CONFERINȚĂ INTERNAȚIONALĂ LA CHIȘINĂU: THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD WAR II
THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD WAR II
International Symposium
14-18 May 2011
Moldova State Pedagogical University, Chişinău
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, MAY 14: ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS
SUNDAY, MAY 15
10:00 PANEL I: “POPULATION POLITICS” IN EASTERN EUROPE DURING AND AFTER THE WORLD WAR II
Chair: Wlodzimierz Borodziej, POLAND
Forced Laborers of Nazi Germany in Soviet and Post-Soviet Historical Memory: the Features of Recollection
Gelinada Grinchenko
Kharkiv V. N. Karazin National University, UKRAINE
Population Changes in the Baltics during and after World War II on the Example of Estonia
Olaf Mertelsmann
Tartu University, ESTONIA
Communists in Bessarabia under Romanian rule, 1941-1944: between collaboration and resistance
Igor Caşu
Moldova State University/Moldova State Pedagogical University, MOLDOVA
Discussant: Mark Sandle, CANADA
12:00 LUNCH
13:45 PANEL II: REMEMBERING HOLOCAUST VICTIMS
Chair: Andrei Cuşco, CANADA
A Forgotten Reality: The Anti-Semitic Massacres of the Romanian Army at the Onset of Operation Barbarossa
Adrian Cioflâncă
A. D. Xenopol Institute of History, Jassy/Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, Bucharest, ROMANIA
An Inconvenient Truth: Civilian Violence against Jews in 1941 in Bessarabia
Diana Dumitru
Moldova State Pedagogical University, MOLDOVA
Who Remembers the Wehrmacht Chaplains? Christianity and Memories of World War II
Doris Bergen
University of Toronto, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, CANADA
Discussant: Jutta Scherrer, FRANCE
15.45 COFEE BREAK
16.00 PANEL III: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II
Chair: Adrian Cioflâncă, ROMANIA
The World War II in the Moldovan Literature under the Late Stalinism
Petru Negură
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Moldova State University/Moldova State Pedagogical University, MOLDOVA
« Myths of the Nations »: The Memory of the Second World War in an Exhibition of the Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jutta Scherrer
EHESS, Paris, FRANCE
World War II Monuments in the Republic of Moldova: Competing Visions and Memorial Practices
Vasile Dumbrava
Moldova Institut Leipzig, GERMANY
Discussant: Andrei Cuşco, MOLDOVA
MONDAY, MAY 16
10:00 PANEL III: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II
Chair: Petru Negură, MOLDOVA
The Forgotten Victory? V-E Day and Remembrance in the UK since 1945
Mark Sandle
The King’s University College, Edmonton, Professor of History, CANADA
“Veterans” and “Schoolchildren” in the postwar Soviet universities: from komsomol activists to big politics
Nikolay Mitrokhin
Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, GERMANY
Social memory on World War II: Russian case
Irina Rebrova
Kuban State University, RUSSIA
Discussant: Tatiana Zhurzhenko, UKRAINE
12:00 LUNCH
13:45 PANEL IV: MEMORIES AND “PLACES OF MEMORY” OF WORLD WAR II IN POST-1945 EASTERN EUROPE
Chair: Nikolay Mitrokhin, RUSSIA/GERMANY
Tomorrow was the War: Start of WWII in women’s private narrations
Tetiana Dziadevych
University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, UKRAINE
Deportations of Soviet peoples during World War II: history and memory
Igor Şarov
Moldova State University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Dean, MOLDOVA
Discussant: Diana Dumitru, MOLDOVA
15.15 COFFEE BREAK
15. 30 Round Table: “Mythologies of Victory:” World War II as the Object of Collective Memory and Political Discourse
Chair: Igor Caşu, MOLDOVA
Key-speakers:
Tatiana Zhurzhenko V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, University of Vienna, Institute for Political Science (Vienna, Austria)
Nationalizing the 'Common Victory': Politics of memory in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands
Wlodzimierz Borodziej
University of Warsaw / Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena
World War II in Polish Collective Memory and Political Discourse: A Comparative Approach
17.00 – CONCLUSIONS OF THE SYMPOSIUM
18.00 DINNER
TUESDAY, MAY 17 – Site visits to Chisinau, Tiraspol, and Sherpeni War Memorial
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 – DEPARTURE OF PARTICIPANTS
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