Conference Program
Wednesday, October 23
Polish Institute
15 Nagymező Street, Budapest
17:00 Welcome address
Pál Fodor (Director General, RCH, HAS)
Rafał Rogulski (Director, ENRS Secretariat)
Katarzyna Sitko (Director, Polish Institute)
17:30 Round table: “What Memory? Whose Memory?” Memory of Everyday Collaboration with the Communist Regimes in Poland and Hungary
Moderator: Eric Beckett Weaver
18:30 Film Screening (in Polish with English subtitles), "Różyczka" ("Little Rose")
20:30 Welcome reception at the Polish Institute in Budapest
Thursday, October 24
Conference Venue: Institute of History, RCH, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Council Room (Tanácsterem)
53 Úri Street, Budapest
9:30 Panel I Chair: Sándor Horváth (Budapest)
Secret Files, Secret Memories. Reopening Secrets and Prospects for Research
- Florin Abraham (Bucharest, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Romanian Academy), To Collaborate and to Punish. Democracy and Transitional Justice in Romania
- Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Krakow, Jagiellonian University), The Discourse on Polish Post-War Society by the Institute of Polish Remembrance
- Tamara Pavasovic Trost (University of Graz), Reopening Secrets from the Communist Past: Transformations of Narratives of Collaboration in Former Yugoslavia
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel II
Chair: Paweł Sowiński (Warsaw)
National Remembrance and Collaboration
- Martin Kovanič (Bratislava, Comenius University), Institutes of Memory in the Slovak and Czech Republics – What Kind of Memory?
- Barash Raisa (Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences), Challenging the Way of the Russian Collective Memory – a Shaky Balance Between Fame and the Shame
- Krzysztof Brzechczyn (Poznań Branch of Institute of National Remembrance/ Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University), The Problem of the Reliability of “Files” concerning Collaboration with Security Service (SB) in Poland
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Panel III
Chair: Marína Zavacká (Bratislava)
Public Debates, Public History and Collaboration
- Karina Hoření (Brno, Masaryk University)
Disputes regarding the Institute of Study of Totalitarian Regimes as an Example of the Politicization of the Memory of Communism
- Ferenc Hammer (Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University)
Imagined Secrets, Invisible Service
- Marta Kurkowska-Budzan (Krakow, Jagiellonian University)
“The Doomed Soldiers”. The Institute of National Remembrance and the Symbolic Transformation in Poland
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel IV
Chair: Stefano Bottoni (Budapest)
Visual Representations
- Caterina Preda (Bucharest, University of Bucharest)
Artistic Forms of Collaboration with[in] the Communist Regime in Romania
- János Berta (University of Pécs)
Is this the Life of an Agent? A Unique Reconstruction of Secret Service Operations in Gábor Zsigmond Papp’s Documentary
18:30 Reception with Buffet Dinner
Friday, 25 October
9:00 Panel V
Chair: Florin Abraham (Bucharest)
Knowledge of the Devil. Intellectuals and Collaboration
- Gabriel Andreescu (Bucharest, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration)
"Resistance through Culture" or "Connivance through Culture." Difficulties of Interpretation; Nuances, Errors, and Manipulations
- Matěj Spurný (Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Intellectuals Between Collaboration and Independence. Politics and Everyday Life in the Prague Faculty of Arts in Late Socialism
- Josip Mihaljević (Zagreb, Croatian Institute of History)
Tito and Intellectuals - Collaboration and Support. 1945-1980
- Fedor Blaščák (Bratislava, Memory Kontrol)
Marxism – Leninism, Really? An Oral History of Three Academic Communities
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel VI
Chair: Péter Apor (Budapest)
Party Membership and Collaboration
- Marína Zavacká (Bratislava, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Finding the Ways (around). Regional-level Party Activists
- Tamás Kende (Budapest Eötvös Loránd University)
”But Who is the Party?“ History and Historiography
- Dobrochna Kałwa (University of Warsaw)
In Search of New Meanings: Autobiographical Strategies of Local Party-Members in Poland
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Panel VII
Chair: Miklós Mitrovits (Budapest)
Professions, Social Groups, Everyday Experiences
- Pavla Francová (Charles University in Prague)
The Role of Newspapers in Everyday Collaboration with the Communist Regimes
- Agáta Drelová (University of Exeter)
Forgetting “Judas.” Priest Collaboration in Slovak Catholic Memory after 1989
- Paweł Sowiński (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Spy in the Underground. Polish Samizdat Stories
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel VIII
Chair: Tamara Pavasovic Trost (Graz)
Remembrance and Collaboration
- Ieva Zake (Rowan University, New Jersey)
The Exempt Nation: Memory of Collaborationism in Contemporary Latvia
- Krisztina Slachta (University of Pécs)
Informing as Life-Style. Unofficial Collaborators (IM’s) of the Hungarian and the East-German State Security Working in the Tourism Sector
Saturday, October 26
9:30 Panel IX
Chair: Ieva Zake (Rowan University, US)
Life Stories, Personal Memories
- Marie Černá (Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Remembering Soviet Army Occupation. Czechoslovakia 1968-1991
- Zoltán Novak (Targu Mures, Gheorghe Sincai Institute for Social Studies and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy)
We Serve and Collaborate. Church and State in Romania: the Géza Pálfi Files
- Stefano Bottoni (Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
To Survive and To Collaborate. Imre Mikó, a Transylvanian Intellectual
11:00 Final Discussion
