Colloque Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the 20th Century, 13-14 novembre 2023, Centre de colloques – Campus Condorcet.
Monday 13th November 2023
9h Registration, coffee (Faculty Club in Maison des Chercheurs – Campus Condorcet, 3 Cour des Humanités, ground floor)
9h30 Introduction by Eva Guigo-Patzelt (CéSor, EHESS/CNSR, Paris)
10h-11h45 Panel 1: Struggles in the interwar era
Chair: Pierre Antoine Fabre (CéSor, EHESS/CNRS, Paris)
Laura Pettinaroli (École française de Rome):
The International of proletarian freethinkers and the communist movement: uncompleted attractions (1925-1936)
Kostas Paloukis (International University of Greece, Thessaloniki):
Greek Communists against Religion and Church during the interwar period
David Nash (Oxford Brookes University):
The Blasphemy of Communist Godlessness – responses to Communist Atheism in Britain 1936-1938
12h-13h30 Lunch break
13h30-15h15 Panel 2: Enforcing atheism in Eastern Europe
Chair: Lois Lee (University of Kent)
Artan R. Hoxha (Academy of Albanian Studies, Tirana):
The Red and the Black: Atheism, Religion, and Modernity in Communist Albania
Johannes Gleixner (Collegium Carolinum, Munich):
Empirical origins of Soviet atheism: Engaging believers, managing expectations
Kristina Kovalskaya (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris):
Soviet Research on Religion and Unbelief after Stalin: Modernise and Moralise with Atheism
15h15-15h45 Coffee break
15h45-17h30 Panel 3: Eastern European ambivalences in the late 1970s and 1980s
Chair: Todd Weir (University of Groningen)
Irina Morozova (University of Regensburg):
The duality of anti-religious social campaigns in Soviet Central Asia in the 1980s
Jan Tesař (Josef Gocar School Prague):
The Foundation, existence and demise of Czechoslovakian Museum of Religion
Petar Dragišić (Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade):
Serbia in the Eighties. Between Religiosity and Atheism
17h30-18h30 Keynote by Victoria Smolkin (Wesleyan University):
In the Shadow of Godlessness: Soviet Atheists and the Fate of Secularism in Europe
Conference dinner for speakers
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Tuesday 14th November 2023
9h30 Coffee
10h-11h45 Panel 4: Re-interpretations in varying cultural and religious contexts
Chair: Victoria Smolkin (Wesleyan University)
Lucky Igohosa Ugbudian (Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi):
Communist Perspectives on Atheism in the 20th Century Nigeria
Raghavan Nair Santhosh (Indian Institute of Technology Madras/University of Sussex) and Dayal Paleri (Indian Institute of Technology Madras):
“Godless” Communists in “God’s Own Country”? The Communist Party and Its Strategic Ambiguity towards Belief and Non-Belief in Kerala, South India
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq (George Washington University, Washington/Coppin State University, Baltimore):
“Muslim Communists”: Afghan Atheism in the 20th Century
12h-13h30 Lunch break
13h30-15h15 Panel 5: Atheism and Catholicism between condemnation and dialogue
Chair: Eva Guigo-Patzelt (CéSor, EHESS/CNRS, Paris)
Marie Lucas (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Mikhail Velizhev (Université Grenoble Alpes):
“Is Marxism necessarily atheistic?” Gustav Wetter, the Holy See and the Condemnation of Communism
Gašper Mithans (Science and Research Centre Koper):
Atheization and individualization of non/religious worldviews: the Catholics in Socialist Yugoslavia
Heléna Tóth (Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg):
Combatting Indifference Together: The Shifting Premises of the Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1980s
15h30-16h15 Conclusions by Todd Weir (University of Groningen)
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Academic committee
Pierre Antoine Fabre, Directeur d’études at EHESS, Deputy Director of CéSor
Eva Guigo-Patzelt, Associate member of CéSor
Dr. Jonathan Lanman, Queen’s University Belfast, Project Lead Explaining Atheism
Lois Lee, Senior Lecturer at University of Kent
Contact: eva.patzelt@sciencespo.fr
The conference will take place in English.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
A.-L. Zwilling (9 octobre 2023). Perspectives communistes sur l’athéisme au XXe siècle. sociorel. Consulté le 21 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/ufln