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University of Leipzig <br>
<br>
Institute for Slavic<br>
Studies<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sponsored by the<br>
Volkswagen-Stiftung<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Conference <br>
<br>
Remembering Communism. Theoretical<br>
Approaches to the Memory on Communism<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Bucharest, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, “Horia<br>
Bernea” Hall<br>
<br>
3 Kiseleff Road, Bucharest<br>
<br>
01 - 05.10.2009<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Program<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Thursday, 01.10<br>
<br>
15:00-15:30 Opening remarks <br>
<br>
15:30-17:30 Communism, Memory and<br>
the Visual<br>
<br>
Presentations, Film screening, Discussion<br>
<br>
(Alyssa Grossmann, Simina Bădică, Corina<br>
Cimpoieru, Vania Stoyanova)<br>
<br>
Bădică: Remembering Communism<br>
during Communism. <br>
<br>
Displaying History at the Museum before<br>
and after 1989 in Romania<br>
<br>
Cimpoieru: Feature Film on<br>
Remembering Romanian Communism<br>
<br>
Stoyanova: Socialism in<br>
Bulgarian Post-1989 Cinema (Documentaries)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
18:00-19:00 Key note speech, Barbara<br>
Christophe<br>
<br>
Remembering<br>
Communism and Making Sense of the Post-<br>
<br>
Communist Experience: Analyzing Discursive Strategies in Post-Soviet<br>
Textbook Accounts<br>
<br>
19:30 Reception-Museum of the Romanian Peasant<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Friday, 02.10<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
9:30-11:00 New Comers - Topics<br>
<br>
(Izabella<br>
Main, Nikolay Vukov, Diana Georgescu)<br>
<br>
Main:<br>
How is Communism Remembered in Poland? About Research and Literature <br>
<br>
Vukov: Remembrance<br>
of Communism on the Former Day of <br>
<br>
Socialist Victory: 9th of September in Post-1989 Bulgaria<br>
<br>
Georgescu: Ceausescu's<br>
Children<br>
<br>
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
11:15-13:00 Remembering Through Whose Language?<br>
Which Notions?<br>
<br>
(Petya Kabakchieva, Adrian Cioflâncă,<br>
Iskra Baeva)<br>
<br>
Kabakchieva:<br>
Remembering Communism- the Society of Equality<br>
or the Society of Inequalities<br>
<br>
Cioflâncă: Embellishing the<br>
Evil. Narratives of Deculpabilization in the Memoires of Former<br>
Members of the Romanian Nomeklatura<br>
<br>
Baeva: Modern Bulgarian Society<br>
and Its Notion of the Age of Socialism<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
14:00-16:00 The Past Through the Lenses of the<br>
Present<br>
<br>
(Constantin Iordachi Dragoş Petrescu, Milla Mineva,<br>
<br>
Cristina<br>
Petrescu)<br>
<br>
Iordachi:<br>
Remembering Communism vs Condemning Communism.<br>
Comparative Perspectives on the War on Memory in Post-Communist East-Central Europe<br>
<br>
Petrescu:<br>
1989 as a Self-Ironical Tragicomedy. Representations<br>
<br>
of the<br>
Romanian Revolution<br>
<br>
Mineva: Remembering Online<br>
<br>
Petrescu: “How We Survived<br>
Communism and even Laughed.”<br>
<br>
Belated Nostalgia<br>
for the “Golden Epoch”?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
16:30-18:30 Is Experience a Useful Category?<br>
<br>
(Smaranda Vultur, Tanya Boneva, Anni<br>
Kirilova)<br>
<br>
Vultur:<br>
Everyday Life and Surveillance in Romania of the 1980s <br>
<br>
Boneva:<br>
Remembering Communism in Post-Communist Times. Pernik Revisited:2007<br>
<br>
Kirilova: Genealogical and<br>
Family Memory<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Saturday, 03.10<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
9:00-10:30 Transformations of Memory in the Realm of the Social<br>
<br>
(Tamás<br>
Lönhárt, Virgiliu Ţârău, Deyan Petrov)<br>
<br>
Lönhárt<br>
and Ţârău: The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City.<br>
<br>
The Transformations Associated with Communism as Remembered by Hungarian Workers from Cluj/<br>
Kolosvár/ Klausenburg <br>
<br>
Petrov:<br>
Remembering Communism in Factories<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
11:30-13:00 Generations Remember<br>
Communism<br>
<br>
(Tzetanka Manova, Cătălina Mihalache,<br>
Iliyana Marcheva)<br>
<br>
Manova:<br>
“We Build Our Country.” Visual Memories about the<br>
<br>
Brigadier<br>
Movement Based on Materials from Pernik<br>
<br>
Mihalache: Talking Memories of<br>
the Socialist Age. School, Feelings, Regime<br>
<br>
Marcheva: “By Our Memoirs You<br>
Shall Know Them.” Ivan and Petko Venedikovi About Themselves and About<br>
Communism<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
14:00-15:30 Taste and Art. Distinction or Negotiation?<br>
<br>
(Adrian Mihalache, Natalia Hristova,<br>
Krasimira Koeva)<br>
<br>
Mihalache:<br>
Remembering the Luxury of Common People. Reflections<br>
on the Private Display of Decorative Things in the 1980s<br>
<br>
Hristova: Authorities and<br>
Artistic Elite- Memoires of Conflicts<br>
<br>
Koeva: About one<br>
Bulgarian-Rumanian Casus (the sculptor Boris Karadja)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
16:00-17:30 Memory and Reconfigurations of the<br>
Local and the National<br>
<br>
(Dorina Orzac,<br>
Evgenia Kalinova, Vasile Docea)<br>
<br>
Orzac: Confronting Totalitarianism. Case Study- The Region<br>
of Maramureş<br>
<br>
Kalinova: Remembering the “Revival Process” in Post-1989 Bulgaria<br>
<br>
Docea: History as Collective Memory. Constructing Identities in<br>
Timişoara Through Monographs and Street Names<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
19:00 Key note speech: Thomas Lindenberger at New Europe College<br>
<br>
Experts Without a Cause? Contemporary History Between Memory<br>
Governance and Ostalgia in Unified Germany.<br>
<br>
<br>
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}
div.attach-table div div a {
text-decoration: none;
}
div.attach-table {
width: 400px;
}
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</style>
</head>
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