Jan Surman, -, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Program (all times in Central European Summer Time, UCT +2):
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
18:00 – 20:00 Public Keynote (registration: https://bit.ly/3yEfj6Y)
Maike Lehmann (Bremen): Of prophets, martyrs and bothersome annoyances: on the de/canonization of Soviet “dissidents” in the West
Thursday, 15 July 2021
9:00 – 9:30 Friedrich Cain (Vienna), Dietlind Hüchtker (Vienna), Bernhard Kleeberg (Erfurt), Karin Reichenbach (Leipzig) and Jan Surman (Leipzig): Introduction
9:30-11:00 Panel 1: The Truth of Dissidents
Barbara Martin (Basel): Roy and Zhores Medvedev: No “true” dissidents?
Olga Rosenblum (Moscow): Dissidents of the 1970s: “Truth figure” among other figures, “truth” as a value among other values
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel 2: Dissidents Transnational
Anastassiya Schacht (Vienna): “And how is it there, over the ocean?” - Soviet dissidents reaching the West
Jonas Kaiser (Hildesheim): Dissidents and the trust-building process of the Vienna CSCE-follow-up meeting 1986-89
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:15 Panel 3: The Truth of Dissidents II
Barbara J. Falk (Toronto): Václav Havel as dissident: purveyor of truth and philosopher of responsibility
Tatiana Levina (Moscow): Lina Tumanova: philosopher, dissident
David Aitken (Montreal): The historical particularities of dissent as a demand for truth
18:00 – 20:00 Public Round Table (registration: https://bit.ly/3yEfj6Y)
Dissidence and Feminism: Public Round Table with Małgorzata Grabowska (Warsaw), Sasha Talaver (Vienna), Zsófia Lóránd (Cambridge) and Natalia Kolyagina (Moscow). (in cooperation with Memorial International)
Friday, 16 July 2021
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 4: Dissidents as Contested Figures
Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu (Vienna): Continuities and disruptions: Many faces of Jacek Kuroń in post-1989 Poland
Michal Ďurčo (Bratislava), Doubravka Olšáková (Prague): Dissidents against their will: the case of environmental activists in Czechoslovakia during the 1980's
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Panel 5: Dissidence and Art
Elena Korowin (Freiburg): The dissident artist and the “true” art
Klavdia Smola (Dresden): Performing dissidence in Russia since 2000: Aesthetical resources of (un)truth
12:30 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:30 Panel 6: Dissidence rewritten
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Pittsburgh): Dissidence and historical revisionism
Ioana Macrea-Toma (Budapest/Vienna): In search for contours in the archives: beyond contextualism and normativism regarding dissidents
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:45 Public Final Discussion (registration: https://bit.ly/3yEfj6Y). With Susanne Schattenberg (Bremen), Simone Attilio Belezza (Naples), Stefan Garsztecki (Chemnitz)