THURSDAY, 22 OCTOBER
Introduction
9.30 – 11.00
Welcome by the Babeş-Bolyai-University of Cluj-Napoca
Ovidiu Ghitta, Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy
Doru Radosav, Director of the Institute of Oral History
Ioan-Marius Bucur, Head of the Department of Contemporary History and International Relations
Pavel Kolář, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam:
Socialist Dictatorship as a World of Meaning (presentation of the project)
Keynote Lecture:
Thomas Lindenberger, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Sphere Vienna:
From Terror to Soft Power? Some Remarks on the Role of Physical Violence during Late State Socialism
Comment: Ioan-Marius Bucur
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Panel I: Representations of Violence
Chair & Comment:
Dennis Deletant, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London (to be confirmed)
Ciprian Cirniala, Institute of Contemporary History Prague:
Police Action against Resistance as Means of Representation in Communist Romania
Călin Morar-Vulcu, Institute of Oral History, Cluj-Napoca/ Brussels:
Patterns of Representing Violence in the Official Discourse of Communist Romania
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00: Panel II: Violence, Family, Sexuality
Chair & Comment:
Muriel Blaive, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Sphere Vienna
Claudia Kraft, Department of East Central European History, University of Erfurt:
Regulating bodies and shaping subjects: biopolitics in communist dictatorships
Corina Pălăşan, University of Bucharest:
Ceauşescu is My Father: Letters of the "Children of the Decree" at the End of the 60s
16.00-16.30: Coffee break
16.30-18.00 Panel III: Violence in Urban Space
Chair & Comment:
Cristina Petrescu, University of Bucharest
Lönhárt Tamás, Department of Contemporary History and International Relations, University of Cluj-Napoca:
Representations in the Collective Memory of the Reconfiguring Urban Landscape: The Memory of Social Engineering, Urbanization and Ethnopolicies of the Communist Regime in Romania, 1956-1989
Ana Kladnik, Institute of Contemporary History Prague:
Nationalisation as a Violent and Non-Violent Mode for National and Social Changes: A Case of the New Socialist Towns in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
19.00 Dinner
FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER
9.30-11.00 Panel IV: Violence and Integration
Chair & Comment:
Ioan-Marius Bucur, Department of Contemporary History and International Relations, University of Cluj-Napoca
Matěj Spurný, Institute of Contemporary History Prague:
Between Coercion and Integration: Ethnic Minorities in the Czech Borderland 1945-1960
Virgiliu Ţârău, Department of Contemporary History and International Relations, University of Cluj-Napoca & CNSAS, Bucharest:
From a Violent Form to a Cultural One: the Re-education Process in the Romanian Penitenciary System 1948-1964
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Panel V: Violence and the Demise of Communism
Chair & Comment:
Martin Schulze Wessel, Department of East European History, University of Munich & Collegium Carolinum
Michal Kopeček, Institute of Contemporary History Prague:
The Principle of Non-violence and Revolutions of 1989: Between Political Strategy and Historical Compromise
Dragoş Petrescu, University of Bucharest & CNSAS
Violence, Ambiguity, and Denial: Interpreting the 1989 Revolution in Romania
Michal Pullmann, Institute of Economic and Social History, Charles University Prague:
Reflections on Violence and Non-violence during the Fall of Communism
13.00-14.30 Lunch
The colloquium is supported by the VolkswagenStiftung