1. Introduction (dr. Stanislav Tumis) - 14th November 2017, 14:30-15:50, room 325

2. Making Sense of Traumatic Past – theoretical introduction (21st November 2017, 10:50-12:20, room 313) – dr. Tomas Sniegon (University of Lund, Sweden);

Readings before the lecture: Rüsen, Jörn, Historical Narration: Foundation. Types. Reason. (16 pages) (all texts for lectures of Tomas Sniegon will be distributed as pdf).

3. Europeanisation of the Holocaust memory: the Holocaust, the Gulag and institutions of the ”New Europe” (21st November 2017, 14:10-15:40, room 325) – dr. Tomas Sniegon (University of Lund, Sweden)

Readings before the lecture: Karlsson, Klas-Göran, Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanisation. (13 pages); Müller, Jan-Werner, “European Memory”. Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks (13 pages)

4. Vanished History: the Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture after 1989 (22nd November 2017, 15:50-17:20, room 325) – dr. Tomas Sniegon (University of Lund, Sweden)

Readings before lecture: Sniegon, Tomas, Schindler's List Comes to Schindler's Homeland

5. ”Patriotisation” of the Gulag memory in current Russia (22nd November 2017, 17:30-19:00, room 313) – dr. Tomas Sniegon (University of Lund, Sweden)

Readings before the lecture: Etkind, Alexander, Post-Soviet Hauntology: Cultural Memory of the Soviet Terror

6. Dilemmas of nation-building in CEE: between the past and the future (27th November 2017, 14:10 – 15:40, room 325) - dr. Valeria Korablyova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev)

Readings before lecture: Nodia, Ghia, The End of the Post-National Illusion (all texts for lectures of Valeria Korablyova will be distributed as pdf).

7. The colonial heritage in CEE, or Russia as a subaltern empire (27th November 2017, 15:50-17:20, room 325) - dr. Valeria Korablyova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev)

Readings before lecture: Viatcheslav Morozov, Russia's Post-Colonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World (looking through chapter one)

8. EuroMaidan and a ‘new Ukraine’: values, interests, and imaginaries (28thNovember 2017, 10:50 – 12:20, room 313) - dr. Valeria Korablyova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev)

Readings before lecture: Valeria Korablyova, EuroMaidan as a Misinterpreted Revolution: the legacy of 1989?

9. Poland and Ukraine: trapped in memory wars (28th November 2017, 14:10-15:40, room 325) - dr. Valeria Korablyova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev)

Readings before lecture: Portnov, Andrii, Clash of Victimhoods: the Volhynia Massacre in Polish and Ukrainian Memory (see https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/andrii-portnov/clash-of-victimhood-1943-volhynian-massacre-in-polish-and-ukrainian-culture)

10.Re-building Post-Communist Georgian Nation and State (5th December 2017, 10:50-12:20, room 313) - dr. Adrian Brisku (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)

Readings for lecture by Adrian Brisku: materials recorded on 3rd December 2017

11. "The Great Son of the Nation": Remembering Stalin, Remembering the Past in Georgia (12th December 2017, 10:50-12:20, room 313) - dr. Adrian Brisku (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)

12. Conclusion (dr. Stanislav Tumis) - 19th December, 14:10-15:40, room 325

Information about lecturers:

Dr. Valeria Korablyova is Professor of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has held a number of international fellowships with research projects on post-Communist transformations in East Central Europe (CUNI, 2017; University of Warsaw, 2016-2017; IWM, Vienna, 2015-16; and Stanford University, 2014-15). Her research interests include the EuroMaidan, the EU project of ‘Europe’, and CEE after 1989. Her latest book “Social Meanings of Ideology” (Kyiv University, 2014)covers ideological transformations of European modernity, including the rise of market rationality and emerging alternatives to it, revealing the Maidan uprising in Ukraine as a peculiar case herewith.

Dr Adrian Brisku is a Professor Assistant on the Caucasus at the Department of Russian and East European Studies at Charles University (Prague) and Professor Associated of Comparative History at Ilia State University (Tbilisi). He holds a doctorate in History and Civilisation from European University Institute (Florence). He is the author of Bittersweet Europe: Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008 (Berghahn Books, 2013), Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach (Bloomsbury, 2017), and several peer-reviewed articles on European and national identity, empire, reform, political-economic thought in nineteenth-century Russian and Ottoman empires as well as twentieth-century Albanian and Georgian history.

Dr Tomas Sniegon is a historian and Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His research focuses on memory of traumatic events of the 20th Century in Central and East European historical cultures and on development of Communism in Europe during the Cold War. He works on a project with the title “Making Sense of the ”Good” Soviet Communist Dictatorship Through Stalin´s Terror, Khrushchev´s Reforms and Brezhnev´s Period of Stagnation. A historical narrative by the former KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny.” It has been supported by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. He is also grateful to the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University for their support.The project is based on his interviews with Vladimir Semichastny (1924-2001), whom he met in Moscow on numerous occasions between the years 1993 and 1999. The book is under contract with Yale University Press and will appear in the Yale-Hoover series on Authoritarian Regimes.