/*Please note the following conference and program:*/ *Monday, October 30, 2006 Cold War Studies Conference */ //"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Historical Perspective: Reassessments after 50 Years"/ ** 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ___________________________________________________________________ THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 50th-ANNIVERSARY REASSESSMENTS Monday, 30 October 2006 9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m. 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250 PANEL 1: The Crises in Hungary and Poland 9:00 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m. Chair: Thomas W. Simons, Jr, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland "The Hungarian Revolution and the Role of the Churches" Nicolas Bauquet, Sciences Po (France) "Hungarian Students and the 1956 Revolution" Julius Várallyay, World Bank (retired), Hungarian student leader "Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution" János Rainer, Institute of Study of the 1956 Revolution (Budapest) "The Poznan Crisis and the Polish 'October'" Mark Kramer, Harvard University __________________________________________________________ PANEL 2: The 1956 Crises and the Soviet Union 10:45 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. Chair: Igor Lukes, Boston University "Khrushchev's Secret Speech and the Hungarian Revolution" William C. Taubman, Amherst College "The Hungarian and Polish Crises and the View from the Kremlin" Sergei Khrushchev, Brown University "The 1956 Crises and the Impact on Soviet Society" Vladislav Zubok, Temple University __________________________________________________________ PANEL 3: The Hungarian Revolution, the Soviet Bloc, and the West 1:45 p.m. -- 3:15 p.m. Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University "The 1956 Crises and the East German Regime" Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University "Mao, Khrushchev, and China's Reaction to the Hungarian Revolution" Lorenz Luthi, McGill University (Canada) "West European Communist Parties and the Hungarian Revolution" Silvio Pons, Gramsci Foundation (Rome) "U.S. Reactions to the Hungarian Revolution" Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive ___________________________________________________________ PANEL 4: The Aftermath and Legacy of the Hungarian Revolution 3:30 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. Chair: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University "Hungary in the Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution" János Kornai, Budapest Collegium (Hungary) "The Hungarian Revolution in Historical Memory" Beverly James, University of Hew Hampshire "The Study of the Revolution in Hungary Today" Csaba Békés, Cold War History Research Center (Budapest) Open to the public. Coffee and refreshments will be available. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu