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FORUM SERIES “SOFIA DIALOGUES” 14th Anniversary of the forum (1996-2009) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE honouring Claude Lefort The Totalitarianisms of the 20th Century in Comparative Perspective Do New Realities Challenge Traditional Conceptions? November 28 – 29, 2009 Saturday, November 28, 2009 9.30-10.00 Opening of the conference: Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski – Head of the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (MSHS) (Due to health problems Claude Lefort is not able to attend the conference. His opening address will be presented to the audience.) Thematic Session: TOTALITARIANISM AND TOTALITARIAN THEORY: A PARALEL START 10.00-10.30 Antonio Elorza (Madrid) - Totalitarianism and Totalism 10.30-11.00 Bernard Bruneteau (Grenoble) - Towards the Origins of the Totalitarian Theory: the Anticipations of the 30-ies 11.00-11.30 Discussion 11.30-12.00 Nikita Petrov (Moscow) - Soviet KGB Archives in the Contemporary Political Struggle 12.00-12.30 Stephane Courtois (Paris) - The Opening of the Communist Archives and the Concept of Totalitarianism 12.30-13.00 Discussion Thematic Session: THE TOTALITARIANISMS IN EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE DEATH OF STALIN (Part I) 14.30-15.00 Ivaylo Znepolski (Sofia) - “Real Socialism” – A Challenge to Totalitarian Theory? 15.00-15.30 Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg) - “Everyone believes the state does everything for him/her”. Notes on State-Society Relations in Communist Bulgaria 15.30-16.00 Thomas Lindenberger (Vienna) - Is the State Absorbing Society or Society Absorbing the State? Everyday Life under East German Dictatorship 16.00-16.30 Discussion 17.00-17.30 Ian Holzer (Prague) - The Definitions of Totalitarianism in Accordance to the Czechoslovak/Czech Situation 17.30-18.00 Victor Neumann (Timishoara) - The Concept of Totalitarianism in the Romanian Social-Political Discourses 18.00-18.30 Discussion 20.00 Dinner hosted by His Excellency Etienne de Poncins, Ambassador of France to Bulgaria
Sunday, November 29, 2009 Thematic Session: THE WAYS OF DE-TOTALITARIZATION 9.30-10.00 Pierre Hassner (Paris) - Is Totalitarianism Dead? 10.00-10.30 Dariusz Stola (Warsaw) - The Communist Regime as a Process: ‘People's Poland’: from Imitation to De-totalitarization 10.30-11.00 Discussion 11.30-12.00 Maurice Aymard (Paris) - The End of Fascism and the De-totalitarization of the Italian Communist Party 12.00-12.30 Nikos Marantzidis (Thessalonica) - What happened to Greece in the Context of Eastern Europe and the Balkans during the 50-ies 12.30-13.00 Discussion Thematic Session: THE TOTALITARIANISMS IN EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE DEATH OF STALIN (Part II) 14.30-15.00 Mark Kramer (Harvard) - Stalin and the Spread of Soviet-style Systems to Eastern Europe in the mid- to late 1940s. 15.00-15.30 Adam Takacs (Budapest) - The Totalitarianism as Atmosphere: Morality and Mentality under the Kádár Regime in Hungary 15.30-16.00 Discussion 16.30-17.00 Hristo Todorov (Sofia) - “Neither heard nor understood”: Some Aspects of Public Communication in Bulgaria during the 80-iest 17.00-17.30 Alexander Kiossev (Sofia) - Crimes against Everyday Life: Approaching the Patho-Anthropology of Communism 17.30-18.00 Stilian Yotov (Sofia - Frankfurt onМein) 18.00-18.30 Discussion 18.30-19.00 Concluding words 20.00 Reception The conference was made possible thanks to the financial support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CEE Trust Bulgaria, Open Society Institute, the French Cultural Institute in Sofia and Goethe Institute in Sofia. |