Muzeul Ţăranului Român găzduieşte în perioada 1-3 octombrie 2009 conferinţa internaţională Remembering Communism. Theoretical Approaches to the Memory on Communism / Amintindu-ne comunismul. Perspective teoretice asupra memoriei comunismului. Publicul interesat este invitat să ia parte la lucrările conferinţei ce încheie un proiect de cercetare de doi ani susţinut de Volkswagen-Stiftung şi organizat de Universitatea din Leipzig. Conferinţa va include lucrări teoretice dar şi filme documentând procesul de rememorarea a comunismului în ţările estice, cu accent pe cazurile român şi bulgar.
Discuţiile nu vor ocoli subiecte precum nostalgia şi condamnarea comunismului, nume de străzi şi bibelouri, comunismul la muzeu şi în cărţile şcolare, memorie generaţională, memorie vizuală, memorie colectivă sau istorie orală.
Joi, 1 octombrie 2009, conferinţa se va deschide cu avanpremiera filmului documentar Bucharest Past Present (43 min.) regizat de antropologul Alyssa Grossman (University of Manchester, Marea Britanie). Filmat în grădina Cişmigiu, documentarul este o meditaţie asupra prezenţei memoriei în România post-socialistă.
Programul conferinţei
Joi, 1 octombrie 2009
15:00 - 15:30 Opening remarks
15:30 - 17:30 Communism, Memory and the Visual (Alyssa Grossmann, Simina Bădică, Corina Cimpoieru, Vania Stoyanova)
Proiecţie de film documentar: Bucharest Past Present (43 min., Romania, 2009) Dir: Alyssa Grossman
Simina Bădică: Remembering Communism during Communism. Displaying History at the Museum before and after 1989 in Romania
Corina Cimpoieru: Feature Film on Remembering Romanian Communism
Vania Stoyanova: Socialism in Bulgarian Post-1989 Cinema (Documentaries)
18:00 - 19:00 Key note speech
Barbara Christophe: Remembering Communism and Making Sense of the Post-Communist Experience: Analyzing Discursive Strategies in Post-Soviet Textbook Accounts
Vineri, 2 octombrie 2009
9:30 - 11:00 New Comers - Topics (Izabella Main, Nikolay Vukov, Diana Georgescu)
Izabella Main: How is Communism Remembered in Poland? About Research and Literature
Nikolay Vukov: Remembrance of Communism on the Former Day of Socialist Victory: 9th of September in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Diana Georgescu: Ceausescu's Children
11:15 - 13:00 Remembering Through Whose Language? Which Notions? (Petya Kabakchieva, Adrian Cioflâncă, Iskra Baeva)
Petya Kabakchieva: Remembering Communism- the Society of Equality or the Society of Inequalities
Adrian Cioflâncă: Embellishing the Evil. Narratives of Deculpabilization in the Memoires of Former Members of the Romanian Nomeklatura
Iskra Baeva: Modern Bulgarian Society and Its Notion of the Age of Socialism
14:00 - 16:00 The Past Through the Lenses of the Present (Constantin Iordachi, Dragoş Petrescu, Milla Mineva, Cristina Petrescu)
Constantin Iordachi: Remembering Communism vs Condemning Communism. Comparative Perspectives on the War on Memory in Post-Communist East-Central Europe
Dragoş Petrescu: 1989 as a Self-Ironical Tragicomedy. Representations of the Romanian Revolution
Milla Mineva: Remembering Online
Cristina Petrescu: "How We Survived Communism and even Laughed." Belated Nostalgia for the "Golden Epoch"?
16:30 - 18:30 Is Experience a Useful Category? (Smaranda Vultur, Tanya Boneva, Anni Kirilova)
Smaranda Vultur: Everyday Life and Surveillance in Romania of the 1980s
Tanya Boneva: Remembering Communism in Post-Communist Times. Pernik Revisited:2007
Anni Kirilova: Genealogical and Family Memory
Sâmbătă, 3 octombrie 2009
9:00 - 10:30 Transformations of Memory in the Realm of the Social (Tamás Lönhárt, Virgiliu Ţârău, Deyan Petrov)
Tamás Lönhárt şi Virgiliu Ţârău: The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City. The Transformations Associated with Communism as Remembered by Hungarian Workers from Cluj/ Kolosvár/Klausenburg
Deyan Petrov: Remembering Communism in Factories
11:30 - 13:00 Generations Remember Communism (Tzetanka Manova, Cătălina Mihalache, Iliyana Marcheva)
Tzetanka Manova: "We Build Our Country." Visual Memories about the Brigadier Movement Based on Materials from Pernik
Cătălina Mihalache: Talking Memories of the Socialist Age. School, Feelings, Regime
Iliyana Marcheva: "By Our Memoirs You Shall Know Them." Ivan and Petko Venedikovi About Themselves and About Communism
14:00 - 15:30 Taste and Art. Distinction or Negotiation? (Adrian Mihalache, Natalia Hristova, Krasimira Koeva)
Adrian Mihalache: Remembering the Luxury of Common People. Reflections on the Private Display of Decorative Things in the 1980s
Natalia Hristova: Authorities and Artistic Elite- Memoires of Conflicts
Krasimira Koeva: About one Bulgarian-Rumanian Casus (the sculptor Boris Karadja)
16:00 - 17:30 Memory and Reconfigurations of the Local and the National (Dorina Orzac, Evgenia Kalinova, Vasile Docea)
Dorina Orzac: Confronting Totalitarianism. Case Study- The Region of Maramureş
Evgenia Kalinova: Remembering the "Revival Process" in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Vasile Docea: History as Collective Memory. Constructing Identities in Timişoara Through Monographs and Street Names
19:00 Key note speech
Thomas Lindenberger la New Europe College: Experts Without a Cause? Contemporary History Between Memory Governance and Ostalgia in Unified Germany.