IS[R]A Newsletter

Thu Jun 29 20:52:56 UTC 2006

Dear SEELANGers,

For your information, I am posting the current issue of the Newsletter of 
the International Samizdat Research Association below. If you wish to 
receive the newsletter regularly, information about how to subscribe, as 
well as how to submit items, can be found at the bottom.

Best, 
Ann Komaromi

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NEWS, UPDATES FROM IS[R]A MEMBERS 

Call for applications to attend the CRC session 
The 1956 Revolution in Perspective 
4 -- 11 November, 2006 
OSA ARCHIVUM, CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, Budapest, Hungary 

The joint CRC session organized in cooperation with the Central European 
University History Department and the OSA Archivum (Budapest, Hungary) aims 
to bring scholars and experts with significant teaching and research 
experience to discuss how the 1956 revolution and its crack-down influenced 
and altered dissident thinking within the Soviet bloc during its afterlife, 
and how these experiences might be compared to the lessons of similar 
events, with a special focus on the Polish events in 1966, and Prague 
Spring 
and Fall,1968. 
The session offers an optional workshop entitled "1956 Revolution and 
opposition movements under totalitarian regimes' and a round table 
discussion on the evening of the exhibition opening (November 4) devoted to 
the art works of Endre Rozsda on the pre-history of the revolution. 
Participants will also have a chance to get acquainted with the new virtual 
collection at OSA Archivum on 1956. 
Deadline for applications: 1 October, 2006 
Application should be submitted to crc at ceu.hu 

For more information on forthcoming events organized by CURRICULUM RESOURCE 
CENTER at CEU please see http://www.ceu.hu/crc/ 

Application form DOC: 
http://www.samizdatportal.org/subscription/2006/CRC_applform.doc 
CRC Fall 2006 Sessions Announcement DOC: 
http://www.samizdatportal.org//subscription/2006/AnnounceFall2006.doc 

OSA Archivum 

New international projects by Artpool 

Call for submissions for the exhibition 
NETWORK HISTORY: RECOLLECTION FROM 1986 TO 2006 
IN RECOGNITION OF WORLD WIDE NETWORKER CONGRESSES 
November 2006 
ARTPOOL, Budapest, Hungary 

Deadline: September 26, 2006 
More http://www.artpool.hu/Network/invitation.html 

Call for submissions for the exhibition 
ARTISTAMP HISTORY: RECOLLECTION FROM 1987 TO 2007 
Spring, 2007 
ARTPOOL, Budapest, Hungary 

you are asked to contribute to the research and preparations of the 
"Stamp Images 1987-2007" exhibition to be shown at the Museum of Fine 
Arts, Budapest in spring 2007, where the artistamp history of the 
past 20 years will be mapped and presented by Artpool. 

Deadline: November 26, 2006 
More http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/87-07/invitation.html 

NEW ARTISTAMP SITES BY ARTPOOL 
"Stamp Images" exhibition from 1987 
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/Belyegkepek/default.html 
Artists' stamps included in different projects by Artpool (1992-2006) 
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/87-07/92-06.html 
a tribute to Mike Bidner 
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/Artistampex/ 
all artpool's artistamp pages can be reached from 
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/ 

a gift to you: download a print version of a sheet of Galantai's Nude 
Stamps (stamps designed for Ed Higgins' Nudes on Stamps exhibititon in 
1979) 
http://www.artpool.hu/Artistamp/artist/Galantai/NudeStamps.html 

J. &. Galantai, ArtPool 

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS 

Call for papers for comparative workshop 
Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989 
19-20 October, 2006 
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, Czech Republic, Prague 
www.usd.cas.cz 
The workshop will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Narodni 3, 
Prague in conjunction with the EU Project Culture 2000, History after the 
Fall 
If you wish to be considered, please submit a short abstract (200-300 
words, 
in English or Czech) to hist.revision at usd.cas.cz by July 15th, 2006. 

