IS[R]A Newsletter
Ann Komaromi
a_komaromi at YAHOO.COM
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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