2.4.
Myth-making and political uses of art
(Chair: Alexander Kiossev)
- Katharina Van Cauteren (Leuven): „The Great Albert will be our Great
Apollo“ - Myth-Making at the Brussels’s Court: Two Case-Studies by
Hendrick De Clerck
- Ates Uslu (Paris, Budapest): National Mythology and National Heroes in
Ferenc Erkel’s Operas
- Dimitar V. Atanassov (Sofia): Widescreen Kosovo
- Zornitza Grekova (Sofia): Literature and Mythology in the Political
Mythology of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
Mythologisation and legitimation: communist regimes in
search of a „useful“ past
(Chair: Stefan Troebst, Leipzig)
- Barbara Könczöl (Cambridge): The Sacralisation of the Party - Political
Myth-Making in the GDR
- Nicola Hille (Tübingen): Political Mythology and Media. East and West
German Propaganda Posters during the First Years of the Cold War Period
- Grigorii Shvedov (Moscow): The Myth of Stalin: Order versus Democracy in
the Looking Glass of Traditional and New Media
- Svetla Baloutzova: Revolution or Evolution? The Social Politics of
Bulgaria in the Historical and Political Discourse
Evening session
(Chairs: Daniela Koleva, Kostadin Grozev)
Welcome
(by Professor Ivan Ilchev, Sofia)
Message
(by WAZ Media Group)
The Perils of Historical Forgetting and Whitewashing: The
Former Soviet Bloc in Comparative Perspective
(Mark Kramer)
3.4.
The concept of myth in politics and history
(Chair: Ivaylo Znepolski)
- Chiara Bottici (Firenze): Towards a Philosophy of Political Myth: Myth or
History?
- Marc Hieronimus (Amiens): Myths and Images
- Ivaylo Ditchev (Sofia): The Conspiracy Myth: Theory and Practice
- Roumen Daskalov: Mythologisations in historiography: Bulgarian examples
Historical concepts and the politics of history
(Chair: Diana Mishkova)
- Albena Hranova: The Concept of „Yoke“ in Bulgarian Culture (Literature
and Historiography)
- Raymond Detrez (Ghent): Delusion or Treason: On the Myth of the „Double
Yoke“
- Dessislava Lilova (Blagoevgrad): The Names of the Homeland: Constructing
the Bulgarian Territorial Identity in the Last Decades under Ottoman Rule
- Anelia Kassabova: The Zadruga - Myth or Reality? On the Realities
Engendering Myths and the Myths Engendering Reality
Mythologisations and history writing
(Chair: Plamen Mitev)
- Borislav Gavrilov (Sofia): Historical Myths and the „Useful“ Past
- Todor Popnedelev (Sofia): Myth in the Thinking of the Historian
- Lily Grozdanova (Sofia): Political Myths in the Roman Empire: The Case of
Philip the Arab (AD 244-249)
- Wolfgang Knapp (Innsbruck): Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité vs. Für
Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland
Nations and mythologisations: Balkan perspectives
(Chair: Ivan Parvev)
- Valery Kolev (Sofia): Independence and National Unity (1908)
- Blagovest Nyagulov: The Demythologisations of the National Histories of
Bulgaria and Romania: Comparative Aspects
- Evelina Kelbecheva (Blagoevgrad): How Myths Produce Falsifications
- Matvey Lomonosov (Perm/Russia): The Nationalistic Mythology in the Fight
for Kosovo: History and Prospects
4.4.
Reading the Legacies of World Wars in the Context of Cold
War
(Chair: Kostadin Grozev)
- Attila Pók (Budapest): The Political Uses of Historical Myths and the
Fabrication of Hatreds. A 20th-century Hungarian Perspective in Context
- Stefan Troebst (Leipzig): (Post-)Communist Politics of History vs. Global
Culture of Remembrance: The International Debate on the Fate of Bulgaria’s
Jews in World War II, 1967-2008
- Virgiliu Tarau (Cluj): 10th or 9th of May. Metamorposes of the
Independence Day in Romania
- Spasimir Domaradzki (Krakow): In Pursuit of the Historical Truth -
Implications for the Political Life in Poland after the End of the Cold War
Doctrines of Power: Cold War Myths and Realities in Eastern
Europe
(Chair: Mark Kramer)
- Douglas Selvage (Berlin): Ulbricht Doctrine, Gomulka Doctrine, Brezhnev
Doctrine: Myths and Realities in the Warsaw Pact, 1967-1970
- Jordan Baev: War Games and Covert Actions: Warsaw Pact Cold War Myths
- Nadia Boyadjieva: Myths and Realities in International Relations in the
20th century
- Csaba Békés (Budapest): Real and Apparent Crises of the East-West
Relationship during the Cold War
Political mythology in the media
(Chair: Lutz Niethammer)
- Ferhat Kentel (Istanbul): The New Source of Turkish „Secular“
Nationalism: The „Sacred Blood“of Turks
- Georgi Lozanov (Sofia): The Pseudo-Heroic Epics of the Bulgarian
Transition
- Rossen Yankov (Sofia): The Sports Idols of the Transition
- Mitsos Bilalis (Thessaly, Volos): Historiography and Political Mythologies
of Cyberculture (1980-1995)
- Orlin Spassov (Sofia): The Cyrillic or the Latin Script: The Bulgarian
National Identity on the Internet
History as social memory
(Chair: Daniela Koleva)
- Nadege Ragaru (Paris): The Political Uses and Social Lives of „National
Heroes“: Controversies over Skanderbeg’s Statue in Skopje (Macedonia)
- Liliana Deyanova (Sofia): The Continuity of National Pedagogical Mythology
(Bulgarian History Textbooks Before and After 1944)
- Anamaria Dutceac Segesten (Lund): Mirrors of Myths, Reflections of History:
An Analysis of History Textbook Covers in Romania and Serbia
- Margarita Jeliazkova: Democracy, Values and Tradition: Attitudes of Dutch
Teachers Towards Civic Education