Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Panel Politics of History II, Saturday, 21 May 2011, 16:50-18:20

Piotr Wciślik (CEU, Budapest): “Totalitarianism” and dissident political languages in Central Europe: late Communism and after

Georgiy Kasianov (Institute of Ukrainian History, UAS, Kiyv): Historians and politics in Ukraine and Belarus

Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest): A fate for a nation. Concepts of History and the Nation in the Hungarian politics, 1989-2010

Chair/Discussant: Muriel Blaive (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Public Space, Vienna)

Presentation at the Theaterfestival Spectrum 11, which will be organized by the theatre neuebuehnevillach, http://www.neuebuehnevillach.at/.

in cooperation with
the Institute for Contemporary History
at the University of Vienna
Seminar Room 1
Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1, 1090 Wien
 

Presentation of the book:

Muriel Blaive, Christian Gerbel, Thomas Lindenberger (Eds.):

with a Keynote lecture
by Pieter Lagrou (Université Libre de Bruxelles):

"Do we Need Memory?"
 

For the detailed programme see here.

Organized by: Christian Albrechts University Kiel

Date: Thursday, 12 May 2011

Lecture by Sarah Lemmen (LBI EHP): "Wir waren verzaubert, Kairo ist wie Prag." Reisen von Tschechen nach Afrika und Asien um 1900. ["We were enchanted, Cairo is like Prague." Journeys of Czechs to Africa and Asia in 1900.]
 

Organized by: Karl-Franzens University Graz

Thursday, 05 May 2011, Thematische Foren, Teil I, 11:30-13:00

Panel Rassismus, Diskriminierung [Racism, Discrimination]

Chair: Rudolf Leiprecht (Oldenburg University)

Lecture by Christiane Hintermann (LBI EHP): "Migration im Schulbuch: Eine Analyse der (Re)Konstruktionen von Migrationen und MigrantInnen in österreichischen Schulbüchern der letzten 40 Jahre" [Migration in Textbooks: an analysis of the (re)constructions of migration and migrants in Austrian schoolbooks of the last 40 years]

Organisation: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte und Institut für Sozialanthropologie Wien

Lecture by Sarah Lemmen (LBI EHP): "A non-colonial orientalism? Representations of Africa and Asia in Czech travelogues around 1918"

Organized by: The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Friday, 15 April 2011, Session V, 09:00-11:00 a.m.
Panel CE1: Volunteerism and In-securities: The Transition from Late State Socialism to Emerging Civil Societies in East Germany and Belarus

Chair: Petr Roubal (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)

Lecture by Thomas Lindenberger (LBI EHP): 'Societal Activism' and Sociability: Volunteering for Security under Communist Rule in East Germany
 

Saturday, 16 April 2011, Session XI, 02:50-04:50 p.m.
Panel CE22: Communism, Post-Communism and National Identity in East Central Europe

Chair: Bradley Abrams (Independent Scholar, New York)

Lecture by Muriel Blaive (LBI EHP): Writers, Secret Police and Dealing with the Communist Past in the Czech Republic

Organisation of the conference: Dr. Jens Gieseke (ZZF Potsdam) und Dr. Pavel Kolář (Europäisches Hochschulinstitut Florenz) 

Lecture by Muriel Blaive (LBI EHP): "The Origins of 'Totalita' Birth and Development of a Historiographical Narrative on Communist History in Central Europe"