Conference concluded

Conference has now been happily concluded!

It seems everything went very smoothly, participants enjoyed their time and heard interesting presentations.
Participants will be contacted about possible post-conference publications and other issues via e-mail.
We wish everyone a very good summer and all the best,
Conference Organizers

Weather in Jyväskylä

   Dear all,
   currently the weather broadcast for the conference days looks quite good: little rain on Friday, but otherwise some sunshine and temperature +20C. That's good news. For the Saturday evening it currently shows the best possible whether, almost no wind, no clouds. Let's hope for that. But be prepared that in Finland even a 3-day weather broadcast can go terribly wrong.
   Weather does not change all that quickly in Finland, but broadcasting is difficult. You can check my favorite broadcaster site here:
http://www.yr.no/sted/Finland/Västra_Finland/Jyväskylä/langtidsvarsel.html
   Looking forward to meeting you all,
   Simo on behalf of the conference team

Map for the conference

You can access a map of Jyväskylä with markings of important places during the conference. Map can be found here:  http://g.co/maps/ntkbf 
Map reveals that Jyväskylä is hardly a big city: everything you need to reach after you arrive to train / bus station can be accessed by foot. Even the farthest hotel is less than 1,5km from the conference venue. Street called "Kauppakatu" meaning basically "shopping street"is where most of the shops and restaurants are. It is pedestrian street in the center, but it also takes you to campus. Another option to access campus is to use "yliopistonkatu" which translates into "University street". 

Working papers

Working papers can now be found from the web storage at: https://www.jyu.fi/hum/eastwest
Papers are arranged in alphabetical order after author's family names. Abstracts can also be found in a single file entitled "Abstracts".
Papers that were submitted after the deadline can be found from at the end of the list and are thus not in the alphabetical order.
Network key that is needed to access files has been communicated to all the presenters. Audience can request the key from the conference e-mail.

Train discount tickets

For those of you that come from Helsinki by train, there are currently discount tickets for certain trains offered, if you buy them beforehand. Usually Helsinki-Jyväskylä train is 51€ oneway, currently some are offered for 19€, but only until 17 May.

Trains that come with such offer are those that leave Helsinki at 6:06, 12:30 and 18:30. Especially Thursday morning train takes you to Jyväskylä right in time for the opening of the conference.

From Jyväskylä to Helsinki trains that leave 6:22 (not on Sunday) 17:13 and 21:33 are also on discount.

You need to book these tickets from train company's website that can be found here: http://www.vr.fi/en/index.html

Program for the conference

   Updated conference program from May 28 is now available. Program structure can be found below:

Program

	Thu 14 June		Fri 15 June		Sat 16 June
9:00	Registration and coffee S-building, 2nd floor	9:00	Panels B1 – B3  (F106, F205, S204)	9:00	Panels C1 – C2 (F106, F205, S204)
10:00	Opening & Welcome S212
10:45	Panels A1 – A3 (F106, F205, S204)	10:45	Panels B4 – B6 (F106, F205, S204)	10:45	Panels C3 – C5 (F106, F205, S204)
12:45	Lunch break	12:45	Lunch break	12:45	Lunch break
14:00	Panels A4 – A6 (F106, F205, S204)	14:00	Keynote: Aili Aarelaid-Tart S212	14:00	Panels C6 – C8 (F106, F205, S204)
16:15	Keynote: Susan E Reid S212 (Old Assembly Hall)	16:00	Panels B7 – B9 (F106, F205, S204)	16:00	Roundtable: Soviet-Finnish  scholarly exchanges S212
18:00		18:00		18:00

Thursday

9:00               Registration opens at S-building (main campus), Seminaarinkatu 15. Second floor.
Coffee and chance to meet people.

