„A Cross Disciplinary Exploration on Central and …...Chair: Cătălina MIHALACHE (PhD, „A. D....

9:00 – 9:30 – Arrival and Registration of the Participants (H Building, Conference Hall – H1)

9:30 – 10:00 – Opening remarks

Andrei MURARU (Executive President, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the

Memory of the Romanian Exile)

Lucreţiu BÂRLIBA (Deputy Dean, Faculty of History, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza University”)

Dorin DOBRINCU (Director, The Center for Studies on Communism and Post-communism)

10:00 – 11:00 Keynote

Ruxandra IVAN (Lecturer, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest)

„An Illegitimate and Criminal Regime”: Producing Recent History between Investigation and Condemnation

11:00 – 11:20 – Coffee-break

11:20 – 12:50 – Panel 1

A Difficult Relationship: the Communist State and its Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Chair: Andrei MURARU (PhD, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of

the Romanian Exile)

Kateryna BUDZ (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, UKRAINE)

“Struggle against the Remnants of the Uniatism”: the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Clergy in the Soviet State

(1946-1964)

Nicoleta CHICINAȘ („Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA)

“Political” Affiliation: neo-Protestant

Ciprian NECULA (The National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, ROMANIA)

The System and Civic Movement of Roma from Romania under the Communist Regime

13:00 – 15:00 – Lunch

9:00 – 9:30 – Arrir val and Registration of the PParticipants (H Building, Conference Hall – H1)

9:30 – 10:00 – OOpeOOOO ning remarks

Andrei MURAARAA U (Executive President, The ee Institute for thehe Investigation of Commmunisst Crimes andd the

Memory of the Re omanian Exile)

LucLucreţreţiuiu BÂRBÂRRRRLLIBA (Deputy Dean, Faculty oy f History, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univni erserssityityit ”)”)

Dorin DOBRIINCU (Directocttor,r, TheTheThee CeCeCeC nter fr fr for or or StuStuStudieddies os oon Cn Cn ommoo uninn sm and Post-communism)

10:0:0000 – 1– 11:01:01:01:01: 000 K00 eynote

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11:20 – 12:50 –– Paneel 1

A Difficult Relatationionship: the Communist State aandnd iits ReReligligiouo s aand nd EthEthnicnic MiMM nornoritiitieses

Chair: Andrei MMURAURARURU (P(PhDhD, ThThe Ie nstn itute for the IInvestigation of Communist CCrimimes andd ththe Memom ryry of of

the Romanian ExExilee))

Kateryna BUDBUDZZ (N(N tiational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, UKRAINE)

“Struggle against the Remnants of the Uniatism”: the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Clergy in the Soviet State

(1946-1964)

Nicoleta CHICINAȘ („Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA)

“Political” Affiliation: neo-Protestant

Ciprian NECULA (The National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, ROMANIA)

The System and Civic Movement of Roma from Romania under the Communist Regime

13:00 – 15:00 – LuLunchnch

Faculty of History,

„Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University

15:00 – 17:00 – Panel 2

Ideology, Censorship and Official Propaganda

Chair: Cătălina MIHALACHE (PhD, „A. D. Xenopol” Institute of History)

Agnes KISS (Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY)

Types of Informal Practices and the Functioning of the Communist Censorship System in Romania

Corina DOBOȘ (University College, London, UNITED KINGDOM) / IICCMER

Pavlovian Reinterpretations: Medicine and Ideology in 1950s Romania

Nicoleta ȘERBAN (University of Bucharest, ROMANIA)

The Monument Dedicated to Bălcescu in Bucharest, a Communist Myth

Georgiana LEȘU („Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași, ROMANIA)

Truth and Fiction in the Historic Literature în People’s Republic of Romania. The Modern Age Case

17:00 – 17:20 – Coffee-break

17:20 – 19:50 – Panel 3

The Official Memory of the Party-State, the Memory of the „Others”

Chair: Ștefan BOSOMITU (PhD, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the

Romanian Exile)

Mara MĂRGINEAN („G. Bariţiu” Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA)

Reconfiguring the Romanian Architectural Practice by the late 1950s – Soviet Models and Local Economic

Programming

Lukasz POSLUSZNY („Adam Mickiewicz” University, Poznan, POLAND)

Memory and Concentration Camps in Sociological Perspective

Julia MAROSY (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HUNGARY)

Border: Crisis in Time? The Iron-curtain between Austria and Hungary in Biographical Narratives in the Kadar Era

Mihaela ALECU („Transilvania” University, Brașov, ROMANIA)

Ion Caraion. The Informer’s Supererogation

Oleg ZHURAVLEV (European University Institute, Florence, ITALY)

Depoliticization and Politicization of Youth in Communist and Post-communist Russia

20:30 – Dinner

„A Cross Disciplinary Exploration on Central and East-European

Totalitarianism(s)”

1st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on

Totalitarianism for PhD Students

9:00 – 10:30 – Panel 4

Life Trajectories Dealing with Radical Changes: Case-studies

Chair: Lucian LEUȘTEAN (Associate Professor, Faculty of History, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza University”)

Dumitru LĂCĂTUȘU („Al. I. Cuza” University, Iași, ROMANIA) / IICCMER

The Bureaucracy of Repression. Case study: Alexandru Drăghici

Milan PILJAK (University of Belgrade, SERBIA)

Desire to Reform System or Struggle for Power? Oust of Aleksandar Rankovic

Marta TORZ („Adam Mickiewicz” University, Poznan, POLAND)

La résistance par la culture et par la foi : cas Steinhardt et Anania

10:30 – 11:30 – Keynote

Igor CAȘU (Professor, Faculty of History and Philosophy, State University of Moldova / Director, Center for

the Study of Totalitarianism, Chișinău)

Communist Repression during the Stalinist and the Post-Stalinist period

11:30 – 11:50 – Coffee-break

11:50 – 13:20 – Panel 5

European Communist Regimes Facing Disintegration

Chair: Dorin DOBRINCU (PhD, The Center for Studies on Communism and Post-communism, „A. D. Xenopol”

Institute of History)

Alla VÎRLAN („Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău, REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA)

Brezhnev's Reforms in RSSM: Soviet Policy of Manifestations Against Communism (1964-1982)

Christian COSTAMAGNA (University of Oriental Piedmont, Vercelli, ITALY)

“What will be the Consequences of the Reunification of Germany?” The Fall of the Berlin Wall as Seen by the

Yugoslav Political Leaders. New Archival Revelations about the Last Instants of a Socialist Regime

Marko DAVOR (University of Belgrad, SERBIA), Public Televisions in Serbia And Bosnia-Herzegovina: from

State Television towards Propaganda Machine

13:20 – 13:40 – Concluding remarks

14:00 – Lunch

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

December 4-5, 2012 – Iași (ROMÂNIA),

„Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University

ORGANIZERS:

The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and

the Memory of the Romanian Exile (Bucharest)

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

The Center for Studies on Communism and Post-communism (Iaşi)

Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University (Iaşi)

PROGRAM

The Center for Studies on

Communism and Post-communism

The Institute for the Investigation

of Communist Crimes and the

Memory of the Romanian Exile