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THURSDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER, 2007
Location : Embassy of Romania to United States of America
(Washington D.C.)
9.00 am - 9.30 am
Welcoming Address,
by
Daniela Gitman,
Chargé d’Affairs
a.i,
Embassy of Romania
to the
United States
Introductory Remarks
by Horia-Roman Patapievici, President of the Romanian Cultural
Institute
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Keynote lecture
by
Ambassador Thomas Simons Jr., Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, Harvard University : “Eastern Europe between the USSR
and the West: Reflections on the Origins and Dynamics of the Cold
War"
10.20 am - 10.30 am
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Coffee Break
10.45 am – 1.00 pm
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First Panel - Stalinism revisited
Discussant:
Charles Gati,
Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, School of Advanced
International Studies/Johns Hopkins University
Presentations
by:
Agnes Heller,
Hannah Arendt
Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, New School University
:
“Legitimation
Problems and Crises of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and in Eastern
Europe”
Alfred J. Rieber,
Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania and University
Research Professor at the Central European University:
“Popular
Democracy. An Illusion?”
Virgil Ţârău, Associate Professor, Babes-Bolyai University & The
National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives in
Romania: “The 1946 Elections and the Consolidation of Communist
Power in Romania”
Janos
Rainer, Director of
the
Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution &
Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts: “Revisiting
Hungarian Stalinism”
1.00 pm – 2.15 pm
- Lunch
2.30 pm – 4.45 pm
- Second Panel – The Cominform and the Sovietization of
East-Central Europe
Discussant:
Vladimir Tismaneanu (Professor
of Politics & Director of the Center for the Study of
Post-
Communist Societies, Government and Politics University of Maryland
-College Park
&
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission for the Analysis of
the Communist Dictatorship in Romania)
Presentations
by
Ivo Banac,
Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University:
„The Cominform, the Yugoslav Defiance, and the
Process of Sovietization
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Mark Kramer,
Director of the
Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow
of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies:
“Stalin,
Soviet Policy, and the Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1945-1953”
Claudiu Secaşiu, The National Council for the Study of the Secret
Police Archives in Romania - “The Destruction of the
Anticommunist Democratic Opposition the Trials of 1947”
Dorin Dobrincu, Senior Research Fellow at “A.D. Xenopol” Institute
for Historical Studies of the Romanian Academy & General Director of
the Romanian National Archives - “The Anticommunist Armed
Resistance in Romania in Comparative Perspective”
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH, 2007
Location: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
9.00 am – 9.40 am
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Welcome Address by Lee Hamilton – Director of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
Keynote Lecture
by Kenneth Jowitt,
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, University
of California, Berkeley:
“Revolutionary Breakthroughs and the Fate of Leninism in East
Central Europe”
10.00
am – 10.15 am
- Coffee Break
10.30 am– 4.45 pm
- Third Panel - Communist takeovers in East-Central Europe
10.30 am – 12.45 pm
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First Session
Discussant:
Charles King,
Ion
Raţiu Professor of Romanian Studies and Professor of
International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University
Presentations
by:
Christian Ostermann,
Director Cold War International History Project:
“Discussing Sovietization: Stalin and his Stenograms with
Communist Leaders”
Bartlomiej & Antoni Kaminski, University of Maryland, College Park &
Institute of Social Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences:
“Road
to “People’s Poland:” Stalin’s Conquest Revisited”
Svetozar Stojanovic,
Founder and President of the Serbian-American Center & Distinguished
Research Fellow, Center for International Inquiry, Buffalo, NY:
„Varieties of Stalinism in Light of the Yugoslav
case“
Ekaterina Nikova,
Senior
Research Associate, Institute for Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences:
“Revisiting Bulgarian Stalinism”
Dragoş Petrescu, Associate Professor, Political Science Department,
University of Bucharest & The National Council for the Study of the
Secret Police Archives in Romania: “Nationalism and
Identity-Politics in Gheorghiu-Dej’s Romania, 1948-1965”
1.00 pm - 2.15 pm
- Lunch break
2.30 pm – 4.45 pm:
Second Session: Communist
Takeovers in East-Central Europe
Presentations
by
John
Connelly, Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley:
"East
German Stalinism in Comparative Perspective"
Bradley Abrams, Associate Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia
University & President of the Czechoslovak Studies Association: “Hope
Died Last: The Czechoslovak Road to Stalinism”
Cristian Vasile, Coordinator
of the Presidential Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the
Communist Dictatorship in Romania & Researcher at the „Nicolae Iorga”
History Institute of the Romanian Academy : “Propaganda and
Culture in Romania at the Beginning of the Communist Regime”
Bogdan Iacob, PhD Candidate, Central European University :“Fighting
for the Intellectual Sphere: Control, Manipulation and Cooption in
the Restructuring of the Romanian Academy of Sciences”
4.45 pm – 5.30 pm
Concluding Remarks,
by
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics & Director, Center for
the
Study of Post-Communist Societies, Government and Politics
University of Maryland -College Park & Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship
in Romania: “Diabolical Pedagogy and the Logic of Stalinism in
East-Central Europe”
5.30 pm – 6.00 pm
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Reception at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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