10:00             Opening and the Welcome Address (S212, S-building)
Rector of the University of Jyväskylä, Aino Sallinen

                      Practical info

10:45-12:45   Panels A1, A2, A3 (rooms F106, F205, S204 in adjacent buildings, to be confirmed)

A1 Tourism and transfers of people
Chair: Simo Mikkonen

Discussant: Alexey Golubev

Kochetkova, Elena              Soviet Tourists in Finland in the 1950s – 1980s: Historical Anthropological Approach

Kozovoi, Andrei                   “They want pelmeni.” Food politics in the Komsomol travel agency “Sputnik,” 1958-1965

Pagel, Oliver                       Politicized tourism between Finland and Estonian SSR, 1950s to 1970s

Popov, Alexei                      A Small Soviet Tourist in a Big World: Mission, Illusions, Discoveries

A2 Cultural Diplomacy I  

Chair: Anna Bischof

Discussant: Annika Frieberg

Grossman, Sonja                 Soviet Friendship Societies in Western Europe – a Challenge for Diplomacy

Badalassi, Nicolas               France, the USSR, and the cultural aspects of the CSCE, 1969-1975

Gatejel, Luminita-Elena     Like a Phoenix from the Ashes? Western Humanitarian Aid in Romania after the Earthquake 1977

Ahonen, Kirsi                       Town twinning in the Cold War world: Finland and two Germanies

A3 Language, Linguistics and Cultural Exchanges

Chair: Tiina-Riitta Lappi

Discussant: Mika Lähteenmäki

Ivleva, Krasimira                Translation as cultural exchange during the Cold War: The case of Paul Eluard’s political poetry translations in socialist Bulgaria

Sherry, Samantha               Soviet Translators as Intercultural Agents

Kazmierczak, Janusz           The University of Iowa International Writing Program as a Vehicle of East-West Cultural Exchange

Shaw, Claire                       Cold War in the Deaf Community: International Relations and Soviet Deaf Identity, 1955-1980

12:45-14:00                  Lunch Break

14-16:00                       Panels A4, A5, A6 (F106, F205, S204)

A4 VOKS, and Stalin era relations with the West
Chair: Meri Herrala

Discussant: Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Fairclough, Pauline             From Détente to Cold War: Anglo-Soviet Musical Exchanges in the Late Stalin Period

Johnson, Oliver                   Mutually Assured Distinction: VOKS and Artistic Exchange in the Early Cold War

Safronov, Peter                   Teaching West, teaching East: cultural exchange as an educational practice

Orlov, Vladimir                   Prokofiev and Anti-American propaganda: Oratorio On Guard for Peace

A5 Limits for Cultural Exchanges

Chair: Matti Roitto

Discussant: Suvi Kansikas

Humbert, Laure                  Ideal immigrants or unwanted fascists? - French debates over the recruitment of Displaced Persons in post-war Germany, 1945-1950

Rahi-Tamm, Aigi                When travel became a crime: conflicts between open and closed societies on the example of Soviet Estonia in 1940-1953

Welker, Árpád                    The Christian Peace Conference as a tool of Cold War international politics

A6 Consumption and design

Chair: Nikita Balagurov

Discussant: Sampsa Kaataja

Rasmussen, Svetlana          "Importnoe" and "Sovetskoe:" Emerging Taste for Foreign Consumer Products in the Soviet Union, 1965-1972

Karpova, Yulia                    Beyond Commodity Fetishism: Soviet and Western Designers in a Dialogue

Kozlov, Dmitry                    The Role of Sailors in the Cultural Exchange. Case of Archangelsk

16:15-18:00                         Keynote lecture: Susan E Reid (title tba)

Evening reception            

FRIDAY

9-10:30                               Panels B1, B2, B3                                           

B1 Cultural Diplomacy III

Chair: Elena-Luminita Gatejel

Discussant: Zsuzsanna Varga

Rolandi, Francesca             Italy and Yugoslavia as filters across Cold War boundaries

Stanciu, Cezar                     Cultural Instruments in the Politics of Autonomy

Mazurska, Joanna               Against the Tides of the Cold War: Czesław Miłosz’s Cultural Diplomacy in the USA

                                                                    

B2 Baltic perspective

Chair: Saila Leukumaa

Discussant: Karsten Brüggemann          

Januzyte, Audrone              The underground political and cultural interaction between Soviet Lithuania and Western European Countries in 1944–1990

Zalkans, Lilita                     Latvian Émigrés and the Voice from Strange Lands

Juurvee, Ivo                        Reflection of the West in Soviet Cinema: Case Study of KGB Propaganda Movie White Boat (Tallinnfilm, 1970)

B3 Cultural Identities Beyond East-West Division

Chair: Kaisa Nissi

Discussant: Tony Swift

Matyska, Anna                    Transnational spaces of the Cold War: Poland and Finland unbound

Hazanov, Alexander           Transnational Connections and the Soviet Jewish National Movement, 1960-1985

Stupar, Alexandra               The Role of Architecture in the Cold War Interactions: Transmitter, Connector or a Delusive Stage?

