[KS] FW: Conference "Korea and East Asia: Transformation of Socialist Systems", Vienna: 13-14 February 2009

[Jim Hoare]

I have been asked to forward the following notification

 

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Dear list members,

 

The Chair of East Asian Economy and Society of the East Asian
Institute/University of Vienna (Austria) organizes a two-day conference on
“Korea and East Asia: Transformation of Socialist Systems”.

 

Venue: Seminar room “Old Chapel” 

Institute of Medical Ethics and Law

AAKH Campus, University of Vienna 

Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna / Austria

                

Date: 13-14 February 2009

 

The conference is supported by the Academy of Korean Studies, MEARC,
Confucius Institute, OIIP and the University of Vienna.

 

Almost two decades after the collapse of socialist systems in the Soviet
Union and subsequently in Eastern Europe, the issue of their transformation
remains as important and controversial as ever. Which approaches to
privatization, institution building, external economic cooperation and
regional political alliances have yielded the best results, which ones have
performed below expectations? Are the results of the various transformation
processes a new type of post-socialist society, or do they more and more
resemble the Western model of a democratic market economy? How can the
results of transformation be assessed against the background of security and
human rights? Is there an East Asian mode of socialist transformation, or is
such a transformation still outstanding? How do the experiences made in Asia
differ or coincide with the ones in Europe, and what could be the reasons?
Which effects of socialist transformation can be expected for
regionalization? What can be said against this background about the future
of North Korea, the nuclear issue, and Korean unification? How is the
question of transformation discussed in the affected societies? These are
some of the major questions we will explore during the conference.

 

Program

 

February 13, 2009

 

9:30     Opening Remarks by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Vice Dean of the
Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies

            Opening Remarks by Sepp Linhart, Director of the East Asian
Institute

            Welcome Speech by Rudiger Frank, Vice Director of the East Asian
Institute

 

Panel I: Socialism and Postsocialism as Categories of Research

Moderator: Rudiger Frank

10:00   David Lane

Trajectories of Change from State Socialism: Revolution, Reform,
Reconstitution

 

10:20   Dieter Segert 

Why no Dilemma of Simultaneity? Great Transformation in Eastern Europe
considered from the point of view of a “Postsocialist research”

 

10:40   Coffee Break

 

11:00   Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Discussant)

11:10   Dusan Triska (Discussant)

11:20   N.N. (Discussant)

 

11:30   Panel Discussion 

-12:30

 

Panel II: European Experience of Socialist Transformation

Moderator: Dieter Segert       

14:00   Andras Bozoki

Hungary: Socialism, Post-socialism and Forms of Legitimacy

 

14:20   Dieter Bingen 

The Final Failure of Reforming the System of “Real Socialism”: The Polish
Experience of the 1980ies of Economic Reforms without Democracy

 

14:40   Ryszard Rapacki, Günter Heiduk 

            The Post-Socialist Transition: Lessons from the Experience of
Poland

 

15:00   Coffee Break

 

15:20   Dusan Triska

            Standard vs. Non-Standard Methods of Privatization in Central
and Eastern Europe

 

15:40   Janos Kovacs (Discussant)

15:50   Phillip Park (Discussant)

16:00   Kong Fanjun (Discussant)

 

16:10   Panel Discussion 

-17:15  

 

 

February 14, 2009 

 

Panel III: China and The East Asian Experience of Transformation

Moderator: Richard Trappl 

9:30     Kong Fanjun

            The Soviet Model in China’s Transformation: Changed and
Unchanged

            

9:50     Xiang Zuotao

            Political Change in the PRC in the Last Decade

            

10:10   Ari Kokko

            Socialist Transformation in Vietnam (tbc)

 

10:30   Coffee Break

 

10:50   David Lane (Discussant)

11:00   Axel Schneider (Discussant)

11:10   Günter Heiduk (Discussant)

 

11:20   Panel Discussion

-12:30

 

 

Panel IV: North Korea and Transformation

            Moderator: Axel Schneider

14:00   Phillip Park

Transition to Market-Oriented Economy: in the case of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea – from an institutionalist perspective

 

14:20   Dae-Kyu Yoon

North Korea’s transformation: a legal perspective




14:40   Hyung-Gon Jeong

Implications of Transition Economies’ Reform Process on North Korea’s
Economy

 

15:00   Coffee Break

 

15:20   Park Young-Ja (Discussant)

15:30   Dieter Bingen (Discussant)

15:40   Xiang Zuotao (Discussant)

 

15:50   Panel Discussion and Wrap-up Session

 

17:00   Concluding Remarks

 

 

We invite you to also visit our website
http://wirtschaft.ostasien.univie.ac.at. For further information please do
not hesitate to contact us directly.

 

Best regards

Yours sincerely

 

Sabine Burghart

 

Sabine Burghart, MA

Research Assistant

East Asian Economy and Society

East Asian Institute

University of Vienna 

Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2,

1090 Vienna, Austria

T: +43/1-4277-43873

F: +43/1-4277-43849

Sabine.burghart at univie.ac.at

http://wirtschaft.ostasien.univie.ac.at 

 

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