JiscMail Logo
Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities

Help for GERMAN-STUDIES Archives


GERMAN-STUDIES Archives

GERMAN-STUDIES Archives


GERMAN-STUDIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK


View:

Message:

[

First

|

Previous

|

Next

|

Last

]

By Topic:

[

First

|

Previous

|

Next

|

Last

]

By Author:

[

First

|

Previous

|

Next

|

Last

]

Font:

Proportional Font

LISTSERV Archives

LISTSERV Archives

GERMAN-STUDIES Home

GERMAN-STUDIES Home

GERMAN-STUDIES  August 2011

GERMAN-STUDIES August 2011

Options

Subscribe or Unsubscribe

Subscribe or Unsubscribe

Log In

Log In

Get Password

Get Password

Subject:

Remembering Dictatorship: Registration

From:

Sara Jones <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Sara Jones <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:36:19 +0100

Content-Type:

text/plain

Parts/Attachments:

Parts/Attachments

text/plain (123 lines)

Dear all,
just a quick reminder that registration for the Bristol conference, 'Remembering Dictatorship: State Socialist Pasts in Post-Socialist Presents', closes next Wednesday 17 August. Programme, abstracts and details of registration (including online registration) can be found here: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/events/dictatorship.html

Please note that University accommodation for the event is limited and is filling up fast.

Debbie and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there,
Best wishes,
Sara

------

Preliminary programme

Thursday 15 September 2011
18.30-20.00 – Performance of a play by Jeras Naco and Shannon Woodcock Here we found the bodies…and now where is justice? (open to the public, Lady Windsor Studio Theatre, University of Bristol Students’ Union).
The play is about oral histories of political execution in communist Albania and edited from interviews conducted by Shannon Woodcock with child survivors of the Albanian dictatorship, whose parents were executed by the regime.

Friday 16 September 2011
(All events to be held in Clifton Hill House)

9.00-10.00 Registration and welcome

10.00-11.30 Parallel Sessions

Panel 1: Trauma and Memory
Shannon Woodcock (La Trobe University, Melbourne) Embodiment and Discipline in Approaching Traumatic Histories of Political Execution in Albania
Petra James, (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) “Paintraces” in History: Cultural Memory in the Works of Contemporary Czech, Slovak, Polish and German writers
Mariella Scheer (Humboldt University, Berlin) From Writing Nostalgia to Writing Trauma - Changes in the Literary Self-Perception of Germany's and Poland's Socialist Past

Panel 2: Memory and Democratic Transition
Geoffrey Pridham (University of Bristol) Post-Communist Democratisations and Historical Legacy Problems
Muriel Blaive (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres) The Weight of Communism and the Construction of a Democratic Identity: History, Memory, and History Politics in the Czech Republic since 1989

Panel 3: Memory and National Identity
PetraRethmann (McMaster University) The Unbearable Burden of Stalin
Agata Drelova (University of Exeter) The Recyclable Past: A Pre-history of Post-1989 Nationalism in the Official Slovak History
Inge Melchior (VU University Amsterdam) The Soviet period as both repressive and secure: the personal stories beyond commemorations in Estonia

11.30-12.00 Coffee

12.00-13.00 Keynote address
Professor Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford) Under the Spell of a Cruel Era: Life under State Socialism in Retrospect?

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Parallel Sessions

Panel 4: Memory and European Identity
David Clarke (University of Bath) Can Communism be Part of a ‘European’ Memory?
Hannes Püschel (Potsdam) Reshaping Memory by Criminal Law? A Critique of the (East-) European Legal Way of Coming to Terms with the Past
Paulina Gulinska-Jurgiel (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam) Translating Transition. Europeanisation of Coming to Terms with the Dictatorial Past in Parliamentary Debates of Poland

Panel 5: Memory and the Archive
Jennie Hill (Aberystwyth University) Privileging Memory in the Archive: Whose Right to Remember; Whose Right to Forget?
Ovidiu Mihaiuc ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi) Another Gold Rush: The Intellectual and Political Elites in the Struggle for the Communist Archives
Sara Jones (University of Bristol) Knowledge is Power: The Archive and Narrating the Self in the Works of Carmen-Francesca Banciu

Panel 6: Remembering Childhood
Almut Weitze (Trinity College Dublin) Ostalgia: The Children from Golzow, the Sandman, and the Return of East German Children's Films
Karin Nykvist (Lund University) Childhood under Totalitarianism in the European Novel
Sorana Vieru (University of Bristol) Strobo-politics: Subversion and the early Berlin techno scene 

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-16.45 Presentation by Oleksandr Svyetlov of the “Memorial” Museum of Soviet Occupation, Kiev
Victor Yanukovych vs. Ukraine: Re-Sovietisation Policies and Democratic Backlash

17.00-18.00 Address by the Czech Ambassador to the UK, HE Michal Žantovský

18.00-20.00 Conference dinner

20.30-22.00 Literary reading (open to the public)
Reading by Romanian writer Carmen-Francesca Banciu (in translation). Banciu's works draw on her experiences as a dissident living under Ceausescu. Her texts touch upon the themes of trauma, revolution, the Securitate and coming to terms with the past, including the role of the secret police files.

