1989 and the Great Transformation

The seminar will be held on 14 April at 9:30 am (CET) via Zoom and is open to wide public. 

 Link for registration: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../regi.../PcijqPF4T3qv0t8sWUp04A .

You will be directed to the waiting room and we will accept you once the speaker is ready.

Prof. Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis and Dr. Magdalena Baran-Szołtys will present insights from the Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation, which analyzes the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a pivot to explore longer-term processes of economic, social, political, and cultural transformation linked to the rise of neoliberalism and globalization since the 1970s and enduring until now.

The handbook will be of interest to researchers of the contemporary history of East Central Europe and global and economic history, as well as to scholars of sociology, anthropology and political science who are interested in the post-1989 transformation, neoliberalism and globalisation.

Prof. Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis is a historian and migration scholar and the Scientific Director of the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. He has published extensively on the history of migration during the Cold War, post-Soviet migration, and the history and present of anti-East European racism.

Dr. Magdalena Baran-Szołtys is a literary and cultural scholar and has been a Hertha Firnberg Fellow of the FWF at the University of Vienna since March 2021. In her postdoctoral project, she examines how narratives of inequality shift in transformation processes, analyzing their manifestations in literature and public debates.