THE FALL OF COMMUNISM. AFTER 20 YEARS – PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
International Symposium
December 4th -5th 2009
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
Programme
Friday December 4th
Opening Session
Mircea Florian Room
Chair: Constantin Stoenescu, Vice-dean of the Faculty of Philosophy
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Address: Romulus Brâncoveanu, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy
9:30 – 10:30 Adrian-Paul Iliescu (University of Bucharest), Burying Socialism. What has been done and what should have been done
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Jean-Claude Bourdin (Université de Poitiers), La fin du communisme: acte de langage ou échec?
12:00 – 13:00 Mihail Radu Solcan (University of Bucharest), A mixed economy and the search for an honorable face
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break
Panel 1
Mircea Florian Room
Chair: Viorel Vizureanu (University of Bucharest)
15:00 – 15:30 Laurenţiu Gheorghe (University of Bucharest), Motives for communist nostalgia post 1989
15:30 – 16:00 Dorina Pătrunsu (University of Bucharest), The post-communist Romania after 20 years: why what we have is not what we’ve wanted
16:00 – 16:30 Lorin Ghiman (“Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca), The (post)communist condition: shaky theoretical foundation vs. unshaken belief
16:30 – 17:00 Lavinia Marin (University of Bucharest), Common misconceptions about communism. 20 years after
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:00 Emanoel Roman (University of Bucharest), The post-December veil of ignorance: principles, models and moral distribution schemes of resources and property in the Romanian society after 1989
18:00 – 18:30 Ana Petrache (University of Bucharest), Analyse des types du discours sur le communisme
18:30 – 19:00 Răzvan Samoilescu (University of Bucharest), A Kantian survey over the fall of communism in Romania: the problem of autonomy and heteronomy of morality in understanding Romanian post-1989 changes
Saturday December 5th
Panel 2
Mircea Florian Room
Chair: Emanuel Socaciu (University of Bucharest)
9:00 – 9:30 Viorel Vizureanu (University of Bucharest), Orientating in the space: to the left. Some remarks on the meanings of a new Marxist theme
9:30 – 10:00 Alin Vara (“Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu), Gulag and Holocaust, two different anthropologies
10:00 – 10:30 Tudor Petcu (University of Bucharest), Sur la chute du communisme comme dépassement de la perfidie de la raison
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Caio Simões de Araújo (University of Coimbra), Commandments, Marionettes, and (Post)Communism: Kieslowski and the political philosophy of transition in Poland
11:30 – 12:00 Iulia Anghel (University of Bucharest), Totalitarian imaginary today – the communism and its myths
12:00 – 12:30 Sebastian Grama (Université de Bucarest), Synthèse et globalité
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
Panel 3
Mircea Florian Room
Chair: Laurenţiu Gheorghe (University of Bucharest)
14:30 – 15:00 Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest), Under authorities. Philosophy and ideology in the obsesive decade of ’50 in Romania
15:00 – 15:30 Dumitru Borţun (National School for Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest), Romanian Communism: A Failed Attempt of Modernization
15:30 – 16:00 Emanuel Socaciu (University of Bucharest), Takings and nationalization
16:00 – 16:30 Ana Bazac (Polytechnic University of Bucharest), What felt? Remarks on the ontology of communism
16:30 – 17:00 Gabriela Ionaşcu (University of Bucharest), L’événement “1989” entre mémoire, oubli et justice réparatrice