Saturday 17 September 2011
(All events to be held in Clifton Hill House)

9.30-11.00 Parallel Sessions

Panel 7: Counter-memories and Dissonant Memory
Christopher Lash (De Monfort University) Submerged Narratives: The Memory of Displaced Eastern Poles in Post-Socialist Poland
Vieda Skultans (University of Bristol) Contested Pasts and Parallel Lives in the Baltic Republics
Candice Hamelin (University of Michigan) Behind Material and Immaterial Divides: Arno Fischer’s Situation Berlin

Panel 8: Public History, Space and Memory
Paul Williams (Ralph Appelbaum Associates, New York) The Second Life of Socialist War Monuments: Lithuania’s ‘Grutas Parkas’ and Hungary’s ‘Statue Park’
Richard Boffey (University of Leeds) Musealising the Soviet Occupation Zone and German Democratic Republic at a Former Concentration Camp Site: The Example of the Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen.
Matthew Philpotts (University of Manchester) Palimpsests and Other Spaces: Traces of GDR Socialism between the Post-Socialist Present and the National Socialist Past

Panel 9: Remembering Literature
John Heath (University of Vienna) Leaving the Moral Highground: Developments in the Politics and Ethics of Memory. A Romanian-German Comparison
Anamaria Dutceac Segesten (University of Copenhagen) The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissident Writers: The Case of Herta Müller
Janine Ludwig (Dickinson College, University of Bremen) Difficulties in Giving Up Utopia – GDR Authors and Socialism

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 Parallel Sessions

Panel 10: Remembering Popular Culture and the Everyday
Neula Kerr-Boyle (University College London) “Es gab in der Zeit wenig fettleibige Menschen”: Memories of Dieting and Body Culture in the German Democratic Republic
Nick Hodgin (University of Sheffield) ‘Willst du Sarotti Schokolade oder willst du was aufbauen?’ Beyond Ostalgie: Film and Memories of the Future in the GDR past.
Manuela Marin (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca) Remembering the Everyday Life of Communist Romania Twenty Years after the Fall

Panel 11: Remembering Genre and Discourse
Debbie Pinfold (University of Bristol) The Exception Proves the Rule? Remembering the GDR in Das Leben der Anderen(2006) and Der Turm (2008)
Karin Sarsenov (Malmö University) Autobiography Revisited: The Constitution of a Reliable Self in Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina’s Word for Word
Hélène Levesque (Independent Researcher, Quebec City) Memories of the Soviet Repressions in Postcommunist Russia. The Individual's Part in History

Panel 12: Memory and Education
Tetyana Kloubert (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena) The Role of Adult Education in the Process of Rethinking the Past: A Case Study in Eastern Europe
Libora Oates-Indruchova (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Contemporary History and Public Spheres, Vienna) From State Socialism to Post-State Socialism in Academia: A Transition?
Blanka Koffer, (Humboldt University, Berlin) Memories of State Socialist Humanities: German, Czech, and Slovak Ethnographers Compared

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Film showing and discussion

Ian Hawkins, My DDR T-Shirt (open to the public)

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-17.00 Round table discussion, closing remarks and ways forward

Top of Message | Previous Page | Permalink

JiscMail Tools


RSS Feeds and Sharing


Advanced Options


Archives

March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003
May 2003
April 2003
March 2003
February 2003
January 2003
December 2002
November 2002
October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
May 2002
April 2002
March 2002
February 2002
January 2002
December 2001
November 2001
October 2001
September 2001
August 2001
July 2001
June 2001
May 2001
April 2001
March 2001
February 2001
January 2001
December 2000
November 2000
October 2000
September 2000
August 2000
July 2000
June 2000
May 2000
April 2000
March 2000
February 2000
January 2000
December 1999
November 1999
October 1999
September 1999
August 1999
July 1999
June 1999
May 1999
April 1999
March 1999
February 1999
January 1999
December 1998
November 1998
October 1998
September 1998


JiscMail is a Jisc service.

View our service policies at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ and Jisc's privacy policy at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/website/privacy-notice

For help and support help@jisc.ac.uk

Secured by F-Secure Anti-Virus CataList Email List Search Powered by the LISTSERV Email List Manager