Dear all, not specifically German Studies, but
relevant to post-Wende debate and German speakers in
'Central Europe'.
Best, Deborah
--- Larissa Douglass <[log in to unmask]>
schrieb:
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Comparative Workshop
>
> Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989
>
> This events is organized by the Institute of
> Contemporary History,
> Prague www.usd.cas.cz, in conjunction with the EU
> Project Culture 2000, History
> after the Fall.
>
> The workshop will be held at the Czech Academy of
> Sciences, Narodni 3,
> Prague, on 19 and 20 October, 2006.
>
>
> Proposal for papers are invited on the theme of
> Historical Revisionism.
> Far from being restrained to small groups of
> 'negationists', the
> historical revisionism seems to figure at the top of
> public historical
> discourses in many countries and regions. With
> spectacular trials and
> heated debates around Holocaust-deniers the term
> historical revisionism
> has become stigmatized, and used as a description of
> suspect historical
> works dealing with the Holocaust and the Third
> Reich. In broader sense,
> however, the historical revisionism in the realms of
> modern and recent
> history has galvanized political and historical
> debates both within
> respective national communities as well at the
> international stage on
> virtually all continents. (Holocaust worldwide, US
> role in the Cold War,
> "positive value" of French colonialism, Japanese or
> Russian historical
> textbooks, etc.). In the eyes of many observers a
> specter of historical
> revisionism is haunting Europe and the world.
> The region of Central Europe with its Nazi, fascist
> and communist past
> not only does not stay aloof, but in many ways is in
> the center of the
> debate. In this context it is the aim of the
> Prague´s workshop to
> explore the scale, depth, and meaning of the
> historical revisionism in
> the national and regional histories as well as to
> reconsider the value
> of the term itself.
> Where is the border between legitimate
> re-examination of historical
> narratives and attempts to rewrite history in a
> politically motivated
> way that downgrades or denies essential historical
> facts? What are the
> layers and instruments of the contemporary debates
> concerning historical
> revisionism that include not only the academia and
> mass media but also
> decentralized grass-root initiatives empowered by
> the internet and cheap
> digitalized storage and recording facilities? How
> does the international
> debate about ethnic cleansing and expulsion of the
> German population
> during and after WWII and the thesis of 'expulsion
> equals genocide'
> resonate in different countries? What tensions
> arouse from the
> juxtaposition of politically motivated moral
> condemnations of
> 'totalitarian' regimes with a value-restrained
> academic discourse of
> social and cultural approaches in recent
> historiography? How do the more
> or less traditional 'national historical narratives'
> react to the
> 'spill-over' of the international and political
> controversies into their
> 'sphere of influence' and intellectual orbit?
> These and other questions should be addressed during
> the workshop's
> envisaged panels:
> Panel I: Keywords, Definitions and Instruments of
> Historical
> Revisionism
> Panel II: Social-Economic, Political and Cultural
> Impacts of the Ethnic
> Expulsions after the WW II and its Historical
> Reflection
> Panel III: Historical Revisionism and the Communist
> Regimes in Central
> Europe
> Panel IV: Historiography, Historical Revisionism and
> the Building of
> Democracy after 1989
> This event is intended to stimulate debate and bring
> together scholars
> working in the field, both to give papers and to
> contribute to
> discussion.
>
> If you wish to be considered, please submit a short
> abstract (200-300
> words, in English or Czech) to
> [log in to unmask] by July 15th,
> 2006.
>
> The Institute of Contemporary History is able to
> provide funds to meet
> the costs of travel and accomodation for speakers.
>
>
> Contact details:
> Alice Hudlerová and Michal Kopecek
> Institute of Contemporary History, Prague
> Vlasská 9
>
> 118 40 Praha 1
> tel: +420 257 531 122-3
> fax: +420 257 531 121
> E-mail: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
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> Homepage <www.usd.cas.cz>
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