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History: 1945-1990
- Thursday, October 23, 2025 EDT
- 3:15pm EDT
3:15 to 5:00pm EDT (3:15 to 5:00pm EDT)
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Book Discussion: Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, by Ksenia Tatarchenko
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- Friday, October 24, 2025 EDT
- 1:00pm EDT
1:00 to 2:45pm EDT (1:00 to 2:45pm EDT)
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Witness to History: Robert Donia’s Contributions to Balkan and Human Rights Studies
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EDT (1:00 to 2:45pm EDT)
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“Onward! No Retreat!”: The Matters & Memory of Asia’s Conversations with Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War I
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- Thursday, November 20, 2025 EST
- 1:00pm EST
1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Soviet Global Engagements: Alliances, Aid, and Strategy in the Cold War
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Soviet Visions of Intelligence in the Light of Contemporary Socio-Technical Discourses
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Everyday Life in the "Soviet West": Individual and Collective Agency in the Estonian SSSR
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Remains of the Past: The Catholic Church in the Communist Regimes of East Central Europe I
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, by ed. David L. Hoffmann
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission1:00 to 2:45pm EST (1:00 to 2:45pm EST)
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Medical Humanities I: Socialist Medicine and Morality in East Central Europe
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 3:00pm EST
3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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The Dynamics of Socialist Technocracy: Governance, Management, and Expertise in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, 1960s–1990s
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Gender and Memory in 20th Century Baltic States
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Forced to Move: Remembering Children's Displacement and Migration in WWII and its Aftermath in East-Central Europe
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:00 to 4:45pm EST (3:00 to 4:45pm EST)
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Memory and Identity of Yugoslavia’s Nonalignment
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 5:00pm EST
5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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Songs of Cotton and Nomads: Invented Traditions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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The Look of Socialism: Nagliadnaia Agitatsia across the Post-War USSR and Beyond
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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From Biographical Memory to Professional Expertise: Personal Experience and the Study of Communism
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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American Advocates on Behalf of Soviet Christians
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission5:00 to 6:45pm EST (5:00 to 6:45pm EST)
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History and Politics in the Balkans: From Yugoslavia’s Regime-Change to the Early Cold War
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- Friday, November 21, 2025 EST
- 8:00am EST
8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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History and Memory of the Holocaust in the Baltic States
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 10:00am EST
10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Renegotiating Soviet Ethnofederalism in Central Asia under Brezhnev
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Histories and Cultures of Debt in Eastern Europe
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Remains of the Past: The Catholic Church in the Communist Regimes of East Central Europe II
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 1:30pm EST
1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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What Did the Socialist Sweater Look Like, and Why Does it Matter?: New Perspectives on Socialist Materialities
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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Layers of (Audio)Visual Memory and the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST)
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Between Absence and Presence: Negotiating the Commemoration of Nazi Injustice in East and West Germany as well as Poland
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 3:30pm EST
3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Recording the Memory of the Eastern European Archive
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Women Experts and Feminist Knowledge Production in East Central Europe, 1945-1989
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Mapping Communism: Space and Memory in Poland, Ukraine, and East Germany
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Beyond Solidarity: Revisiting Socialist Aid in the Global South
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission3:30 to 5:15pm EST (3:30 to 5:15pm EST)
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Religious Resistance to Communist Authority from De-Stalinization to Glasnost and Perestroika
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- Saturday, November 22, 2025 EST
- 8:00am EST
8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Memory and Exile: World War II and Cold War, Czechoslovak and Hungarian Examples
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Book Discussion: Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950, by Stefan Cristian Ionescu
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Yugoslav Internationalisms I: Book Discussion: Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism, by Zvonimir Stopić, Robert Niebuhr, and David Pickus
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 10:00am EST
10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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"New Thinking” in the Glasnost Years: Opportunity and Disillusionment
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Politics of Infrastructure across the Soviet/Post-Soviet Transition
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Memory Across Borders: Postwar Displacement, Testimonies, and Transnational Narratives
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Book Discussion: Unsilencing: The History & Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag, by Lilia Topouzova
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 12:00pm EST
12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Moldova between Past and Present: Experiences and Views of Soviet and Romanian Rule
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Homeland in Exile: Navigating Belonging in the Soviet Union
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Reassessing and Remembering Soviet Diplomacy during the Cold War
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Political Thought, Memory, and Biographies from Women’s Intellectual History in East Central Europe
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: Užaljeno maščevanje: Spomin Slovenk in Slovencev na italijanska fašistična taborišča, by Oto Luthar, Marta Verginella, and Urška Strle
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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1945 in Central Europe: Hopes and Uncertainties on the Brink of the Cold War
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 2:00pm EST
2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Narratives of Trial and Imprisonment in Russian and Soviet Culture from the 1920s to the 2020s
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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From Housing Struggles to Political Mobilization: Grassroots Activism in Late Soviet Central Asia
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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45 Years on from Solidarity: New Archival Documents Concerning the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Punitive Psychiatry in Russian Empire, the USSR, and Socialist Eastern Europe, 1905 – 1970s
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain, by Adelina Stefan
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: Prague: The Heart of Europe, by Cynthia Paces
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST)
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Soviet Competition and Commercialization at the Cold War’s End
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission- 4:00pm EST
4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Between Transition and Memory: Social Change in Kazakh Society across Borders from the Early 20th Century to the Present
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Rethinking Solidarity: New Approaches to Poland in the 1980s
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Revisiting "Socialist Integration": Transnational Cooperation and Its Challenges under State Socialism
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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“Onward! No Retreat!”: The Matters & Memory of Asia’s Conversations with Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War II
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: Mediating Spaces: Literature, Politics, and the Scales of Yugoslav Socialism, 1870-1995, by James M. Robertson
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Book Discussion: The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR, by eds. Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Book Discussion Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST)
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Yugoslav Configurations I: Close Encounters of the Third Way: Memory of Yugoslav Transnational Solidarity with the International Left
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- Sunday, November 23, 2025 EST
- 8:00am EST
8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Laboring Bodies, New Soviet Subjects: Socialist Imaginaries at the Peripheries of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Mediators: Translations and Translators in Soviet International Relations
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Russian and Soviet History Through the Press
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST)
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Counterintuitive Communism: Unexpected Outcomes of State Socialist Policies
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 10:00am EST
10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Industrialization, Deindustrialization, and the Soviet Modernization Project: Revisiting Economic Transformations in Late Soviet Central Asia
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Legacies of Resistance: Memory and Dissent from the Soviet Era to Today
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Scrapping, Repurposing, and Reappraising in East Central Europe's Industrial Centers
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Exile Memory and the Connection to the Homeland through Narratives of Displacement and Return
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Constructing Belarusian, Lithuanian, Polish and Jewish Memories: Visions of the Past in the 20th Century
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Russophone Émigré Culture as Part of the World Intellectual Legacy
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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State Security Informants and Surveillance in Communist Systems
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Soviet/Russian Cultural Imperialism: Past and Present
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST)
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Left Perspectives on Method III: Neoliberal/Cultural Turn in Histories of Socialism
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission- 12:00pm EST
12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Social Histories of Money in Socialism: The GDR, Hungary, and the USSR
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Experiencing, Remembering, and Forgetting Social Advancement in (Post)Socialist Societies
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Soviet Internationalism at Home and Abroad
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Panel
Add/Remove Session Submission12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST)
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Yugoslav Configurations III: Non-Aligned Ambivalence
Sub Unit: History: 1945-1990
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Add/Remove Session Submission