Session 6
Thursday (May 6):
1.30-3.00 PM ET
CHAIR
Peter Vermeersch
(KU Leuven, Belgium)
PAPERS
Thomas Ort
(Queens College CUNY, US)
Remembering Reinhard Heydrich:
The Politics of Memory in Nazi-Occupied Prague, 1942-1945
Vojtech Kyncl
(Institute of History, Czech Republic)
Lidice Memorial: A Symbol of Crime Against Humanity
at the Service of a State Narrative
Muriel Blaive
(Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic)
The Czech State Narrative of the Communist Past:
A (Failed) Endeavour to Erase the Memory of Collaboration
DISCUSSANT
Melissa Feinberg
(Rutgers U, US)