22.10.
Welcome by the Babes-Bolyai-University of Cluj-Napoca
(Ovidiu Ghitta, Doru Radosav, Ioan-Marius Bucur)
Pavel Kolár (Potsdam): Socialist Dictatorship as a World of Meaning (presentation
of the
project)
Keynote Lecture
From Terror to Soft Power? Some Remarks on the Role of Physical Violence
during Late State Socialism
(Thomas Lindenberger, Wien)
(Comment: Ioan-Marius Bucur)
Panel I: Representations of Violence
(Chair & Comment: Dennis Deletant, London)
(to be confirmed)
- Ciprian Cirniala (Prag): Police Action against Resistance as Means of
Representation in Communist Romania
- Calin Morar-Vulcu (Cluj-Napoca, Brüssel): Patterns of Representing
Violence in the Official Discourse of Communist Romania
Panel II: Violence, Family, Sexuality
(Chair & Comment: Muriel Blaive, Wien)
- Claudia Kraft (Erfurt): Regulating bodies and shaping subjects:
biopolitics in communist dictatorships
- Corina Palasan (Bukarest): Ceausescu is My Father: Letters of the „Children
of the Decree“ at the End of the 60s
Panel III: Violence in Urban Space
(Chair & Comment: Cristina Petrescu, Bukarest)
- Lönhárt Tamás (Cluj-Napoca): Representations in the Collective Memory
of the Reconfiguring Urban Landscape: The Memory of Social Engineering,
Urbanization and Ethnopolicies of the Communist Regime in Romania, 1956-1989
- Ana Kladnik (Prag): Nationalisation as a Violent and Non-Violent Mode for
National and Social Changes: A Case of the New Socialist Towns in
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
23.10.
Panel IV: Violence and Integration
(Chair & Comment: Ioan-Marius Bucur, Cluj-Napoca)
- Matej Spurnı (Prag): Between Coercion and Integration: Ethnic Minorities
in the Czech Borderland 1945-1960
- Virgiliu Târau (Cluj-Napoca, Bukarest): From a Violent Form to a Cultural
One: the Re-education Process in the Romanian Penitenciary System 1948-1964
Panel V: Violence and the Demise of Communism
(Chair & Comment: Martin Schulze Wessel, München)
- Michal Kopecek (Prag): The Principle of Non-violence and Revolutions of
1989: Between Political Strategy and Historical Compromise
- Dragos Petrescu (Bukarest): Violence, Ambiguity, and Denial: Interpreting
the 1989 Revolution in Romania
- Michal Pullmann (Prag): Reflections on Violence and Non-violence during
the Fall of Communism