Who’s Learning from Whom?
In late 1989 and early 1990, the dominant idea was that policymakers in Eastern Europe would be learning from the West. The term “transition” offered an image in which East Europeans were on a road to catching up with Western institutions which had earlier “arrived” at the right answers for the proper models of the relationship between markets and democracies. Twenty five years later, our goal is to consolidate existing research – less about “1989” itself than about the past 25 years of experience with political and economic transformation. To do so, this component of the Harriman Core Project for 2014-15 will focus on how different actors are learning from each other. Who is paying attention to whom? And what new combinations are being cobbled together in this process?
Spring 2015 Speaker Series
February 4th Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine: “Chinese Dreams and Chinese Nightmares, 1989 to 2014”
February 23rd Mirjam Künkler, Princeton University: “Religious Actors in Democratization Processes”
March 11th Jessica Pisano, New School for Social Research: “Rethinking ‘regime’ in Ukraine and Russia: Space and the Materiality of Coercion.”
April 1st Elena Krumova, Columbia University: “Whose Experiment? Environmental Regulation, NGOs and Protest Movements”
April 8th Laszlo Bruszt, European University Institute: “Institutional Mono-Cropping”
April 22nd Roger Schoenman, UC Santa Cruz: “Party Systems and Market Institutions”
All events take place at 2:10pm in rom IAB 1219, except on Feb 23rd – 5pm in room IAB 1201.