The Secret Police and Study of Religions: Archives, Communities and Contested Memories in Central and Eastern Europe

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)

Conference Programme

Presentation Abstracts

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