Text about workshop 
Proposal for papers are invited on the theme of Historical Revisionism 
Far from being restrained to small groups of "negationists", the historical 
revisionism seems to figure at the top of public historical discourses in 
many countries and regions. With spectacular trials and heated debates 
around Holocaust-deniers the term historical revisionism has become 
stigmatized, and used as a description of suspect historical works dealing 
with the Holocaust and the Third Reich. In broader sense, however, the 
historical revisionism in the realms of modern and recent history has 
galvanized political and historical debates both within respective national 
communities as well at the international stage on virtually all continents. 
(Holocaust worldwide, US role in the Cold War, "positive value" of French 
colonialism, Japanese or Russian historical textbooks, etc.). In the eyes 
of 
many observers a specter of historical revisionism is haunting Europe and 
the world. The region of central Europe with its Nazi, fascist and 
communist 
past not only does not stay aloof, but in many ways is in the center of the 
debate. In this context it is the aim of the Prague's workshop to explore 
the scale, depth, and meaning of the historical revisionism in the national 
and regional histories as well as to reconsider the value of the term 
itself. 
Where is the border between legitimate re-examination of historical 
narratives and attempts to rewrite history in a politically motivated way 
that downgrades or denies essential historical facts? 
What are the layers and instruments of the contemporary debates concerning 
historical revisionism that include not only the academia and mass media 
but 
also decentralized grass-root initiatives empowered by the Internet and 
cheap digitalized storage and recording facilities? 
How does the international debate about ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 
the German population during and after WWII and the thesis of "expulsion 
equals genocide" resonate in different countries? 
What tensions arouse from the juxtaposition of politically motivated moral 
condemnations of "totalitarian" regimes with a value-restrained academic 
discourse of social and cultural approaches in recent historiography? 
How do the more or less traditional "national historical narratives" react 
to the "spill-over" of the international and political controversies into 
their "sphere of influence" and intellectual orbit? 
These and other questions should be addressed during the workshop's 
envisaged panels: 
Panel I: Keywords, Definitions and Instruments of Historical Revisionism 
Panel II: Social-Economic, Political and Cultural Impacts of the Ethnic 
Expulsions after the WW II and its Historical Reflection 
Panel III: Historical Revisionism and the Communist Regimes in central 
Europe 
Panel IV: Historiography, Historical Revisionism and the Building of 
Democracy after 1989 
This event is intended to stimulate debate and bring together scholars 
working in the field, both to give papers and to contribute to discussion. 
If you wish to be considered, please submit a short abstract (200-300 
words, 
in English or Czech) to hist.revision at usd.cas.cz by July 15th, 2006. 
The Institute of Contemporary History is able to provide funds to meet the 
costs of travel and accomodation for speakers. 

Contact details: 
Alice Hudlerova and Michal Kopecek 
Institute of Contemporary History, Prague 
Vlasska 9 
118 40 Praha 1 
tel: +420 257 531 122-3 
fax: +420 257 531 121 
E-mail: hudlerova at usd.cas.cz and kopecek at usd.cas.cz 

EXHIBITIONS 

Soviet Dis-Union: Socialist Realist & Nonconformist Art 
April 20 -- August 19, 2006 

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and The Museum 
of 
Russian Art will co-curate an exhibition of Official and Nonconformist 
Russian paintings from the 1960-1983 Soviet period. The Zimmerli is the 
institutional home of the Norton Dodge Collection of Nonconformist art; 
TMORA is known for its collection of Soviet-era realist art. More than 80 
paintings will comprise the exhibition which will include examples of the 
two most comprehensive collections of Soviet Art of this period known to 
exist outside the former Soviet Union. 
More http://www.tmora.org/events/20060420a/20060420aSovietDisunion.html 

"Unknown Smelov": Photographs by B.Smelov 1960-1990s" 
from the series "Photoundergraund of Leningrad" 
20 May -18 June 2006 
THE MUSEUM OF NONCONFORMIST ART 
Saint-Peterburg, Russia 
Curator: Val'ran 
More in English: http://p10.nonmuseum.ru/news/pressrel-smelov_engl.html 

PUBLICATIONS 

The collected works of prominent public figure and academician Andrey 
Sakharov (1921-1989) was released by the Publishing House "Vremia". The 
publication consists of eight volumes and includes a two-volume collection 
of articles, letters, speeches and the interview "Trouble and Hope" (some 
published for the fist time); his memoirs in 3 volumes; and the documentary 
novel "Diaries" co-authored with Elena Bonner (published for the first 
time, 
3 volumes). 
The book launch took place at the Central House of Journalists (Moscow, 
Russia) on 20 May, 2006. 
More (in Russian) http://www.sakharov-center.ru/news/2006/prezen.htm 

The INTERNATIONAL SAMIZDAT [RESEARCH] ASSOCIATION (IS[R]A) NEWSLETTER 
calls on all IS[R}A members and other researchers and specialists working 
on 
topics related to samizdat, dissent, opposition and protest movements in 
the 
XX century to submit items for our summer issue. We welcome announcements 
on 
archival and museum acquisitions, news regarding the processing of 
collections, calls for papers, project updates, and announcements on new 
publications and exhibitions. 
We also invite articles on the themes above. 

Please email your submissions to zaslavsk at ceu.hu by July 15, 2006 

Zaslavskaya Olga 
IS[R]A Newsletter Co-Editor 

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