Venue: Institute for Political Research, Spiru Haret street no 8, Bucharest, 010175
Tuesday, June 25
9.15–9.30 – Welcome remarks
9.30–10.45 Keynote – Anikó Imre (University of Southern California)
Colorblind Nationalisms
10.45–11.00 – Coffee break
11.00–12.40 – Colonialism and Imagining the Self in Eastern Europe
Chair/Discussant: Steffi Marung (University of Leipzig)
Monika Bobako (Adam Mickiewicz University)
White Skin, White Masks. Re-reading Frantz Fanon from Eastern European Perspective
Zoltán Ginelli (Open Society Archives)
Hungarian Indians: Racial and Anti-colonial Solidarity in Post-Trianon Hungary
Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
12.45–14.15 – Lunch
14.20–16.00 – Eastern European Whiteness and the Other: Race, Religion and Gender
Chair/Discussant: Agnieszka Kościańska (University of Warsaw)
Kristína Čajkovičová (Museum of Romani Culture in Brno)
Shifting to the Gadžo Question: The Role of Racialized Sexuality in the Process of Czechoslovak Collectivity
Bolaji Balogun (University of Leeds)
Whiteness: A Mechanism that Sustains Polishness
Cătălin Berescu (Romanian Academy)
White Savior, Black Savior: Pro-Roma Activists in Search of an Identity
16.00–16.15 – Coffee break
16.15–17.35 – Anti-Semitism and Whiteness in Eastern Europe
Chair/Discussant: Emily Gioielli (Missouri Western State University)
Paul Hanebrink (Rutgers University – New Brunswick)
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Anti-Communist Legacy in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Raul Carstocea (Europa Universität Flensburg)
Ambiguous Whiteness and the Anti-Semitic Imagination: Jews in Eastern Europe between Colonised and Colonisers
20.00 – Film Screening, Cinema Union (Ion Câmpineanu 22, Bucharest, 030167)
Guardian of the Frontier (intro Catherine Baker)
Wednesday, June 26
9.30–11.10 – Eastern European Whiteness in Global Perspective
Chair/Discussant: Monika Bobako (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Dušan I. Bjelić (University of Maine)
Transnational Analysis of Mexico and the Balkans: Racial Formations of Nations
Catherine Baker (University of Hull)
The Yugoslav Wars and Transnational White Nationalist Historical Narratives
Špela Drnovšek Zorko (University of Warwick)
Re-routing East European Socialism, Historicising Diasporic Whiteness
11.15–11.30 – Coffee break
11.30–13.10 – Socialism as Ambivalent Whiteness
Chair/Discussant: Kristin Roth-Ey (University College of London)
Irina Novikova (University of Latvia)
‘White Gaze’ in the USSR?: ‘Race’ and Technology in the Soviet Films of the 1920s–1960s (from Lev Kuleshov to Mark Donskoi)
Zsuzsanna Varga (Central European University)
Hungarians and White Privilege in Africa: The World Hunting Expo of 1971
James Mark (University of Exeter)
A Revolution of Whiteness? 1989 and the Politics of Race
13.10–14.40 – Lunch
14.45–16.25 – Liminality, Post-Socialism, and Eastern European Whiteness
Chair/Discussant: Ivan Kalmar (University of Toronto)
Bogdan G. Popa (University of Cambridge)
“We Belong to a Great Race, the Dacian Race”: Slavery and the Construction of an Anti-colonial White Race in Romanian Historiography
Chelsi West Ohueri (University of Texas at Austin)
The Jevg Factor: An Exploration of Whiteness, Blackness, and Racialized Identities in Albania
Kasia Narkowicz (University of Gloucestershire)
The ‘Muselmanner’ as the Ultimate Other
16.25–16.40 – Break
16.40–17.15 – Concluding roundtable
20.00 – Film Screening, Cinema Union (Ion Câmpineanu 22, Bucharest, 030167)
Oktyabr and Rostov-Luanda (intro Kristin Roth-Ey)