Day 1, Jul 05, 2021
12:30PM - 02:00PM Opening event of cultural program: Exhibition of Works by Wilhelm Sasnal “Such a Landscape” in the POLIN Museum of Polish Jews, guided by Luiza Nader Plenary Session Moderators Katarzyna Chmielewska, PHD; Assistant Professor, Institute Of Literary Research Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences (IBL PAN)
Opening event of cultural program Exhibition of Works by Wilhelm Sasnal "Such a Landscape" in the POLIN Museum of Polish Jews, guided by Luiza NaderChair: Katarzyna Chmielewska, Paweł Dobrosielski
02:00PM - 03:00PM Welcome to the 5th Annual MSA Conference in Warsaw
Plenary Session Speakers Aline Sierp, Assistant Professor In European Studies, Maastricht University
Jenny Wustenberg, Associate Professor, Nottingham Trent University
Jeffrey Olick, Professor, University Of Virginia
Welcome Je rey Olick, Aline Sierp & Jenny Wüstenberg (co-presidents MSA); institutional representatives (local organizers MSA 2021)
03:00PM - 05:00PM Embattled histories: changing patterns of historical culture across East Central Europe Track : Roundtable Sub-plenary session 1 Speakers Zoltan Dujisin, FSR Incoming Postdoc, UCLouvain
James Mark, Professor, University Of Exeter
Ana MILOSEVIC, Post Doc, KU Leuven
Dariusz Stola, Professor, ISP PAN
Eva-Clarita Pettai, Senior Research Associate, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Moderators Joanna Wawrzyniak, Dr Hab, University Of Warsaw
The history of the 20th century remains highly contested across East Central and Southeastern Europe (ECSE). Thirty years after the end of state socialism, an open public discourse and the free interaction between producers and consumers of historical culture continues to be an embattled public good. Especially over the past decade, it has been increasingly challenged by economic and administrative constrains, but most of all by ideological and legislative interventions that aimed at determining what people can learn about, and how they make sense of historical legacies and meanings. Yet, ECSE remains also a region of discursive asymmetries and non-simultaneity. Discrepancies in the way that controversial issues of history and memory are being addressed in public emerge not only between states, but also between regions within states and between di erent strata of society.The online platform Cultures of History Forum (published by the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena) has followed and critically re ected on these processes over the past ten years. The majority of its authors have come from ECSE itself; they reported on, contextualized and analysed concrete public debates and controversies about contested historical gures and events; they zoomed in on new museum exhibitions and discussed other attempts to visualize and (re)present the past in the public realm. Since 2017, the Forum also provided a platform for authors to critically analyse government policies and legislation as well as judicial procedures that address (and reign in on) matters of commemoration and history.The tenth anniversary of the Cultures of History Forum's launching seems like a good occasion to invite scholars of both public history and cultural memory as well as of memory politics to discuss about evolving historical cultures and changing patterns of public remembrance and historical debate in ECSE. Instead of short presentations, we will ask the participants to prepare some comments and re ections based on a reading of the articles of the Cultures of History Forum; they will also be asked to share these comments with the editor prior to the conference. During the roundtable, the moderators will refer to and pick up on the collected thoughts and comments to guide through the discussion and make it a dynamic and lively experience. The main aim will be to engage in broader comparative re ections, to identify shared patterns and explore the transnational convergences of ideas and practices regarding historical truth and justice, commemoration and the processes of historical meaning-making across ECSE, and in global perspective.We aim at 5-6 participants to this roundtable discussion altogether. The invited participants are experts on museums and public history as well as scholars of memory and history politics. The roundtable will be chaired and moderated jointly by the editor, Dr. Eva-Clarita Pettai and Professor Joanna Wawrzyniak from the University of Warsaw. Preliminary agreements to join the roundtable discussion have been obtained from almost all the participants listed below.
03:00PM - 05:00PM To demolish or not to demolish? Di!cult Past Revisited Track : Roundtable Sub-plenary session 2 Speakers Chana Teeger, Assistant Professor, London School Of Economics
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum Of The History Of Polish Jews
Valerie Rosoux, Prof. / Research Director, UCLouvain - FNRS
Ann Rigney, Professor, Utrecht University
Moderators Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi , Prof. , Hebrew University Of Jerusalem – Sociology-Anthropology
Around the world, cultural heritage, mostly in the form of statues and monuments, is being destructed. Racist gures from the past are receiving renewed attention as they are being spray-painted, deformed, or completely taken down. While demolition of statues is one way of dealing with legacies of injustice and di cult past, other practices are also evolving, mainly by providing context. For instance, despite Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction and sentencing, the National Museum of African American History and Culture decided to maintain two objects relating to his career, only changing the exhibition label. Tying the decision to the long history of silencing, overriding, and erasure of African American history, Lonnie Bunch, Founding Director of the museum said: "This museum seeks to tell, in the words of the eminent historian John Hope Franklin, "the unvarnished truth" that will help our visitors to remember and better understand what has often been erased and forgotten" How can one explain this re-negotiation with the past? what are the di erences between altering the existing memorialized object (for instance through gra ti paint), adding to it (for instance, by providing a plaque explaining the past and its incompatibility with the present), or tearing it down completely? Highlighting important questions regarding the reassessment of the past in light of the present, this panel seeks to explore practices of memorial transformation and undoing.
03:00PM - 05:00PM Bridging Memory Studies across Languages Track : Roundtable Sub-plenary session 3 Speakers Alicia Salomone, Full Professor, Universidad De Chile
Moderators Lana Lovrenčić, Researcher, PhD Candidat, Institute Of Art History, Zagreb
Mischa Gabowitsch, Senior Researcher, Einstein Forum
One of the MSA's aims is to bring together scholars and practitioners not only from di erent disciplines but also from di erent linguistic backgrounds and national cultures of research. This is in line with a broader debate in the humanities and social sciences about the e ects of the increasingly monopolistic status of English as the de facto lingua franca in scholarly communication.Memory Studies deals with topics that are often intensely speci c to a particular national, regional, or linguistic context, and involves the study of traumas, con icts, and emotions that are frequently di cult to articulate even in one's own language, let alone in translation. Thus our eld is particularly vulnerable to three types of pressures exercised by the Anglo-globalization of academia.The rst of these is loss in translation. The vocabulary of memory studies has been profoundly shaped by its emergence in German, French, and English-language academia, to the detriment of pioneering conceptual contributions by e.g. Polish or Hispanophone scholars. Case studies of important local topics tend to be noticed internationally only if they are published in English, and the distorting e ects of the translation e ort this involves are not always acknowledged or discussed. Meanwhile, languages such as Arabic have not even developed a terminology that would render memory studies understandable to monolingual readers of those languages.The second e ect results from the increasing pressure to publish in English as a requirement for career advancement and job security. Coupled with top English-language journals' refusal to consider papers already published in other languages, this means that many important publications reach their original communities with some delay and after double translation.A third and related e ect is internal colonization. While there has been much debate about the global inequality between Western scholars as concept producers and their Eastern and Southern colleagues as mere data providers, a similar imbalance has also emerged within many countries between multilingual, internationally connected researchers and their monolingual peers.This plenary discussion brings together polyglot scholars from di erent corners of our eld and at di erent career stages to address these e ects, provide illustrations from their own experience, and talk about practical ways of bridging memory studies in di erent languages.The discussion will also serve as the inaugural event for a series of e orts to bridge memory studies in di erent languages under the auspices of PoSoCoMeS and in collaboration with translation/interpretation schools and language programs in di erent countries.Participants:Alicia Salomone (literary & cultural scholar, University of Chile)Kateryna Botanova (art critic and curator, Basel)Kornelia Kończal (historian, LMU Munich)Samer Al Nasir (legal historian & social psychologist, UNED, Spain)Convenors and co-moderators:Mischa Gabowitsch (historian & sociologist, Einstein Forum, Potsdam)Lana Lovrenčić (art historian, Institute of Art History, Zagreb)
03:00PM - 05:00PM Doing Memory Studies Differently - a Roundtable with Women TBC Sub-plenary session Track : Roundtable 4
05:00PM - 07:00PM A1: New Perspectives on European History and Heritage Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_1 Speakers Ian Ellison, Dr.
