Wednesday 8 November 2017
Venue: Collège des Bernardins, 20 rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris
- 8.30-9.30 – Registration
- 9.30 -10.00 – Keynote address: Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins
Session 1: Bolshevism, Lenin and the Soviet terror
10.00 – 11.30
- Stéphane Courtois, CNRS France; Lenin, the inventor of totalitarianism
- Nikita Petrov, Memorial, Moscow; Soviet terror
- Françoise Thom, Sorbonne, Paris; Bolshevik diplomacy
coffee break
Session 2: The persistence of Soviet Communism
11.45 – 13.15
- Antonio Elorza, Université Complutense, Madrid; The Comintern
- Patrick Moreau, CNRS France; The persistence of Communism in Europe
- Igor Cașu, State University of Moldova; Historiography of Soviet Communism after the opening of archives
13.15-14.30 lunch
Special guest address
14.30 – 15.00
- Sofi Oksanen, Finland; Writing about communism and its victims – personal reflections
Session 3: Communism in the contemporary world
15.00 – 16.00
- David Kilgour, retired MP, former Secretary of State, Canada; China
- Joanna Hosaniak, Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Seoul; North Korea
Presentation of the new book “Lénine, l’inventeur du totalitarisme” and the new volume of the revue “Communisme” Stéphane Courtois
16.00 – 17.00
- Roundtable with representatives of the press
coffee break
Award of the Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience 2017
17.30 – 18.30
20.00 – Dinner – for invitees only
Thursday 9 November 2017
Venue: Fondation Napoléon, 7 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris
- 8.30-9.30 – Registration
- 9.30-10.00 Opening speech: Stéphane Courtois, Reflections 20 years after publishing The Black Book of Communism
Session 4: Remembering the victims of Communism
10.00-11.30
- Ioana Boca, Fundation Academia Civica, Bucharest; History and Memory. The Sighet Memorial Museum to the Victims of Communism
- Łukasz Kamiński, University of Wroclaw; Giving the victims names and graves
- Valters Nollendorfs, Museum of Occupation of Latvia, Riga; Planning the New Exposition of the Museum
coffee break
Session 5: Legacy of Communism
11.45-13.15
- László Tőkés, Member of the European Parliament
- Paweł Ukielski, Warsaw Rising Museum, Warsaw; Problems with de-Communization in Poland
- Neela Winkelmann, Platform of European Memory and Conscience, Prague; International documentation centre for the imprescriptible crimes of Communism
13.15-14.30 lunch
Session 6: Ukraine and Communism 1917-2017
14.30-16.00
- Sergii Riabenko, Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance; International crimes of Soviet regime in Ukraine in the 20th century
- Olesia Isaiuk, National memorial museum for the memory of victims occupational regimes; Daria Hnatkivska and Kateryna Zarytska: two Ukrainian women against two totalitarian regimes
- Anna Oliinyk, Center for Research on the Liberation Movement; From Communism to De-communization: Dealing With Totalitarian Past in Ukraine
Roundtable discussion, Conclusion of the conference
16.00-16.30
Departure