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OSA / Projects / Culture 2000
Implementation
Planned
Implemented
December 2004
Rebuilding Hungarian synagogues, prayer houses, prayer rooms 1980-87, an exhibition of selected photographs by Dr. AnikĂł Gazda, followed by a roundtable discussion, December 2, 2004. See also Online photo gallery.
Auschwitz - Reconstruction, 1945 - 1989
OSA`s new online exhibition - on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the deportation of the Hungarian Jews, December 2004.January - April 2005
Parallel Seminars on the Representation of Jews (OSA, IRIR) (2)
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September - December 2005
Parallel seminars on Fascism and Communism (OSA, HAIT, ICH, KARTA, IRIR, Civic Academy) (3)
available here
December 2005
Program in DOC
January 2006
April 2006 - February 2007
Hosting the exhibitions by all the partners
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April 2006
May 2006
Exhibition: A Cold War Chronology, Civic Academy, (traveling) (7)
July 2006 - February 2007
Hosting the exhibition by partners
Prague:
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Budapest:
July 2006
At the opening of the exhibition "A Chronology of the Cold War" spoke Christian Ostermann, the director of the Cold War International History Programme from Wodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, Dennis Deletant, University College London - University Amsterdam, Romulus Rusan, chief of International Centre for the Study of Communism of the Sighet Memorial.
The audience were the students and the professors of the Sighet Summer School, as well as the participants to the colloquium "The Living Museum".
The "Living Museum" Colloquium took place between 13 and 16 of July. The main topic of the conference was "Channels for the Transmission of Memory in the post-Communist Period". This was also the theme of the round table that closed the colloquium.
Doc files: Description, Program, Poster
September - December 2006
Parallel Seminars on Social Policies and Public Health (HAIT, ICH) (9)
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"Povinnost bĂ˝t zdravĂ˝ ": K ideologizaci zdravĂ a zdravotnĂ problematiky v nacistickĂ©m totalitnĂm reĹľimu DOCOctober 2006
Program and Announcement in DOC
January 2007
Publication of materials in 2 volumes (about 250 pp each) (OSA) (11)
The Project
Exhibition
Activity Name
The Fate of the Jews Under Communist Eyes
Description
In the framework of the “History after the Fall” collaborative project, on the occasion of the sixty-year anniversary of the deportation of the close to six-hundred thousand Hungarian Jews, OSA wishes to organize an exhibition on the representation of the deportation and the fate of the Central European Jewry under the decades of Communist rule. The exhibition would concentrate on the different East and Central European national exhibitions in Auschwitz before 1989, when Communist propaganda presented the history of the twentieth century, mainly as the story of the permanent fight between Fascism and Communism, thereby erasing the Jews from the concentration camps and from history. Under the Communist description the inmates of the camps were predominantly political prisoners, antifascist resistors against Fascism.
As a result of the long decades of Communist indoctrination, after the Fall, the East and Central European countries found themselves helpless in the face of resurgent extreme right wing, racist and anti-Semitic propaganda: if the only problem with Fascism was its anti-Communist nature, than what is the problem with being neo-Fascist after the crimes of Communism became public?
Objectives
The exhibition aims at initiating a new public debate, a post-Communist, Central European version of the German “Historikerstreit”. The exhibition would be accompanied by visible media campaign, addressing the moral responsibility of the Central European societies under right- and left-wing totalitarian regimes.
Responsible Co-organizer
CEU/OSA
Other Co-organizers involved
KARTA
Target Group
General Public
Timetable
Autumn 2004, duration 2 months
Expected Results
Increase informed public debate and shed new light on the ideological foundations of post-communist neo-fascist movements in the region.
Exhibition
Activity Name
Historical Comparison of Fascism and Communism
Description
The common 19th century roots of radical utopian ideologies and social movements. The urge to deep continuous social intervention on the macro-sphere. The problematic nature of historical comparison; the secret agendas behind comparing totalitarian regimes; the use of history as ultima ratio in contemporary political debates. Anti-fascism description of 20th century history, and the resurrection of neo-fascism after the fall of the Communist regimes.
Objectives
Provoke professional historical and public debate over these contested and until now repressed historical and ideological issues.
Responsible Co-organizer
IRIR ( Bucharest )
Other Co-organizers involved
CEU/OSA
Target Group
General Public
Timetable
Spring, 2005, duration 2 months
Expected Results
Raise general consciousness of public, stimulate and contribute to important public debate on these sensitive issues.
Exhibition
Activity Name
A Cold War Chronolgoy: 1949-1989
Description
Berlin 1948, 1953, Poznan and Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, Russian Dissidents, Poland 1971, 1978, Solidarnosc, 1989. Using and analyzing the local and international contexts of these key events; the European reactions consequences. Historical documents, documentary films, home-movies, and photographic collections.
Objectives
Raise historic awareness by the analysis of the iconic moments under the Communist regimes, supported by primary materials, essential documents, and multi-media presentation of the times.
Responsible Co-organizer
Civica (Sighet)
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
General Public
Timetable
Autumn 2005, duration 2 months
Expected Results
Raise historical consciousness of the general public, stimulate and contribute to public debate
Workshop
Activity Name
Comparing Fascism and Communism
Description
The workshop would concentrate on the key methodological and theoretical issues of the comparative method. Marc Bloch's ideas would be reassessed in the light of the historical works on fascist-communist comparison. The professional, political, and moral pitfalls of comparison.
Objectives
Raise historic awareness by the analysis of the iconic moments under the Communist regimes, supported by primary materials, essential documents, and multi-media presentation of the times.
