“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 (2^nd 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