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In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe EDITED BARBARA BY: TÖRNQUIST-PLEWA, NIKLAS BERNSAND, MARCO LA ROSA In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe ryck, Lund 2017 NORDIC ECOLABEL, 3041 0903 In Search of Transcultural This volume is one of the outcomes of the network project In Search for Transnational Memory in Europe (ISTME), which was financed during four Printed by Media-T years 2012-2016 by a grant from COST (European Cooperation in Science Memory in Europe and Technology) as COST Action IS1203. The Centre for European Studies (CFE) at Lund University was grant holder for ISTME, and the Centre’s Head EDITED BY: BARBARA TÖRNQUIST-PLEWA, NIKLAS BERNSAND, MARCO LA ROSA Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa was chair. ISTME gathered researchers from 36 CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES AT LUND UNIVERSITY 2017 countries in Europe. The volume opens with a short report of the activities of the action delivered by the chair at the final conference of ISTME in Dublin 1-3 September 2016. It is followed by a selection of papers presented at the action’s conferences and workshops (see the report in this volume). Most papers written by the action participants have been aimed for one of the five publications (two collected volumes and three special issues of scientific journals) prepared by the action or became included in other academic publications. However, several papers were published electronically on the action’s website, and it is a sample of those publications that are featured in this volume. The concluding chapter constitutes an attempt to look ahead and reflect over current and possible future directions in Memory Studies. It emerged in connection to the conference “Thinking through the future of Memory”, 3-5 December 2016, In Search transcultural of memory in Europe inaugurating the Memory Studies Association, which was initiated by a group of participants in our COST Action. No. 8 LUND UNIVERSITY 414608 CFE Conference Papers Series No. 8 ISBN 978-91-984146-0-8 ISSN: 1654-2185 789198 9 IN SEARCH OF TRANSCULTURAL MEMORY IN EUROPE 1 2 IN SEARCH OF TRANSCULTURAL MEMORY IN EUROPE Edited by: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Niklas Bernsand, Marco La Rosa CFE Conference Papers Series No. 8 Lund 2017 3 The CFE Conference papers series is published by The Centre for European Studies (CFE) at Lund University Copyright 2017 Centre for European Studies at Lund University and the authors. Editors: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Niklas Bernsand, Marco La Rosa Assistant editors: Jeroen Bart, Eleonora Kleibel ISSN 1654-2185 ISBN 978-91-984146-0-8 The paper is also available in PDF format at the CFE website www.cfe.lu.se Centre for European Studies at Lund University Box 201, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46 (0)46-222 88 19 Email: [email protected] ISBN 978-91-984146-0-8 Printed in Sweden by Media-Tryck, Lund University Lund 2017 4 This publication is based upon work from COST Action IS1203 (In Search of Transnational Memory in Europe), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a pan-European intergovernmental framework. Its mission is to enable break-through scientific and technological developments leading to new concepts and products and thereby contribute to strengthening Europe’s research and innovation capacities. It allows researchers, engineers and scholars to jointly develop their own ideas and take new initiatives across all fields of science and technology, while promoting multi- and interdisciplinary approaches. COST aims at fostering a better integration of less research intensive countries to the knowledge hubs of the European Research Area. The COST Association, an International not-for-profit Association under Belgian Law, integrates all management, governing and administrative functions necessary for the operation of the framework. The COST Association has currently 36 Member Countries. www.cost.eu COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 5 6 Table of Contents Note from the editors .......................................................................................................... 9 COST Action IS1203 Short Report……………………………………………………..10 Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Memory Acts: Memory Without Representation. Theoretical and Methodological Suggestions ........................................................................................................................ 17 Steffi Hobuß Rethinking Remediation and Reworking the Archive: Transcultural Reappropriations of Documentary Images of Migration .............................................. 39 Dagmar Brunow Forced Transcultural Memory: The Exile and Return of the Bulgarian Turks ......... 59 Galina Nikolaevna Goncharova Population Uprooting after WWI and Politics of Memory. Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire to Greece in the Course of the 20th Century .................................... 73 Emilia Salvanou Historical Treatment of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Belarus: Sacralization of the Communist Memory ....................................................................... 87 Anna Zadora Forensic Memories: After Testimony ............................................................................. 95 Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard Competing Historical Narratives in Belarusian Textbooks ........................................ 107 Rune Brandt Larsen Memoriography and the Anarchival Impulse .............................................................. 117 Gitanjali Pyndiah Memory in Relation to an Object in a Context of the Materially Deprived Total Institution of the Nazi Concentration Camp ................................................................ 125 Łukasz Posłuszny Memory Studies in Motion – Reflections on two new research trends in the field ... 135 Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Anamaria Dutceac Segestan Contributors to the volume ............................................................................................ 149 7 8 Note from the editors This volume is one of the outcomes of the network project “In Search for Transnational Memory in Europe" (ISTME), which was financed during four years 2012-2016 by a grant from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) as COST Action IS1203. COST is supported by the EU Framework Programmes (see www.cost.eu). The Centre for European Studies (CFE) at Lund University was grant holder for ISTME, and the Centre’s Head Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa was chair. ISTME gathered researchers from 36 countries in Europe. The volume opens with a short report of the activities of the action delivered by the chair at the final conference of ISTME in Dublin 1-3 September 2016. It is followed by a selection of papers presented at many of the action’s conferences and workshops (see the report in this volume). Most papers written by the action participants have been aimed for one of the five publications (two collected volumes and three special issues of scientific journals) prepared by the action or became included in other academic publications. However, several papers were published electronically on the action’s website, and it is a sample of those publications that are featured in this volume. The concluding chapter constitutes an attempt to look ahead and reflect over current and possible future directions in Memory Studies. It emerged in connection to the conference “Thinking through the future of Memory”, 3-5 December 2016, inaugurating the Memory Studies Association, which was initiated by a group of participants in our COST-action. That conference and the last chapter in this volume can be seen as a bridge between the activities of ISTME and the new organization for memory scholars which is now being built. Both point to the future. The editors of this volume want to thank COST for financing ISTME in general and for the financial contribution to this volume in particular. Special thanks go also to Jeroen Bart for technical and editorial assistance in preparing the publication. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Marco La Rosa Niklas Bernsand Lund, 11 January 2017 9 COST Action IS1203: In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME). Short Report of the activities in the years 2012-2016 The aim of ISTME was to contribute to consolidating, developing and setting new agendas for the creative but fragmented field of interdisciplinary Memory Studies in Europe. Taking as its point of departure new theoretical insights within the field, the action made efforts to reorient Memory Studies, marked as it was by methodological nationalism thus focusing on national memories, towards the study of transnational and transcultural memories. The action explored possible alternatives to national models of memory in an increasingly globalised, networked and mediated world and made efforts to develop methodological and conceptual tools for the study of the transcultural dynamics of memory. The action focused on the questions of transculturality, agency as well as mediation and reception. The researchers participating in the action thus conducted a large number of studies about how memories are transmitted and received across borders in Europe, i.e. how memories of one and the same event are mediated and remediated not only in different media but also in different linguistic, cultural and political environments. Since memories are connected to identities and inform social action we asked: What happens when such a transfer takes place? Can it contribute to changes of identities or to the creation of new ones? Can it contribute to more open, including identities and broaden the community, extend
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