12th June 2019
University College, Senate Suite
9am Welcome, tea and coffee
9.30am Panel: Before the Cold War
Alexander Rubel (Iaşi) – ‘Dacian Blood: The idea of autochthonous origins in intellectual and radical discourses in Romania’
Oleksii Rudenko (Glasgow) – ‘Reinventing the heroes in the Soviet Union: The case of Spartacus’
10.30am Panel: Archaeological foundations
Florian Ostrowski (Vienna) – ‘Thracian archaeology and national identity in communist Bulgaria: Exhibition making as an ideological pattern’
Ionuţ Mircea Marcu (Bucharest) – ‘History-writing and the post-communist transition: A case-study on the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute for Archaeology in Bucharest’
Katrin Kremmler (Berlin) – ‘“Eurasian Magyars”: Archaeo-anthropology, archaeogenetics, and “Eastern Difference” in Hungarian neo-nationalist discourse’
Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Budapest) – ‘Archaeological research and its heritagization at the Iron Curtain region’
12 noon Lunch
1pm Panel: Slavic pasts
Matthias Cichon (Münster) – ‘Allies out of ashes? Polish ideas for re-founding medieval Western Slavic states after 1945’
Anne Kluger (Münster) – ‘“Slavic Archaeology’ and its political and ideological penetration in communist Poland and East Germany: The examples of Witold Hensel (PRL) and Joachim Herrmann (DDR)’
2pm Panel: Daco-Romania
Claudia Gabriela Șerbu (Braşov) – ‘The protochronistic depiction of the Transylvanian Saxons, a crutch that sustained the Dacian-Roman continuity theory’
Nicolae Emilian Dranca (Freiburg/Cluj) – ‘The national-communism in Romania and the Dacomania through cinematography’
3pm Tea and coffee
3.30pm Panel: Disciplining the past
Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu (Bucharest) – ‘What choices do we have?’
Emily Hanscam (Durham) – ‘Postnationalism and the Past: The Politics of Theory in Roman Archaeology’
13th June 2019
Department of History, Seminar Room 1
9am Tea and coffee
9.15am Panel: At the margins
Radu Cinpoes (London) – ‘Beyond radical right politics: LGBT+ rights in Hungary and Romania’
Christoph Doppelhofer (Durham) – ‘Imagining King’s Landing: Dubrovnik and the imperialism of visual mass media in the twenty-first century’
10.15am Keynote
Catalin Popa (Leiden) – ‘Becoming European: From a past of national separation to a future of European togetherness’
11.30am Roundtable with tea and coffee
12.30am Workshop ends