10:45-12:45   Panels B4, B5, B6

                  
B4 Youth and Students   

Chair & Discussant: Pia Koivunen

Scutaru, Beatrice                Studying in France during the Cold War: the Romanian presence in France in the 1960’s

Skalova, Barbora                Friendship through the Curtain

Vreekamp, Henk                 The Kula-Ring of Student Exchanges in the sixties

Metger, Julia                       Foreign Correspondents during the Cold War, Moscow 1964-82

B5 Art and motivations behind exchanges             

Chair: Stéphanie Gonçalves

Discussant: Pauline Fairclough

Ansari, Emily                      Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Moscow: Cultural Television, Diplomacy, and the Politics of Tonal Music

Fosler-Lussier, Danielle      The Diplomatic Record: William Strickland's Recordings of American Music in Japan and Poland

Koppes, Clayton                  The Cleveland Orchestra Tours the Eastern Block, 1965

Herrala, Meri                     David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter as Soviet cultural diplomats in Finland and the United States

B6 Presenting the West in the East

Chair: Antero Holmila

Discussant: Marianne Rostgaard

Bischof, Anna                      The Cultural Cold War on the Airwaves - Radio Free Europe (RFE) and the Exercise of Cultural Influence in East Central Europe

Rasmussen, Chris               The Limits of Amerika: A Case Study of an Official Cold War Cultural Exchange, 1953-65

Davies, Sarah                      Britain and the Cultural Cold War: Selling Anglia to the Soviets, 1962-1992

Pasztor, Maria                    Across the Iron Curtain: Polish-French Relations 1945-1989

 

14-15:45                             Keynote lecture: Aili Aarelaid-Tart

16-18:00                              Panels B7, B8, B9

B7 Art and Intellectual Exchanges       

Chair: Pekka Suutari          

Discussant: Tim Scholl

Popa, Ioana                         The circulation of books and individuals across the Iron Curtain: practices of the “Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne”

Chunikhin, Kirill                  The Reception of American Abstract Expressionism in Soviet Art-criticism during the Cold War

Balagurov, Nikita                William Turner: Between Two Ideologies

B8 Scientific Exchanges I

Chair: Tuomas Laine-Frigren

Discussant: Riikka Nisonen

Geltzer, Anna                      In the kingdom of crooked mirrors: Soviet-American healthcare exchanges, 1956-1977

Krymskaya, Albina              American participants of Soviet-American scholarly and educational exchanges at Leningrad State University

Kaataja, Sampsa                 Computing communities crossing the dividing line – Information exchange between the Estonian and Finnish computer scientists 1960–2000

Marks, Sarah                      From Western Pseudoscience to the Science of the Socialist Future: The Fortunes of Cybernetics in Cold War Czechoslovakia

B9 Popular media and Publicity

Chair: Lilita Zalkans

Discussant: Peter Safronov

Fidelis, Malgorzata             A Window to the World: Popular Magazines and Western Culture in Poland, 1950s-1960s

Zeller, Manfred                  Frozen Fandom. Fanatical Youth Culture, Figures of Authority, and the Catastrophe in Moscow’s Lenin Stadium in 1982

Kokkonen, Jouko                 Sports as a part of the Cultural Exchange during the Cold War Era – case: the Olympic Games in Helsinki 1952

Cocktails

SATURDAY

9-10:30                               Panels C1, C2

C1 Personal vs. the public experience

Chair: Simo Mikkonen       

Discussant: Andrei Kozovoi

Riska-Campbell, Leena       American Multilateral Bridge Building as a Challenge for European 
Institutional Integration during the 1960s and Early 1970s

