AUTUMN SCHOOL PROGRAM, ”SOCIAL POLICIES UNDER ROMANIAN COMMUNISM”, 8TH EDITION, Minorities or Coinhabiting Nationalities in Communist Romania, 15-20 SEPTEMBER 2023
1ST DAY (15th of September)
12.00 – 12.45- Official opening of the Autumn School, Sighetu Marmației Memorial Conference Room
Ana Blandiana, President of the Academia Civică Foundation.
Ilinca Iordache, Program coordinator, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Foundation, Bucharest Office.
Ovidiu Ghitta, Dean, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj- Napoca.
Claudiu Marian, Director of the International Studies and Contemporary History Department.
Virgiliu Țârău, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj- Napoca.
12.45 – 14.15
Keynote speeches:
Csaba Novak Zoltan, President of the Institute for the Study of National Minorities in Romania, National Minorities duringcommunism. An agendaofresearch
Matei Gheboianu, University of Bucharest, Faculty of History, Educational policies, and national minorities in Communist Romania.
Tamás Lönhárt, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj- Napoca, Helsinki Agreements and National Minorities under Communism. A case study: Socialist Romania.
Ionuț Costea, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj- Napoca, Roma community: between” forgiving” and historical conscience
14.30 – 16.00: Lunch
16.30 – Keynote speech: Dennis Deletant, Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars, Washington DC, Romania under communism.
18.00 – Guided Visit of the city center of Sighet. Between a town at the border, a symbolic location where the map adorns the nail and a multiethnic community.
19.30 – Dinner
2ND DAY (16th of September)
9.30 – 13.00
Hungarian Minority during communism
Chair: Ionuț Costea
Csaba Novak Zoltan, President of the Institute for the Study of National Minorities in Romania, Rock and Roll music and the Hungarian minority in Romania
Tamás Lönhárt, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Hungarian minority, and the beginning of communism in Romania
Andrea Dobeș-Furtos, Memorial of the Victims of the Communism in Sighetu Marmației, Representatives of minorities in Sighet Penitentiary,1950-1955
13.00 – Lunch
15.00 – Daniela Popescu, University of Bucharest, Faculty of History, The images of the „other”: perceptions and stereotypes about Roma population in communist Romania
16.00 – Round table: From the center to the periphery. Hungarian communists and the political representation of the minority interests
17.30 – Movie and debate: Pulkownik Kwiatkowski (1995, director Kazimierz Kutz)
19.30 – Dinner
3RD DAY (17th of September)
9.30 – 11.00:
From reintegration to emigration. Jewish community in Romania during communism
Chair: Mihai Maci
Liviu Pleșa, National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Bucharest, Cadrepolicy of the Securitate and the Jewish problem
Virgiliu Țârău, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, A Lenin from Cluj – Kohn Hilel – a problematic political biography
11.30 – Guided tour of the Memorial
13.00 – Lunch
15.00 – Visit at the ”Elie Wiesel” Memorial House in Sighetu Marmației
17.30 – Movie and Round Table: Marele Jaf Comunist (The Great Communist Robbery) by Alexandru Solomon
Round Table: Liviu Pleșa, Mihai Maci, Daniela Maci, Ionuț Costea, Tamás Lönhárt
19.30 – Dinner
4TH DAY (18th of September)
9.30 – 11.30
Other minorities in communist Romania
Adriana Cupcea (Tămășan), Institute for the Study of National Minorities in Romania,
Turks and Tatars in Communist Romania
Laszlo Fozsto, Institute for the Study of National Minorities in Romania, Roma population in Communist Romania
13.00 – Lunch
16.00 – Workshop: How to integrate/communicate the history of minorities into the history of majority?
17.30 – Movie: Emir Kusturica, Dom za vesanje (Time of the Gypsies), 1988
19.30 – Dinner
5TH DAY (19th of September)
9.30 – 11.30:
German minority: from fascism to deportation and to emigration
Chair: Virgiliu Țârău
Thomas Șindilariu, Undersecretary of State, Department of the Interethnic Relations, Romanian Government, German minority during communism. The political trials in Brașov in 1950s.
Corneliu Pintilescu, Ottmar Trașcă, „George Barițiu” Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca Ethnographical research of the former members of the GEG and their fate after the Second World War
11.30 – 13.00 – Workshop: From conception to materialization: daily life of the minorities and visual materials – Corneliu Pintilescu
13.00 – 15.00 – Lunch
15.00 – 17.00: Round Table: Political mobilization within German minority: from German Ethnic Group to Antifascist German Committee
Corneliu Pintilescu, Mihai Maci, Thomas Sindilariu, Virgiliu Țârău
17.00 – Opening of the exhibition Pandemics and Epidemics in the past: Multilingualism andcommunicationproblems.
17.30 – Movie and debate: Cocoșul decapitat (by Radu Gabrea)
19.30 – Dinner
6TH DAY (20th ofSeptember)
9.30 – 10.30:Communism and the minorities problem. A long and complex topic
Endnote speech:
Daniela Maci, University of Oradea, Faculty of Sociology, Philosophy and minorities in Communist Romania
Virgiliu Țârău, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, National Communism,or Internationalism. Was it Romanian Communism an international phenomenon?
10.45 – 13.45.Movie presentation and debate: Cainta, (Tenghiz Abuladze, 1987)
14.00 – Lunch
15.30 – Conclusions and the Closing Ceremony of the Autumn School.
