Gnothi Seauton - Classics and Communism - Conference

Gnothi Seauton - Classics and Communism

The History of the Studies on Antiquity in the Context of the Local Classical Tradition of the Socialist Countries (1944/45-1989/90)

Conference of the Focus Group
supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

June 24-26, 2010

Collegium Budapest

Institute for Advanced Study

Szentháromság utca 2

H-1014 Budapest

Tel (361) 22 48 300

June 24, Thursday

9.00 Welcome by Andrew Sors, Rector of Collegium Budapest

9.10 Gábor Klaniczay (Budapest): Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities

9.30 György Karsai (Pécs): The Focus Group project on Classics and Communism

10.00 Jerży Axer (Warsaw): The Evolution of Classical Studies in Poland

(1945-1989) and the Polish Philological Society

10.45 Coffee Break

11.00 Zsigmond Ritoók (Budapest) - Slavery and Asian Way of Production

A Theme of Classical Studies in Communist Times in Hungary

11.45 André Hurst (Geneva): The Fondation Hardt’s Politics and the Socialist

Countries’ Classical Philology

12.30 Lunch Break

Academic Portraits

14.30 Cornelia Isler-Kerényi (Zurich): Károly Kerényi: un émigrant malgré lui

dans la science de l’antiquité européenne

15.10 Alexandru Barnea (Bucharest): Dionisie M.Pippidi (1905-1993), membre

fondateur de la Societatea de Studii Clasice din Romania

15.50 Coffee Break

16.10 Alexander Gavrilov (St. Petersburg): Jacov M. Borovsky (1896-1994)

Great Latinist in the Communist Era

16.40 Jürgen Dummer (Jena): Johannes Irmscher – Klassischer Philologe

und Wissenschaftsmanager im sozialistischen System

17.20 Coffee Break

Abendvortrag

18.00 Isidor Levin (Berlin): "Divide & impera", versus "Anschluß" an die Sowjet—

bzw. Europa Union, qua ultima ratio

June 25, Friday

Country Overviews

9.00 Dmitrij Panchenko (St. Petersburg): Classics and Cultural Resistance

to the Soviet Regime

9.40 Andrii Yasinovskyi (Lviv) : Humanities in an Anti-Human Epoque

The Case of Classics in Ukraine (1945-1991)

10.20 Nijole Juchneviciene (Vilnius): Classical Philology in the Early Soviet

Lithuania: Between the European Tradition and Soviet Reality

11.00 Coffee Break

11.20 Ludmila Buzassyova (Bratislava) – History of Classical Philology in Slovakia

during the Communist Period

11.40 Milena Jovanovič (Belgrade): Les études classiques en Serbie (1944-1989)

12.20 Nikolai Gochev (Sofia) - Classical Studies in Bulgaria 1945-1995:

Methodological Questions

12.40 Lunch Break

Classical Archaeology

14.00 László Borhy (Budapest): Roots of Social Realism in Roman Plebeian Art

14.40 Vesna Girardi-Jurkić (Pula): Classical Studies and Archaeological

Researches in the Context of Political Programme in Croatia, 1945-1990

15.20 Árpád Nagy (Budapest): Palimpsests. The Permanent Exhibition of the

Classical Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

15.40 Cofee Break

Performing, Translating and Interpreting Classics

16.00 György Karsai (Pécs): The Greek and Roman Dramas on Hungarian Stages

during the socialism (1945-1989) – an overview

16.40 Olga Budaragina (St. Petersburg): Translating Classics in the Soviet Union:

the ABDEM Group

17.20 Péter Hajdu (Budapest): The Interpretation of Classical Literature

in the 1960s and 1970s

June 26, Saturday

Ideology and Education

10.00 Cristian Gaşpar (Budapest): The Ancients as Fellow-Travellers: The Impact

of Ideology on Greek and Latin Handbooks in Romania (1945-1965)

10.40 László Horváth (Budapest): Classical Philology in the Eötvös Collegium

(1957-1990)

11.20 Coffee Break

11.40 Barbara Brzuska (Warsaw): Latin in Polish Schools, 1945-1970

12.00 Witold Wolodkiewicz (Warsaw): Study of Roman Law in Socialist Countries

12.40 Lunch Break

Classics and Politics

14.00 Jozef Moural (Prague): Jan Patočka (1907-77): Scholar and Dissident 

14.40 Elżbieta Olechowska (Warsaw): Prof. A. Krawczuk, Classical Philologist,

Ancient Historian, TV Personality, a Communist Minister of Culture

– a Preview

15.20 David Movrin (Ljubljana): The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farce:

Revolution and the Classics in the Soviet Union and Slovenia

16.00 Coffee Break

16.20 General Discussion - Conclusions

Részvételi szándékát, kérjük, jelezze a kcsepi@colbud.hu e-mail cimen június 23. szerda délig.