Eugenijus Zmuida, PhD Sta Researcher , The Institute Of Lithuanian Literature And Folklore
Nadia Kornioti , PhD Candidate, Associate Lecturer , University Of Central Lancashire - Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus)
Daniel Levy, Professor, Stony Brook University
Moderators Chair TBA
05:00PM - 07:00PM A2: Des/apariciones, saberes y prácticas en distintas temporalidades, culturas y generaciones (in Spanish) Room_2 Track : Latin America RG
Speakers Fernando Chacón, Professor, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas UCA
Cristian Armando Fabián Rodríguez, Investigador, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas UCA
María Angélica Tamayo Plazas, Investigadora Posdoctoral , Instituto De Investigaciones Sociales UNAM - Programa De Becas Posdoctorales En La UNAM
Moderators Luz Maceira-Ochoa, Independent Researcher, N/A
Los papers del panel estudian prácticas y productos culturales por medio de los cuales se elaboran, resigni can, conmemoran o transmiten -a veces de manera marginal- tradiciones y saberes ancestrales, relatos sobre procesos de lucha por los derechos, resistencia a, o participación en, hechos de violencia y con icto armado, y migración. Estos trabajos hablan también de las desapariciones en términos amplios: desaparición de saberes ancestrales, de la desaparición forzada de personas, de la "desaparición" (o invisibilidad) de grupos sociales en procesos históricos amplios y en procesos de reconciliación y reparación social. Al mismo tiempo dan cuenta sobre la aparición de nuevas tensiones, sujetos, conocimientos, memorias y desafíos. Se analizan los procesos mediante los cuales identidades étnicas o campesinas, cosmovisiones, prácticas organizativas, vínculos con el territorio y conocimientos sobre producción agraria de pueblos de México, Perú y El Salvador son re-producidos, actualizados y comunicados a través de dinámicas familiares y sociales, así como de artefactos culturales (literarios). La marginalidad o fragilidad de estas memorias acusan formas de olvido, y también de silenciamiento o negación social de los pueblos indígenas de Perú y México, así como diferencias intergeneracionales que ponen en riesgo el conocimiento campesino. Las diferencias generacionales y los nuevos contextos son también el eje de un paper sobre las memorias de la guerra en jóvenes descendientes de exmilitares en El Salvador, y de los discursos y prácticas conmemorativas en torno a las víctimas de desaparición en México en los años 80 y el presente.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A3: Memory in Music and Arts Track : Latin America RG Room_3 Speakers Zo"a Rohozińska, PhD Student, Doctoral School Of Social Sciences, Center For Research On Social Memory, University Of Warsaw
Radek Przedpełski, Dr, Trinity College Dublin
Christopher Ballengee, Associate Professor Of Music, Anne Arundel Community College
Arnoud Arps, PhD Candidate, University Of Amsterdam
Agata Handley, Assistant Professor (Dr), University Of Lodz Poland
Moderators Chair TBA
05:00PM - 07:00PM A4: Memory in Turmoil: The Politics of Protest in Contemporary Chile Track : Latin America RG Room_4 Speakers Anita Ferrara, Lecturer , Irish Centre For Human Rights
Carolina Aguilera , Investigador Adjunto, Coes Centro De Estudios De Con icto Y Cohesion Social
Manuela Badilla Rajevic , Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universidad De Valparaíso , Universidad De Valparaíso
Terri Gordon-Zolov, Associate Professor Of Comparative Literature, The New School
Moderators Katherine Hite, Professor Of Political Science On The F. Thompson Chair , Vassar College
On the night of October 18th, 2019, a series of acts of arson threw Latin America's "most stable" democracy into turmoil. A subway hike of 30 pesos triggered a social revolution, one marked by acts of vandalism and violence, organized strikes, and massive demonstrations. For the rst time since the dictatorship, the state called in the army for civilian purposes and imposed a daily curfew, actions which recalled for many the abuses of the 17-year regime of General Augusto Pinochet (1973- 1990). While the state of catastrophe declared by President Sebastián Piñera on March 18, 2020 brought much of the protest activity to a halt, the uprising continues to the present in more sporadic and virtual forms. The politics of memory is at the heart of this contemporary revolution. This historical moment, whose inaugurating date of 18-10 mirrors the year of Chilean Independence from Spanish rule (1810), marks a reckoning both with the social, political and economic legacy of the Pinochet era and with the country's colonial past. As a popular protest poster suggested: "18 October 2019: Día de la Independencia." Longstanding battles against the country's colonial heritage and more recent struggles against economic inequality, market rule, and a culture of impunity have come to a moment of crisis. The marks of crisis were visible in the public landscape itself: walls covered in gra ti and elaborate protest graphics, buildings and public monuments defaced, and dismembered and fallen statues. This panel considers the complexity of the politics of memory in the contemporary moment in Chile. In the past two decades, there has been a steady growth of memorials and monuments in Santiago and other major city centers. The Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Museum of Memory and Human Rights) was inaugurated in 2010 (under then president Michelle Bachelet), and numerous former torture and detention centers from the period of the dictatorship, such as Londres 38 and Casa Memoria José Domingo Cañas, have become memorial sites with the protected status of "Monumento Nactional." However, memory is still in turmoil today, contested by di erent actors and subject to political and economic forces. In her paper, "Decapitated Public Memory: Reshaping Long Histories of Oppression in the 2019 Chilean Revolt," Manuela Badilla Rajevic analyzes the massive destruction of colonial and historical monuments in the fall 2019 upheaval. Situating her analysis in the larger question of debates over the use of public space, Badilla considers the meaning and impact of these performative actions and interventions. Carolina Aguilera's "Transformations of Public Memory in the Upper Middle Class in Chile" turns to the role that class plays in contemporary debates about commemoration. Through an analysis of negative responses to events at two memorial sites in upper-middle class neighborhoods, she demonstrates a shift on the part of certain upper middle-class sectors from political to economic concerns. Finally, Terri Gordon-Zolov takes up contemporary feminist interventions in the current political climate. Framing her reading with a larger analysis of feminist protest graphics and demonstrations in the fall of 2019, she
05:00PM - 07:00PM A5: Memory and Commemorations in times of Corona Track : Memory and Activism WG Room_5 Speakers Vjeran Pavlaković, Associate Professor, University Of Rijeka
Sarah Gensburger , Research Professor , French National Center For Scienti c Research In Paris (CNRS)
Orli Fridman, Associate Professor, Faculty Of Media And Communications (FMK)
Moderators Rebecca Kook, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University
This panel brings together most recent scholarly work, based on empirical data collected during the lockdown period in spring 2020. It aims to feature and discuss mnemonic processes and commemorations in times of the lockdown, when large gatherings were banned because of the pandemic and forced major changes of commemorative events and mnemonic rituals. From state sponsored events, to alternative ones, actors have continued to engage and labor with commemorative practices, in some familiar and yet innovative di erent ways. We trace these innovations and changes and suggest that some of those will continue and shape the commemorative landscape even after the pandemic is over.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A6: Art Practices as Sites of Mnemonic Convergences Track : Memory and Arts WG Room_6 Speakers Irena Rehorova, Assistant Professor, Charles University, Prague
Tijana Miskovic, PhD Fellow, The University Of Copenhagen
Elisabeth Sobieczky, Senior Resarch Fellow, Academy Of Fine Arts, Vienna
Yafa Shanneik, Lecturer In Islamic Studies , University Of Birmingham
Moderators Astrid Schmetterling, Senior Lecturer In Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University Of London
This panel explores di erent art practices as sites of transnational and multidirectional memory. The speakers will present body-map paintings of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the Middle East and Europe, diasporic art practices by former Yugoslavian artists in Denmark, Czech popular ction and the work of a Ukrainian artist, all of which testify to the important role the arts play in memory making.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A7: Fractured memory of the colonial encounter: Canada and the Indigenous present. Part 1(2) Room_7 Track : MSA Canada RG
Speakers Alain Roy , Senior Analyst , Library And Archives Canada
Kate Korycki, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies , Western University, Canada
L. Sasha Gora, Environmental Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow , Center For The Humanities And Social Change, Ca' Foscari University Of Venice
Matt James, Associate Professor, University Of Victoria
Celia Romulus, PhD Candidate, Queen's University
Moderators Kate Korycki, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies , Western University, Canada
Places of colonial encounters teem with fractured and con icted memories. The fault lines and con icts however, as persistent as they are, do not appear evenly visible through time. Their salience recedes at times, to suddenly reemerge at others. 2020 represents a spectacular moment, when forces of the pandemic, the climate collapse and anti-racisms revolts converge and make visible that which was only recently hidden, in plain sight. 2020 seems to also represent a moment in which those calling for the removal of the colonial statues, those erecting land (and climate) defense blockades and those calling for de-militarization and abolition of the police, converge in forming new solidaristic repertoire of contention. In this panel we seek to explore the recent explosion of mnemonic and material struggles in colonial settings. Our main empirical case is Canada (or Canada in a comparative setting) where the o cial multicultural rhetoric, state discourse of Indigenous reconciliation, mainstream adoption of land acknowledgments and BLM solidarity statements, are met with climate, land and memory activism. Our conceptual preoccupations concern the applicability of collective memory framework to current con icts, the salience of judgment and persistence of history in the present, and the successes (and failures) of practices of de-commemoration (that is the symbolic reckoning with the venerated heroes/villains of the past, commemorated in statues, park names, etc.).
05:00PM - 07:00PM A8: A Manifesto for the Post-Pandemic Museum Workshop Track : Museums and Memory WG Room_8 Speakers Erica Lehrer, Professor, History & Sociology-Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
Silke Arnold-de Simine, Dr/Reader, Birkbeck University Of London
Rebecca Dolgoy, Curator Of Natural Resources An Industrial Technologies, Ingenium
Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
Amy Sodaro, Associate Professor Of Sociology, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
Moderators Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
The MSA Museums and Memory Working Group will hold a workshop in which we will bring academics and museum professionals together to devise a manifesto for the post-pandemic museum. As museums around the world emerge from lockdowns caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, they are navigating new systems of health and safety protocols, vastly reduced visitor numbers and dramatic budget cuts. At the same time, museums have responded to the pandemic by o ering virtual visits, tours and programs and by collecting artifacts and documenting the pandemic even as it drags on, asserting their important and ongoing role in society. This workshop will consider the question of what comes next for museums in the post-pandemic world. Participants from across museum practice, academia and activism will together produce a manifesto for the post-pandemic museum.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A9: Chernobyl Mon Amour – The travelling memories of nuclear disaster Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_9 Speakers Rachael Hutchinson, Associate Professor Of Japanese Studies, University Of Delaware
Alexander Berlov, Student, National Research University Higher School Of Economics
Maja Vodopivec, Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Boris Noordenbos, Associate Professor, University Of Amsterdam
Moderators Boris Noordenbos, Associate Professor, University Of Amsterdam
The proposed panel would be part of the Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies group (posocomes.org). Taking a decisively comparative approach, this panel addresses the cultural and political resonances of "Chernobyl" across national contexts. A recent example of the transnational memory (Rigney and De Cesari 2014) of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is the popular HBO mini-series Chernobyl, released in 2019. Borrowing profusely from the documentalist prose of the Belarusian Nobel prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, the series vividly presented the Chernobyl catastrophe to a global audience, while hinting at the ongoing relevance of the Soviet-style misinformation and the ecological destruction it portrayed. The series' particular re-imagination of Chernobyl, in turn, triggered a plethora of responses from the countries directly a ected by the catastrophe. Yet the transnational dynamic of Chernobyl's legacies and memories goes back much further, and has taken on multiple, shifting forms over the past decades. Borrowing its title from Chantal Montellier's 2006 graphic novel Tchernobyl mon amour, this panel explores what happens when memories of Chernobyl collide, or when they move across national and regional borders, acquiring associations with other events and contexts. Some of the presenters in this panel, focusing on the European context, address the political mobilization of Chernobyl as an (always colored) lens onto nuclear policy questions across the continent. Others investigate clashing interpretations of the disaster's causes, e ects and lessons. They explore the tensions that emerge when national interpretations of victimhood and heroism collide with new, increasingly global, cultural imaginations of the event. These papers also address how (shifting) discourses of solidarity and distrust among European communities a ect the meanings ascribed to "Chernobyl" in recent cultural imaginations. Other presenters extend the scope of the panel beyond Europe's borders, engaging with the multidirectional (Rothberg 2009) reverberations that have evolved between the Chernobyl calamity and other nuclear disasters, in particular the catastrophe in Fukushima in 2011. How have the mnemonic echoes cultivated between these disasters, a ected nuclear safety and health policies across the globe? And how has the "repetition" of a nuclear cataclysm in Fukushima in 2011 a ected the temporal structures of cultural and political imagination around nuclear threats? Ultimately, we wonder what Chernobyl and Fukushima reveal, not only about the memories of nuclear disaster, but also about the complex global structures in which post-socialist memory is increasingly embedded.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A10: Disciplinary Convergences in the Study of Memory Politics
