List of winners – Denied by the Regime

Researchers

OCTOBER 2018 CONFERENCE – (Themes)

“Denied by the regime”: prisons, the internment-expulsion system, and forced labor in Albania from 1945 to 1990.

  1. Fiona Todhri + Eris Dhamo – Identity and profile of women political prisoners during the communist period (1946-1979).

  2. Roland Qafoku – Persecutors versus the persecuted after the fall of communism.

  3. Çelo Hoxha – The illegal deprivation of personal freedom of citizens carried out by individuals representing state institutions in the years ’44-’54.

  4. Erald Kapri – A comparative perspective on the rehabilitation of communist victims: the cases of the Czech, German, Polish, Estonian, and Romanian.

  5. Gjon Boriçi – “Statement from the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania on the violence against prisoners and internees by the State Security organs up to 1953.”

  6. Femi Sufaj + Marinela Sota – Denied by the regime: Prisons, the internment-expulsion system, and forced labor in Albania 1945-1990.

  7. Etleva Smaçi – Exploitation of forced labor in the Xhenios units and military agricultural enterprises. Discriminatory treatment of soldiers from declassified families.

  8. Lorenca Bejko – Collective memory of the internment-expulsion camps and the communist past in Albania.

  9. Ardit Metani – Remembering and promoting the communist past in Albania through communist heritage tourism.

  10. Afrim Krasniqi – Addressing the past in a comparative perspective: Albania and Eastern Europe.

  11. Sonila Boçi – Depicting the “enemy of the people” during the years 1944-1949.

  12. Enriketa Pandeleimoni (Papa) – The narration of life stories and memory about forced labor camps and prisons in communist Albania.

  13. Greis Haxhiu, Arla Hoxha, Tea Kashahu, Enxhi Kodragjini, Dea Rrozhani – Redbug: The application that revives communism through the testimonies of those who experienced it.

  14. Alma Liço Mirakaj, Merita Sauku Bruci – Family internment-expulsions in the Dumre region 1968-1991: testimonies and reflections.

  15. Klejd Këlliçi – The European Gulag: The regime of labor and concentration camps in Albania, East Germany, and Bulgaria, 1946-1950.

  16. Blerina Këllezi, Aurora Guxholli, Cliffort Stevenson – Changes after the dictatorship from the perspective of those affected.

  17. Beqir Meta – An analytical overview of the prison and internment system and the use of forced labor during the communist regime in Albania.

  18. Ermal Frashëri – Regulation of labor in the construction of socialism: A legal perspective.

  19. Valjeta Kaftalli – Daily life and human relations in the camps and internment zones.

  20. Ana Lalaj – The installation of the post-war state as a tool of violence, 1944-1953.

  21. Hamit Kaba – Albanian communism: similarities and distinctions with other communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1948.

  22. Leonora Laçi – Albanian totalitarianism through the works of several writers.

  23. Sabit Syla – The installation of Yugoslav power in Kosovo and the Albanians during the years 1944-1945.

  24. Amy Lori – The problem of Hoxha: History, memory and the architecture of state terror.

  25. Edlira Agolli – The role of the OSCE in Albania in shaping collective memory and discussing human rights violations during communism.

  26. Gjon Berisha – The persecution of the Catholic clergy from Kosovo who served during the communist regime in Albania.

  27. Natasha Përpunja – Within the framework of the topic: “Typology of internment camps and zones. The mining town of Selenicë in Vlorë.”

  28. Agron Tufa – Sad literary and memoir topics.

  29. Nevila Nika – The treatment of Italian citizens after the end of World War II, from Prof. V. Lozzi to Father G. Gardin.

  30. Marenglen Kasmi, Ermira Shtino – German prisoners of war and forced labor during the years 1944-1952.

  31. Kejsi Ziu – Spies and saboteurs: The martyrdom of the Maliqi engineers and the involvement of the American intelligence mission during the communist regime.

  32. Gjergj Sinani – Memory and history in the post-totalitarian discourse.


  33. Agron Gjekmarkaj – “Enemy of the people” in socialist realism literature.
  34. Dorian Koçi – The Stalinist apparatus of violence in prisons and labor camps in Albania, 1949-1953.

  35. Ardiana Topi – Typology of documents and files created by the former State Security.

  36. Selami Zalli – A legal perspective on the establishment of the dictatorship, 1945-1953; Shkodra in the documents of the State Security.

  37. Łukasz Kaminski (ENRS) – Expulsions and forced labor – the Polish experience: history and memories.

  38. Tobias Wunschik – Forced labor in the GDR camps (1950-1990)

  39. Etleva Demollari – The National Museum of Surveillance “The House with Leaves,” confronting the past.

  40. Sara Çapaliku – Public interest and the opening of the files of the former Albanian State Security.