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COLD WAR, WARM FRIENDSHIPS: Politics and Culture in The Cold War Editions of the World Festival of Youth and Students Day 1, Oct 17
Room Popovici, Ground floor, The Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea Street, Cluj-Napoca
10:00-10:30 Welcome address.
Opening speeches:
Rareș Moldovan, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University
Gabriel Bădescu (Professor, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, “Babeș-Bolyai” University)
Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu (Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University) & Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus (Polish Academy of Sciences), the organizers of the conference
10:30-11.:30 Keynote address
Pia Koivunen (University of Turku, Finland), World Festival of Youth and Students as a Window to Transnational and Global Cold War
11:00-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:30 Panel 1
WORLD YOUTH FESTIVALS: BUILDING DIPLOMACY AND FRIENDSHIP
- Irina Cărăbaș (National University of Arts, Bucharest), Peace Will Conquer War! Art in the Service of Peace across the Iron Curtain in the 1950s
- Mioara Anton (“Nicolae Iorga” History Institute, Romanian Academy), Last tango in…Moscow! Romania’s participation in the World Youth and Student Festival (June 1985)
- Philip Schwartz (Independent Scholar in Jewish Studies, Vienna), Yiddish Literature at the 1957 Youth Festival
13:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Keynote address
Kristian Handberg (University of Copenhagen), International Art Exhibitions at the World Youth Festivals
15:30-17:00 Panel 2
ART EXHIBITIONS AT THE YOUTH FESTIVALS
- Lena Prents (Municipal Prater Galerie, Berlin), “And turned towards the future”: An art gallery under the auspices of the 1973 World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin
- Laura Rosengarten (University of Leipzig), Across the “Nylon Curtain” in the early 1950s. The Italian left and the Internationale Kunstausstellung 1951 in East-Berlin
- Julia Majewska (University of Warsaw), Socialist Content in a Modern Form? Decorations of the Space of Warsaw during the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students in 1955 against the Communist Conceptualisation of the City
17:15-19:00 Panel 3
HOW TO SHOW, THIS IS AN ART, COMRADES”. VISUAL PROPAGANDA, POLITICS AND ART
- Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences), Rethinking Youth and Art in the 1950s: Global Contemporaneity, Socialist Modernity, and Anti-War Movements at the Warsaw Youth Festival
- Jessica Jenkins (Falmouth University, UK), A space of possibility: How radical was the visual design of the World Festival Games in East Berlin in 1973?
- Dorota Jarecka (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences), 1978: Art from Poland on an Island Hot as a Volcano
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Day 2, October 18
Room G1 (Garden), Ground floor, The Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, 12 Septimiu Albini Street, Cluj-Napoca
10:00-11:00 ROUND TABLE
Propaganda, Politics and Culture in the Cold War Editions of the World Festival of Youth and Students. Film footage presentation from the Cold War Editions of the World Festival of Youth and Students and debates.
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11.15-12.00 Keynote address
Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu (Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University), The Festival Fasting: Economic Struggle, Measures and Costs of the 1953 World Youth Festival
12:00-13:30 Panel
4 YOUTH, FESTIVALS AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES DURING THE COLD WAR
- Marco Musillo (Istituto di Cultura per l’Oriente e l’Occidente in Milan), The Festival dell’Unità and the Vietnam War: propaganda and cultural diplomacy in Italy, 1965-1975
- Coline Perron (University of Strasbourg), "Like two Brothers on the same front line?" The artistic exchanges between Cuba and the GDR: a Socialist Friendship between solidarity and tensions (1959-1989)
- Irina Nastasa-Matei (University of Bucharest), Student exchanges (scholarships and summer schools) between Romania and West-Germany, 1960s-1980s
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Facultatea de Litere UBB Cluj-Napoca, Horeamed, Strada Horea, 400275 Cluj-Napoca, România,Cluj-Napoca, Romania