Room_10 Speakers Mano Toth, Visiting Lecturer, Central European University, Department Of International Relations
Kathrin Bachleitner, Research Fellow In International Relations, University Of Oxford
Filip Ejdus, Associate Professor, University Of Belgrade, Faculty Of Political Science
Laure Neumayer, Maître De Conférences/Lecturer, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne
Aline Sierp, Assistant Professor In European Studies, Maastricht University
Moderators Maria Mälksoo, Senior Lecturer In International Security, University Of Kent, Brussels School Of International Studies
This panel brings together scholars currently working on the transdisciplinary Handbook on the Politics of Memory (ed., Maria Mälksoo, Edward Elgar, forthcoming in 2022). This handbook provides a wide-ranging picture of the state-of-the-art in the interdisciplinary eld of memory studies, with a focus on the political features, toolbox and work of historical memory. It brings the assorted literatures into a focused dialogue on how the ways in which the past is remembered and approached in uences transnational, interstate and global politics in the present. The handbook engages the under-explored knots of memory politics both theoretically and empirically, providing a unique forum for conceptually cutting-edge research against a rich empirical canvas, and facilitating dialogue across di erent elds of study. How memory becomes a political question, who mobilises it, with which e ects and ethical implications are the central queries underpinning this collaborative venture. The panel conjoins scholars from International History and European Studies (Sierp), International Political Sociology (Neumayer), International Relations (Bachleitner, Ejdus) and International Theory/Ethics (Toth). By bringing Memory Studies in a sustained dialogue with International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ontological Security Studies, International Ethics and Political Sociology, the papers of this panel probe the productive synergies between these sub elds across various levels of analysis and empirical contexts. The panel takes the conceptual debates and continuing controversies to a rich empirical terrain, ranging from the increasing involvement of the EU in transnational memory politics to manifold Western and Central European case studies.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A11: Franco regime on trial through documentary cinema
Room_11 Speakers Dietmar Post, Collaborator, EUROM- Fundació Solidaritat UB
Lucía Palacios, Collaborator, EUROM- Fundació Solidaritat UB
Lidia Mateo Leiva, Collaborator, EUROM- Fundació Solidaritat UB
Carolina Astudillo, Collaborator, EUROM- Fundació Solidaritat UB
Moderators Carolina Astudillo, Collaborator, EUROM- Fundació Solidaritat UB
Documentary cinema about the Franco dictatorship has experienced a kind of boom in recent years, being projected in movie theatres, being presented at festivals, receiving good critics, and being awarded with important prizes. One of the main topics addressed in these lms has been the political violence during the dictatorship and the impunity it has enjoyed in democratic Spain. A new generation of lmmakers have analysed the consequences of the lack of justice and reparation su ered by the victims of the dictatorship. The search for justice has led them to other countries, such as Argentina, where many victims hope their court case will prosper despite the obstacles posed by the Spanish State. These documentaries suggest questions about the treatment of the lmed testimonies, the characterization of the victim, the lmmaker's gaze of complaint, the documentary investigation. etc. In this roundtable, organized by the European Observatory on Memories, these questions will be raised and discussed by three of the most renowned lmmakers at this moment.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A12: History - His stories: The intergenerational impact of individual memories set during historical events Room_12 Speakers Olivier Luminet, Prof, UCLouvain
Ashley Barnwell, Research Fellow In Sociology, The University Of Melbourne
Raphaelle Branche, Professor, ISP/University Of Paris Nanterre
Valerie Rosoux, Prof. / Research Director, UCLouvain - FNRS
Aline Cordonnier, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLouvain
Moderators Aline Cordonnier, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLouvain
Children do not simply inherit the past as one would receive an already formed, ready to go object. They apprehend it with the eyes of their society, mold it around their family values and reconstruct it in a way that preserves their sense of identity and belonging. But how do we deal with a personal past that confronts itself with a historical reality? Within this symposium, we will place ourselves in the liminal space between family and o cial narratives. Across four talks from di erent disciplines, we will examine how individual stories set during historical times are shared across generations and how they impact the children and grandchildren. To start the discussion, the political scientist Valerie Rosoux will focus on post-war settings. She will describe various negotiation processes where parties defend a particular notion of justice on behalf of previous generations, showing the emotional weight of traumatic events and their long-lasting impacts on victims' descendants. Ashley Barnwell, sociologist, will then take us on a journey to the other side of the world to uncover family secrets and stories about settler colonial Australia. She will investigate how the narratives found within families can shape national identity and in uence political views, especially when these are con icting, emotional or di cult memories. Following on the topic of silence within family transmission, cognitive psychologist Aline Cordonnier will describe how children and grandchildren of WWII collaborators cope with the cognitive dissonance that comes from loving someone "on the wrong side of history". More speci cally, she will explore the links between interpersonal relations, family memory and justi cations. Finally, Raphaëlle Branche, historian, will highlight the importance of examining intergenerational transmission within their historical and societal context. To do so, she will review the case of family memory of French draftees involved in the Algerian by integrating the period when the transmission occurred within her analysis. After the talks, Olivier, psychologist, will lead a discussion on how family memories impact both society and individuals. He will re ect on some of the major topics discussed within the symposium, such as the causes and consequences of silence, the place of family narratives within broader historical frames or the roles of children in preserving, transmitting and transforming their family stories.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A13: Memory and Geography. Part 1(4): Narratives in Space and Place
Room_13 Speakers Samuel Smith, Instructor, University Of Colorado - Boulder
Elena Hubner, M.A. , Leibniz Universität Hannover
Michael Hawkins, Data Librarian, Head Map Library Kent State University Libraries, Kent State University
Miranda Meyer, Graduate Assistant, City University Of New York Graduate Center
Derek Alderman, Professor, University Of Tennessee
Moderators Mark Rhodes, Assistant Professor Of Geography, Michigan Technological University
Memory takes place somewhere. Memory, memorial landscapes, and memory work have thoroughly permeated the eld of geography, and geography, in turn, has begun to in uence a spatial turn within memory studies. As the social science of where, geography is uniquely placed to examine the spaces, places, and landscapes that attend the process of remembering and forgetting. This panel seeks to further bridge geography and memory studies through interdisciplinary engagement with space, place, landscape, and memory. This panel explores this spatial turn in memory studies and what an intense focus on the geographies of memory might o er theoretically, empirically, and politically. With contributions from a broad array of scholars studying the spatiality of memory, as well as those whose research speci cally is in dialogue with the conference highlight on "the role of public memory in democratic societies and in the struggle for racial justice," this rst of four panels highlights the role of narratives in space and place. Overall, we hope this session will further link the scholarship of geographers working at the intersection of memory, social justice, and politics with the growing voice of the memory studies community.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A14: Multidirectional Memory - the Holocaust as a Memory Template
Room_14 Speakers Ana Krsinic Lozica, PhD Candidate, Faculty Of Humanities And Social Sciences, University Of Zagreb
Joanna Moszczynska, Postdoc , Universität Regensburg
Isadora Sinay, PhD Candidate , University Of São Paulo
Alexander White, Final Year PhD Student, The University Of She eld
Moderators Chair TBA
05:00PM - 07:00PM A15: Specters of the Caribbean: Salvaging Historical Memory Through Word, Visual Image, and Monument Room_15 Speakers Cathy Thomas, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of California, Riverside
Andrea Herrera, Full Professor, University Of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Jessica Calvanico, Ph.D. Candidate, University Of California-Santa Cruz
Lauren Reynolds, Lecturer, Christopher Newport University
Karen Christian, Professor Of Spanish, California Polytechnic State University
Moderators Karen Christian, Professor Of Spanish, California Polytechnic State University
In the spirit of "Convergences," the theme of the 5th Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, this panel will explore the erasure of marginalized voices from o cial history and the counternarratives o ered by diverse cultural texts. Our focus is the pan-Caribbean region, as we juxtapose written, visual, and theatrical narratives about Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and New Orleans. These texts – from novels, poetry, and plays to graphic novels, photographs, and monuments – are linked by the common threads of silenced histories, specters of past trauma, simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility, and existential threats to survival.
05:00PM - 07:00PM A16: Holocaust Literature
Room_16 Speakers Jo Klevdal, Teaching Fellow And Doctoral Student , University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Anna Veprinska, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of Toronto
Weronika Romanik, Dr./Postdoctoral Researcher, Lichtenberg-Kolleg - The Goettingen Institute Of Advanced Study, University Of Goettingen
Barbara Krasner, Doctoral Candidate, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Gratz College
Stephen Naumann, Associate Professor Of German, Hillsdale College (Michigan/USA)
Moderators Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Professor, University Of Iceland
07:00PM - 08:30PM Keynote lecture: Ewa Domańska Keynote lecture
Day 2, Jul 06, 2021
11:00AM - 01:00PM B1: Multiple genealogies of European memory and cultural heritage Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_1 Speakers Dacia Veho Rose, Senior Lecturer, University Of Cambridge
Tom Crowley, Researcher, University Of Cambridge
Francisco Martinez, Associate Professor, Tallinn University
Rafael Pérez Baquero, Phd , University Of Murcia
Jordi Guixé, Director, EUROM (European Observatory On Memories)
Moderators Siobhan Kattago, Associate Professor Of Practical Philosophy, University Of Tartu
The panel addresses key debates surrounding European memories of war, genocide and totalitarianism in the 20th century in light of older legacies of colonialism, imperialism and the transatlantic slave trade. While mindful of the speci city of national narratives, the panel discusses the multiple directions and genealogies of European memory as exempli ed in social movements challenging the pact of silence about Francoism in Spain, the material cultural heritage of Soviet memorials in Eastern Europe and the challenge of the Black Lives Matter movement to rethink European colonial pasts within the context of Brexit, British heritage and populism in Europe.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B2: Gender and Intersectionality in Memory Activism Track : Memory and Activism WG Room_2 Speakers Anna Khlusova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, King's College, London
Pauline Stoltz, Associate Professor, Aalborg University
Jasspreet Thethi, Managing Director, Intersectional Glam
Daniele Salerno, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow , Utrecht University
Clara Vlessing, PhD Candidate, Utrecht University
Brydie Kosmina, Sessional Tutor/Lecturer, University Of Adelaide
Moderators David Farrell-Banks, PhD Candidate, Newcastle University
How does gender, sex, and/or sexuality a ect or intersect with how we mobilize and use memory? How do we remember sites of memory of gender, sex, and/or sexuality di erently (or similarly) to other sites of memory? How do activists marshal memories of gender, sex, or sexuality-based activism in the past for their present-day practice? How do memory activists mobilize gender in their present-day practice? The eld of Memory Studies remains a vibrant eld of scholarly, artistic and political engagement. Memory Studies generally understands the present's relation to the past as dynamic, entangled, mobile and thus prone to constant re-negotiation. In this sense, the relationship between memory and gender is key to ongoing debates. Although memory studies scholars have typically not tackled intersections of gender, sex, and sexuality, the publication of key texts including Red Chidgey's Feminist Afterlives (2018) and Ayşe Gül Altınay's et al (eds.) Women Mobilising Memory (2019) has seen the emergence of a discourse investigating this crucial eld of memory activism. This panel responds to the opportunities a orded by these works in seeking to develop intersectional approaches to the role of gender, sex and sexuality in Rigney's (2018) trinity of memory activism, memory of activism and memory in activism.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B3: Recalibrating the 1970-90s Transitions: Contested and Transforming Memoryscapes Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_3 Speakers Gruia Badescu, Research Fellow Zukunftskolleg & Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University Of Konstanz
Kostis Kornetis, Lecturer In Contemporary History, Autonomous University Of Madrid (UAM)
Ioana Luca, Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University
Lana Lovrenčić, Researcher, PhD Candidat, Institute Of Art History, Zagreb
Ksenia Robbe, Senior Lecturer, University Of Groningen
