The Secret Police and Study of Religions:
Archives, Communities and Contested Memories in Central and Eastern Europe
18th – 19th March 2021
This two-day closing conference of the Hidden Galleries project will draw together a broad range of interdisciplinary concerns that are at the core of the project including:
- Theoretical and methodological approaches to texts, images, archives and materiality
- Developments in the anthropology of religion in Central and Eastern Europe
- Descendent communities and contested memories in Post-communism
- Case studies on the religious underground – lived realities, repressive operations, anti-religious propaganda
- Religion and communism in museums, galleries and the digital world
Keynote Lectures
Truth and Memory: The Twin Perils of Secret Archives – Lavinia Stan (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Archival Hybridity – Cristina Vățulescu (New York University)
Anthropology and the Religious Imaginary of the Past – Catherine Wanner (Pennsylvania State University)
PLUS ‘The Underground’
Showcasing the digital exhibition, a collaboration between Hidden Galleries and the Laboratory for Computer Graphics – Sarajevo Graphics Group DIGI.BA
If you would like to attend the conference as a member of the audience please register in advance:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpd-CsrzgqE9yrNm72pCsRZ5XahIgg4QvD
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Booklet of Abstracts (.pdf)
