International Conference “Religious Tradition, Communism and Cultural Reevaluation: Transnationalism in Post-1989 Eastern European Cultures of Remembrance"

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International Conference “Religious Tradition, Communism and Cultural Reevaluation: Transnationalism in Post-1989 Eastern European Cultures of Remembrance"

Veranstalter
Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO)
Veranstaltungsort
Haus der Sorben/Serbski dom
Ort
Bautzen/Budysin, Saxony, Germany
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.06.2007 - 30.06.2007
Website
www.uni-leipzig.de/gwzo
Von
Stefan Troebst (troebst@uni-leipzig.de)

The current cultures of remembrance in Eastern Central Europe have been affected by at least three factors of different intensity and duration: (1) The political shifts since 1989; (2) the state-controlled politics of history in the communist era; and (3) longue-durée tendencies and powers pre-dating the communist era, such as religious practices and churches.

Due to the long-term importance and strength of various religious regimes, in East Central European cultures of remembrance the immediate effects of the 1989 turnover are less noticeable than it is generally assumed for a situation of such a radical political change. On the one hand many religious traditions survived throughout communist times, and have even been partly appropriated by the political and/or intellectual elites as forms of “civil religions”. On the other hand, many features of the cultures of remembrance formed in the socialist times persist until today and influence the handling of religions in the present situation.

The conference aims at casting new light on the complex relationships between the transnational features of religions and their significance as factors for national identity construction. Religions (understood both as practices and/or systems of beliefs, as well as religious institutions above all church organisations) transgress regions, societies, states and nations and are thus per se transnational.

Programm

Thursday, June 28, 2007

WELCOME ADRESSES

Dietrich Scholze, Director of The Sorbian Institute Bautzen/Serbski institut Budysin

Stefan Troebst, Deputy Director of the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) Leipzig

OPENING LECTURES

Vjekoslav Perica (Belgrade) – Pan-Orthodoxy and Russophilia in Post-Communist Serbia

Sorin Antohi (Targu-Ocna) – Romania's Competing Models of Transnationality

THE TOPOS OF ANTEMURALE CHRISTIANITATIS

Anne Kenneweg (Leipzig) – Introduction

Viktoria Pollmann (Hofheim) – Vom Antemurale Christianitatis zum Schutzwall gegen Barbarei und Chaos.

Malgorzata Morawiec (Mainz) – Das Antemurale-Verständnis bei den „Europa-Historikern“

Screening of the documentary „Po-golemijat brat: Metodij, Evropa i prijatelite na Balgarija / The Older Brother: Methodius, Europe and the Friends of Bulgaria“, Bulgaria 2005

Friday, June 29, 2007

CYRILLOMETHODIANA

Wilfried Jilge (Leipzig) – Introduction

Daniela Koleva (Sofia) – St. St. Cyril and Methodius as a Lieu de Mémoire

Stefan Rohdewald (Passau) – Im Schatten ihres Schülers Kliment: Kyrill und Method als Medien nationaler Identifikation und internationaler Anerkennung in der (Teil-)Republik Makedonien im Umbruch

Ewa Kowalská (Bratislava) – The Slav Apostels Cyril and Methodius: The Search for the Identity of the Saints within the Slovak Political Thought

Martin Walde (Bautzen / Budyšin) – Die Cyrill-Methodius-Idee bei den katholischen Sorben

THE CULT OF THE VIRGIN MARY

Agnieszka Halemba (Leipzig) – Introduction

Tatiana Podolinska (Bratislava) – „Chocolate Mary” – Virgin Mary as a Medium of Integration and Separation among Roma in Slovakia

Ewa Klekot (Warszawa) – The Judgement of Taste in the Context of Images of the Virgin

Anna Niedzwiedz (Buffalo/Krakow) – The Figure of Mother of God as a Symbol of Resistance During Communism in Poland.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION “RELIGION AND REMEMBRANCE”

Stefan Troebst (Leipzig)
Gerhard Podskalsky (Frankfurt am Main)
Vjekoslav Perica (Belgrade)
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (London)

Saturday, June 30, 2006

Guided bus tour to Schmochtitz (Cyril and Methodius monument), Rosenthal Monastery (Marian pilgrimage church at Rosenthal), Herrnhut (Moravian Brothers) and Görlitz/Zgorzelec

Kontakt

Dr. Agnieszka Gasior
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig (GWZO)
Luppenstr. 1 B, 04177 Leipzig
Tel. (0341) 97-35 595, gasior@rz.uni-leipzig.de

www.uni-leipzig.de/gwzo