Moderators Simon Lewis, Associate Professor In The Cultural History Of Eastern And East-Central Europe, University Of Bremen
This panel engages with contestations and transformations of the public remembrance practices that emerged as part of the "memory boom" in the late 1970s-early 1990s on a global scale. As the editors of the recent special issue the "global crisis in memory" observe, the consensus based on the idea that memory can lead to "social reconciliation" and that it should take universal forms has been challenged during the past decade, by right-wing populist practices, debunking the 'weakness' of grievance culture, and by left-wing critiques, often drawing attention to the coloniality involved in globalized victim-centred remembrance (Forsdick, Mark and Spišiaková 2020). Furthermore, drawing on studies of the historical entanglements between the memory boom and the neoliberal turn (David 2020, Cercel 2020), they remark that "remembering victims became a way to stabilise the 'transitions' […] that took place across Southern Europe, Latin America, Eastern Europe and then South Africa between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s" (ibid, 5). The panel seeks to scrutinize the particular nexus between that past of the 1970-90s transitions and the frameworks of memory that accompanied them and developed in their aftermath. In contrast to the mentioned historicizing perspectives, the papers examine how these transition-centred mnemonic frameworks are being contested and transformed by memory practices that do not conform to hegemonic varieties of 'cosmopolitan' remembrance and develop alternatives on the left. In the same breath, we ask how these practices rethink the past of (post)transitions and highlight the ways in which their processes were compromised and the myopias that they involved. As a whole, the panel sets out to trace the transformations of post-transitional memoryscapes and the emergence of new memories with the transnational, regional or trans-regional, potential. The individual papers examine speci c contexts of Eastern Europe (Romania, Croatia/former Yugoslavia), Southern Europe (Greece, Spain, Portugal) and Southern Africa (The Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe) and engage with various practices (popular music, lm, literature, photography). They inquire into the aspects of generational memory and inheritance; archives, erasure and recollection; place and embodied memory. Common to all papers is their focus on the role of mediated memories and remediation in (re)shaping memoryscapes. The discussion will aim to trace similarities and di erences between the ways of challenging late 20th-century transnational memoryscapes and the critical questions they involve, closely engaging with non- nationalist, counter-hegemonic and decolonial practices.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B4: Experiences of transition and contested histories: the decommunization of public space in Latvia, Poland, Romania and Ukraine Room_4 Speakers Mihai Stelian Rusu, Lecturer, Lucian Blaga University Of Sibiu
Anna Glew, PhD Researcher, The University Of Manchester
Ewa Ochman, Senior Lecturer In East European Studies , The University Of Manchester
Dmitrijs Andrejevs, PhD Candidate , University Of Manchester
Moderators Andrii Nekoliak, Doctoral Candidate/junior Research Fellow, University Of Tartu
The remaking of commemorative landscape is characteristic of periods of regime change and revolutionary transformations. The re-naming of public space, the removing of monuments and erecting of new ones are part of the process of re- evaluation of the national past. After all, the symbolic remaking of public space re ects new power relations and indicates ideological positions of a given time. This panel will enquire into the process of de-commemoration that took place in Eastern Europe in the wake of the fall of communism in 1989. In order to fully grasp this process, analysis needs to be grounded in a thorough understanding of the speci c trajectories of post-communist regime transformation in the region. Thus, this panel addresses the de-communisation of public space in Latvia, Poland, Romania and Ukraine paying attention to the overlapping political, cultural and historical legacies of the transition period speci c to each country as well as the region as a whole. Taken together these papers argue for the crucial role of the late-Soviet memory work in laying the foundation for the de- communisation of public space in Eastern Europe and highlight the need for expanding the research on memorial landscapes beyond capital cities. The papers also provide insight into state sponsored e orts to regulate de-commemoration, contrasting them with grass-roots attempts to resist the change.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B5: (Im)materiality of Memory. Part 2(2): Material and Immaterial Traces of the Shtetl in post-Holocaust East-Central Europe Room_5 Speakers Ulrike Huhn, Dr./Postdoc, University Of Göttingen
Ina Sorkina, Dr./Postdoc, Humboldt University Berlin
Alexander Friedman, Dr./Postdoc, Humboldt University Berlin
Natalia Romik, Dr./Postdoc, Gerda Henkel Foundation
Yechiel Weizman, Dr./Postdoc, Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig
Moderators Magdalena Waligorska, Dr., Institute For Advanced Study Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin)
Our two interlocking panels under the banner of the "(Im)materiality of Memory" examine the ways in which the materiality of objects and spaces belonging to Holocaust victims or linked to their life, death, or survival, impact process of collective memory in communities implicated in the genocide. Below is the abstract for panel 2 of 2. The focus of the panel is the convergence of two juxtaposed vectors of memory: 1) the dematerialization and 2) re-materialization of Jewish traces. Looking at the way material objects/traces (such as private belongings, sacral spaces, cemeteries or hideouts) become "immaterial" in the process of erasure, repurposing, overwriting, and overgrowing, we wish to ponder both on the processes of appropriation and the wider context of implication. Inspired by Michael Rothberg's notion of "implication" which "emerges from the ongoing, uneven, and destabilizing intrusion of irrevocable pasts into an unredeemed present" (2019:9), we want to zero in on the ways the unsettling presence of Jewish ruins, resurfacing human remains, walled-in objects, collapsing cellars, and the recycled tombstones demands action and results in di erent local responses. The papers presented during this panel will thus address the materiality of shtetl traces as perceived, imagined and physically experienced by both Jews and non-Jews, looking also at the complex interactions and negotiations between their original owners/inhabitants and their later custodians. On the other hand, the contributions to this panel also wish to explore how the absence of physical traces, or physical distance from the sites of the Holocaust call forth creative strategies of re-materializing the lost shtetl-be it by means of nostalgic explorations of the absent and the invisible, myths and legends of haunting or of buried "Jewish treasures," or new technologies that allow commemorative activities that are both fully immaterial (because held online) and rely on material objects to embed memory in a tangible setting. Covering case studies from Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Israel, the panel proposes a comparative perspective on the (im)materiality of memory in a transnational context, with a special focus on the convergences of the material and immaterial, the digital and the analogue, the human and the non-human.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B6: Memory in the Moment: Commemorative practices, our research, and COVID-19 convergences Room_6 Track : Turbo session
Speakers Jill Strauss, Associate Professor, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
María Eugenia Ulfe, Professor Of Anthropology, Ponti cia Universidad Católica Del Perú
Ulrike Capdepon, Postdoc Rsearch Fellow, Project Coordinator, University Of Konstanz
Gabriela Fried Amilivia, Professor Of Sociology And Latin American Studies, California State University-Los Angeles
Mariana Achugar, Profesora Agregada, Universidad De La República (Uruguay)
Carmen Ilizarbe, Professor Of Political Science, Ponti cia Universidad Católica Del Perú
Susana Kaiser, Professor Emerita, University Of San Francisco
Robin DeLugan, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, University Of California, Merced
Moderators Robin DeLugan, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, University Of California, Merced
What happens when public memory and our research about it converges with a global pandemic? How does memory work fare despite public health risks, con nements, and closures? How to continue our memory studies when access to physical memory spaces is denied (museums/memorials), or our familiar locations for chronicling remembrance or places where memory is debated/written (marches/courthouses) are unavailable; when we can no longer take to the streets or gather in solemn commemoration? Our interlocutors adjust, adapt, and innovate as digital, virtual, lmic, and other pedagogical proxies suddenly replace designs meant to be experienced in person. Meanwhile, in other places, memory triggers protest for change presenting an unstoppable demand for truth and justice despite the pandemic. We address unexpected challenges to our research that has principally relied on being there, and we re ect on how the pandemic impacts our study of memory practices and also inspires new approaches and directions. A special issue journal publication will be developed from this session.Robin Maria DeLugan shares how research on anti-racist national memory activism in the United States takes on more urgency as monuments are torn down and new online forums disseminate tools for exploring historical evidence bringing attention to the separate and intertwined struggles of Native American and African Americans. Susana Kaiser explores new memory practices in Argentina when taking to the streets is not an option. There are virtual/digital commemorations of the coup's anniversary and Mothers' marches; ESMA's virtual presence (museums visits, talks with survivors); and trials for crimes against humanity (virtual hearings). Maria Eugenia Ulfe Young and Carmen Illizarbe re ect upon the rhetoric of war deployed by the Peruvian government in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on the similarities with government discourse during the internal armed con ict (1980-2000) and in dealing with social con icts (2000-2020). Gabriela Fried Amilivia talks about her work on memory, transmissions across generations, and oblivion struggles in Uruguay in the last four decades by documenting and analyzing the local 24th Marcha del Silencio, "Son Memoria, Son Presente: Donde Estan?" which turned global in 2020 due to COVID to become the largest virtual mobilization of Uruguayans around the globe in the country's history. Jill Strauss tells us about the creation and curation of 45 virtual monuments by undergraduate students in an online exhibit commemorating New York City during COVID 19 and the Black Lives Movement. The augmented reality memorials will introduce the broader public to new modes of remembrance in the 21st century. Mariana Achugar analyzes the changes in commemoration and protest practices surrounding victims of state terrorism during the pandemic in Uruguay and the characteristics of commemoration and protests identifying the a ordances of new media and participation structures in the context of social distancing. Ulrike Capdepon focuses on issues that have to do with the e ects on urban space and coexistence, in particular, the debate on colonial monuments that in the midst of the health crisis are questioned and begin to fall, in European cities but also in Latin America and the United States.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B7: Tools and Sites of Remembering Political Violence: Bodies, Memes, Hashtags, Family Room_7 Speakers Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Associate Professor, Södertörn University
Ekaterina Haskins, Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Department Of Communication Arts And Sciences
Victor Igreja, Senior Scholar, University Of Southern Queensland, School Of Humanities And Communication
Jessica Auchter, UC Foundation Associate Professor, Guerry Professor, University Of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Nicole Maurantonio, Associate Professor, University Of Richmond
Moderators Maria Mälksoo, Senior Lecturer In International Security, University Of Kent, Brussels School Of International Studies
This panel is one of the two bringing together a group of authors currently working on their chapter contributions to the Handbook on the Politics of Memory (ed. by Maria Mälksoo, Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2022). The panel probes various tools and sites of remembering political violence, exploring convergences between Memory Studies, Critical Peace Research and forensic science, along with those between the politically powerful tropes of identity, memory, trauma and reconciliation across di erent empirical contexts from Bosnia Herzegovina and Russia to the United States and Timor Leste. The distinct registers of memory politics explored in the panel include human body as the site of memory; family memory with its speci c ethical obligations; memes and hashtags in the digital realm; speech and silence in multi-level reconciliation discourses and practices, and the complex lived experiences of protracted and fracturing intra-group violence, defying easy binary categorisations of perpetrators and victims, guilty and innocent.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B8: Rethinking the Memory Divide: Historical Narratives of the East in the West
Room_8 Speakers Daphne Winland, Associate Professor, York University
Mayra Martinez, Graduate Student, University Of Texas At El Paso
Erin Cory, Senior Lecturer, Malmö University
Anna Krakus, Assistant Professor , University Of Copenhagen
Leslie Waters, Assistant Professor, University Of Texas At El Paso
Moderators Leslie Waters, Assistant Professor, University Of Texas At El Paso
Nationalism, hardened borders, and xenophobia may have been reinvigorated in recent years, but globalization processes – migration, international media, deeply entwined economic practices – continue to be a large part of daily life. As a result, new forms of historical memory have emerged at local, national, and international levels that challenge the notion of distinct memory practices and historical narratives in the East (broadly and often nebulously de ned) and West. This panel calls for a reconceptualization of the "memory divide" that draws on the elds of history, media, gender, and communication studies. The papers examine artistic practices, media publications, and government initiatives that invoke "eastern" experiences in western spaces. As these historical narratives and personal memories are refracted through di erent social contexts, they inevitably create new, transnational memory practices that can lead to either inclusionary or exclusionary outcomes.
