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Crossing the Political Divide: Transborder Workers during the Cold War between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe

 

International Workshop
March 24-25, 2022, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Salón de Grados (first floor)

C/ Profesor Aranguren s/n, 28040 Madrid

 

Organized by Dr. Sarah Lemmen, Departamento de Historia Moderna e Historia Contemporánea, UCM.

This workshop is funded by the research project “Trabajadores transfronterizos y paisajes de encuentro en la Europa de la Guerra Fría: Una microhistoria de las migraciones temporales” (Ayudas para la realización de proyectos I+D, no. PR65/19-22442), and is part of the research network REIECO.

 

 

 

 

 

Program

Thursday, March 24

9:30                      Introduction (Sarah Lemmen)

10:00-13:30       Panel I: Informal and illegal cross-border relations

  1. Robert Andrzejczyk (Rzeszów): Seafarers as Liaisons between the Polish People's Republic and the West. Smuggling and Trading Activities
  2. Sarah Lemmen (Madrid): Up and down the river Elbe: Czechoslovak Bargemen between East and West

Break (11:30-12:00)

  1. Matthias Kaltenbrunner (Vienna): Racing Drivers and Mechanics: Vienna as hub of the Informal Car Market in the 1980s
  2. Sana Benbelli and Abdallah Zouhairi (Casablanca): Postcolonial Mobilities: Cross-border Women Workers between Ceuta and Morocco

 

16:00-18:00       Panel II: Professional Border Crossings between East and West

  1. Mariia Zimina (Giessen): Think Globally, Act Locally: Soviet Correspondent Network Abroad in the 1950s
  2. Pavel Mücke (Prague): Czechoslovak Introducers to the Cold War International Reality/ies: A short look at ČEDOK’s tourism branches abroad and their staff (1948–1989)
  3. José M. Faraldo Jarillo (Madrid): Disappointments at the other side. Working on a New Opera in Madrid (1964-1966).

 

Friday, March 25

9:00-11:00         Panel III: Guest workers between East and West

  1. Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht): Everyday life of Yugoslav guest workers, in their own words
  2. Carlos J. Sanz (Madrid): Spanish Migrant Workers in West Germany between Dictatorship and Democracy (1960-1980): a Microhistory of the Cold War
  3. Luis G. Martínez del Campo (Madrid): Caught in the Crossfire. Spanish Cross-Border Workers and Franco’s Coercive Diplomacy in Gibraltar, 1945-1975

 

11:30-13:30       Panel IV: Academics abroad

  1. Irina Nastasă-Matei (Bucharest): Cold War Mobilities: Students and Researchers from Socialist Countries in West Germany
  2. Sławomir Łukasiewicz (Lublin/Harvard): Foreign Stipends founded for the Professors and Lecturers of the Catholic University of Lublin during the Cold War
  3. Carolina Rodríguez López (Madrid): Creating Experts for Francoist Spain: Scholarships and Projects of the Fundación del Amo in the United States in the Cold War

 

13:30-14:00        Final discussion