27 OCTOBER 2023

Tammeszaal, University Library
Broerstraat 4, 9712 CP Groningen

10:00 Welcome

Maja Babić and Tino Mager

10:30-12:00 Panel 1

Heritage and Conflict

Moderation: Tino Mager

Pieter Troch - Ghent University

The legacy of socialist urbanisation in an ethnically divided landscape: Historicizing urban division in Mitrovica (Kosovo)

Jovana Janinović - University Pavol Josef Safarik Kosice | University of Valladolid

Slow heritage, rampant activism: Multiple temporalities of urban conflicts and mnemonic compromises in post-socialist Podgorica

Semen Shyrochyn - Independent scholar

Socialist built heritage of Ukraine: Rethinking and protection  

Abigail Karas - University of Nottingham 

Café Guguţă: Cultural Heritage and Civic Activism in Chișinău

12:15-13:15 Panel 2

Heritage of State Socialist Housing

Moderation: Iris Kleinbussink

Steve Almond - University of Cincinnati

The Irony of Fate: Tbilisi's Soviet Catalyst

Alena Agafonova - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL

Post-soviet housing design in Russia: The conception of home defined by norms and regulations

Elša Turkušić Jurić & Edin Zoletić - University of Sarajevo 

Sarajevo’s district of Breka and its potential for affordable residential neighbourhood

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Panel 3

Theories / Methodologies and Preservation of State Socialist Urban Heritage

Moderation: Maja Babić 

Tatjana Aleksić - University of Michigan

Yugoslav Anti-fascist Monuments and the EU Anti-Communist Reckoning

Mikhail Ilchenko - Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

Re-Imagined Cities. New Narratives and Changing Perceptions of the Soviet-Era Urban Legacy

Polina Gundarina - Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe

Marina Sapunova - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Beyond the Narrative of the ‘Wild 1990s’: the Societal and Spatial Transformation of Former Soviet Houses of Culture

Nini Palavandishvili - Independent curator, researcher, and writer

Challenges of interpretation and preservation of the 20th century architecture in Georgia

16:00-16:45 Book Presentation

Urban Planning During Socialism: Views from the Periphery 

Jasna Mariotti - Queen's University Belfast

17:00 Keynote

The World Without. On Shards and Lost Languages.

Carmen Popescu - Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Val-de-Seine 

19:30-21:30 Reception

Café Wolthoorn & Co - Turftorenstraat 6, 9712 BP Groningen

28 OCTOBER 2023

Tammeszaal, University Library

10:15-11:30 Panel 4

Heritage and Ideology

Moderation: Jesus Rodriguez Viejo

Ruxandra Balcanu - "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism

Romania’s socialist sports built urban space heritage

Emma Louise Leahy - Sapienza Università di Roma

Artefact or Monument? Afterlives of socialist relief sculpture between impulses of conservation and repoliticisation

Nikolina Bobić - University of Plymouth

(In)tangible Heritage of Youth Labor Brigades: The Socialist Aesthetic

11:45-13:00 Panel 5 

Beyond Europe / Global Heritage of State Socialist Planning  

Moderation: Arida Yasmin

David Leupold - Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Building the 15-Minute City in the Central Asian Steppe? Walkability, Polycentrality and Mikroraĭonirovanie in Bishkek

Nadezda Gobova - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL

Nature and infrastructure untitled: Unfolding the aspects of socialist environmental development and its legacy through the practices of city planning and industrial construction, on the example of Aktau (formerly Shevchenko) and Navoi in the 1950s–2000s

Yang Yang - University of California in Los Angeles

From New Village to “Highline”: The Cultivated Collective

13:00-13:30 Lunch 

13:30-14:15 Roundtable discussion

Socialist built heritage: conceptual frameworks

Moderation: Jasna Mariotti - Queen's University Belfast

14:30-15:15 Roundtable discussion: 

The socialist city in regional and global context

Moderation: Brigitte Le Normand - University of British Columbia / Maastricht University 

15:30 Final discussion

Moderation: Maja Babić, Tino Mager

16:00 End of conference