Remembering Communism. New
Approaches to the memory and History of the Communism. Bulgaria
and Romania in Comparison
conference
Sofia, 26 - 30.09.2008
Friday, 26.09
7:00 p.m - Just Afterthought. A History of the Memory
of Communism
êeynote speech Istvan Rev, followd by a comment of Ivan Krastev
Cocktail at The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
Saturday, 27.09
St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University - Hall 1
09:30 a.m - 09:45 a.m- Opening of the conference. Welcome
by the project’s directors Maria Todorova and Stefan Troebst
State surveillance. Mechanisms of power and memory
9:45 a.m - 11:00 a.m - Cristina Petrescu: Who Remembers the
Romanian Secret Police? On Moral Correctness in Post-Communist
Romania
Iskra Baeva: How the Bulgarian Society Perceives the Role
of the State Security Service after 1989
Konstantin Iordachi: Totalitarianism and Historical Memory:
Communism as Lived Experience in Romania
Panel commentator:
11:00 a.m - 11:45 a.m- Discussion and Break
Socialism: Everyday Life and Lived Experience
11:45 a.m - 12:40 p.m - Smaranda Vultur: Daily Life and Constraints
in Communist Romania of the Late 80s. From the Semiotics of
Food to the Semiotics of Power
Adrian Mihalache: The Post-Communist Memory of Everyday Life
under Ceausescu’s Rule. A Methodological Perspective
Panel commentator:
12:40 p.m - 1:15 p.m - Discussion
1:15 - 2:30 p.m - Lunch
The Memory of Transition
2:30 p.m - 3:15 p.m - Nikolay Poppetrov: Myths about Socialism
from the Transition Period
Dragos Petrescu: Transitional History, Counter-Memory and
Nostalgia. Remembering Ceausescu’s “Socialism” in Post-1989
Romania
3:15 p.m - 3:30 p.m - Break
3:30 p.m - 4:30 p.m - Milla Mineva: Socialism “Reloaded”
Liliana Deyanova: Rewriting Official Memory after 1989. How
Historians Remember Communism
Panel commentator:
4:30 p.m - 5:30 p.m - Discussion
8:00 p.m - Dinner
Sunday, 28.09
Social Relations under Communism
09:30 a.m - 10:45 a.m - Tanya Boneva: Remembering Socialism
in the Field Studies of Pernik: 1960-1964
Dorina Orzac: Confronting Totalitarianism. Case study – The
Region of Maramures
Deyan Petrov: Does the “Working Class” Notion Exist in the
Memories of the Workers? A Case Study on the Town of Targovishte
of Workers Born Between 1947-1957
Panel commentator:
10:45 a.m - 11:45 a.m - Discussion and Break
The Social Texture of Socialism: Negotiating Family,
Gender, Equality
11:45 a.m - 1:00 p.m - Petya Kabakchieva: Social Inequalities
under Socialism
Anni Kirilova: Within the “Family Cell” of Socialist Society
and
Without it
Iliana Atanasova: Women in Power under Communism: The Bulgarian
Case
Panel commentator:
1:00 p.m - 1:45 p.m - Discussion
1:45 p.m - 3:00 p.m - Lunch
Culture Under Socialism: Inventions and Reinventions
3:00 p.m - 3:45 p.m - Tsvetana Manova: Masquerade Rites and
Festivals in the Cultural Memory of socialism
Nataliya Hristova: Theater-Makers and the Authorities in the
1960s: Memories of Conflicts, Conflicts of Memory
3:45 p.m - 4:00 p.m - Break
4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m - Krasimira Koeva: Contemporary Interpretations
of one Mystification (Bulgarian Fine Arts of the Late 1950s)
Vania Stoyanova: Socialism in Bulgarian Post-1989 Cinema
Panel commentator:
5:00p.m - 6:00 p.m - Discussion
8:00 p.m - Dinner
Monday, 29.09
Socialism and its Entanglement with the Nation and
the Local
9:30 a.m - 10:45 a.m - Evgenia Kalinova: The Memory of the
“Revival Process”
Tamas Lonhart and Virgiliu Tarau: Between Social and National.
Dimensions of Interpreting the Memory of Transformations in
the City of Cluj (1956-1989)
Vasile Docea: Local Historiography as a Form of Memory. Case
Study – Timisoara
Panel commentator:
10:45 a.m - 11:45 a.m - Discussion and Break
The Memory of Communism in Genres and Generations
11:45 a.m -13:00 p.m - Catalina Mihalache: How the Present
is Asking for a Suitable Past.
Schooling and Remembering Communism
Albena Hranova: “Loan-Memory”: Communism and the Youngest
Generation.
Varban Todorov: Remembering Socialism in Written Sources –
the Case of Prof. N. Todorov’s Diary
Panel commentator:
1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m - Discussion
2:00 p.m - Lunch
5:30 p.m - A Cold Coca Cola in the Period of the Cold War
(documentary, Bulgaria, 30 min.), followed by a discussion
in the presence of the documentary’s directors Irina Nedeva,
Evgenia Atanasova and Damian Petrov.
Screening at The Red House Centre for Culture and debate
7:00 p.m - Forgetting Eastern Europe -keynote speech Chris
Hann (Germany)
The lecture is at The Red House Centre for Culture and debate
8:00 p.m - Dinner
This event has been sponsored by the Volkswagen Stiftung
and hosted by the University of Leipzig.
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