11:00AM - 01:00PM B9: East Central Europe: Memory Con#icts and Entanglements
Room_9 Speakers Anke Fiedler, Dr. Phil., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Mateusz Zieliński, Assistant Professor, University Of Wrocław
Bartłomiej Secler, Ph. D., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, PhD Student , Indiana University (Bloomington, USA)
Tomasz Rawski, Assistant Professor, Faculty Of Sociology, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Barbara Markowska, Adjunct, Collegium Civitas
11:00AM - 01:00PM B10: Environmental Memory
Room_10 Speakers Maryam Adjam, Postdoctoral Researcher, Umeå University
Anindita Shome, Doctoral Candidate, University Of Hyderabad
Ifor Duncan, Dr (Post Doctoral Research Fellow), Center For Humanities And Social Change Ca' Foscari University
Maria Piekarska, PhD Candidate, Faculty Of "Artes Liberales", University Of Warsaw
11:00AM - 01:00PM B11: Memories and Exile
Room_11 Speakers Kirsty Kay, Dr, A liate, University Of Glasgow
Verena Lindemann Lino, PhD, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Joana Duyster Borreda, Postdoctoral Researcher, University Of Copenhagen
Katherine Pendakis, Assistant Professor, Memorial University Of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus
Katherine Lawless, Assistant Professor, Huron University College
Gintare Venzlauskaite, Dr, Research A liate, University Of Glasgow
Anna Belozorovitch, Doctor, Sapienza University Of Rome
Moderators Astrid Schmetterling, Senior Lecturer In Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University Of London
11:00AM - 01:00PM B12: Modernity, Imperialism, and Cultural Memories
Room_12 Speakers Geoffrey Cubitt, Reader, Department Of History, University Of York, UK
Bolaji Balogun, Early Career Researcher, The University Of She eld
Robyn Morse, PhD Student, University Of Virginia
Helen Kingstone, Research Fellow, University Of Surrey, UK
Moderators Astrid Rasch, Associate Professor, Norwegian University Of Science And Technology
11:00AM - 01:00PM B13: Weaponizing history in the Palestinian-Israeli Con#ict
Room_13 Speakers Nadim Khoury, Associate Professor, Lillehammer University
Chen Bar-Itzhak, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Danielle Yusufov, Ph.D. Candidate , University Of Haifa
Rebecca Kook, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University
Moderators Chair TBA
01:00PM - 03:00PM C1: The Holocaust and Mnemonic Convergneces Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_1 Speakers Halina-Joy Gadbury, Masters Graduate, The University Of Warwick
Mariana Freijomil, Teaching Fellow In Journalism And Culture (Universitat Autónima De Barcelona), UAB (Universitat Autónima De Barcelona)
Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Researcher, Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna
Egemen Özbek, Academic Coordinator, University Duisburg-Essen/Academy In Exile
Moderators Chair TBA
01:00PM - 03:00PM C2: Troubling Inheritance: Ghosts and Scars Track : Memory and Arts WG Room_2 Speakers Mirko Milivojevic, PhD Candidate, Researcher
Ksenija Krapivina, PhD Student, Goldsmiths University Of London
Nela Milic, Dr, University Of The Arts Of London
Mischa Twitchin, Dr/ Lecturer, Goldsmiths University Of London
Moderators Nela Milic, Dr, University Of The Arts Of London
This panel will elaborate on transnational memory through the examples of artistic practice from communities and with artefacts from Algeria, Central and East Europe. Accepting that the content and meaning underpin memory and identity, the authors are tackling embodiment and representation of exilic experiences, cartographies of inheritance as well as ethics of photographic and poetic depictions of trauma. By materializing the 'lived' in the artwork, the authors entice ghostly presences from the past to reveal themselves in the present and theorise how they in uence the future.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C3: Memory, space and place Track : Memory, Space, and Place WG | Roundtable Room_3 Speakers Anita Bakshi, Assistant Professor Of Teaching, Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University
Kerry Whigham, Assistant Professor Of Genocide And Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University SUNY
Derek Alderman, Professor, University Of Tennessee
Rebeca Helfer, Associate Professor, University Of California, Irvine
Gruia Badescu, Research Fellow Zukunftskolleg & Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University Of Konstanz
Moderators Gruia Badescu, Research Fellow Zukunftskolleg & Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University Of Konstanz
The "spatial turn" has brought new dimensions of research in the humanities and the social sciences, highlighting the importance of space, place, cities and the built environment in the study of social and political processes. As Foucault put it, our obsession with time has long obscured interests in place, but place has been coming also to the forefront. There has been an increasing engagement of memory scholars with the spatial and material dimension in memory. This roundtable aims to bring together perspectives from di erent disciplines that address the intersections of memory and space, and to bring in dialogue theories, methods and research directions. It will discuss both the spatial turn in memory studies as well as the interest in memory in the "spatial" disciplines. It also aims to contribute to the shaping of a dialogue within MSA on the relationships between memory and place. Gruia Badescu will introduce the theoretical engagements of memory and space and will moderate the discussion. Derek Alderman will bring insights from geography, as the social science dedicated to space and place. His contribution will link this interdisciplinary roundtable with the proposed sessions on geography and memory, where geographers at MSA will discuss the engagements with memory within the discipline. Anita Bakshi, coming from an architecture background, will talk about her recent book on urban memory, "Topographies of Memories: A New Poetics of Commemoration" (2017), focusing on her theoretical engagement with Paul Ricoeur and methods derived from the architectural studio to research memory. Rebeca Helfer will discuss the engagements with memory and space in literary studies, referring to her work on contemporary representations of locational memory. Kaitlin Murphy will bring forward insights from her recent book "Mapping Memory: Visuality, A ect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas" (2018) and the theory of memory mapping she developed. Finally, Kerry Whigham will discuss how the memorialization of past atrocities through the construction of physical spaces of memory has increasingly been recognized as an essential aspect of this complex process of dealing with the past. He will scrutinize the hypothesis that spaces of memory can indeed contribute to atrocity prevention, though they do not always do so, thus interrogating the spatial dimensions of memory-work. The roundtable is intended as one stepping stone for the new MSA working group on memory and place.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C4: The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age Track : Museums and Memory WG | Roundtable Room_4 Speakers Elizabeth Benjamin, Lecturer In French, Coventry University
Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
Moderators Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
This roundtable brings together contributors to the forthcoming open access e-book The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age. Participants will discuss their chapters in the book, re ecting on how the speci cities of digital media can change the very essence of the memorial museum in both productive and challenging ways (Victoria Grace Walden), how TripAdvisor reviews extent the memory work of the 9/11 Museum (Amy Sodaro), the ways in which national notions of war memory continue to be foregrounded online (Elizabeth Benjamin), designing digital interventions that transform scarred post-con ict cityscapes into spaces for memory in Sarajevo (Sabina Tanovic), and the idea of Instagram as o ering a spontaneous and networked memorial for the destroyed National Museum, Brazil (Nathalia Lavigne).After introducing some of the themes in their chapters, the contributors will discuss how they think digital media and technologies are changing the memorial museum landscape, and the implications this may have for de ning what constitutes a 'memorial museum', and how they function as institutional spaces for commemoration and education. The event will be held either entirely online or as a blended event, inviting contributors to speak via video link or in-person.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C5: Memory narratives: research approaches to meaningmaking of the past in the present Room_5 Track : Witnessing Memory WG
Speakers Johana Wyss, Research Fellow, Institute Of Ethnology Of The Czech Academy Of Sciences
Hanna Meretoja, Professor Of Comparative Literature, University Of Turku, Finland
Taylor Annabell, PhD Candidate, King's College London
Alma Jeftic, Research Fellow, Peace Research Institute, International Christian University
Moderators Thomas Van De Putte, Postdoc, University Of Trento
If memory studies' aim is to understand how people attribute meaning to the past, then narrative can be a useful tool to uncover such meaningmaking processes. The narrative turn in the humanities and social sciences has provided us with a whole range of epistemological, methodological and conceptual tools to understand the usage of the past in the present. These can be either person- or subjectivity centred, stressing the agency and creativity of the self, or they can focus on the circulation of narrative templates and tropes that 'carry social, cultural and communal currency for the process of identity formation' (Bamberg 2007, 3). However, we see these tools only rarely operationalised empirically in memory studies' canonical literature. This panel engages with multiple approaches to, and possibilities of, narrative within social psychology, anthropology, communication studies and interactional sociology to research how narrative enables people to make sense of their past and present.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C6: Agonistic Memory in the post-colonial context: mutual contention and dialogue in non-democratic societies Room_6 Track : Roundtable
Speakers Noaman Ali, Assistant Professor
Muhammad Younis, Associate Professor Rabia Malik
Umber Bin Ibad, Associate Professor
Ruzanna Tsaturyan, Researcher
David Clarke, Professor
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Dr Hab, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Sophie Whiting, Senior Lecturer
In policy-making circles as well as the popular imagination, generally two dominant modes of memory-making are juxtaposed with each other: antagonistic and cosmopolitan memory. Antagonistic memory represents the past as a moral struggle between 'us' and 'them', where 'the other' is an enemy to be destroyed. Antagonistic memories can perpetuate feelings of hostility across generations, explaining the persistent nature of many con icts. Cosmopolitan memory represents the past as a moral struggle between abstract ideals or systems (such as democracy versus dictatorship), reaching out to 'the other' as fellow human beings and su erers of evil. The cosmopolitan approach, dominant in the European Union and international organizations, is often proposed as the best way to deal with a traumatic past, but often relies on imposing a single overarching narrative of the past which may not be equally welcomed or embraced by all parties, which in turn can lead to a resurgence of antagonism.In contrast to the antagonistic and cosmopolitan modes, agonistic memory rejects the desirability of developing a single overarching narrative of the past. Instead, it strives to acknowledge, and to work through, a variety of contrasting memories of the past. It promotes a radical approach allowing for multiple perspectives and is open to a dialogue with 'the other', a dialogue which it sees in open-ended terms without assuming it can lead to consensus.However, the agonistic approach may also assume the presence of a democratic, or at least liberal space, in which perpetrators are willing, or in some cases at least forced, to listen to the side of the weak and oppressed. In the context of the "Disputed Territories and Memory" project funded by Horizon 2020, researchers from the UK, Poland, Armenia, and Pakistan have come together to interrogate the possibility of applying agonism to the context of post-(and current-) con ict situations with authoritarian states with little tolerance for voices diverging from dominant antagonistic narratives. In how far are these states successful in constructing collective memory that supports a uniform and antagonistic nationalism? Do states seek to forget the traumatic past, or do they dwell on it in order to support the vili cation of neighboring states? Do civil society actors and cultural practitioners largely support the dominant framework, or project dissent openly or in hidden transcripts? Are subaltern voices able to force authoritarian institutions and political leaders into contentious interactions that approximate agonistic memory-making? In how far do Soviet and British colonial legacies hinder or facilitate agonism?
