8:30 – 9:00
Opening Ceremony
Dr. C. D.
Mote (President of the University of Maryland)
H.E. Adrian
Vierita (Ambassador of Romania to the U.S.A.)
Senator Jim
Rosapepe (Former U.S.A. Ambassador to Romania)
Breakfast break
9:15 – 11:15 1989 and the Legitimacy Crisis
of Socialism
Discussant:
Charles Gati (John Hopkins University)
Agnes Heller (The New School)
“Twenty Years After”
Bradley Abrams (Czechoslovak Studies Association)
“Consumption and Political Legitimization in East-Central
Europe: The Czechoslovak Case”
Catalin Avramescu (University of Bucharest)
“Communism and the Experience of Light: Electrification and
Legitimization in Romania before 1989”
Ioan T. Morar (journalist)
“Romanian Media: From Party Loudspeaker to the Voice of the
Oligarchs”
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote lecture – Vladimir
Tismaneanu (University of Maryland) and Bogdan Cristian Iacob (Central European
University):
“Communism and Nationalism
in Romania Before and After 1989”
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch buffet
2:00 – 4:00 Intellectuals, Human Rights, and the Grammar of Dissent
Discussant:
Mills Kelly (George Mason University)
Noemi Marin (Florida Atlantic University)
“1989 or the Return of Rhetoric: Totalitarian Discourse and Its Impact
on Communist Romania
Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland)
“An Insufficiently Noted Precursor of 1989: Comments on the Historical
Significance of the Battle of the Euromissiles of 1979 to 1983”
Iulia Motoc (University of Bucharest)
“The Struggle for Human Rights and the Demise of Communism”
Nick Miller (Boise State University)
“Was There a Serbian Havel?”
6.30 pm – Romanian Ambassador’s
Residence
(admission by invitation only)
1989 and Radio Free Europe: Broadcasting Freedom
A. Ross Johnson (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
“What We Did and Why. Radio
Free Europe Broadcasts in 1989”
Emil Hurezeanu (journalist)
“Radio Free Europe and the End of Ceausescu’s
Regime”
Discussant: Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland)
Reception to follow the panel
8:45 – 9:00
Opening at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Lee Hamilton
(President & Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Horia-Roman
Patapievici (President, Romanian Cultural Institute)
9:00 – 11:00 1989: Hopes, Illusions, Disenchantment
Discussant:
Charles King (Georgetown University)
Vladislav Zubok (Temple University)
“Gorbachev and the Road to 1989”
Tom Gallagher (University of Bradford)
“Incredible Voyage: Romania’s Communist
Speculators Adapt and Survive After 1989”
Thomas Blanton (George Washington
University)
“Civil Society and 1989 in East Europe”
Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Germany 1989: A New Kind of Revolution?”
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Keynote lecture – Gale
Stokes (Rice University)
“1989 and the Return to History”
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 – 4:00 The Return of History
Discussant:
Lavinia Stan (St. Francis Xavier University)
James McAdams (University of Notre Dame)
“Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in Post-1989
Europe”
Karol Soltan (University of Maryland)
“1989 and a Moderate Spirit for a New Modernity”
Cornel Ban (Brown University)
“Berlin Wall to Wall Street? Social Democracy after 1989”
Victor Zaslavsky (LUISS)
“The Long Death of the Italian Communist Party”
4:00 – 4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:15 Closing remarks – Jeffrey
Isaac (Indiana University in Bloomington) “Revisiting the Meanings of 1989”
