter; University of Bristol 25.03.2013, Exeter, UK, Northcote House Council Chamber (in Northcote House, just above and behind the Forum in the centre of campus), University of Exeter, Streatham Campus. 15 minutes walk from Exeter St. Davids train station.
This workshop will consider the different ways in which social groups, activists, professionals, and socialist regimes conceptualised social space and its relationship to political conformity or opposition between the 1960s and 1989. Papers will address seven eastern European socialist states. Speakers will consider issues such as the relationship between architecture and opposition; clashes between regimes' and societies'
conceptions of how socialist spaces should be used; the emergence of political, sexual and cultural 'undergrounds'; the Communist Youth as a space of toleration and experimentation; and post-Communist mythologies of space and resistance.
Programme
From 11.15 - Tea and Coffee
11.30-11.45 - Introductory Remarks
11.45-1.15 - Josie McLellan (Bristol), To scale? Gay and lesbian spaces in East Berlin, 1968-1989 James Mark (Exeter), Where to be political? Activism and the Use of Space in Hungary 1965-75
1.15-2 - Lunch
2-3 - David Crowley (Royal College of Art), Architecture at the Limits of Critique in Late Socialism in Eastern Europe
3-5.15 - PhD panel
Agáta Drelová (Exeter), Re-producing the "Underground" in post-Communist Catholic Memory Anna Kan (Bristol), How Leningrad became a city of rock Break 4-4.15 Ljubica Spaskovska (Exeter), 'Pockets of freedom' - subversive youth institutions and narratives of freedom in late socialist Yugoslavia
5.15-5.45 closing discussion
All welcome. If you would like to attend, please contact Josie McLellan josie.mclellan [at] bris.ac.uk
[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Soz-u-Kult]