01:00PM - 03:00PM C7: Collective memories and Resistance practices
Room_7 Speakers Gloria Ochoa, Head, Germina NGO
Ana Guglielmucci, Profesora Adjunta, Universidad Del Rosario
Guillermo Ruiz-Torres, Doctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
Ana Cacopardo, Investigadora Adjunta, Universidad Nacional De Lanus
Caterine Galaz, PHD, Universidad De Chile
Margarita Vannini, XXX
Isabel Piper-Sha"r, Professor, Universidad De Chile
Belén Rojas Silva, Postdoc Researcher, Utrecht University
Loreto López, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad De Chile
Moderators Loreto López, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad De Chile
The Collective Memories and Resistance Practices CLACSO working group have organized this turbo session. This group is a research network created in 2016. Currently the group is composed of 46 researchers from eleven countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Spain, and the United States.Our working group research on the ways in which memory is constructed and used in contexts of resistance to neoliberal governmentality, in diverse spheres and by di erent social actors. We consider that currently neoliberalism exerts a range of violence characterized by dispossession; the weakening of States or the submission of them to criminal dynamics in some cases; the criminalization of social protest and the restriction of rights; and social and economic polarization. Simultaneously, a large part of the violence that is presented as private is associated with or permitted by the political apparatus, that is, public- private violence.We de ne resistance as those practices - generally carried out from the margins - that are lateral and even subterranean which attempt to build alternative ways of coexistence and development to neoliberalism. When they do so, they erode and divert the hegemonic processes. At the present time, these are usually local resistances. Examples of these are indigenous movements and their community practices; organizations in defense of natural and energy resources, which oppose the penetration of mega-projects and corporations in various regions; movements for the defense of women's rights and sexual dissidence; organizations in defense of migrants, women and others. At rst glance, these movements might seem insigni cant in relation to the extraordinary powers they face. However, they often achieve important victories and a rede nition of policy.Di erent actors on whom we have researched the relationship between memories and resistances include anti-racist and migrant social movements; women's and feminist organizations; political activists who act against the neoliberal model, and participate in processes of mobilization and protest in di erent countries; former militants of armed groups whose memories challenge the o cial narratives constructed in processes of democratic transition and neoliberal consolidation.We understand that di erent resistance practices carried out by the aforementioned actors, resort to memory exercises in their daily actions, giving meaning to past experiences for their articulation to the needs of the present. Therefore, we not only construct and analyze memories of resistance, but also seek to understand how memory is used in the context of current counter-hegemonic struggles.In this session, the following will be presented and discussed: cases of memory of political violence in the Chilean transitional process; uses of the past in the social uprising initiated on October 18, 2019 in Chile; community resistances of women's organizations in slums and shanty towns in Chile and Argentina; the resistance of migrant organizations to the symbolic and economic violence that they experience in their processes of transit and settlement.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C8: De- or Re- Stalinisation? The Memory of the Stalinist Repressions in Contemporary Russia Room_8 Speakers Daria Khlevnyuk, Postdoc Fellow, HSE Moscow
Matthew Blackburn, Postdoc, IRES, Uppsala University
Antony Kalashnikov, Postdoctoral Fellow, NRU Higher School Of Economics
Maria Matskevich, PhD, Senior Fellow, Sociological Institute Of FCTAS Russian Academy Of Sciences, St.Petersburg
Ekaterina Klimenko, PhD Candidate, Institute Of Philosophy And Sociology, Polish Academy Of Sciences
Moderators Ekaterina Klimenko, PhD Candidate, Institute Of Philosophy And Sociology, Polish Academy Of Sciences
It seems a long time since 15 August, 2015, when the Russian government approved a new State Policy Concept for Commemorating Victims of Political Repression. A bold initiative, it envisioned archaeological work and the construction of new memorial complexes on the sites of mass executions, as well as the development of educational programs and exhibitions on Soviet repression. This 'de-Stalinisation', reached its peak in the construction of, "The Wall of Sorrow", in 30 October, 2017, with none other than Vladimir Putin attending the ceremony. Calling the political repressions "a tragedy for our entire people," he stated that "there can be no justi cation for these crimes." The approval of the State Policy Concept, the construction of the monument in the centre of the Russian capital, and the words of the President made it seem Russia was ( nally) turning to the painful process of coming to terms with its di cult past. But was it, in fact? How do we account for a whole range of policies that not only put victory in the Great Patriotic War (oftentimes at the expense of the repressions) at the centre stage of state memory activities, but also restrict the work of anti-Stalinist grassroots memory actors? How do we explain new historical revisionism on the causes of WWII in 2020? In other words what is the o cial strategy toward the memory of the Stalinist repressions? How does this strategy coexist with the apparent cult of the 1945 victory? How is Russia's Stalinist past perceived by society at large? Is the current memory of Stalinism shaped by the Stalinist cultural and political legacy? To put it bluntly, is present-day Russia de- or re-Stalinising? The proposed panel will attempt at answering these questions.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C9: How Memory Mediates the Past in History and in Literature
Room_9 Speakers Hans Ruin, Professor, Philosophy/Department Of Culture And Learning, Södertörn University
Julie Hansen, Associate Professor Of Slavic Languages, Uppsala University
Eneken Laanes, Professor, Tallinn University
Astrid Erll, Prof. Dr. , Goethe University Frankfurt
Patrick Hutton, Professor Of History Emeritus, University Of Vermont
Siobhan Kattago, Associate Professor Of Practical Philosophy, University Of Tartu
Moderators Tea Sindbaek Andersen, Associate Professor, University Of Copenhagen
We propose a panel that explores the variety of ways in which memory mediates the representation of the reality of the past in history and literature. It is a discussion that dates from Aristotle, who in his Poetics (circa 335 BCE) analyzed the concept of mimēsis in order to distinguish the resources of history (the past that was: documented fact) from those of the literary arts (the past as imagined: verisimilitude). Recent theoretical work in history and psychology germane to memory studies prompts us to revisit that discussion by addressing ethical, political, and epistemological issues raised by works of ction that use the imaginative resources of memory to enlarge upon the documentary record in ways that deepen our understanding of the events and personalities of the past. Three of our papers (Hansen, Hutton, Laanes) explore what Julie Hansen has characterized as the "grey zone" between history and historical ction. Each of these panelists presents a case study of a ctional text based on historical personalities: Hansen, the documentary novel by Russian author Maria Stepanova about her family's archive; Hutton, the historical novel by American author Jay Parini about the life of Walter Benjamin, and Laanes, the historical novel by Julian Barnes about the persecution of Dmitri Shostakovich by Josef Stalin. The fourth paper by Kattago approaches the topic from the opposite direction. She shows how historical consciousness in its origins emerged in the midst of a work of literature, the Homeric epic The Odyssey.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C10: Literary Co-memoration between East-Central Europe and Its Other(s)
Room_10 Speakers Maria Mayr, Associate Professor, Memorial University Of Newfoundland
Daniela Henke, PhD, University Of Freiburg
Urania Julia Milevski, Dr. Phil / Lecturer, University Of Bremen
Anja Tippner, Professor, Hamburg University
Lena Wetenkamp, Post-Doc, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Moderators Tom Vanassche, Lecturer And Postdoctoral Researcher, RWTH Aachen
Whereas the Shoah has been (and still is) central to practices of commemoration, recent years have seen the re-emergence of comparison in memory studies, e.g. in multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) and dialogic memory (Assmann 2013). While Rothberg's concept concentrates on the nexus slavery/colonialism and Shoah, Assmann argues that new approaches to commemoration can be applied to other contexts of violence as well. Both identify East-Central Europe as a blind spot in memory studies. With their umbrella term "co-memoration [Ko-Erinnerung]", Henke and Vanassche (2020) expand the scope of comparative memory studies by explicitly addressing the conditions and limitations of comparison, thus providing the vocabulary to address such blind spots. Moreover, the diverging pathways of the former East and the former West after 1945 simultaneously de ne the need for and the limits of co-memoration. Whereas the Holocaust is understood as the negative founding myth of Europe, recent approaches see the remembrance of GULag as the other semicircle, which concludes the circle of totalitarian experience at the heart of Europe (Leggewie/Lang 2011: 24). Therefore, the legacy of the Second World War cannot be assessed accurately without comparing. In accordance with recent shifts in memory studies we assume that the fall of the Wall, as well as a growing postcolonial awareness, have lifted the taboo on comparison and have led to an increased convergence of memories. We believe that literature in particular o ers the discursive space to compare and contrast traumatic experiences by emulating ctional dialogues and by using the licences of ction to address the ethical and political implications of such comparisons. It should be stressed that in our understanding of co-memoration, to compare is to show the di erences between experiences as much as the commonalities. Our panel explores such constellations in literature situated in East-Central Europe and its contact zones (Pratt 1991). We want to focus on the narrative and rhetorical strategies of evoking co-memoration in literature representing expulsion, ight, and migration as "Pan-European traumatic experiences" (Leggewie/Lang 2011: 26). Our main focus on German-language literature links our approach to the proposed Panel "European Memory Formation in Post-socialist German Literature" (submitted as part of the Genealogies of Memory Stream) and gives cause for exciting cross references and synergy e ects.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C11: Memory travels in tourism Track : Roundtable Room_11 Speakers Daniel Reynolds, Professor Of German Studies, Grinnell College
Jessica Rapson, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
Brad West, Senior Lecturer In Sociology
Katie Markham, Lecturer Media, Culture And Heritage, Newcastle University
Sybille Frank, Professor For Urban Sociology
Alena Pfoser, Senior Lecturer In Communication And Media Studies, Loughborough University
Sabine Stach, PhD, Leibniz Institute For The History And Culture Of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
Sabine Marschall, [email protected]
Moderators Sabine Stach, PhD, Leibniz Institute For The History And Culture Of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
The recognition that "all cultural memory must 'travel' (…) in order to 'stay alive', to have an impact both on individual minds and social formations'" (Erll 2011, 12) has led to the development of plethora of conceptual and empirical work on how memory moves across space and time and the consequences this has for social identities, experiences and social formations it supports. However, not all of memory's travels have been of equal interest within the eld of memory studies. In comparison to movements and connections enabled by communication technologies, migration processes and international politics, tourism – one of the central ways of how mobility is organised and experienced in late modernity – remains underresearched in the eld of memory studies. Indicative of this tendency are a low numbers of articles published on the subject in the journal Memory Studies (8 in total) and presentations at past conferences organised by the Memory Studies Association, with no presentations dedicated to tourism in Amsterdam, 2 in Copenhagen, and 3 in Madrid.This is all the more surprising as tourism in particular, as Alon Con no has argued, is a "fundamental social and cultural practice by means of which people construct ideas of self, society, nation, the past, the others" (Con no 2000, 112). Memory production and circulation in tourism isn't restricted to what is usually called memory tourism, cultural tourism, or heritage tourism. Rather, in the global tourism industry – in urban and ethnic tourism, in recreational as well as educational leave – the past is used as a valuable resource in tourism marketing, and tourists are regularly confronted with images of belonging and cultural memories.This roundtable discussion brings together established and emerging scholars working at the intersection of tourism and memory studies and related elds such as museum and heritage studies. Focusing on various agents and sites of memory in tourism, we aim to discuss conceptual approaches and empirical directions for the study of memory and tourism and bring the two elds into a conversation: How do tourists, tour guides, tourism managers and others in their particular encounters reinforce, alter, or negotiate images of collective pasts? To what extent are the concepts of national, transnational, or global memory – and how they are usually understood in memory studies – appropriate for exploring what is happening in the tourism sector? How can debates in tourism studies enrich memory studies, and vice versa?The panel ts within the MSA conference stream on Disciplinary Convergences, not only by bridging these two elds but also by bringing scholars from di erent disciplinary backgrounds (sociology, media and cultural studies, heritage studies) and elds of empirical investigation (urban heritage industries, return tourism, battle eld tourism, political and dark tourism) into a conversation.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C12: Mnemonic migration – mediation, reception and re-circulation of war time memories of the Bosnian war in contemporary migrant literature Room_12 Speakers Lourdes Lopez-Ropero, Associate Professor, University Of Alicante
Johanna Paul, Research Associate, Bielefeld University
Fedja Wierød Borčak , Postdoc, University Of Copenhagen
Jessica Ortner, Associate Professor, University Of Copenhagen
Tea Sindbaek Andersen, Associate Professor, University Of Copenhagen
Moderators Jessica Ortner, Associate Professor, University Of Copenhagen
This panel deals with the meditation and reception of ctional migrant narratives that are concerned with war-time memories of the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Based on our research project mnemonic migration this panel investigates the mediation, the public reception and the recirculation of memories via the media of literature. The panel will present investigation of writings by the German authors Saša Stanišić, Nicol Ljubić, Alexander Hemon from the US and the Danish author Alen Mešković. Testing the idea that literature can forge prosthetic memory of a foreign experience, we analyse the aesthetic means by which the Bosnian war is presented by these authors and ask to what extend the authors engage with premediated forms of war representation in their respective host countries. The panel will show how the same event is mediated by di erent aesthetic means and thus (potentially) produces di erent forms of prosthetic memories. Furthermore, focusing on the aspect of reception, we will unfold the public reaction to the texts and demonstrate how migrant authors of successful literary writings are expected to have a truthful opinion on the past and the present state of the Balkans. Finally, we ask which role narratives by post-Yugoslav migrant authors get when their writings circulate back to their original home country. Using the method of focus group interviews, we investigate whether the westernized gaze of the Bosnian refugee writers ads anything new to the local narrative and if these writings have the potential to spark a (public) debate about national memory narratives.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C13: Remembering the Past Through the Lenses of Political Shifts
Room_13 Speakers Esra Ozyurek, Prof, University Of Cambridge
Irit Dekel, Assistant Professor For Germanic Studies And Jewish Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington, USA)
Öndercan Muti, PhD. Candidate, Humboldt University Berlin
Nil Mutluer, Dr., Einstein Foundation Senior Scholar, Humboldt University Of Berlin
Charalampos Karpouchtsis , PhD Candidate, Jena Center For Reconciliation Studies
Moderators Nil Mutluer, Dr., Einstein Foundation Senior Scholar, Humboldt University Of Berlin
This panel explores how political shifts in uence the way states, communities and individuals remember the past through four di erent cases from di erent geographies and time periods. Nil Mutluer explores how Kurds remember their past traumas and how structure of their hope has shifted before and after peace process in Turkey. Irit Dekel and Esra Özyürek argue that a shift took place from the commitment to Holocaust memory as proof to the strength and resilience of Germany as a democracy, into an exclusively white burden and protestant duty to protect Jews as a proof of the purity of Germany as a white Christian society. Öndercan Muti presents examples of grassroots activism of Armenian youth in di erent countries to argue how memory can lead to action and how social action can trigger memory but also spark a public debate on the meaning of the transnational memory of the Genocide. Finally Charalampos „Babis" Karpouchtsis focuses on the tension between the Greek and German authorities and counteractivists in remembering the past. The session will address methodologies in memory studies: ethnography, interview and discourse analysis.
