Czwcholovak Show Trials conference (reposted)

[Leslie Farmer]

Subject: [Fwd: CONF: Czechoslovak Show Trials, Prague, April 14-16, 2003]
From: <A HREF="mailto:gfrajkor at CCS.CARLETON.CA ">gfrajkor at CCS.CARLETON.CA </A>
 (Jan George Frajkor)
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 9:25
Message-id: <3E71F493.3E9A2B39 at ccs.carleton.ca>

THE CZECHOSLOVAK POLITICAL TRIALS OF THE 1950s

Dates:  Monday, April 14, 2003 - Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Location: Pankrac Prison, Taborska 988, Prague, Tel: (+420) 261031111

Organizers:
Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
East Central European Center, Columbia University, New York
Prisons Administration of the Czech Republic, Prague
Institute of Contemporary History, Munich (Foreign Relations Department,
Berlin)
Mr. Harald Paumgarten, New York

Contact:
Jiri Pernes, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of
Sciences,
E-mail: pernes at volny.cz
Telephone:  +420 607 526016

Conference languages: Czech, Slovak, German, English


PROGRAM

Monday, April 14, 2003

12:00 PM-12:30 PM:  Registration
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM: Opening Remarks, Oldrich Tuma, Director, Institute
of
Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM: Welcome by the Czech Justice Minister
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM: Welcome by the Executive Director of the Prisons
Administration of the Czech Republic

2:00 PM- 6:00 PM:
Session 1:  INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE POLITICAL TRIALS OF THE 1950S

Karel Kaplan, Prague:  Political Trials in Czechoslovakia of the 1950s
Nikita Petrov, Moscow:  The Slansky Anti-Government Conspiracy Trial in
the Light of  Moscow Archival Sources
Jan Foitzik, Potsdam:  The Relationship between the Trials of Central
and
Eastern Europe
Bernd-Rainer Barth:  Political Trials in the Power Calculus and Foreign
Policy
of the Czechoslovak Communist Party
Nikola Popov, Belgrade: Yugoslavia and Titoism in the Slansky Trial
Hermann Weber, Mannheim: Why Was There no Fabricated Trial in the DDR?
Jochen Hellbeck, Giessen: Political Trials of the 1930s in the USSR
and the Slansky Trial
Barbara Falk, Toronto:  To Purge is to Benefit. Comparison of the Trials
of Slansky, the Rosenbergs and Martin Sobell
Igor Lukes, Boston:  To Be Determined

6:00 PM- 7:00 PM: Discussion
7:00 PM: Dinner

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

7:00 AM- 7:45 AM: Breakfast

8:00 AM-12:00 PM:  Session 2:  POLITICAL TRIALS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AFTER
1945

Jiri Pernes, Prague:  Political Trials and the CPCz Effort to Gain
Control Over Society
Vaclav Vondrasek, Brno:  The Criminalization of the Slovak Democratic
Party
before February 1948
Jiri Kocian, Prague:  The Political Trials in the Light of Foreign
Diplomatic
Reports
Michal Barnovsky, Bratislava:  The Trial of the Slovak "Bourgeois
Nationalists"
Jan Pesek, Bratislava:  Slovak Specificities in the 1950s Political
Trials
Jaroslav Cuhra, Prague:  The Political Trials of Church Representatives
Jana Buresova, Olomouc:  Remarks on the Case of Bohumil Lausman
Ivo Bartecek, Olomouc:  The 1950s Trials and their Literary Projection

12:00 PM- 1:00 PM: Discussion
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM: Lunch

2:00 PM- 6:00 PM:  Session 3:  THE SLANSKY TRIAL: CAUSES, COURSE AND
CONSEQUENCES
Michal Reimann, Prague:  The Relationship between the Political Trials
and
Domestic Political Developments in the USSR
Petr Steiner, Philadelphia:  The Poetics of Political Trials
Laszlo Varga, Budapest:  The Laszlo Rajk Trial
Marek Pavka, Brno:  The Slansky Case: The End of an Era in CPCz Cadre
Policy
Frantisek Hanzlik, Vyskov:  Bedrich Reicin: Culprit and Victim
Michal Stefansky,  Bratislava:  The International Context of the Trial
of
Vladimir Clementis
Ivana Koutska, Praha:  Czechoslovak Diplomacy in the 1950s: Persecution
and
the Political Trials
Milos Trapl, Olomouc:  Swiss Emigres in the Slansky Trial


7:00 PM- 9:00 PM: Dinner

Wednesday, April 16, 2003
7:00 AM-  7:45 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM-10:00 AM:  Session 4:  THE RECOLLECTIONS OF WITNESSES, AFFECTED
PARTIES AND FAMILY MEMBERS

10:00 AM-11:00 AM: Discussion

11:00 AM- 1:00 PM:  Tour of the Execution Site Where the Lives of Milada
Horakova, Rudolf Slansky, and Others affected by the Trials of the 1950s
Ended

1:00 PM: Lunch, followed by the departure of conference participants

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