Friday, 5 December

8:30 – 9:00

Registration and coffee

9:00 – 9:15

Opening

Inga Vinogradnaitė, Research Director, Institute of International of Relations and Political Science

Ainė Ramonaitė, leader of the research project “Invisible Society of Soviet-era Lithuania: The Revision of Distinction between Systemic and Non-systemic Social Networks“

9.15-10:00

Keynote address

John Skvoretz, University of South Florida, President of the International Network for Social Network Analysis

Structural Signatures and Hidden Networks:  Statistical Models for Social Networks in Totalitarian Social Orders

10:00-11.15

Session 1. Unveiling the Structure of Underground Society

Chair: Inga Vinogradnaitė

Jan Olaszek, The Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw University

Between Trust and Distrust. The Underground “Solidarity” as a Trust Network

Ainė Ramonaitė, Valdemaras Klumbys and Rytė Kukulskytė, Vilnius University

Explaining the Success of Secret Societies: The Structure of Samizdat Networks in Soviet Lithuania

11:15 – 11:45

Coffee break

11.45 – 13.00

Crack (in) the Soviet Monolith: the Nature of Social Agencies in Force?

Joint Round Table Discussion with the 5^th Vilnius Symposium of Soviet and Late Soviet Issues

Moderated by Vilius Ivanauskas (Lithuanian Institute of History)

Interventions by Nerija Putinaitė (Vilnius University), David Beecher (UC Berkeley), Rasa Baločkaitė (Vytautas Magnus University), Jūratė Kavaliauskaitė (Vilnius University), Martins Kapran (Tartu University), Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius University), Felix Ackermann (European Humanities University

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch

14.30 -  16.00

Session 2. Acting in Secret: Samizdat Networks and Religious Underground

Chair: Arūnas Streikus

Monika Kareniauskaitė, Vilnius University

“Samizdat” Networks in Communist Lithuania: Repressed Deviants or Developers of Alternative Public Discourse?

Katarzyna Korzeniewska, University of Bialystok

Catholic Clandestine Activities of the 70s and 80s Lithuania, or How Formal is Informality?

Mateusz Fałkowski, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Networks of Contention under Repressive Conditions. The Case Study of CDN Underground Publishing House

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

16.30 -  18.00

Session 3. How to “Drop out of the System“? Lifestyle as a Trajectory of Nonconformism

Chair: Jonas Öhman

Li Bennich-Björkman, University of Uppsala; Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Existential Resistance and the Transition to Pluralism in the Soviet West

Jūratė Kavaliauskaitė, Vilnius University

Craving for the Road (Out): Uneasy Alternative of the Urban Sub-Cultural Milieu in Late Soviet Lithuania

Ainė Ramonaitė and Rytė Kukulskytė, Vilnius University

Building Affirmative Alternative and Staying Visible? Camouflage Strategies of the Ethno-cultural Movement in Soviet Lithuania

18.00

Reception

Saturday,  6 December

9.30 - 11.00

Session 4. Confronted by the Soviet System: Tactics of Subjugation and Conversion

Chair: Kęstutis Girnius

Irena Saleniece, Daugavpils University

Concealed Resistance Networks under Communism: Real and „Imagined” by Power

Nerija Putinaitė, Vilnius University

Politics of Atheization of Population in Soviet Lithuania: From Blind Ideologization to Ingratiating Loyalization

Valdemaras Klumbys, Vilnius University

On the Problem of Collective Action of the Soviet Intelligentsia in Lithuania

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00

Session 5. Networking Within the System: Informal Networks of Power

Chair: Vladas Sirutavičius

Przemysław Gasztold-Seń, The Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw University

Beyond Democratic Centralism: Fractions, Coteries, and Informal Party Groups within the Polish United Workers’ Party in the 80s”

Michał Przeperski, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences

Patronage and Informal Networks of Power. Mieczysław F. Rakowski as a Journalist

Saulius Grybkauskas, The Lithuanian Institute of History

Was the Soviet Lithuanian Nomenklatura a Ruling Clan?

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Session 6. Black Market Economy and “Blat” Networks in the Soviet Period: Notions, Structures and Consequences

Chair: Liutauras Gudžinskas

Hubert Wilk, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences