International historical conference
Date: November 28-29, 2011
Location: Seimas (The Parliament of Lithuania), Building No. III, Conference Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
PROGRAM
November 28 (Monday)
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Registration of participants |
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| 10:00 – 12:00 | Opening session. European Memory and Conscience |
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Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis, Member of European Parliament, Lithuania |
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Mrs. Sandra Kalniete, Member of European Parliament, Latvia |
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Mrs. Inese Vaidere, Member of European Parliament, Latvia VIDEO |
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Mr. Emanuelis Zingeris, Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee, Seimas, Lithuania |
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Arimantas Dumcius, Member of Parliament |
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Discussions |
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| 12:00 – 12:20 | Coffee break |
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| 12:20 – 14:00 | Resistance and its suppression |
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Doc. dr. Algirdas Jakubčionis, Persecution of dissidents and youth resistance, Lithuania |
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Kristina Burinskaitė, KGB – the Pillar of Soviet Occupation Regime in Lithuania, Lithuania |
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Dr. Volodymyr Viatrovych, KGB against national-democratic movement in Ukraine 1988-1991, Ukraine |
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Clara Mares, The ’’Usual Suspects’’. Methods employed by the Romanian Securitate in the surveillance of writers in the late 80’s. Rumania |
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Discussions |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 |
Lunch |
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| 15:00 – 16:40 |
Economical and demographical changes |
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Urban Jiri, Czechoslovak way of collectivization: total annihilation of private farms, Czech Republic. |
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Dr. Saulius Grybkauskas, Militarization of Economy: military industry in Soviet Lithuania, Lithuania |
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Dr. Vilius Ivanauskas, Soviet “nomenklatura”: from privileges to illegality, Lithuania |
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Dr. Valdemaras Klumbys, Russification of Lithuania: ideological grounds and practice, Lithuania |
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Discussion |
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| 16:40 – 17:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 17:00 – 18:40 |
Violation of basic human rights |
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Kugler Pavel, Persecution of Catholic Church in the Czechoslovakia (1953-1968), Czech Republic |
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Birutė Burauskaitė, Methods of Persecution of Church. Lithuania |
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Dr. Indrek Paavle, Some aspects of violation of the basic human rights in the Soviet Union: restrictions of movement and residency, Estonia |
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Doc. dr. Arūnas Streikus, Control over cultural relations with overseas, Lithuania |
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November 29 (Tuesday)
| 10:00 – 11:40 |
The Face of Communism |
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Renato Podbersič, Communism in Slovenia – Historical Perspective, Slovenia |
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Boštjan KOLARIČ, Crimes Committed by Yugoslav Communist Regime – Legal Perspective, Slovenia |
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Adrian Cioflanca, The Illusion of Change: The Romanian Youth and the Communist Organizations after Stalin’s Death, Romania |
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Inga Arlauskaitė, Soviet Army in Lithuania: consumption of resources, Lithuania |
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Discussion |
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| 11:40 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
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12:00 – 13:40 |
Edvins Snore, presentation of documentary film “The Soviet Story” followed by the discussion with director, Latvia |
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| 13:40 – 14:40 |
Lunch |
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| 14:40 – 16:00 |
Suppression of self-expression |
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Dr. Aurimas Švedas, Methods of History Falsification in Soviet Lithuania, Lithuania |
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Dr. Bogdan Iacob, Socialist Integration and Alternative Geographies of Science: Romania and Soviet Bloc (1960-1965), Romania |
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Linas Tatarūnas, Anti-Zionism actions and Restriction of Jewish Emigration, Lithuania |
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Discussion |
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| 16:00 – 16:20 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:20 – 18:00 |
Education and propaganda |
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Najbert Jaroslav, “You look at it this way, boy.” How to teach descendants of the orderly citizens of real-socialist Czechoslovakia? Czech Republic |
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Aija Abens, Teaching History in the Soviet Union – memories of the intrusion of Power, Latvia |
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Ingrida Vilkienė, How to talk about soviet past to students. Methods and tools, Lithuania |
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Discussion |
The working languages of the conference was Lithuanian and English (with simultaneous translation).
The conference was organized in the framework of the project „History and Memory – the Soviet case” supported by European Commission from the program „European for Citizens”. The partners of this project were Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Czech Republic and Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile.