There is a limited number of physical and virtual places. Requests will be met on a first come first served basis, registrations are to be sent to Nora Ungar until October 7.
Please indicate your preferences regarding the days (day 1, day 2, day 3) and the type of participation (in person or online).
IMPORTANT: The event can be attended only with a valid immunity certificate (EU, Hungarian or vaccination certificate of these countries). Participants will be asked to show their immunity certificate together with a personal identification document to the organizers and security guard when checking-in for the event onsite. Entry is allowed in masks only. Please check CEU's Coronavirus Protocol for further information.
Discussant: Manuela Ungureanu (University of British Columbia) ONLINE
Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm University), Studying Women’s Rights and Solidarity with Women from the Global South through the Documents of the WIDF in the Soviet Archives
James A. Kapaló (University College Cork), A Feast for the Senses: Secret Police Archives as Sources for the Study of Lived Religion during Communism ONLINE
Ioana Macrea-Toma (OSA), Not Every “Controversy” has Two Equally Valid Sides. A Plea for a Non-Symmetrical Reading of Archival EcologiesDiscussant: Adela Hîncu (Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia)
Mara Mărginean (George Barițiu Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca), Planning, Provisioning, and Struggling with Definitions: Assessing Well-Being in the 1950s Romania
Vojtěch Ripka (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague), Beyond Comparison and Reliability: Key challenges Using the Sociological Surveys by the RFE/RL and by the Czechoslovak Authorities and Ways Forward
Kateryna Burkush (European University Institute, Florence) Invisible, Uncontrollable, Inconvenient: Who is the Seasonal Worker of the State Soviet Archive? ONLINEDiscussant: Andreea Deciu-Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) ONLINE
Irina Gordeeva (Leibniz Center for Contemporary History), Exploring Archives of Transnational Movements of the Cold War Period: Experiences and Challenges ONLINE
Szabolcs László (Indiana University), Interlocking Truth Regimes. Internationally Mobile Scholars as Targets of Cold War Agendas
Anna Mazurkiewicz (University of Gdansk), Searching the Cold War Era Archives for Traces of Exile Agency within US-led “Winning Hearts and Minds” Campaigns
Viviana Iacob (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich), East European Theater Revisited. The Archives of International Organizations and the Cold WarDiscussant: Marsha Siefert (CEU)
Georgi Georgiev (CEU), Noise in the Archives: Studying the Cold War through Sound Descriptions ONLINE
Oksana Sarkisova (OSA), Going Live: Perestroika-Time TV and Transformation of Soviet Media Landscape
Luca Szemetová (University of St Andrews), Archiving on the Screen – Remediating Private (Counter)Histories through Hungarian Documentary CinemaDiscussant: Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič
Anastasia Felcher (OSA), What is a Monument in the Cold War? Assigning Categories to Cultural Heritage in the Counter-archives on East-Central Europe
Corneliu Pintilescu (George Barițiu Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca), Cold War Hermeneutics. Radio Free Europe’s and the Securitate Narratives on Urban systematization in Ceaușescu’s Romania
Isabel Ströhle How to Investigate Identical Conclusions of Opposed Truth Regimes: Albanian Disloyalty in “Yugoslav” Archives, Ilegalja “Counter-Archives” and BeyondDiscussant: András Mink (OSA)
Mihaela Șerban (Ramapo College of New Jersey), Archival Legal Discourses and the Construction of Truth Regimes ONLINE
Leyla Safta Zecheria (West University of Timișoara), How Representational Transformations of Care Homes for Children with Disabilities around the End of the Cold War Shape Present Day Memory Landscapes in Romania
Anca Șincan (Gheorghe Șincai Institute, Romanian Academy), Confessions and Pastoral Letters in Secret Police Archives: The Ethics of Archival Research
Lilia Topouzova (University of Toronto), The Voice of the Witness in Secret Police FilesCsaba Szilágyi (OSA & University of Amsterdam)
Perica Jovchevski (OSA and CEU)Discussant: István Rév (OSA)
Yohann Morival (University of Lille, Sciences Po Paris), Contributions of an Entry through Disorganized Archives of an East-West private Economic Club (1978-1989)
Victoria Phillips (London School of Economics), Awash in Information: Strategies for Cross-reading Digital Archives with Physical Materials
Nikolai Vukov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Archives as Biographies. Documenting the Landscape of Political Immigration during and After the Cold War Era
Robert Parnica (OSA), Adrian Matus (OSA & European University Institute, Florence), The power of the Telexes: Curating Transatlantic Radio Free Europe Internal Cold War CommunicationDiscussant: Karl Hall (CEU)
Jessie Labov (CEU)
Piotr Wciślik (CEU, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Ana Ljubojevic (University of Graz)
Agustín Cosovschi (University of Paris)
Tamás Scheibner (ELTE, Budapest)