Keynote speech
Just Afterthought(?). A History of the Memory of Communism
(Istvan Rev)
(Comment: Ivan Krastev)

Opening of the conference. Welcome by the project’s directors
(Maria Todorova, Stefan Troebst)

State Surveillance. Mechanism of Power and Memory
(Chair: Maria Todorova)
Cristina Petrescu: Who Remembers the Romanian Secret Police? On Moral Correctness in Post-Communist Romania / Iskra Baeva: How the Bulgarian Society Perceives the Role of the State Security Service after 1989 / Constantin Iordachi: Totalitarianism and Historical Memory: Communism as Lived Experience in Romania
(Panel commentator: Stefan Troebst)

Socialism: Everyday Life and lived experience
(Chair: Maria Todorova)
Smaranda Vultur: Daily Life and Constraints in Communist Romania of the Late 80s. From the Semiotics of Food to the Semiotics of Power / Adrian Mihalache: The Post-Communist Memory of Everyday Life under Ceausescu’s Rule. A Methodological Perspective
(Panel commentator: Barbara Christophe)

The Memory of Transition
(Chair: Maria Todorova)
Nikolay Poppetrov: Myths about Socialism from the Transition Period / Dragos Petrescu: Transitional History, Counter-Memory and Nostalgia. Remembering Ceausescu’s „Socialism“ in Post-1989 Romania / Milla Mineva: Socialism „Reloaded“ / Liliana Deyanova: Rewriting Official Memory after 1989. How Historians Remember Communism
(Panel commentator: Istvan Rev)

Social Relations under Communism
(Chair: Stefan Troebst)
Tanya Boneva: Remembering Socialism in the Field Studies of Pernik: 1960-1964 / Dorina Orzac: Confronting Totalitarianism. Case study - The Region of Maramures / Deyan Petrov: Does the „Working Class“ Notion Exist in the Memories of the Workers? A Case Study on the Town of Targovishte of Workers Born Between 1947-1957
(Panel commentator: Chris Hann)

The Social Texture of Socialism: Negotiating Family, Gender, Equality
(Chair: Stefan Troebst)
Petya Kabakchieva: Social Inequalities under Socialism / Anni Kirilova: Within the „Family Cell“ of Socialist Society and Without it / Iliana Atanasova: Women in Power under Communism: The Bulgarian Case
(Panel commentator: Ivan Dichev)

Culture under Socialism: Inventions and Reinventions
(Chair: Stefan Troebst)
Tsvetana Manova: Masquerade Rites and Festivals in the Cultural Memory of socialism / Nataliya Hristova: Theater-Makers and the Authorities in the 1960s: Memories of Conflicts, Conflicts of Memory / Krasimira Koeva: Contemporary Interpretations of one Mystification (Bulgarian Fine Arts of the Late 1950s) / Vania Stoyanova: Socialism in Bulgarian Post-1989 Cinema
(Panel commentator: Vintila Mihailescu)

Socialism and its Entanglement with the Nation and the Local
(Chair: Augusta Dimou)
Evgenia Kalinova: The Memory of the „Revival Process“ / Tamás Lönhárt and Virgiliu Târau: Between Social and National. Dimensions of Interpreting the Memory of Transformations in the City of Cluj (1956-1989) / Vasile Docea: Local Historiography as a Form of Memory. Case Study - Timisoara
(Panel commentator: Dejan Kiyranov)

The Memory of Communism in Genres and Generations
(Chair: Augusta Dimou)
Catalina Mihalache: How the Present is Asking for a Suitable Past. Schooling and Remembering Communism / Albena Hranova: „Loan-Memory“: Communism and the Youngest Generation / Varban Todorov: Remembering Socialism in Written Sources - the Case of Prof. N. Todorov’s Diary
(Panel commentator: Hanna Schissler)

Keynote speech
Remembering Communism
(by Chris Hann)

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