01:00PM - 03:00PM C14: Sounds of War: Memories of World War II in Denmark, East Germany, and Taiwan
Room_14 Speakers Mikkel Krammer-Haßler , PhD Student, Aarhus University
Sigrid Nielsen Saabye , Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus University
Ai Chung, PhD, Aarhus University
Andreas Steen, Professor , Aarhus University
Wulf Kansteiner, Prof., Aarhus University
Moderators Stefan Berger, Professor Of Social History, RUB
The panel presents rst results of the research project SoundTrak conducted at Aarhus University and supported by the VELUX Foundation. SoundTrak explores soundscapes in the three Cold War battleground states of Taiwan, East Germany, and Denmark, comparable in size and strategic setting, through a topic fundamentally related to questions of national independence: the memory of WWII warfare, occupation, and liberation. How has the aural memory of WWII helped Taiwan, the GDR, and Denmark strive for memory independence from former and present hegemonic powers and competitors? SoundTrak seeks to capture the communicative relevance of sound for the constitution and experience of memory communities (Michelsen/Krogh 2017, Risso 2016, Zhang 2014, Hsu 2014, Lacey 2013, Garde-Hansen 2011, Chai 2000, Xia 1998). Research about the history of sound and more speci cally about collective memory and sound has only just begun. We conceptualize prominent sound events as nodes of memory (Rothberg 2009) with important multi-directional local, national, transnational, and transcultural entanglements (De Cesari/Rigney 2014). Thus, the panel attempts to document how sonic memories travel (Erll 2011) and investigate what ethical charge national and transnational memories assume (Bull/Hansen 2016). SoundTrak is part of the aural turn in memory studies and seeks to compare European and Asian aural memory cultures, focus speci cally on the memory challenges and accomplishments of relatively small societies and nations, and track and compare the transnational development of communist and capitalist aural memoryscapes. SoundTrak also explores the precise role of new media technologies and networks of exchange for processes of cultural integration and collective memory. For instance, how precisely have globalization and new digital recording techniques jeopardized or advanced the evolution of regional, national and transnational memory cultures? Are there transnationally valid sonic codes for the expression of national independence? Has globalization, despite the concomitant diversi cation and drastic increase of sound data, caused a gradual homogenization of sonic memoryscapes the world over?
01:00PM - 03:00PM C15: Economy of Memory - Memory of Economy
Room_15 Speakers Martha Beard, PhD Student , Brighton University
Till Hilmar, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bremen University
Myriam Gerber, Doctoral Candidate , Concordia University, Montreal
Megan Ison, PhD Researcher, University Of Portsmouth
Yi Wang, Assistant Professor, Waseda University
Moderators Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Warsaw
01:00PM - 03:00PM C16: Negotiating memories in global literature
Room_16 Speakers Holly Wielechowski, PhD Student , Wayne State University
Natalie Catasús, PhD Candidate, Emory University
Estibalitz Ezkerra, Lecturer, University Of California, Santa Barbara
Juliane Prade-Weiss, Professor Of Comparative Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Charlotte Mackay, PhD Candidate , The University Of Melbourne
Moderators Stef Craps, Professor Of English Literature, Ghent University
01:00PM - 03:00PM C17: Nostalgia for the lost Jewish World
Room_17 Speakers Adrienne Wallman, PhD Researcher, University Of Lancaster
Agata Szepe, PhD Student, Hebrew.art
Murat Bengisu, Professor - Faculty Member, Izmir University Of Economics
Aneta Dybska, Associate Professor, University Of Warsaw
Julia Golachowska, PhD Student, Jagiellonian University
Moderators Erica Lehrer, Professor, History & Sociology-Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
03:00PM - 05:00PM Working and Regional Groups Presentations (TBC) Moderators Plenary Session Chair TBA
05:00PM - 07:00PM D1: Virtual City Walks in Warsaw. Part 1(3): Socialist Architecture Track : Cultural program Room_1 Moderators Katarzyna Chmielewska, PHD; Assistant Professor, Institute Of Literary Research Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences (IBL PAN)
Virtual City Walks in Warsaw. Part 1 Socialist ArchitectureConstitution Square (Grzegorz Piątek) and Muranów District (Beata Chomątowska)Chair: Katarzyna Chmielewska 05:00PM - 07:00PM D2: Postcolonial Memories and Protest Movements: East-Central Europe vs. Hong Kong Track : Genealogies of Memory | Roundtable Room_2 Speakers Volodymyr Ishchenko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Technical University Of Dresden
Kristof Van Den Troost, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong
Jan Kubik, Professor Of Political Science , Rutgers University / UCL SSEES
Nelly Bekus, Dr, University Of Exeter
Simon Lewis, Associate Professor In The Cultural History Of Eastern And East-Central Europe, University Of Bremen
Moderators Ksenia Robbe, Senior Lecturer, University Of Groningen
What role has cultural memory played in the recent and/or ongoing protest movements in Europe and beyond? This roundtable explores the proliferation, reinvention and reappropriation of historical symbols and colonial legacies in the mass protest movements that have rocked East European societies in recent years (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine), comparing them to the civil unrest in Hong Kong in 2019-2020. It asks: to what extent are postsocialism and postcolonialism aligned in the pro- democracy movements of East-Central Europe and what parallels can be drawn with the regionally distant case of Hong Kong? Is East-Central European post-dependency, in which past and present Russian hegemony plays a decisive role, comparable to the China-Hong Kong relationship? What, if any, parallels can be drawn between East European memories of socialism and representations of the past in an East Asian former British colony? What is the role of travelling patterns and forms of protest actions in shaping new global 'protest repertoires' and how their creative adaptation to local conditions a ects the image and the identity of protesters? Or in other words, is there anything speci cally European -- or, conversely, Hongkongese -- about these protests that can be evinced in their deployment of memory?
