Le 16 avril 2015 : Conférence internationale : “L’usage du thème de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le discours politique russe” au CERI à Paris

Le 16 avril 2015 au CERI, 56 rue Jacob Paris 75006 de 9h à 19h.
LE FORUM EUROPÉEN POUR L’UKRAINE et L’INSTITUT UKRAINIEN DE LA MÉMOIRE NATIONALE avec le soutien de Fondation Renaissance (Kiev), Fondation Schumann (Paris), l’Ambassade de l’Ukraine en France, le CERI, l’Académie Mohyla (Kiev), l’Association Française d’Etudes Ukrainiennes, le Club de Kiev (Paris), ainsi que le soutien des adhérents du Forum (EuFU).

La conférence est en anglais.

LE PROGRAMME

Moderator : PHILIPPE DE RAYNAUD, professor of political philosophy at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas and at the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales).

“The Great Patriotic War and its background in Russian history, widely used by Stalin”
FRANÇOISE THOM, senior lecturer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne

“The Shoah treatment at the Soviet and post-Soviet epoch, and the use of the genocide theme in the Russian propaganda”
PHILIPPE DE LARA, senior Lecturer in political sciences at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas

“How the Russian propaganda treats the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and secret protocols with Nazi Germany; Katyn; Vlassov’s army; the Finland war; the Warsaw insurrection”
GALIA ACKERMAN, chief of the Russian bureau at the review “Politique Internationale”

“From the Soviet desaster of Summer 1941 to the triumph of May 1945. Or, how Vladimir Putin imitates the strategic lessons of Stalin in the “Great Patriotic War”
STÉPHANE COURTOIS, senior research fellow at the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research) and professor at the Catholic University of La Roche-sur-Yon

“The Russian orthodox Church mythology of the 2nd World Warand its dramatic consequences nowadays”
ANTOINE ARKJAKOVSKY, co-director of the research department “Société, Liberté, Paix” of the Collège des Bernardins, Emeritus Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Lviv.

“The role of memory of the Great Patriotic War in covering up Russia’s imperialistic policies – the case of Latvia”
SARMITE ELERTE, ex-minister of Culture of Latvia, head of the opposition at the Riga municipal council

AFTERNOON (14.30-16.30)

Moderator: PHILIPPE DE SUREMAIN, president of the « Forum Européen pour l’Ukraine »

“Russian political discourse about the Second World War seen from the German perspective”
KATRIN EIGENDORF, Moscow Correspondent for ZDF, German TV.

“Ukrainian casualties in WW II: did the Russia bear the main burden of war by oneself?”
YANA PRYMACHENKO, researcher at the Institute of the History of Ukraine (Academy of Sciences).

“Soviet myths about the World War II and their role in modern Russian propaganda”
VOLODYMYR VIATROVYCH, director of the Ukrainian Institute of the National Memory

“The “Great Patriotic War” as a Russian weapon in hybrid war against Ukraine in 2014-2015”
YURIY RUBAN, chairman of the Humanitarian Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

COFFEE BREAK (16.30-16.45)

EVENING PANEL (16.45-19.00)

Moderator: JEAN-SYLVESTRE MONGRENIER, professor of the Geopolitics at the University Paris VIIIVincennes-Saint-Denis, ecturer at the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationales)

“Use of an anti-fascist rhetoric during and after the Ukrainian revolution”
ANTON SHEKHOVTSOV, visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Austria), European Fellow of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group (University of Northampton, UK)

“Instruments of annexion and their propagandist justification. From Poland 1939 to Crimea 2014”
ALEXANDER PODRABINEK, journalist, human rights activist and editor-in-chief of Prima information agency (Moscow)

“Control over the past: archival policy and Russian Second World War myths”
ANDRIY KOHUT, director of the Research Centre on the Liberation Movement (Kiev)

“Latest Ukrainian movements to come to a new post-soviet paradigm of World War II instead of the Great Patriotic War”
ALYA SHANDRA, managing editor and coordinator at Euromaidan Press (Kiev)