Golubev, Alexey                  Let Them See: Self-Representation of the Soviet Project under the Western Gaze

Scott-Smith, Giles               Opening Up Political Space: Private Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges and the Helsinki Process

C2 Stage arts

Chair: Emily Ansari

Discussant: Clayton Koppes

Scholl, Tim                          Media Relations: The Oberlin College Choir Tour of the Soviet Union and Romania, 1964

Gonçalves, Stéphanie         Dance as a tool for cultural diplomacy in the Cold War

Costanzo, Susan                  Parting the Curtain: Eastern European theater festivals 1965-1975

10:45-12:45                        Panels C3, C4, C5

C3 Western Communism, Anti-Communism, and cultural exchanges

Chair & Discussant: Anssi Halmesvirta

Smidrkal, Vaclav                 Contemporary Western culture as an ideological and administrative problem in early communist Czechoslovakia

Scheibner, Tamas               Western Marxists and Literary Canonization in the East - The Case of Ernst Fischer

Colombo, Duccio                Gianni Rodari and Tamara Lisitsian: Western Communist Parties as Vehicles of Cultural Encounter

C4 Cultural Diplomacy II

Chair: Timo Vilen

Discussant: Giles Scott-Smith

Rostgaard, Marianne         East-West cultural exchanges and the perforation of the iron curtain

Wenell, Olov                       Cultural contacts between Sweden and the Soviet Union 1950-1975

Gillabert, Matthieu            The Cultural Diplomacy of Switzerland and the Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence

Swift, Tony                          Competing with Capitalism: The Soviet Union at Expo 58 in Brussels

C5 Radio and Television

Chair: Claire Shaw

Discussant: Susan Costanzo

Frieberg, Annika                 ’Are We Revanchists?’ West German TV Documentaries and Polish-German Relations, 1958-1969

Lundgren, Lars                    Transnational broadcasting and East-West relations: OIRT, EBU and Gagarins return to Moscow

Mustata, Dana                    Television beyond the Nation: Production and Reception in Communist Romania

Pajala, Mari                        Intervision song contests and Finnish television between East and West

12:45-14:00                       Lunch                                 

14:00-15:45                        Panels C6, C7, C8

C6 Personal vs. the public experience II

Chair: Alexandra Stupar

Discussant: Melanie Ilic

Kadnikova, Anna                 The Women's International Democratic Federation World Congress of Women, Moscow, 1963  Women’s Rights and Soviet Public Diplomacy

Rupprecht, Tobias              Soviet internationalism after Stalin – from a Latin American perspective

Gilburd, Elenory                 The Tower of Babel

Koivunen, Pia                      The World Youth Festival in Soviet Cultural Interaction, 1945-1957

C7 Beyond the East-West axis?

Chair: Sanna Tawah

Discussant: Pekka Suutari

Sutton, Christopher            Preserving ‘the democratic way of life in the Far East’: British education policies in Southeast Asia, 1949-1957

Wishon, Jeremiah               Reorienting Khrushchev’s Cold War: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy and India, 1948-1964

Popescu, Monica                East, West, and South: Alex La Guma’s Travels and the Global Cold War

                

C8 Scientific Exchanges II

Chair: Anna Geltzer

Discussant: Sari Autio-Sarasmo

Vilen, Timo                         Russian and East European Studies in Western Europe during the Cold War – Patterns, Problems, and Prospects

Halmesvirta, Anssi              Political Preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian Co-operation in Research and Development in the 1960s-1970s

Varga, Zsuzsanna               Network-Building Across the Iron Curtain - A case study of the Hungarian agricultural science in the 1950–1960s

Henderson, Jane                 Talking Across the Fence: Cold War Academic Cooperation in the Legal Sphere

16-18:00                             Roundtable session: Soviet-Finnish scholarly exchanges in practice: first-
                                             hand accounts, and retrospective examination. Marju Lauristin (Tartu),
                                             Peeter Vihalemm (Tartu), Kaarle Nordenstreng (Tampere)

Lakeside cruise