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

18:30                        DINNER
 
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:



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


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:



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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