AUTUMN SCHOOL PROGRAM
SOCIAL POLICIES UNDER ROMANIAN COMMUNISM, 5TH EDITIONTHE YOUTH IN COMMUNISM
21ST SEPTEMBER 2020
10.00: Official opening of the Summer School – Călin Flaviu Rus (Prof., Pro-rector UBB), Ana Blandiana (President of the Civic Academy Foundation, Doctor Honoris Causa at UBB), Hans Martin Sieg (PhD, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Romania and Republic of Moldova), Ovidiu Ghitta (Prof., Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB), Virgiliu Țârău (Prof., Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB).
10.40: Round table – Virgiliu Țârău (Prof., Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB), Ionuț Costea (Assoc. Prof. Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB), Manuela Marin (Custodian, The National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca) The metamorphosis of an age. Young people in Eastern Europe during communism: historiography, sources, methodologies, and concepts.
12.00: Robert Furtos (Curator, The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance, Sighet), Andreea Dobeș-Furtoș (Curator, The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance, Sighet) – Guided tour of The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Sighetu-Marmației
16.00: KEYNOTE SPEECH – Dennis John Deletant (Emeritus Professor, University College London, George Washington University) – How were Romanian young people at the end of the 60s.
17.30: Ion Indolean (PhD. Assoc. Prof., The Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Youth in the cinematography of the 70s and 80s.
19.00 Manuela Marin, Vlad Onaciu, Sorin Găină, Daniela Popescu – Preparing the workshops (small groups): objects, written items, audio-visual representations.
Treasure hunt of the past: finding items of everyday school life and/or of youth from the communist period and contextualizing them.
22ND SEPTEMBER 2020: YOUTH – ASSET OR GUILT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNIST REGIME AND SOCIETY
9.30: Dorin Dobrincu (CP I, The A.D. Xenopol Institute of History in Iași, Romanian Academy) – Youth in the armed anti-communist resistance.
10.30: Luciana M. Jinga (PhD Researcher, IICCMER) – Childhood and abandonment in Romanian 80s.
11.30: Ioana Boca (Director, Academia Civică Foundation, The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Sighetu-Marmației) – The students of the 50s communist Romania.
12.30: Ștefan Bosomitu (PhD Researcher, IICCMER) – A look into the past through the ideological lens. `The revolutionary youth` of the former communist `illegalists`.
16.00: Cosmin Budeancă (PhD Researcher, IICCMER) – Post-repression: survival strategies and social reintegration of the young people after the repression.
18.00: Online exhibition: To be young and to suffer in the 70s and 80s: Mugur Călinescu`s case.
23RD SEPTEMBER 2020: SCHOOL IN COMMUNISM: REFORMS, EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND PLANNING
9.00: Matei Gheboianu (Associate prof. Faculty of History, University of Bucharest) – Educational reforms of the communist regime.
10.00: Catalina Mihalache (PhD Researcher, The A.D. Xenopol Institute of History in Iași, Romanian Academy) – Educational policies of the communist regime.
11.00: Vlad Onaciu (Associate lecturer, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The young generation reflected in press propaganda of the 60s and 70s.
11.40: Round table: To learn history and to be a young historian in communist Romania (Cătălina Mihalache, Andi Mihalache (researchers, The A.D. Xenopol Institute of History in Iași, Romanian Academy) Gabriel Moisa (University of Oradea), Felician Velimirovici (The Museum of the Highland Banat, Reșița), Ionuț Costea (Professor, Babeș-Bolyai University), Ionuț Marcu (Faculty of History, University of Bucharest).
16.30: KEYNOTE SPEECH – Bogdan Murgescu (Professor, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Pro-rector, University of Bucharest) – Education and development in communist Romania.
18.00: Online exhibition: School in communism – Daniela Popescu & Asociația culturală „Istoria din casă în casă” [Cultural Association History Within our Homes] & teacher Dănuț Solcan.
24TH SEPTEMBER 2020: TO BE YOUNG IN COMMUNIST TIMES: BETWEEN BEING MARGINALIZED AND ADAPTED (…OR NOT)
Panel: Youth, music, and other `liberalities` in the communist period.
9.30: Alexandra Bardan (University of Bucharest) – The alternative market for media products in Romanian 80s: the perspective of a generation.
10.30: Ruxandra Petrinca Canache (McGill University) – Their freedom oasis: youngsters` summer break at Vama Veche and 2 Mai.
11.30: Manuela Marin (Custodian, The National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca) – Youth countercultures in communist Romania.
12.30: Cristina Preutu (Lecturer, Faculty of History, University of Iași) – `Let the young people walk like Belmondo if Belmondo walks niceley.` Young people in communist Romania and French culture of the 60s.
16.00: Ioan Marius Bucur (Professor, Vice-dean, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University) – Rock around the Block: music and contestation of communism.
17.00: Adrian Popan (Assist. Prof. of Sociology University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL) – The jazz public in communist Romania.
18.00: Online exhibition: `Urzica` Magazine and the youth.
18.00: Cristina Barbu (PhD Candidate, Curator, The National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest) – The Hippie generation and its satirized representation in Romanian communist press.
19.00: Victor Sămărtinean, (PhD Candidate, The Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest) – The propaganda of ages: ideological changes and the discourse changes inside the humor and satire magazine `Urzica`(1949-1965).
25TH SEPTEMBER 2020: MEMORIES AND HISTORIES OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA – TODAY’S NOSTALGIA BETWEEN DOMESTICISM AND THE MEMORY`S LAYERS
9.00: Cristian Vasile (PhD Researcher, The Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest) – The young writers and the nonconformist spirit of Ceaușescu`s Romania of the 1970s and 1980s.
10.00: Mihai Maci (Lecturer, University of Oradea) – How I recall my first day of highschool.
11.00: Alexandru Mamina (PhD Researcher, The Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest), The Flacăra Phenomenon – between admiration and recrimination.
12.00: Alina Pavelescu (Director, The National Archives of Romania) – The ideologization of alternative culture. Adrian Păunescu and Flacăra literary circle.
16.00: Cristina Petrescu (Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest) – The communist past is another country. Reading (books) as a formative experience.
17.00: Dragoș Petrescu (Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest) – Excursions at our homes. National communism and the literature for children and young people, 1965-1977.
18.30: Workshop: Treasure hunt of the past: finding items of everyday school life and/or of the youth from the communist period and contextualizing them.
26TH SEPTEMBER 2020: THE YOUTH OF THE CO-INHABITING MINORITIES OF COMMUNIST ROMANIA
9.30: Adriana Cupcea (CP II, ISPMN) – Memory and identity. The socialist youth years of Turks and Tatars from Dobruja (Romania).
10.30: Tamas Lonhart (Assoc. prof., Babeș-Bolyai University) – The integration of the young people of Hungarian nationality in the political communist structures.
11.30: Corneliu Pintilescu (CP II, The George Barițiu Institute of History under the auspices of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca) – The reactivation of youth organizations among the Transylvanian Saxons (Bruderschaften şi Schwesterschaften) in mid 1950s and the authorities reaction.
12.30: Călin Olariu (PhD Candidate, The Institute of Oral History, Babeș-Bolyai University) – The young Roma people, the informal economy and social parasitism. A research based on oral history.
16.00 – 20.00 Workshop: Treasure hunt of the past: finding items of everyday school life and/or of the youth from the communist period and contextualizing them.
Closing remarks.
