Programme
Thursday, 1 October
Museum of the Romanian Peasant
15:30-17:30 hrs
COMMUNISM, MEMORY AND THE VISUAL
Simina Badica: Remembering Communism during Communism. Displaying History at the Museum before and after 1989 in Romania
Corina Cimpoieru: Feature Film on Remembering Romanian Communism
Vanya Stoyanova: Socialism in Bulgarian Post-1989 Cinema (Documentaries)
18:00-19:00 hrs
KEY NOTE SPEECH
Barbara Christophe: Remembering Communism and Making Sense of the Post-Communist Experience: Analyzing Discursive Strategies in Post-Soviet Textbook Accounts
Friday, 2 October
Museum of the Romanian Peasant
9:30-11:00 hrs
NEW COMERS’ TOPICS
Izabella Main: How is Communism Remembered in Poland? On Research and Literature
Nikolay Vukov: Remembrance of Communism on the Former Day of Socialist Victory: 9 September in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Diana Georgescu: Ceausescu's Children
11:15-13:00 hrs
REMEMBERING THROUGH WHOSE LANGUAGE? WHICH NOTIONS?
Petya Kabakchieva: Remembering Communism- the Society of Equality or the Society of Inequalities
Adrian Cioflanca: Embellishing the Evil. Narratives of Deculpabilization in the Memoires of Former Members of the Romanian Nomeklatura
Iskra Baeva: Modern Bulgarian Society and Its Notion of the Age of Socialism
14:00-16:00 hrs
THE PAST THROUGH THE LENSES OF THE PRESENT
Constantin Iordachi: Remembering Communism vs Condemning Communism. Comparative Perspectives on the War on Memory in Post-Communist East-Central Europe
Dragos Petrescu: 1989 as a Self-Ironical Tragicomedy. Representations of the Romanian Revolution
Mila Mineva: Remembering Online
Cristina Petrescu: ‘How We Survived Communism and even Laughed’: Belated Nostalgia for the ‘Golden Epoche’?
16:30-18:30 hrs
IS EXPERIENCE A USEFUL CATEGORY?
Smaranda Vultur: Everyday Life and Surveillance in Romania of the 1980s
Tanya Boneva: Remembering Communism in Post-Communist Times. Pernik Revisited: 2007
Ani Kirilova: Genealogical and Family Memory
Saturday, 3 October
Museum of the Romanian Peasant
9:00-10:30 hrs
TRANSFORMATIONS OF MEMORY IN THE REALM OF THE SOCIAL
Tamas Lönhart and Virgiliu Tarau: The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City. The Transformations Associated with Communism as Remembered by Hungarian Workers from Cluj/ Kolosvar/Klausenburg
Deyan Petrov: Remembering Communism in Factories
11:30-13:00 hrs
GENERATIONS REMEMBER COMMUNISM
Tsvetanka Manova: ‘We Build Our Country’: Visual Memories about the Brigadier Movement Based on Materials from Pernik
Catalina Mihalache: Talking Memories of the Socialist Age. School, Feelings, Regime
Iliyana Marcheva: ‘By Our Memoirs You Shall Know Them’: Ivan and Petko Venedikovi About Themselves and About Communism
14:00-15:30 hrs
TASTE AND ART. DISTINCTION OR NEGOTIATION?
Adrian Mihalache: Remembering the Luxury of Common People. Reflections on the Private Display of Decorative Things in the 1980s
Natalia Hristova: Authorities and Artistic Elite- Memoires of Conflicts
Krasimira Koeva: About one Bulgarian-Rumanian Casus (the sculptor Boris Karadja)
16:00-17:30 hrs
MEMORY AND RECONFIGURATION OF THE LOCAL AND THE NATIONAL
Dorina Orzac: Confronting Totalitarianism. Case Study- The Region of Maramures
Evgenia Kalinova: Remembering the ‘Revival Process’ in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Vasile Docea: History as Collective Memory. Constructing Identities in Timisoara Through Monographs and Street Names
19:00-20:00 hrs
New Europe College
END NOTE SPEECH
Thomas Lindenberger: Experts Without a Cause? Contemporary History Between Memory Governance and Ostalgia in Unified Germany.