Program
8:45 Introduction (Matthieu Gillabert and Bradley Reynolds)
9.00 Keynote: Giles Scott-Smith, Professor (University of Leiden)
Pandora’s Box? Citizen Diplomacy, the Cold War, and New Diplomatic History
9.30-10.45 The Helsinki Process Reconceptualized – Helsinki Beyond Helsinki
- Bent Boel (Aalborg University): Western dissident encounters, prisoner-support activism and East-West relations in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Katharina Kunter (University of Helsinki): Churches as Ambivalent Civic Diplomats in the Helsinki Process.
Discussant: Bradley Reynolds (Geneva Graduate Institute)
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.30 The Many Faces of Freedom – Arms Control, Environmental Issues, and Fundamental Freedoms
- Timeo Antognini (University of Fribourg): Coexistence or Human Rights? How the Helsinki Process Shaped the Peace movement in Switzerland;
- Nicolas Badalassi (Science Po Aix), online: From Helsinki to the Mediterranean: Scientists, Organisations and the Expansion of the Second Basket.
Discussant: Matthieu Gillabert (University of Fribourg)
Lunch 12.30-14.00
14.00-16.00 The Multiple Meanings of Helsinki – Human Rights and New Research Directions in CSCE State and Society Co-operation
- Krzysztof Kliszczyński (Queer Museum of Warsaw) and Paweł Matusz (University of Regensburg): Awakening. The Birth of Queer Movements in the Eastern Bloc Against the Backdrop of Political Changes in the 1970s and 1980s;
- Heikki Haara (University of Helsinki): Finnish Churches and Human Rights in the CSCE Process;
- Nina Hechenblaikner (Independent Researcher), online: Whose voice counts? Human rights groups in media coverage on the third CSCE Follow-Up Meeting (1986–1989).
Discussant: Stéphanie Roulin (University of Fribourg)
17.15-19.00 Public Panel: What Was the Conscience of Helsinki and Where Has it Gone Today?
Thomas Fischer (Associated Researcher DODIS), Annemarie Sancar (Swiss Helsinki Committee) and Berenika Zeller (Swiss Helsinki Committee) in conversation with Bradley Reynolds (Moderation).