Specialised Theme 4

Urban Villagers: Everyday Life, Leisure and Socialist Cities

9 AM-12:15 PM

Qingdao Hall, Shandong Hotel

Organizer: Sándor Horváth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)

With the support of the Hungarian National Committee

Discussant: Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham University, New York)

- Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow):

The Great Expectations. Concepts of Urban Life and Everyday Practices of Newcomers in Nowa Huta

- Ana Kladnik (Centre for Contemporary History – ZZF,Potsdam):

The Regulation of Leisure for Building a New Town Center. The Case of Velenje in Slovenia in the Late 1950s

- Jérôme Bazin (University of Paris-Est Créteil):

The Visual Frontier between City and Country: Landscapes on the Cities of a New Type

- Igor Duda (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula):

Pioneers and the Urban Life. Modernization and Ideologization of Children’s Leisure in Socialist Croatia

- Dariusz Jarosz (Polish Academy of Sciences):

‘Peasantness’ and the Style of Everyday Life within the Polish Urban Expanse post 1945

- Elisabet Prudant (University of São Paulo) :

The Democratization of the City during the Unidad Popular Government, 1970–1973

- Maria Vasekha (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):

Modern Moscow Tradition of Hovering in the Public Baths as an Urban Leisure Phenomenon