Academic mobility in Cold War social science: Biographical and prosopographical approaches
The workshop is open to the public but pleqase register here by February, 20.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the effects of academic exchange programs and academic migration during the Cold War through analyzing (single and multiple) biographies of social scientists. Transnational intellectual exchange was a vital element of cultural and science policies of countries East and West of the Iron Curtain. Governments and private organizations spent millions of dollars on influencing academics and intellectuals around the world and making academic mobility available through fellowship programs and international research institutes. In particular American private philanthropic foundations such as the Rockefeller, Ford, or Carnegie Foundations appeared as main agents in these activities.
Against the backdrop of the different and conflicting expectations from political actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain, this workshop will concentrate on the effects that academic mobility (temporal and permanent) had on social scientists from different Eastern European countries. Presentations cover the diplomatic background of East-West exchange, case studies of individual biographies, and studies on larger samples of social scientists using prosopographical and statistical data.
PROGRAM
February, 21, 2019
14.15 – 14.30 Opening remarks and introduction by Matthias Duller
14.30 – 16.30 Panel I: East-West exchange from American and East European perspectives
Dr. Matthias Duller, IAS CEU Botstiber fellow
The Ford Foundation’s East European Program: A Trojan Horse?
Prof. Dr. Jarosław Kilias, Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Ford Foundation scholarships program and Polish academic exchange policy
PhD candidate Adela Hîncu, Department of History, CEU
Three Generations of Romanian Sociologists and 'the West'
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30 Open lecture
Prof. Dr. Iván Szelényi
The strength of weak ties: long term consequences of my Ford Fellowship in the US 1964-65
19.00 Dinner for participants of the workshop
February, 22, 2019
10.00 – 12.30 Panel II: Academic migration through mass data: Prosopographies and census data
Prof. Dr. Péter Tibor Nagy, John Wesley Theological Academy, Budapest
Places of birth and death. An empirical approach of historical trends of brain drain in European social science elites (19-20 centuries)
Prof. Victor Karády, Distinguished research associate, CEU
The dialectics of controlled information in the Hungarian social sciences during the Cold War and after: the case of books received and made available in the Budapest Municipal Library (1945-2010)
PhD student Carl Neumayr, Department of sociology, University of Graz
Academic migration from Eastern Europe to the US: Results from US census data
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 Panel III: Case studies of academic exchange
Dr. Vítězslav Sommer, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences and Institute of Social and Economic History, Charles University Prague
The Academic Exchange as a Discovering of America: Case Studies of Irena Dubska and Stanislav Vacha
Prof. Dr. Tomasz Zarycki, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
Antoni Kukliński’s American experiences in the 1960s and his trajectory through the field of Polish geography in a comparative perspective
PhD student Una Blagojević, Department of History, CEU
Constructing a Transnational Space: The World(s) of the Korčula Summer School in Yugoslavia
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.00 Open discussion