Conference:
Juridification of history between collective memory, historiography and politics of memory
Conference homepage: https://lawandmemory.eu/

18th December 2020
The conference will be held online.

Partners:
Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)
Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU)
Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW)

Programme:

OPENING ADDRESS
Juridification of history.
Necessity, futility and the rage of the powerless

9.30 AM – 9.45 AM
Prof. Arkadiusz Radwan
(Polish Academy of Sciences - Scientific Centre in Vienna; Vytautas Magnus University): Opening address

SESSION I:
Moral, philosophical and cultural foundations of legal governance of history
Chair: Prof. Michał Balcerzak

09.45 AM – 10.00 AM
Prof. Jiří Přibáň
(School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University):
Political and legal constitution of collective memory and its functionaries:
on post-national Europe of historical hopes and fears

10.00 AM – 10.15 AM
Dr. Milosz Matuschek
(Panthéon-Sorbonne University):
A good idea? Moral-philosophical justification of legislative interference with collective memories and historical narratives

10.15 AM - 10.30 AM
Dr. Aušrinė Pasvenskienė
(Vytautas Magnus University):
Political correctness, societal taboos and legally decreed truths – some reflections on the limits of academic freedom in debating genocides

10.30 AM – 10.45 AM
Dr. Lea David
(University College Dublin):
Ideological frameworks of the juridification of the past

10.45 AM – 11.15 AM
Discussion

11 .15 AM – 11.30 AM
Coffee break

SESSION II:
Collective memory, genocides and international law
Chair: Dr. Sonia Horonziak

11.30 AM – 11.45 AM
Prof. Michał Balcerzak
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń):
Memory of genocides and other international crimes from the perspective of public international law and the protection of human rights

11.45 AM - 12.00 PM
Prof. Paweł Wiliński
(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań):
Fighting for truth. Achievements and limitations of international criminal law in preserving memory of genocide and other international crimes.

12.00 PM – 12.15 PM
Dr. hab. Dennis Lichtenstein
(Austrian Academy of Sciences; Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt):
Memory, identity, and legislative action in EU politics

12.15 PM – 12.45 PM
Discussion

12.45 PM – 13.30 PM
Lunch break

SESSION III:
Nationalisation of memory - a comparative evidence of memory laws and their clashes
Chair: Prof. Arkadiusz Radwan

1.30 PM – 1.45 PM
Dr. Manuel Becker
(University of Bonn):
‘Vergangenheitspolitik‘ as the judicial part in modern German historical-political Research. Wording, Concepts and Controversies

1.45 PM – 2.00 PM
Dr. Peter Pirker
(University of Innsbruck):
First Sacrificers, then Victims: Austrian Post-Nazi Memory Regimes in European Comparison

2.00 PM – 2.15 PM
Dr. Mateusz Tondera
(Jagiellonian Club, Kraków):
Memory clashes and victimhood rivalry – two models of legal protection of memory

2.15 PM – 2.30 PM
Dr. Sonia Horonziak
(Polish Academy of Sciences - Scientific Centre in Vienna):
The road to hell is paved with good intentions – unintended effects of the attempted criminalisation of revisionistic defamation in Poland

2.30 PM – 2.45 PM
Prof. Fryderyk Zoll
(Jagiellonian University Kraków; University of Osnabrück): Personal rights of a nation? On the abuse of the private law for political purposes

2.45 PM – 3.15 PM
Discussion

3.15 PM – 3.30 PM
Coffee break

SESSION IV:
Look Who's Back - Political and constitutional problems of preventing Nazi revival
Chair: Prof. Paweł Wiliński

3.30 PM – 3.45 PM
Hon.-Prof.in Dr.in Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
(University of Vienna; Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance):
From denazification to banning of Holocaust denial - the Austrian law against Nationalsocialist acitivities

3.45 PM – 4.00 PM
Dr. Janusz Roszkiewicz
(University of Warsaw):
Constitutional problems of outlawing political organisations affirmative of Nazi legacy

4.00 PM – 4.20 PM
Discussion

4.20 PM – 4.35 PM
Coffee break

SESSION V:
Living with the past – decommunization and transitional justice in Central and Eastern Europe Chair: Dr Aušrinė Pasvenskienė

4.35 PM – 4.50 PM
Dr. Jacek Sokołowski
(Jagiellonian University Kraków):
The grappling of legislature with the judiciary over decommunization and lustration laws – evidence from of Poland

4.50 PM – 5.05 PM
Dr. Miklós Könczöl
(Pázmány Péter Catholic University; Hungarian Academy of Sciences):
Constitutional review of the Hungarian law governing accessibility of data concerning collaboration with the communist regime – the 1990s case law and its afterlife

5.05 PM – 5.20 PM
Prof. Klaus Ziemer
(Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw):
GDR's "legal injustice" after Germany's Reunification

5.20 PM – 5.35 PM
Discussion