Saturday 14 November
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome (Stanislav Holubec)
9:10 – 10:20 Key note speech: Communism and anti-communism as ideologies of the intelligentsia (Tomasz Zarycki)
10:30 – 12:00 Oficial Politics of Memory before 1989 (Chair: Ondřej Daniel)
Oksana Klymenko, Constructing Memoirs about the October Revolution in the 1920s
Agnieszka Mrozik, Spinners of the (post)revolutionary reality. Constructing history of the Left in the memoirs of Polish communist women in the 1960s
Catalin Parfene, Historical Memory of Communist Romania's Sports: Between Nostalgia and Romanianization
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Oficial Politics of Memory before 1989 II. (Chair: Michael Hauser)
Ondřej Daniel, “Comrades, the Comrades are Right!” History of Movement on the Screens of Late Socialist Television
Ugnė Marija Andrijauskaitė, Inventing the Communist Party of Lithuania as a labour movement. The narratives in Soviet historiography
14: 15 – 15:45 Identities of anti-stalinist left before 1989 (Chair: Kristina Andělová)
Florin Poenaru, Identities of antistalinist Romanian communists
Jakub Szumski, What happened in 1980? Official and popular memory of the Polish Communist Party after martial law
Senol Arslantas, The Most Long-Lasting Trauma in the Memory of the Turkish Left: The 1980 Military Coup and Its Destructive Consequences in Turkey
16:00 – 17: 00 People´s memory of communism after 1989 (Chair: Joe Grim Feinberg)
Eszter Bartha - András Tóth: Contrasting the Memory of the Kádár and Honecker regimes
Kalina Yordanova; Post-memories of socialist Yugoslavia: the place of the parents’ past in their children’s identity
17:15 – 18:45 Identities of post-1989 left (Chair: Vítězslav Sommer)
Csilla Kiss “Of the past let us make a clean slate” The lack of a left-wing narrative and the failure of the Hungarian left
Thorsten Holzhauser, Learned nothing from the past? Historical memory of German post-communists and its functionalization after 1989
Antony Kalashnikov, “Historical apologetics and factional differences in the Russian communist party (CPRF), 1993-2004”
Sunday 15 November
9:00 – 10:00 Identities of post-1989 left (Chair Martina Poliaková)
Kristina Andělová, The Ongoing Legacies of 1968 and 1989 are Two Related Challenges of Our Future”: Czech Socialism, Memory of Czech “Totalitarianism” and the End of History
Walter Beier, Austrian communist experiences interpreted from post-1989 perspective
10:15-11:45 Right-wing memory of communism after 1989 (Chair: Stanislav Holubec)
Ekaterina v. Klimenko, Politics of oblivion and the practices of remembrance. repressions, collective memory and nation-building in postsoviet Russia
Oleksandra Gaidai, Nationalism versus Sovietism? Politics of Memory towards Communist Heritage in Ukraine after 1991
Ittipol Jungwatanawong, The Use of Historical Memory by the FIDESZ Party in post-communist Hungary
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch break
12:45 – 14:15 Places of Memory after 1989 (Chair: Josef Švéda)
Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik, The contemporary value of Soviet monuments in East Central Europe
Aleksandra Đorđević, Contested Histories and Monumnetal Past: Serbia's Culture of Remembrance of Army Headquarters Building
Stanislav Holubec, Places of socialist and post-socialist memory in the Czech republic and former GDR: Case of Hradec Králové and Jena
Closing of the conference 13:30 – 13:45