“Narratives on Totalitarianisms: Histories and
Memories of Central and Eastern European Totalitarian Regimes”
4th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on
Totalitarianism for PhD Students
June 11-12,
2015 – Bucharest, ROMANIA,
University of Bucharest
Thursday, June 11, 2015
9:00 – 09:30
– Arrival and Registration of the Participants
Venue – ‘Gh. I. Brătianu’ Lecture Hall
(2nd floor), Faculty of History, University of Bucharest
09:30 – 10:00
– Opening remarks
Dr. Cosmin BUDEANCĂ (General Director, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory
of the Romanian Exile)
Prof. Adrian CIOROIANU (Dean, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest)
10:00 – 11:30
– Panel 1
(Re)Constructed Histories, Memories, and Identities
Chair: Dr. Cosmin BUDEANCĂ
(General Director, The Institute for the Investigation of
Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile)
Oksana KLYMENKO (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, UKRAINE)
Constructing Memoirs about
the October Revolution in the 1920s
Mihai BURCEA (University of Bucharest, ROMANIA)
Romanian Volunteers in the
International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. The Historiography of the
Topic
Maria-Philippa WIECKOWSKI (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM)
Constructing identity and
the past in Romania. The Holocaust in high school History textbooks
11:30 – 12:00
– Coffee break
12:00 –
13:30 – Panel 2
Narratives and Theories on Totalitarianisms
Chair: Dr. Dalia BATHORY (Researcher, The
Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the
Romanian Exile)
Remus TANASĂ
(UAIC Iași, ROMANIA)
Mazzini and Marx: Two Political Statements
Filip MACHART (Charles University in Prague, CZECH Republic)
Modern Dystopias and Theories
of Totalitarianism
Jovana VUKCEVIC (EHESS Paris, FRANCE)
Commodifying social memory: Communist
Nostalgia as a marketing strategy
14:00 –
16:00 – Lunch
16:00 – 17:30
– Panel 3
Intellectuals and Dissidence: Discursive Practices and
Personal Strategies
Chair: Dr. Irina
NASTASĂ-MATEI (Junior
Lecturer, Faculty of Political Sciences, University
of Bucharest)
Laura Andreea CODREANU (University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)
Dissidence and Response.
Strategies of the Ceausescu Regime
Ruxandra PETRINCA (McGill University, Montreal, CANADA)
Recuperating
the Communist Past: Romanian Literature and Authoritative Discourse
Elena VARTA (State Pedagogical University „Ion
Creanga”, Chisinau, Republic of MOLDOVA)
Radio jamming in the USSR during the post-war
period
17:30 –
18:00 – Coffee break
18:00 – 19:30
– Panel 4
Dealing with Radical Changes: from Adaptation towards
Transformation
Chair: Dr. Ștefan BOSOMITU (The
Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the
Romanian Exile)
Iurii CHAINSKYI (University of Warsaw, POLAND)
Polish Promethean Policy
and the passport problems of the anti-Soviet Georgian emigration in Turkey in
1921-1933
Dejan ZEC (Institute for Recent History of Serbia,
Belgrade, SERBIA)
Between Two Totalitarian
Regimes: Hopes and Fears of the Serbian Bourgeoisie in 1944 – Abstracts from
Memoirs of Prominent Middle-Class Serbs
Radu STANCU (University of Bucharest, ROMANIA)
Capital Punishment in
Romania after the Death Penalty Law in 1949 (1949-1958)
20:00 –
Dinner
Friday, June 12, 2015
9:00 – 10:30
– Panel 5
(Re)Discussing Communist Societies: from State Policies to
Everyday Life Experiences
Chair: Dr. Alina PAVELESCU (Deputy Director, National Archives of Romania)
Ștefana PASCU-NICA (Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism,
Bucharest, ROMANIA)
Architecture/Anti-architecture:
Romania, 1952-1989
Olena KOVALENKO (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow,
POLAND)
Communism in 1980: Between Ideology and
Everyday Experience
Kateryna RUBAN (New York University, USA)
A Soviet Rural Doctor in Film and Memories: Power,
Knowledge, and a Service to the State and Its People
10:30 –
11:00 – Coffee break
11:00 –
12:30 – Panel 6
‘Socialist’ Market Economy: Centralism, Shortages,
Consumerism
Chair: Dr. Dan DRĂGHIA (Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest)
Vlad ONACIU
(UBB Cluj, ROMANIA)
Unwilling or Incapable? The Difficulties of Blat
Story-gathering in post-Communist Romania. Case Study: Cluj
Milan PILJAK (Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade,
SERBIA)
Towards Market Socialism or
Toward Corporate Monopolies in Central-planned Economy? The Case of Bulgarian
Trust TEXIM
Mircea-Lucian SCROB (CEU, Budapest, HUNGARY)
Reevaluating
Consumers’ Experiences during Socialism: Proposal for an anthropological
approach based on a case-study analysis of a dietary change
12:30 – 12:45
– Concluding remarks
13:00 –
15:00 – Lunch