The Platform for European Memory and Conscience and the academic journal Communisme invite you on 8 and 9 November 2017 to an international conference at the Collège des Bernardins and the Fondation Napoléon in Paris.
The conference will be held in French and English, with simultaneous translation.
To register, please send an e-mail to conference@memoryandconscience.eu before 31 October 2017.
Admission is free, subject to availability.
Program:
Wednesday, 8 November
Collège des Bernardins, 20 rue de Poissy, Paris 75005
9:30 am – 10:00 am
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Welcome speeches
Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins
European consciousness in the face of totalitarianism.
10:00 am – 11:30 am – Session I
Bolshevism, Lenin and the Soviet terror
– Stéphane Courtois, honorary research director at the CNRS, professor at the Institut catholique d’études supérieures (La Roche-sur-Yon)
Lenin, the inventor of totalitarianism.
– Nikita Petrov, head of Memorial (Moscow)
Soviet terror.
– Françoise Thom, lecturer at the Sorbonne
Bolshevik diplomacy.
11:45 am – 1:15 pm – Session II
The Persistence of Soviet Communism
– Antonio Elorza, Professor of Political Science at the Complutense University (Madrid)
The Komintern.
– Patrick Moreau, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Strasbourg)
The persistence of communism in Europe.
– Igor Casu, State University of Moldova
Historiography of Soviet communism after the opening of the archives
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Guest of Honour Speech
– Sofi Oksanen, Finnish writer
Writing about communism and its victims: personal reflections.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Session III
Communism in the contemporary world
–David Kilgour, former Member of Parliament and Minister of Canada
China.
– Johanna Hosaniak, Citizens’ Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea
North Korea.
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Presentation of Stéphane Courtois’ two books, Lenin, the inventor of communism and Communism 2017, the Bolshevik revolution.
Stéphane Courtois
Roundtable with representatives of the press
5:15 pm – 6 pm
Presentation of the 2017 European Memory and Consciousness Platform Award
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Thursday, 9 November
Fondation Napoléon, 7 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Paris 75005
9:30 am – 10 am
Opening speeches
Stéphane Courtois
Reflections twenty years after the publication of the Black Book of Communism.
10 am – 11:30 am – Session IV
Remembering the Victims of Communism
– Ioana Boca, Civic Academy Foundation (Romania)
The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance at Sighet.
– Ewelina Szpak, Museum of Polish History (Warsaw)
Paths to Freedom: Poles Against Communism, 1944-1989.
– Valters Nollendorfs, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia (Riga)
Prepare the new presentation of the museum.
11:45 am – 1:15 pm – Session V
– Laszlo Tökés, Member of the European Parliament
– Pawel Ukielski, Warsaw Museum of Uprising
The problems of de-communisation in Poland.
– Neela Winkelman, Platform for European Memory and Consciousness (Prague)
The International Documentation Centre for the Non-Applicable Crimes of Communism.
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Session VI
Ukraine and Communism 1917-2017
– Sergii Riabenko, Institute of National Memory (Kiev)
The international crimes of the communist regime in Ukraine in the 20th century.
– Olesia Isaiuk, National Memorial Museum of the memory of the victims of the occupation regimes; Daria Hnatkivska and Zarytska Kateryna: two Ukrainian women against two totalitarian regimes.
– Anna Oliinyk, Center for Research on the Liberation Movement
From communism to de-communisation: how to deal with the totalitarian past in Ukraine.
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Roundtable discussion and conclusion of the conference.
The Conference “One hundred years of communism. History and Memory” is a partner of the conference “Commemorating the Centennial of the Victims of Communism” which will be held from 7 to 9 November 2017 in Washington, D.C. – see centennial.victimsofcommunism.org -.
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