TransnationalContactsintheSocialistWorld: AWorkshopatTuftsUniversity March27,2015 CenterfortheHumanitiesatTufts(CHAT) FungHouse‐48ProfessorsRow SponsoredbytheCenterfortheHumanitiesatTufts(CHAT),theDepartmentofHistory,theDepartmentofGerman,Russian,and AsianLanguages&Literatures,andtheAndrewW.MellonFoundation 9:30–9:45 Introduction(RachelApplebaum,TuftsUniversity) 9:45–11:00 PanelI:IntermediariesofSocialistInternationalism 1.ZacharyScarlett(ButlerUniversity)"The(Re)BirthoftheSocialistWorld:TransnationalContactinMaoistChina" 2.EricAllina(UniversityofOttawa)“BuildingtheRevolutionAbroad?MozambicanWorkersintheGermanDemocraticRepublic” Chair:RachelApplebaum(TuftsUniversity) Discussant:DavidEngerman(BrandeisUniversity) 11:00–11:15 CoffeeBreak 11:15–12:30 PanelII:FriendshipacrosstheBloc 1.AlexHazanov(UniversityofPennsylvania)“ReceivingDearGuests:EastEuropeanTouristsandtheLimitsofSovietSoftPower” 2.NicholasLevy(StanfordUniversity)“AFriendshipForgedinSteel?TheConstructionofHutaKatowiceandSoviet‐Polish Collaborationinthe1970s” Chair:GregoryCarleton(TuftsUniversity) Discussant:JessieLabov(TheOhioStateUniversity/TheDavisCenter,HarvardUniversity) 12:30–1:45 Lunch 1:45–3:00 PanelIII:ImaginingtheSocialistWorldafterStalin 1.KatharineHolt(St.AndrewsUniversity)“MatureLiteraryAmbassadors:TikhonovandSkosyrevinthePostwarEra” 2.ElizabethBanks(NewYorkUniversity)““Humankind’sFirstZoneofFreedom:FrelimoImaginestheSocialistWorld,1965–1980” Chair:ElizabethFoster(TuftsUniversity) Discussant:MargaretLitvin(BostonUniversity) 3:00–3:15 CoffeeBreak 3:15–4:00 BrainstormingSessionforFurtherResearchonTransnationalContactsintheSocialistWorld(allparticipants) *Paperswillbepre‐circulated.PleasecontactRachel.Applebaum@Tufts.eduifyouwishtoattend. OrganizedbyRachelApplebaum,MellonPostdoctoralFellow,theCenterfortheHumanitiesatTufts(CHAT)