Saturday, 13 May

9:30-9:50 Arrival/Coffee

9:50-10:00 Welcome/Opening Remarks, Jakub Beneš (Oxford)

10:00-11:00 Keynote I: Geoff Eley (Michigan), ‘Global October: Nations, States, and Revolutions, 1917-1991’

11:00-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Panel I: Agents of Internationalism

Lisa Kirschenbaum (West Chester U), ‘The Power of Revolution: How Michael Gruzenberg Became Comintern Agent Mikhail Borodin (1918-1920)’

Choi Chatterjee (CSU Los Angeles), ‘Imperial Subjects in the Soviet Union: Rabindranath Tagore, M. N. Roy, and Re-thinking Freedom and Authoritarianism in the Twentieth Century’

Comment: Rana Mitter (Oxford)

12:30-1:30 Sandwich Lunch (in conference rooms)

1:30-2:45 Panel II: Soviet Power

Giovanni Cadioli (Oxford), ‘Soviet “General Economic Plans” and the building of Communism’

Dina Moyal (Tel Aviv), ‘Socialist Legality: Law, Politics and Power in post-Stalinist USSR’

Comment: Sebastian Gehrig (Oxford)

2:45-3:00 Coffee break

3:00-4:15 Panel III: Socialist Alternatives

Ivan Sablin (St Petersburg), ‘Alternative Russia: Socialist Coalitions and Democracy in the Russian Far East, 1920–1922’

Arturo Rodriguez (EUI Florence), ‘Anarchists will have to act as bosses: the Spanish anarchists, the Soviet regime, and the question of political power, 1917-36’

Comment: Kasper Braskén (Åbo Akademi/Turku)

4:30-5:30 Keynote II: Pauli Kettunen (Helsinki), ‘The Nordic Welfare State – a Social Democratic Project?’

7:00 Conference Dinner: Al Shami, 25 Walton Crescent, Oxford, OX1 2JG

Sunday, 14 May

9:30-10:00 Arrival/Coffee

10:00-11:15 Panel IV: Global Socialism

Victor Strazzeri (FU Berlin), ‘Forging socialism through democracy? Eurocommunism and the transnational debate on power in the global socialist left (1973-1989)’

Andreas Hilger (Hamburg), ‘Revolution, Evolution, and War: The Indian Communist Party, Cold War, and the Sino-Soviet rivalry, 1945-1965’

Paul Betts (Oxford), ‘Frontiers of Fraternity: Eastern Europe, Decolonization and Africa’

Comment: Stephen Smith (Oxford)

11:15-11:30: Coffee break

11:30-12:45 Panel V: Labour and Production

Tommaso Milani (LSE), ‘The Labour Plan: The Rise and Fall of a Transnational Socialist Project, 1930-1936’

Omri Evron (Tel Aviv), ‘European Socialist Parties’ Platforms and Relations of Production: A comparative study of the treatment of relations of production in the party platforms of contemporary socialist and communist parties in Europe’

Comment: David Priestland (Oxford)

12:45-1:45 Sandwich lunch (in conference rooms)

1:45-3:00 Panel VI: Representing Socialist Power

Andrew Sloin (CUNY Baruch), ‘Fear of the Red Planet: Alienation and Socialist Power’

Svenja Bethke (Leicester), ‘How to dress up for Socialism: clothing, fashion and power in the Zionist movement in Eastern Europe and Palestine 1900-1930s’

Comment: Christina Morina (Amsterdam)

3:00-3:15 Coffee break

3:15-4:30 Panel VII: The New Left

Åsmund Gjerde (Bergen), ‘Progress and Power in the Old and the New Left’

Stephen Milder (Groningen), ‘Democracy in the Streets, Social Change in the Countryside: The post-1968 New Left and Grassroots Visions of Political Power’

Comment: Geoff Eley (Michigan)

4:30-5:15 Concluding Roundtable Discussion
Christina Morina (Amsterdam)
Rana Mitter (Oxford)
David Priestland (Oxford)
Stephen Smith (Oxford)