Key Note Lecture “The Global 1989 – networks of neoliberalism”

Bernhard Struck
Tuesday 2 June 2015

As part of the 3rd Graines Summer School under the title INTERCONNECTED Professor Philipp Ther will be giving a key note lecture on “The global 1989 – networks of neoliberalism”.

Time & Venue: Monday, 8 June 2015, 5.30pm – University St Andrews, School 2, St Salvator’s Quad.

Philipp Ther is professor in Eastern and East Central European history at the University of Vienna. His main research focuses on the history of Poland, the Czech lands, and Ukraine.

Professor Philipp Ther, University of Vienna
Professor Philipp Ther, University of Vienna

He has a particular interest in comparative and transnational history of the region, mainly on the 19th and 20th century. Professor Ther has published widely on the region on border lands, ethnic cleansing or the role of the opera in central Europe.

His key note, based on his recent “Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent” (Suhrkamp Verlag) revolves around the transformation of East Central and Central Europe from the images1980s into the present days. It draws a number of connections and comparisons between Poland, former Czechoslovakia, GDR, Hungary and beyond – for instance on the “co-transformation” of unified Germany, or the lack of similar processes in southern Europe – and the transfers of neoliberal thought from the “West” to central Europe before, during and after the crucial years around 1989.

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