From Prague Spring to Arab Spring: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Protest and Revolution, 1968-2012

36th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Russian, East European & Eurasian Affairs

9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Robert Crews, Stanford

10:00 – 11:45
Panel One – Who Makes Revolutions?

Media - New and Old: How It Has Made Protest and Revolutions
Jane Curry, Santa Clara

Working Classes and Regime Change in Egypt and Poland
Joel Beinin, Stanford

Global 1989?
Edith Sheffer, Stanford

1:00 – 3:00
Panel Two – How (Some) Revolutionaries Prevail and Others Fail

Islam and Neoliberalism in the Revolutionary Process
Cihan Tuğal, UCB

The Arab Spring and West Africa: Influences and Consequences
Sean Hanretta, Stanford

Serbian Fall: Lessons from a Democratic Revolution
Djordje Padejski, Stanford

A Revolution that Persistently Fails: The Case of Belarus
Natalia Koulinka, Stanford

3:15 – 4:45
Panel Three – Interpreting Protest Movements

Political Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Hungary
Jason Wittenberg, UCB

Arab Spring, Slavic Winter?
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Stanford

The Collapse of Soviet Socialism and the Arab Spring Compared
Edward Walker, UCB

4:45 – 5:00
Closing Remarks
Yuri Slezkine, UCB

When:: Friday, March 2, 2012. 9:30 AM.
Where:: McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center (Map)
Audience:: General Public
Faculty/Staff
Students
Tags:: Other
Sponsor:: ISEEES Institute for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, UCB
Contact:: 725-2563
creeesinfo@stanford.edu
Admission:: Free and open to the public
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