Twenty Five Years Later. History and Memory of Communism
The International Conference of Bucharest
20
and 21 November 2014
Organizers: Memoria Cultural
Foundation, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory
of the Romanian Exil (IICCMER)
Partners: Francophone Regional
Center of Advanced Studies in Social
Sciences (CeReFREA), National
School of Political and
Administrative Studies (SNSPA)
Conference Committee:
Convenors: Claudia-Florentina Dobre (Memoria
Cultural Foundation, CEREFREA), Valeriu
Antonovici (SNSPA)
Advisory Board : Cosmin Budeancă (general manager, IICCMER), Liliana
Deyanova (Professor, Department of Sociology, St.
Kliment Ohridski Sofia University), Micaela Ghiţescu (Director, Memoria Cultural Foundation), Adrian Miroiu (Professor SNSPA), Radu Preda (Executive President, IICCMER), Liviu Rotman (Professor SNSPA), Izabela Skórzyńska (Associated Professor of History at the ‘Adam Mickiewicz’ University of
Poznań), Anna Wachowiak (Professor
at the Higher School of Humanities, Szczecin).
Organisational Information:
Date : 20-21 November 2014
Abstract
proposal and deadline: Please send your abstract of
no more than 300 words together with a short biographical statement by 15
September 2014. Abstracts will be selected by the academic committee.
We will notify you about the acceptance of your proposal by 25 September
2014. We plan to publish selected papers in a peer-reviewed journal or
in a volume.
Please send your
abstract and a biographical statement as well as all other inquiries to: cfdobre@gmail.com
Languages: Romanian, French, English
25 years after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, its
history and memory are still controversial. On the one hand, the scholars of
the region are still denouncing communist crimes. Their research is mainly concerned
with repressive aspects of the communist period. On the other hand, in some
left wing circles, researchers aim at studying the „modernity” of
communism.
The memory of communism is even more divided than
its history. Nostalgia is haunting society as well as irony and dennouciation. For
instance, recent polls on the memory of communism show that the former regime
kept a rather positive image among Romanians. Furthermore, young people born
after 1989 consider communism a period of security and steadiness. Reflecting a
postmemorial turn in remembering communism in Romania, this approach might be
encountered in other countries of the region.
If those who experienced communism are nostalgic
or struggle to denounce the communist crimes and abuses, those born in the late
1980s remember communism with irony. Their approach to communism tends to
become mainstream as this generation came to power in many sectors of the social,
cultural, and political life of Romania.
After 25 years, the time to make a point of trends
and evolution concerning the memory and history of communism has arrived.
Therefore, we invite scholars and young researchers to attend our international
conference, „25 Years After. History and
Memory of Communism” organized by the Memoria Cultural Foundation and IICCMER
on 20 and 21 November 2014 in Bucharest. We welcome papers in Romanian, English,
and French as well as audio and video presentations, documentaries, posters and
artistic installations on the following topics (any other related topics of
research are welcomed) :
- Historiography of communism
- Everyday life
- Memory and history of the repression
- Memory trends
- Postmemory generation
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