{"id":3339,"date":"2014-10-31T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:00:20","slug":"edward-kanterian-on-communism-and-its-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/10\/31\/edward-kanterian-on-communism-and-its-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Kanterian on \u2018Communism and its Memory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/kanterian.html\">Dr Edward Kanterian<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a> will be giving a public talk entitled \u2018Communism and its Memory\u2019 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icr.ro\/stockholm-1\/\">Romanian\u00a0Cultural Institute in Stockholm<\/a> on Tuesday 4 November.<\/p>\n<p>As a geopolitical force Communism became obsolete 25 years\u00a0ago. But it still lives on in two related respects, concerning its\u00a0actual past and its possible future. First, it is a political, social\u00a0and moral burden in post-Communist societies. Second, it continues to\u00a0be seen, by some, as an ideal of social salvation, the true and most\u00a0desirable alternative to capitalism. These two attitudes, the critical-commemorative and the utopian one, may seem unrelated. As\u00a0Edward&#8217;s talk\u00a0will\u00a0demonstrate, they both arise from the deep and troubling nature of\u00a0Communist ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free to attend; to book simply email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rkis@rkis.se\">rkis@rkis.se<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full abstract (in Swedish) is available from the Romanian\u00a0Cultural institute Stockholm website here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icr.ro\/kommunismen_och_dess_minne\">www.icr.ro\/kommunismen_och_dess_minne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Edward Kanterian from the Department of Philosophy will be giving a public talk entitled \u2018Communism and its Memory\u2019 at the Romanian\u00a0Cultural Institute in Stockholm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/10\/31\/edward-kanterian-on-communism-and-its-memory\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}