Friday, February 19, 2016 to Saturday, February 20, 2016
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th St.)
Please join us for a two-day symposium exploring cases and patterns of participation in repressive regimes and subsequent responses in the East Central European and Soviet worlds.
Friday, February 19, 2016
9:30 AM coffee and greetings
Panel I: World War II: Occupation, Aftermath
9:45 AM–12:15 PM
Elidor Mehilli - Hunter (History) - “The Uses of War, 1939–1949”
Jadwiga Biskupska - Sam Houston (History) - “Institution Building as Elite Response to Nazi Persecution: Warsaw”
Louisa McClintock - Columbia (Harriman Institute) - “With Us, Against Us, Never Part of Us: The Punishment of Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Poland, 1944–1948”
László Karsai - Szeged (History) - “People’s Courts and Revolutionary Justice in Hungary after World War II”
Lunch 12:15 PM–1:30 PM
Panel II: The Soviet Dimension
1:30 PM–3:45 PM
Rebecca Kobrin - Columbia (History) - chair
Polly Jones - University College Oxford - “Forgetting Terror, Remembering Revolution: Soviet Memory Politics under Brezhnev”
Theodore Weeks - Southern Illinois, Carbondale (History) - “Remembering the Holocaust after 1945 and 1990 in Lithuania”
Jared McBride - US Holocaust Memorial Museum - “Unmasking Traitors: Soviet Propaganda Literature and War Criminals in the West during the Cold War”
Franziska Exeler - Freie Universität Berlin / Cambridge (Centre for History & Economics) - “Ghosts of War. Personal Responses to the Aftermath of Nazi Occupation in Post-1944 Soviet Belorussia”
Break 3:45 PM–4:00 PM
Discussion 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
Saturday, February 20, 2016
9:30 AM coffee and greetings
Panel III: Crimes, Memory, and Re-Imagining
9:45 AM–12:15 PM
Steven Barnes - George Mason (History & Art History) - “Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan”
Attila Pók - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of History) - “Communist and Anti-Communist Symbolic Retribution in Context”
David Marples - Alberta (History & Classics) - “Decommunization & Retribution in Contemporary Ukraine”
Jennifer Allen - Yale (History) - “A Masterable Future? Utopian Practices in Three Germanys, 1980–2000”
Lunch 12:15 PM–1:30 PM
Panel IV: Communicating Responses: Culture and Media
1:30 PM-3:45 PM
Małgorzata Mazurek - Columbia (History) - chair
Tarik Amar - Columbia (History) - “Kapitan Kloss: Collaboration, Treason, and Resistance in Post-war Poland’s Favorite Spy Series”
Anicia Timberlake - Williams (Music) - “Music Pedagogy and Fascist Legacies in the German Democratic Republic”
Angelo Mitchievici - Constanta (Faculty of Letters) - “The Myth of the New Man, the Revolutionary Condition and the New
World Order in Communist Romania”
Snježana Milivojević - University of Belgrade - “Peace without Reconciliation: Media Encounters with the Past in Post-conflict Serbia”
Break 3:45 PM–4:00 PM
Discussion 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
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