Discutiile nu vor ocoli subiecte precum nostalgia si condamnarea comunismului, nume de strazi si bibelouri, comunismul la muzeu si in cartile scolare, memorie generationala, memorie vizuala, memorie colectiva sau istorie orala.
Joi, 1 octombrie, conferinta se va deschide cu avanpremiera filmului documentar Bucharest Past Present (43 min.) regizat de antropologul Alyssa Grossman (University of Manchester, UK). Filmat in gradina Cismigiu, documentarul este o meditatie asupra prezentei memoriei in Romania post-socialista.
Remembering Communism. Theoretical Approaches to the Memory on Communism
Joi, 01.10
15:00-15:30 Opening remarks
15:30-17:30 Communism, Memory and the Visual
(Alyssa Grossmann, Simina Badica, Corina Cimpoieru, Vania Stoyanova)
Proiectie de film documentar: Bucharest Past Present (43 min., Romania, 2009) Dir: Alyssa Grossman
Badica: Remembering Communism during Communism.
Displaying History at the Museum before and after 1989 in Romania
Cimpoieru: Feature Film on Remembering Romanian Communism
Stoyanova: Socialism in Bulgarian Post-1989 Cinema (Documentaries)
18:00-19:00 Key note speech, Barbara Christophe
Remembering Communism and Making Sense of the Post-Communist Experience: Analyzing Discursive Strategies in Post-Soviet Textbook Accounts
Vineri, 02.10
9:30-11:00 New Comers – Topics
(Izabella Main, Nikolay Vukov, Diana Georgescu)
Main: How is Communism Remembered in Poland? About Research and Literature
Vukov: Remembrance of Communism on the Former Day of Socialist Victory: 9th of September in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Georgescu: Ceausescu’s Children
11:15-13:00 Remembering Through Whose Language? Which Notions?
(Petya Kabakchieva, Adrian Cioflanca, Iskra Baeva)
Kabakchieva: Remembering Communism- the Society of Equality or the Society of Inequalities
Cioflanca: Embellishing the Evil. Narratives of Deculpabilization in the Memoires of Former Members of the Romanian Nomeklatura
Baeva: Modern Bulgarian Society and Its Notion of the Age of Socialism
14:00-16:00 The Past Through the Lenses of the Present
(Constantin Iordachi, Dragos Petrescu, Milla Mineva, Cristina Petrescu
Iordachi: Remembering Communism vs Condemning Communism. Comparative Perspectives on the War on Memory in Post-Communist East-Central Europe
Petrescu: 1989 as a Self-Ironical Tragicomedy. Representations of the Romanian Revolution
Mineva: Remembering Online
Petrescu: How We Survived Communism and even Laughed. Belated Nostalgia for the „Golden Epoch”?
16:30-18:30 Is Experience a Useful Category?
(Smaranda Vultur, Tanya Boneva, Anni Kirilova)
Vultur: Everyday Life and Surveillance in Romania of the 1980s
Boneva: Remembering Communism in Post-Communist Times. Pernik Revisited:2007
Kirilova: Genealogical and Family Memory
Simbata, 03.10
9:00-10:30 Transformations of Memory in the Realm of the Social
(Tamas Lonhart, Virgiliu Tarau, Deyan Petrov)
Lonhart and Tarau: The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City. The Transformations Associated with Communism as Remembered by Hungarian Workers from Cluj/ Kolosvar/ Klausenburg
Petrov: Remembering Communism in Factories
11:30-13:00 Generations Remember Communism
(Tzetanka Manova, Catalina Mihalache, Iliyana Marcheva)
Manova: „We Build Our Country”. Visual Memories about the
Brigadier Movement Based on Materials from Pernik
Mihalache: Talking Memories of the Socialist Age. School, Feelings, Regime
Marcheva: „By Our Memoirs You Shall Know Them.” Ivan and Petko Venedikovi About Themselves and About Communism
14:00-15:30 Taste and Art. Distinction or Negotiation?
(Adrian Mihalache, Natalia Hristova, Krasimira Koeva)
Mihalache: Remembering the Luxury of Common People. Reflections on the Private Display of Decorative Things in the 1980s
Hristova: Authorities and Artistic Elite- Memoires of Conflicts
Koeva: About one Bulgarian-Rumanian Casus (the sculptor Boris Karadja)
16:00-17:30 Memory and Reconfigurations of the Local and the National
(Dorina Orzac, Evgenia Kalinova, Vasile Docea)
Orzac: Confronting Totalitarianism. Case Study – The Region of Maramures
Kalinova: Remembering the „Revival Process” in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Docea: History as Collective Memory. Constructing Identities in Timisoara Through Monographs and Street Names
19:00 Key note speech: Thomas Lindenberger at New Europe College
Experts Without a Cause? Contemporary History Between Memory Governance and Ostalgia in Unified Germany.