the national creative contest “A different museum in your school: The Museum of Communism” (“Un altfel de muzeu în școala ta: Muzeul comunismului”)
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, organizes the national creative contest “A different museum in your school: The Museum of Communism” (“Un altfel de muzeu în școala ta: Muzeul comunismului”) between February 6th and March 21rd. The contest is addressed to students in grades 9-12 from schools in Romania belonging to the Ministry of National Education. Through a creative exercise, the contest aims to attract the interest of students in the history of the communist regime in Romania. Thus, [...]
The Conference History of Communism within the Romanian Educational System
The Soros Foundation, in collaboration with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile and the Romanian History Teachers’ Association – CLIO, organized the conference History of Communism within the Romanian Educational System. Participants debated issues such as: what young Romanians kwon about communism; the history of communism in the national curriculum; the teaching methods in the area of the history of communism; the policies that are to be continued in this educational field. Speakers: Ovidiu Voicu (Soros Foundation); Andrei Gheorghiță (Soros Foundation); Raluca Grosescu (the IICCMRE); Doru Dumitrescu (the Ministry of Education); [...]
The First Years Of Post-Communism: Transitions And Legacies
This was a one-day conference at the end of November (26th) that discussed the nature and legacies of the immediate aftermath of communism’s demise in East-Central Europe. The year 1990 was crucial for the evolution of post-communist countries, setting the pace of their evolution towards democracy and market economy. The conference aimed at taking the stock of the transformations starting in 1990 and placing the evolution of the different countries in a regional comparative framework, outlining both the similarities and the different factors & options which led to divergences during the 1990s. The conference dealed with the following issues: Reinventing [...]
International Conference Transitional Criminal Justice in Post-Dictatorial Societies , 29 – 30 October 2010
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and in collaboration with the Faculty of Political Science (University of Bucharest) organized the international conference Transitional Criminal Justice in Post-Dictatorial Societies – 29-30 October 2010. Scholars were invited to reflect upon the manner in which criminal prosecutions came to be assessed as types of reaction against massive human rights violations, within the variety of transitions and transitional justice approaches. The genealogy of transitional justice indicates that in the last three decades, the number of trials against former leaders [...]
The Monica Lovinescu Conferences. October-November 2010
The second series of the Monica Lovinescu Conferences took place in the interval 14 October-15 November 2010, as follows: 14 October, Prof. Augustin Ioan (The “Ion Mincu” Architecture and Urbanism University, Bucharest): Grave, Monument, Memorial: Architecture for Controversial Histories 26 October, Prof. Sanda Cordoş (The “Babeş-Bolyai University”, Cluj-Napoca): The Ideology of Socialist Realism in Romania 2 November, Prof. Andrei Ujică (The Art and Design University, Karlsruhe): Non-Fictional Cinema: Ceauşescu and the Film of History 15 November, Prof. Levente Salat (The “Babeş-Bolyai University”, Cluj-Napoca): The Heritage of Communism within Romanian-Hungarian Relationships in the aftermath of 1989
Workshop: My Profession: Torture. The Investigators of the Securitate: the Case of Gheorghe Enoiu
The foregoing workshop took place at the headquarters of the IICCMER, on 28 June 2010. Mr. Vladimir Tismăneanu, University of Maryland, president of the Scientific Council of the IICCMER, Mr. Adrian Cioflâncă,director of the Society, Economics and Institutions Department, Mr. Dumitru Lăcătuşu, expert, Society, Economics and Institutions Department, and Mr. Mihai Burcea, expert, Society, Economics and Institutions Department participated as discussants. Gheorghe Enoiu was a Securitate colonel and director of the Penal Investigations Department in the interval 1963-1967. The references within his personal file indicate that Enoiu was one of the most fervent investigators of the Securitate, as he “rightfully [...]