From Prague Spring to Arab Spring: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Protest and Revolution, 1968-2012
Friday, March 2, 20129:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
36th Annual Stanford - Berkeley Conference on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
From Prague Spring to Arab Spring: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Protest and Revolution,
1968-2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford
9:30 a.m.
Coffee
9:45 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Robert Crews (Director, Stanford CREEES)
10:-00 – 11:45
Panel One – Who Makes Revolutions?
Chair: Katherine Jolluck (Stanford)
Jane Curry (Santa Clara Univ.), “Media - New and Old: How It Has Made Protest and Revolutions”
Joel Beinin (Stanford), “Working Classes and Regime Change in Egypt and Poland”
Edith Sheffer (Stanford), “Global 1989?”
1:00 – 3:00
Panel Two – How (Some) Revolutionaries Prevail and Others Fail
Chair: Gail Lapidus (Stanford)
Cihan Tuğal (UCB), “Islam and Neoliberalism in the Revolutionary Process”
Sean Hanretta (Stanford), “The Arab Spring and West Africa: Influences and Consequences”
Djordje Padejski (Stanford), “Serbian Fall: Lessons from a Democratic Revolution”
Natalya Koulinka (Stanford), “A Revolution that Persistently Fails: The Case of Belarus”
3:00-3:15
Break
3:15 - 4:45
Panel Three – Interpreting Protest Movements
Chair: John Dunlop (Stanford)
Jason Wittenberg (UCB), “Political Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Hungary”
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss (Stanford), “Arab Spring, Slavic Winter?”
Edward Walker (UCB), “The Collapse of Soviet Socialism and the Arab Spring Compared”
4:45-5:00
Closing Remarks
Yuri Slezkine (Director, UCB ISEEES)
Co-sponsored by: the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at Stanford University, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers program