1989: Twenty Years After Conference
Thursday, November 5 to Sunday, November 8, 2009
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine
Funding
from American Council of Learned Societies, and UCI’s Office of
Research, World History Project, Center for Asian Studies, Department
of Sociology and Department of Political Science gratefully acknowledged
Faculty Organizers: Nina Bandelj (Sociology, UCI) and Dorothy Solinger (Political Science, UCI)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 – SSPA 1100, UCI
3:30-5:00 KEY NOTE ADDRESS
• Leszek Balcerowicz (Warsaw School of Economics), The Institutional Change after Socialism
5:00-6:00 Reception
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 – Hotel Laguna, Laguna Beach, CA
9:00-10:45 PANEL I. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
• Valerie Bunce (Cornell) and Sharon Wolchik (George Washington), Democratizing Elections in Postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe: Echoes of 1989?
• Daniel Treisman (UCLA), Twenty Years of Political Transition
• Joseph Fewsmith (Boston University) , What Zhao Ziyang Tells Us about Elite Politics in the 1980s
Discussants: Yuliya Tverdova (UCI), Dorothy Solinger (UCI)
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 PANEL II. POLITICAL ECONOMY
• Antoni Kaminski (Institute of Political Studies, Warsaw) and Bartlomiej Kaminski (Maryland), Trajectories of Transition from Communism: Bumps, Exits and Deviations
• David Stark (Columbia) and Balazs Vedres (Central European University), Political Holes in the Economy: Blockage and Brokerage in Hungary
Discussant: Marek Kaminski (UCI)
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 PANEL III. STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS
• Wang Feng (UCI) and Su Yang (UCI), How Resilient China’s Regime Is and Why: A State Capacity Perspective
• Martin Dimitrov (Dartmouth), From Spies to Oligarchs: The Party, the State, the Secret Police and Property Transformations in Post-communist Europe
Discussants: Guang Lei (San Diego State) and Nina Bandelj (UCI)
3:30 – 3:50 Coffee Break
3:50 – 5:20 PANEL IV. STATE-SOCIETY CONFRONTATIONS
• Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (UCI), Outliving the Leninist Extinction: The Curious Case of the CCP’s Longevity
• Katherine Verdery (CUNY), Postsocialist Cleansing in Eastern Europe: Purity and Danger in Transitional Justice
Discussant: Thomas Bernstein (Columbia)
6:15 Dinner
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, Laguna Hotel, Laguna Beach
9:00-10:30 PANEL V. SOCIAL RECONFIGURATIONS
• Theodore Gerber (Wisconsin-Madison), Changing Family Formation Behavior in Post-socialist Countries: Similarities, Divergences, and Explanations in Comparative Perspective
• Ivan Szelenyi (Yale) and Katarzyna Wilk (Yale), From Socialist Workfare to Capitalist Welfare State: Competing Strategies and Outcomes of Transformation of Social Institutions in European Neo-patrimonial and Neo-liberal Post-communist Regimes during the Second Phase of Reforms
Discussant: Barbara Heyns (NYU)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-12:30 PANEL VI. ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS
• Barry Naughton (UCSD), China: Economic and Social Transformation Before and After 1989
• Victor Nee (Cornell), Endogenous Institutional Change and Capitalism in China
• Akos Rona-Tas (UCSD), Consumer Credit in Post-Communist Countries
Discussants: Kenneth Pomeranz (UCI), Ewa Balcerowicz (CASE-Warsaw)
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 PANEL VII. GLOBALIZATION I: Religion and the World
• Robert Weller (Boston University), Globalization and Blind-Eye Governance in China
• David Laitin (Stanford) and Amanda Robinson (Stanford), Did Leninism's Fall Pave the Way for Islamism's Rise?
Discussant: Kate Merkel-Hess (UCI)
3:30 – 3:50 Coffee Break
3:50 – 5:20 PANEL VIII. GLOBALIZATION II: Economy and the World
• Jozsef Borocz (Rutgers), Reduction to the Absurd: The Geopolitical Economy of Post-State-Socialism (text) (figures)
• Wade Jacoby (Brigham Young), Managing Globalization by Managing Central and Eastern Europe: The EU's Backyard as Threat and Opportunity
Discussant: David Smith (UCI)
6:15 Dinner
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – Laguna Hotel, Laguna Beach
9:30 -11:30 Wrap-Up Discussion and Conference Volume Plans