• 8:50am 9:00am
    Welcome and Introduction
  • 9:00am 11:00am
    The Problem of Backwardness in Postwar Europe
    • Chair and Commentator

      Mark Mazower

      Department of History
      Columbia University

    • Backwardness in Interwar Europe

      Thomas David

    • Planning Peace: Development Policies in Postwar Europe

      Michele Alacevich

      Loyola University, Maryland

    • From Reconstruction to Development: International Organizations Policies Toward Central European countries 1947-1970

      Sandrine Kott

      University of Geneva

  • 11:00am 11:15am
    Break I
  • 11:15am 1:15pm
    Visions of Development in Europe
    • Chair and Commentator

      Yanni Kotsonis

      New York University

    • A Question of Timing? Why the European Recovery Program Became a Global Template for Development

      Daniel Speich

      University of Lucerne, Switzerland

    • Development Ideas in Postwar Greece

      Andreas Kakridis

      National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    • Thinking about Development in Late Socialist Hungary

      James Mark

      University of Exeter

  • 1:15pm 2:30pm
    Break II
  • 2:30pm 4:30pm
    Backwardness and Development in Eastern Europe
    • Chair and Commentator

      Victoria de Grazia

      Columbia University

    • Eastern European Economists and the Notion of Backwardness in the 1950s

      Johanna Bockman

      George Mason University

    • Backwardness and Development in Soviet Central Asia & Afghanistan?

      Timothy Nunan

      Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

    • Framing the Discourse on ‘Backwardness’: Tensions on the Development Issue Considered within the Bloc or on a Global Scale

      Simon Godard

      Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva

  • 4:45pm 5:45pm
    Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks
    • Adam Tooze

      Columbia University