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This workshop looks at how European societies instrumentalize the remembrance of a ‘better‘ pre-dictatorial past in post-dictatorial situations and asks for regional and European patterns of fitting periods of dictatorship into master narratives of national history. South European case studies are Spain, Portugal, and Greece where right-wing dictatorships ended in the mid-1970s, East European cases are Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Latvia and Poland where communist regimes collapsed in 1989-91. In addition to intra-regional comparisons attempts at inter-regional ones will be undertaken. The workshop is the closing conference of the Leipzig-based research project 'National Self-Assertion in Post-Dictatorial Societies on the Semi-Peripheries of Europe: Historical Cultures in Poland and Spain Compared', financed by VolkswagenFoundation from 2002 to 2006. Programme Thursday, 8 June 18:00 hrs Opening (Warsaw University, Old Campus, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28) 18:30 hrs Panel discussion “Dictatorial Pasts between Politics, Civil Society and Academe:The Cases of Spain and Poland“ Participants: Amaia Lamikiz Lauregiondo (San Sebastian) Pawel Machcewicz (Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Moderator: Stefan Troebst (Leipzig) Friday, 9 June 11:00 hrs Visit of the "Gallery of the Art of Socialist Realism“ in the Palace of the Zamoyski Family in Kozlowka Departure for Kazimierz Dolny 15:00 hrs Section I: Introduction(s)
Stefan Troebst (Leipzig): Divided Landscapes of Memory: Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, Latvia Maria Todorova (Urbana-Champaign): Remembering Communism: Methodological and Practical Issues of Approaching the Recent Past in Eastern Europe Discussion 17:00 hrs Section II: Transeuropean Comparisons
David Rey (Leipzig): Spain Krzysztof Ruchniewicz (Wroclaw): Poland Christoph Boyer (Salzburg): Comment Discussion Saturday, 10 June 09:00 hrs Section III: Post-Soviet Comparisons
Wilfried Jilge (Leipzig), Heorhiy Kasianov (Kiev): Ukraine Daina Bleiere: Latvia Dietmar Müller (Leipzig): Comment Discussion 11:00 hrs Section IV: South European Comparisons
Adamantios Skordos (Leipzig): Greece Manuel Loff (Porto): Portugal Augusta Dimou (Ioannina): Comment Discussion 14:30 hrs Section V: East European Comparisons
Vania Stoyanova (Sofia): Bulgaria Cristina Petrescu (Budapest) and Dragos Petrescu (Bucharest): Romania Ulf Brunnbauer (Berlin): Comment Discussion 16:30 hrs Final Discussion: Historicizing Dictatorship: Coming to Terms with the Recent Past in Southern and Eastern Europe
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