IICCMER also supported this year’s edition of the Documentary Film Festival ONE WORLD ROMANIA
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) was the partner of the 9th edition of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival ONE WORLD ROMANIA, which took place in Bucharest during March 21-27, 2016. Organized by the One World Romania Association and the Bucharest Czech Center, this year’s festival was organized under the motto “Sweetener-free movies. Borderless experiences” and focused on some of the most pressing problems of society today, events that cross any kind of border. “The public imaginary is dominated by the shattering of European borders, by the hundreds [...]
The Women during Communism Conference took place on March 3 in Bucharest
Thursday, March 3, at the National Library of Romania, the Conference Women during Communism. Collective and Individual Destinies took place. The conference opened with the presentation of the special guest, British journalist Jessica Douglas-Home, and continued with the presentations of IICCMER experts Irina Hasnaş-Hubbard, Constantin Vasilescu, Ioana Manolache and Mariana-Alina Urs. The general themes addressed by the guests aimed to provide a general overview of women’s detention during the communist period through figures and statistics, but also a particular one through several case studies such as the one of philosopher and man of letters Alice Voinescu or artist Lena Constante. The [...]
Evghenia Ghinzburg’s diary was launched on Friday, February 5
On Friday, February 5, at Cărturești Verona Tea-house, Corint Publishing House and the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) launched the volume Into the Whirlwind. Diary by Evghenia Ghinzburg. Published with the support of the IICCMER, the book is considered to be one of the most important testimonies about the Stalin’s regime of terror. With an impressive attention to detail, a strong power and an invincible spirit, Ghinzburg describes the years, days and minutes spent in prisons and labor camps, including the two years spent in solitary confinement. Antoaneta Olteanu (PhD at the Faculty [...]
IICCMER organized the first edition of the workshop "Advocacy for museums of communism in Romania"
Institute for the investigation of Communist crimes and the memory of the Romanian exile (IICCMER) organized in the period from October 29-November 1, 2015, at Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna, a national workshop Plea for museums of communism in Romania, the first meeting of the national network of museums and dedicated to dealing with the Communist past. The event in Sfântu Gheorghe launched a series of meetings that will bring together curators, historians, history teachers, sociologists, architects, project managers and other specialists from the country and abroad concerned about Communist totalitarian past memorializarea. The main objective is the realization of an exchange [...]
"Who is studying the history of Communism is better suited for democracy." 1989 ROMANIAN REVOLUTION brought together inspectors from history to discuss educational strategies in recent history
Bucharest, 27 October 2015. Institute for the investigation of Communist crimes and the memory of the Romanian exile (1989 ROMANIAN REVOLUTION) organized during the period October 23-25, 2010, in Bucharest, National Conference of inspectors in history, an event designed to facilitate the exchange of experience and good practice in relation to teaching and promoting interest in the history of communism and, more generally, of recent history. The meeting, organized in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Ministry of education and scientific research, inspectors of all the counties have discussed their experiences in implementing projects at local level and [...]
Launch No. 91/92 of the journal Memory, set up in collaboration with the Institute for the investigation of Communist crimes and the memory of the Romanian exile
Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at 15.00, in Hitchcock, had launched the latest issue of the journal Memory, set up in collaboration with the Institute for the investigation of Communist crimes and the memory of the Romanian exile (1989 ROMANIAN REVOLUTION). Edited by the Cultural memory of the writers ' Union of Romania, published in the Journal Memory No. 91/92 (2-3/2015) Roundtable "after 25 years. How do we look past today ", organized by the ROMANIAN EXILE in December 2014, as well as a series of articles in early issues of the magazine, the 25-year anniversary of the apparition. The event [...]