Responsible Co-organizer
IRIR
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
Academic community and advanced graduate students
Timetable
May 2005, duration 2 days
Expected Results
Stimulate and contribute to professional debates, initiate important dialogue among historians from opposing ideological camps. Set an example for civilized social dialogue.
Workshop
Activity Name
A Living Museum : how does memory pass on from one generation to another
Description
The workshop would address the important theoretical issues of collective memories, representation of martyrs, victims, victors and protagonists of different regimes. The death and rebirth of memorials. The function of memorials in public awareness. The role of memorials in creating, maintaining and changing historical identities.
Objectives
Reassessing important public aesthetic, ideological and historical issues.
Responsible Co-organizer
Civica
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
The workshop will be open to the public, the proceedings of the seminars would be published in a volume, representatives of the media will be invited, and faculty members of different universities would be encouraged to participate actively at the collective work.
Timetable
July 3-5, 2005
Expected Results
Region-wide revaluation of the function and role memorials in Central Europe .
Activity Type (10)
Workshop
Activity Name
Post-Communist Anti-Communism
Description
The workshop would analyze the documents (textbooks, feature-, documentary- and propaganda films, exhibition catalogues, memorials, traces of historical remembrance) that the student participants of the “History after the Fall” project collect in the former Communist countries. The workshop tries to locate the historical perception of Europe in East and Central Europe , influenced by the need to come to terms with the legacy of the recent past. Silence around central issues of the post World War II decades has a profound impact on how recent history is perceived in the Eastern parts of Europe .
Objectives
The aim of the workshop is to contribute to understanding the nature and the scholarly and political consequences of historical revisionism from an anti-Communist perspective.
Responsible Co-organizer
CEU/OSA
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
The workshop will be open to the public, the proceedings of the seminars would be published in a volume, representatives of the media will be invited, and faculty members of different universities would be encouraged to participate actively at the collective work.
Timetable
October 2006, 2 days
Expected Results
Public discussion on these issues might contribute to a more constructive role the former Communist countries might play in the community of European nations.
Workshop
Activity Name
Historical Revisionism
Description
The workshop would focus on the practice and background assumptions of rewriting history. Besides the use and abuse of the middle ages in the newly independent and post-communist states, the conference would focus on the revisions of twentieth century history in Europe after 1989. The themes would include the history of World War II, collaboration and resistance, the Cold War and the history of Communism. Besides East and Central European cases, French, Italian and American historiographical examples would be analyzed.
Objectives
To treat recent historical revisionism as one of the defining elements of the post-Communist intellectual landscape in Europe .
Responsible Co-organizer
ICH ( Prague )
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
Professional historians, the media, university students
Timetable
February 2006, duration 2 days
Expected Results
To put this important agenda on the intellectual map of informed European public debates.
Parallel Seminar
Activity Name
The Representation of Jews under Communism
Description
The seminar will be part of the normal academic instruction at the History Department of the Central European University . A semester-long seminar with similar, but not quite identical topic will be organized by scholars at the Romanian Institute of Recent History. Working on the syllabus, and putting together the reader will be a collaborative work. During the semester, professors from Budapest and Bucharest will visit each other's institution and will take over the class for a week. The two classes at the two locations will be part of an e-group, so the students will be in touch with each other throughout the semester.
The important historical issue, related to the exhibition at the Open Society Archives, will be discussed from multiple perspectives, relying on the historical experiences of the different historical environments.
Objectives
Clarify our historical understanding of this issue under the former Communist regimes.
Responsible Co-organizer
CEU/OSA, KARTA, HAIT ( Budapest , Warsaw , Dresden ). Faculty will be exchanged among participating institutions.
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
European Academic community.
Timetable
2004, duration 1 semester
Expected Results
The multi-ethnic nature of the class at the CEU, located in Budapest , and the specificity of the Romanian case study would provide a rich and unusual learning environment.
Parallel Seminar
Activity Name
Fascism and Communism
Description
Advanced graduate students would analyze new interpretations of totalitarian regimes. The main focus will be on recent historiographical schools in East and West, on new archival documents and on new ideologically motivated conclusions of recent research.
Objectives
To see and to show the interrelationships between these two defining regimes of the tragic twentieth century history.
Responsible Co-organizer
CEU/OSA, KARTA, HAIT, ICH, ZZF ( Budapest , Warsaw , Dresden , Prague , Berlin ) Faculty will be exchanged among participating institutions.
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
Advanced graduate students
Timetable
2005, duration 1 semester
Expected Results
A comprehensive historiographical assessment of new developments on the interrelationships between fascism and Communism in history writing.
Parallel Seminar
Activity Name
Social Policies and Public Health of totalitarian regimes
Description
A comparative analysis of the public health policy of fascist Italy , the Third Reich and the Communist regimes (cancer research, public hygiene, psychiatric treatment, etc.), and an effort to understand the peculiar nature of the “centralized totalitarian welfare state.
Objectives
The initiate the study of the neglected field, open to comparison.
Responsible Co-organizer
CEU/OSA, HAIT ( Dresden , Prague ). Faculty will be exchanged among participating institutions.
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
Advanced graduate student
Timetable
2006, duration 1 semester
Expected Results
To thematize this important issue for further scholarly work.
Publication
Activity Name
Workshop and seminar materials 1.
Description
Collection of essays based on the “work of the “Fascism and Communism parallel seminar. The essays, written by both senior and junior scholars would be the result of an extended collective work, including advanced graduate students, who study these topics with a fresh eye. The work would also include the result of the “Historical Comparison” exhibition.
Objectives
To reach both the professional and the interested general public and initiate a new wave of public debate.
Responsible Co-organizer
CEU Press
Other Co-organizers involved
All
Target Group
Academic community, students
Timetable
December 2006
Expected Results
A serious, unusual scholarly work
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