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Informer Apor, Peter <aporpceu.hu> Published on 22.12.2005 Citation Classification regional emphasis Cross-borders temporal classifcation 20th Century, 1945-1989 topic Discourse analysis, History of ideas and discourse, Comparative history, Political history Type Konferenz Country Romania Language German

The conference is part of the joint project "History after the Fall: The Indeterminacy of the 20th Century," coordinated by the Open Society Archives (OSA) Budapest and financed by the European Commission under the framework of the Culture 2000 program.

Friday, 9 December 2005

13,00 - 14,30 Welcome address, Daniel Barbu (FSP, U Bucharest)
Opening lecture, Wolfgang Wippermann (Freie U, Berlin): Totalitarianism or fascism?

14,30 - 15,30 Buffet

15,30 - 17,00 Panel I
Chair: Armin Heinen (Historisches Institut, RWTH Aachen)
Stoklosa Katarzyna (HAIT, TU Dresden): The transformations from fascism to democracy in Spain and from communism to democracy in Poland. A comparison

Mihai Chioveanu (IRIR, U Bucharest): Contesting memories of fascism in post-war Europe

17,00 - 17,15 Coffee break

17,15 - 18,45 Panel II
Chair: Daniel Barbu (FSP, U Bucharest)
Peter Apor (CEU, Budapest): Dillemas of authority. Historical scholarship and the legacy of communism in Hungary

Dragos Petrescu (FSP, U Bucharest): The new nation syndrome. Radical identity politics in Romania

19,00 Dinner: Restaurant "La Mama"

Saturday, 10 December 2005

9,00 - 11,00 Opening session
Chair: Wolfgang Wippermann (Freie U, Berlin)
Armin Heinen (Historisches Institut, RWTH Aachen): Towards a theory of fascism as social praxis. An historical approach

Michael Shafir (Babes-Bolyai U, Cluj): Reconsidering the concept of totalitarianism. Preliminary considerations

11,00 - 11,15 Coffee break

11,15 - 13,15 Panel III
Chair: Alfred Rieber (Central European University, Budapest)
Andras Mink (OSA, Budapest): Post-communist anti-communism in Hungary. Post-1989 interpretations of 1956

Blazej Brzostek (IH, U Warsaw): Recent debates on Poland's 20th century history

Cristina Petrescu (FSP, U Bucharest): Recent pasts. Post-communist (hi)stories of Romanian communism

13,15 - 14,30 Lunch break

14,30 - 16,30 Panel IV
Chair: Dragos Petrescu (FSP, U Bucharest)
Tamas Kende (IPH, Budapest): Partisanship in history. The case of Hungary

Pavel Kolar (ZZF, Postdam): Totalitarianism paradigm narrative. The pattern of Czech historiography on communism after 1989

Maciej Gorny (BKVGE, Berlin): Historiography in the making. Post-1989 debates on the communist period in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia

16,30 - 16,45 Coffee break

16,45 - 18,45 Roundtable: Uses, misuses and abuses of the historical comparison between fascism and communism
Participants: Alfred Rieber (CEU, Budapest), Gerhard Besier (HAIT, Dresden), Dinu C. Giurescu (U Bucharest)

19,00 Dinner Restaurant "La Mama"

Sunday, 11 December 2005

10,00 City Tour (optional)

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