21 April
14:00 Welcome
14:30 Introductory remarks: Christian Gerlach (Universität Bern)
15:00-16:30 Panel 1: State control and anti-communist persecution
Chair: Padraic Kenney (Bloomington)
Frank Jacob (City University of New York)
Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Communist State Action in Modern Japan
Martin Schröder (Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Governing the hinterland – anti-communist action and the establishment of state power in rural Venezuela during the 1960s and 1970s
James Shrader (University of California, San Diego)
A Laboratory of Violence: Race, Nation-Building, and Latin America’s Cold War in Comparative Perspective
16:30- 16:50 Break
16:50 – 18:20 Panel 2: Religion, race and anti-communism
Chair: Julia Richers (Bern)
Christoph Dieckmann (Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Frankfurt a.M.)
Anti-communist persecutions in Lithuania 1918-1944
Robbie Lieberman (Kennesaw State University)
The Black and Red Scare in the 20th Century United States
Clemens Six (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Christian agency in anti-communist persecution? A historical-theological approach
22 April
9:30- 11:00 Panel 3: Legal persecution
Chair: Robbie Lieberman (Kennesaw)
Daniel Vallès Muñio (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
The Spanish anti-communist judicial system, results and solutions from the Spanish transitional justice
Barbara Falk (Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada/University of Toronto),
The Smith Act Trials and Systemic Violence: Anti-Communist Persecution and Prosecution in America, 1949-1957
Martin Löhnig (Universität Regensburg)
Political Justice in Western Germany during the 1950s
11:00-11:20 Break
11:20- 12:20 Panel 4: Persecutions of communists in socialist countries
Chair: Brigitte Studer (Bern)
Cristina Diac (National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism-Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Symbolic violence against veterans of the Spanish Civil War in Central and Eastern Europe
Wendy Goldman (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
The Social Origins of Terror and Repression in the Soviet Union: Victims and Perpetrators, 1936-1939
12:30- 2:00 Lunch break
14:00- 15:00 Panel 5: Nation-building and anti-communism
Chair: Frank Jacob (New York)
Kim Dong-Choon (Sung Kong Hoe University, Seoul)
Anticommunism as Continuation of Colonialism in Northeast Asia
Elisa Kriza (Universität Bamberg)
„We don’t want the Olympics, we want a revolution!“ Communism and Anti-Communism in the Student Massacre on Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City (1968)
15:00 - 15:20 Break
15:20- 16:50 Panel 6: Non-state persecutors
Chair: Moritz Feichtinger (Bern)
Ernesto Bohoslavsky (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires) and Magdalena Broquetas (Universidad de la República, Montevideo)
Non-state anti-communism and political violence in Argentina and Uruguay, 1958-1973
Amaryllis Logotheti (Pantheion University, Athens)
The religious justification of the anti-communist persecutions in Greece (1945-1955)
Jan-Philipp Pomplun (Technische Universität Berlin)
Anti-communist Mass Violence and Political Radicalisation – German Paramilitarism after the Great War
16:50- 17:10 Break
17:10-18:10 Panel 7: Paradigms of violence
Chair: Elisa Kriza (Bamberg)
Kiril Feferman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem/University of Southern California)
From „Bolshevik Plague“ to Victims of „Judeo-Bolshevism“: Nazi policies towards Communists in the Occupied Soviet Territories, 1941-44
Janis Nalbadidacis (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
The Role of Communism in Greek and Argentine Torture Centres during the Military Dictatorships
19:00 Catered Dinner for Conference
23 April
9:30- 11:00 Panel 8: Survival strategies
Chair: Daniel Vallès Muñio (Barcelona)
Christian Gerlach (Universität Bern)
Indonesian narratives of survival and their relation to societal persecution
Natalia Jarska (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences/Institute for National Remembrance, Warsaw)
Anti-communist persecution and gender in interwar Poland
Padraic Kenney (Indiana University)
“So that they leave the prison cage as conscious revolutionaries”: Performing Communism in the Polish Prison
11:00- 11:20 Break
11:20- 12:50 Panel 9: Experience, memory, trauma
Chair: Wendy Goldman (Pittsburgh)
Amurwani Dwi L (Direktorat Sejarah, Kementrian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, Jakarta)
From the Political State to Plantungan
Grace Leksana (Universiteit Leiden)
Remembering 1965 in Indonesia: Complexities of the memory of violence against communists
Manon Bourguignon (Université de Lausanne)
Political affiliation, a transmitted feature? Transmission dynamics for the children of Chilean political exiles living in Switzerland
12:50 - 13:50 Final discussion
13:50 End of conference