05:00PM - 07:00PM D3: Global Memory Convergences: Present Challenges and New Horizons Track : Global Memories WG Room_3 Speakers Agata Joanna Lagiewka, PhD Candidate , National University Of Ireland
Rong Aries Li, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University
Rosanne Kennedy, Associate Professor, Australian National University
Katrin Antweiler, Doctoral Researcher, International Graduate Center For The Study Of Culture/ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Moderators Jarula Wegner, Dr, Goethe University Frankfurt
The Global Memories working group continues to explore critically the idea of 'global memories', and, along with the conference theme, especially the convergences of memories and their di erent layers of mnemonic entanglement. The present condition is characterized by increased dynamics of economic exchange, migration and communication around the globe. These dynamics impact the social, material and media practices of remembrance. Memories are created, disseminated and received on larger, faster and denser scales than ever before. This panel analyses these globalizing dynamics. More speci cally, the panel critically investigates classical sites of 'global memories' such as those surrounding World War II and newly emerging movements that also appear to approach global remembrance. Rong Li (Rutgers University) analyses divergences and accommodations in the construction of transnational memoires of the US-China World War II military alliance across the Paci c. Li argues that because memory actors often disagreed over whose wartime contribution to foreground and which to commemorate, they advocated competitive narratives more than inclusive ones. Agata Lagiewka (National University of Ireland) discusses the contested memories of Jewish-Polish pasts in contemporary public discourse in Poland. Lagiewka highlights discrepancies between national strategies of remembrance and globally circulated memories of Holocaust experiences. Although World War II created globalised memories, the two presentations suggest that their content di ers across nations as well as between national and international discourses. The next two presentations demonstrate concerns about attributing World War II memories a central place in global memory practices and gesture towards newly emerging 'global memories'. Katrin Antweiler (Justus Liebig University Giessen) analyses memories of the Holocaust between local concerns and global demands. Considering a global memory imperative, Antweiler investigates whether a universally advised practice of memorialising the Holocaust can be regarded as a technique of global governmentality within a global colonial matrix of power. Lastly, Rosanne Kennedy (Australian National University) investigates Black Lives Matter and the struggle for justice as a way of rethinking paradigms of 'global memory'. Kennedy asks, what is at stake, politically and ethically, in the shift from the Holocaust as a retrospective memory paradigm to Black Lives Matter as an idiom that circulates memories of police brutality and deaths in custody and that underpins national struggles for justice in the present? Together the four presentations discuss past and present globalised memory convergences, their undeniable challenges and their potential new horizons.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D4: Memory, and Decoloniality as Praxis in Latin America Track : Latin America RG Room_4 Speakers Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Associate Professor In Latin American Studies, The University Of Auckland
Fernando Velásquez Villalba, PhD Candidate In Latin American Studies, The University Of Auckland
Antonio Traverso, Dr, Curtin University
Barbara Fernandez-Melleda, Assistant Professor In Latin American Studies, The University Of Hong Kong
Moderators Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Associate Professor In Latin American Studies, The University Of Auckland
It could be argued that Latin America's decolonial school of thought (Dussel, Quijano, Mignolo, Walsh, Grosfoguel, Lugones, etc.) is one of the epistemological foundations that have shaped the memory initiatives that have emerged in the region since the 1960s. Following Human Rights' agendas, the task of memory increased during the 1970s and 1980s when the region was enduring dictatorial regimes, civil wars, and/or internal armed con icts. This trend is clearly manifested in the process of transition to democracy begun in the mid-1980s, which were initiated through the seminal implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, rst in Bolivia in 1982, then subsequently in Argentina and Chile, to be later exported to the rest of the world. In its current phase, the labour of memory in Latin America has mainly been fought by civil society movements working within the cultural arena. This panel proposes that the memory work carried out in Latin America over the last 50 years represents the convergence of two epistemological theorizations: Decolonial and Memory Studies. Although Chile is the panel's central focus, Peru's current memory battles also allows us to assess the prevailing role played by what Aníbal Quijano described as "the coloniality of power". In Peru, this approach is crucial to understand the ethnic genocide that took place during Peru's "internal armed con ict" (1980-2000). Chile, on the other hand, represents a paradigmatic case to study some of the region's historical stages, from the colonial to the present neoliberal era. In that respect, the Mapocho River crystallises Chile's di erent identity formation phases. In contemporary Chilean literature, authors who where children during the dictatorship (1973-1990) have been marked by the untenable status of being "impossible witnesses". This impossibility, however, acquired a new actuality on October 5th, 2020, when a 16-year-old boy participating in Chile's current uprising campaign was violently pushed into the Mapocho river by a police o cer, thus directly reanacting the traumatic memories of the recent past. In the realm of cultural production and distribution, what has become quite visible is a global movement of activists and creative practitioners who are directly aligned with decoloniality. To this end, this panel pays attention to creative responses-street art and performance, gra ti art, and activist video and photograph - reacting to state violence in Chile. Special attention is given to those expressions that link the political and cultural memory of the 1973-1990, and the social upheaval initiated in October 2019. In this context, the state terrorism set in place by Sebastián Piñera's administration to contain the ongoing "estallido social" brings back the memories of the dictatorial regime, while converging at once the decolonization agenda that brought to power Salvador Allende in September, 1970. Furthermore, in the current non-politically a liated movement ignited and led by teenagers and young adults, a form of cultural cannibalism has facilitated the convergence of di erent epochs and artistic languages produced in di erent parts of the globe.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D5: Género y memoria: voces protagonistas más allá de la victimización y del olvido (in Spanish) Room_5 Track : Latin America RG
Speakers Pablo Marrtinez Zarate, Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana
Manuel Sánchez-Moreno, Professor, Universidad Internacional De La Rioja (UNIR)
Florencia Marchetti, PhD Candidate, Concordia University, Montreal
Moderators Luz Maceira-Ochoa, Independent Researcher, N/A
Las investigaciones feministas han identi cado diversos efectos del orden de género en las con guraciones de la memoria y en las luchas en torno a ellas. La discriminación de las mujeres y otros grupos sulbaternizados predominante en las sociedades se reproduce en la arena de la memoria. En América Latina múltiples estudios han intentado subsanar el olvido - o desprecio- de las mujeres presente en comisiones de verdad, relatos o ciales y otras narrativas predominantes, y han documentado las múltiples formas en las que las mujeres han sufrido las guerras, dictaduras y otras grandes violencias. Este panel reúne contribuciones que trascienden el usual foco centrado en la violencia contra las mujeres para problematizar la construcción de las mujeres en la memoria en tanto víctimas y los lugares-cuerpos desde los que se posicionan y participan en procesos históricos de sus comunidades, y en concreto, en aquellos relacionados con la paz, la verdad y la justicia, y la reivindicación de sus derechos humanos. Asimismo identi ca acciones feministas y de grupos LGTBQ+ en la arena de la memoria y los derechos humanos. A partir de esto se re exiona sobre algunas categorías comunes a los debates sobre género y memoria, se cuestionan algunos sesgos o carencias prevalecientes en ellos, y también crece el repertorio de discursos, relaciones sociales y afectivas, y experiencias colectivas que suponen prácticas de resistencia, y formas de lucha por la verdad, la justicia o la paz en el largo camino para la construcción de la democracia y la igualdad.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D6: Prótesis visuales. Mirando memorias mediatizadas y sus potencialidades para la democracia (in Spanish) Room_6 Track : Latin America RG
Speakers Maria Veronica Troncoso Guzman, Cadidate Doctoral, University Of Konstanz
Natala Ruiz-Rubio, Professor Of Spanish , Eastern Washington University
Rosela Millones Cabrera, Doctoral Student, Universidad De Chile
Javiera Gaete, Student, Ponti cia Universidad Catolica De Chile
Camila Van Diest, Temporary Lecturer And Research Assistant, CERLIS
Moderators Hendrikje Grunow, Coordinator Of The MA Program Con ict, Memory And Peace, Co-coordinator Regional Group Latin America, Katholische Universität
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Como lo explicó Alison Landsberg, las memorias prostéticas se transmiten a través de medios de la cultura de masas en vez de experiencias propias. Su carácter se puede considerar experimental únicamente en cuanto a la recepción del medio, sin embargo, no hace que los contenidos de éstos no sean de importancia e impacto en las comunidades consumidoras de ellos. "This new form of memory, which I call prosthetic memory, emerges at the interface between a person and a historical narrative about the past, at an experiential site such as a movie theater or museum. In this moment of contact, an experience occurs through which the person sutures himself or herself into a larger history…" [Landsberb, 2004: 2]. En este panel proponemos entonces indagar la circulación y apropiación de memorias a través de distintos formatos visuales, como fotografías, cine, narrativas grá cas o archivos digitales y su impacto en los receptores, su potencial para contar historias del pasado, de enganchar distintos públicos o de apoyar causas resistentes, y por ende, su potencial político para las luchas por la democracia. Se trata entonces de analizar la transmisión de memorias de testigos e involucrados a generaciones posteriores, en contextos geográ cos distintos y entre públicos alternativos. Las ponencias de este panel van a situar estos aspectos dentro de diferentes momentos históricos en Chile, Perú y Uruguay, y basándose en medios artísticos, particularmente visuales, producidos tanto institucionalmente como de manera independiente o ciudadana.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D7: Memory and Materiality Track : Memory and Arts WG Room_7 Speakers Judith Martinez Estrada, PhD Candidate, University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Adela Goldbard, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School Of Design RISD
Maria Zirra, Senior Lecturer, Department Of English, Stockholm University
Irina Troconis, Assistant Professor Of Latin American Studies, Cornell University
Moderators Irina Troconis, Assistant Professor Of Latin American Studies, Cornell University
The papers in this panel explore the ways in which di erent materialities converge and enable the production and dissemination of practices and narratives of memory in works that cut across various geographies, historical times, and artistic genres. We will discuss literature's material presence, the archive as performance, and art's potential to reactivate the past and mobilize it in an e ort to challenge authority and to craft new political futures. Ultimately, our discussion aims to explore the theoretical implications of thinking of materiality as a shaping mnemonic force in the recent developments in the eld of memory studies.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D8: Memory and Trauma: Issues of Identity and Transmission Track : Memory and Trauma WG Room_8 Speakers Barbara Pabjan, Dr Hab., Univeristy Of Wrocław Institute Of Sociology
Anna Menyhért, Prof. Dr., University Of Jewish Studies, Budapest
Annie Rappeport, PhD Candidate , University Of Maryland College Park
Allan Martell, Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University
Anne St. John-Stark, Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Moderators Anne St. John-Stark, Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
This panel is an exploration of trauma as it manifests at the convergence of groups and individuals, participants, perpetrators and bystanders, student and researcher, the reconciled and the irreconcilable. Panelists consider what it means to belong to a collective, a group or community as it experiences and experienced trauma. The location of bystanders in historic trauma, and the place of trauma within their memory pushes the edges of current discourse around who su ers, and around the extent of damage. What happens to trauma in the processes of negotiation and reconciliation measures, to bystanders, multiple generations, those whose stories of trauma ll the discourses of negotiation, identity and reconciliation? Bystanders and those who directly experience trauma all participate in the discourse about and the engagement with trauma and memory, inevitably, and this raises larger questions about the ownership of trauma telling. Transmission of the stories of trauma and its witnessing occurs across literature, political and social initiatives, through social media and the digital environment, across generations, and throughout classrooms.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D9: Fractured memory of the colonial encounter: Canada and the Indigenous present. Part 2(2) Room_9 Track : MSA Canada RG
Speakers Audrey Rousseau, Professeure De Sociologie, Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais
Joannie Jean, Part-time Professor, Université D'Ottawa
Joanna R. Quinn, Associate Professor, Western Univeristy
Melissa Levin, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University Of Toronto
Moderators L. Sasha Gora, Environmental Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow , Center For The Humanities And Social Change, Ca' Foscari University Of Venice
Places of colonial encounters teem with fractured and con icted memories. The fault lines and con icts however, as persistent as they are, do not appear evenly visible through time. Their salience recedes at times, to suddenly reemerge at others. 2020 represents a spectacular moment, when forces of the pandemic, the climate collapse and anti-racisms revolts converge and make visible that which was only recently hidden, in plain sight. 2020 seems to also represent a moment in which those calling for the removal of the colonial statues, those erecting land (and climate) defense blockades and those calling for de-militarization and abolition of the police converge in forming new solidaristic repertoire of contention. In this panel we seek to explore the recent explosion of mnemonic and material struggles in colonial settings. Our main empirical case is Canada (or Canada placed in a comparative perspective) where the o cial multicultural rhetoric, state discourse of Indigenous reconciliation, mainstream adoption of land acknowledgments and BLM solidarity statements, are met with climate, land and memory activism. Our conceptual preoccupations concern the applicability of collective memory framework to current con icts, the salience of judgment and persistence of history in the present, and the successes (and failures) of practices of de-commemoration (that is the symbolic reckoning with the venerated heroes/villains of the past, commemorated in statues, park names, etc.).
05:00PM - 07:00PM D10: Curatorial Dilemmas Workshop Track : Museums and Memory WG Room_10 Speakers Silke Arnold-de Simine, Dr/Reader, Birkbeck University Of London
Rebecca Dolgoy, Curator Of Natural Resources An Industrial Technologies, Ingenium
Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
Amy Sodaro, Associate Professor Of Sociology, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
Moderators Amy Sodaro, Associate Professor Of Sociology, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
The MSA Museums and Memory Working Group will hold a workshop on Curatorial Dilemmas. The workshop will begin with a series of very brief presentations on curatorial challenges intended to spark a broader discussion of "curating di cult knowledge." We are taking an expansive view of what it means to curate and will include presentations and participants from museum, activist and academic backgrounds who have encountered curatorial dilemmas. Following these examples, we will pose a set of hypothetical and/or real curatorial challenges and workshop ideas for how to curate this di cult knowledge. We will draw on the context of the conference's location in Warsaw and current debates around competing and converging memories to consider issues related to decolonizing the museum, transnational commemorative practices and the ethics of curating di cult knowledge.The goal of the workshop is to not only stimulate fruitful intellectual discussion related to the larger conference and working group themes, but to also create a productive space across museum practice, academia and activism through which we can begin create meaningful collaborations that break down perceived boundaries between theory and practice, and that might impact the transnational development of museums to produce and circulate memory.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D11: Constellations of Colonial Memory: Connected frames of war, violence, and displacement in the twentieth century Room_11 Speakers Jonas Prinzleve, PhD Candidate, Centre For Comparative Studies (CEC), University Of Lisbon
Piera Rossetto, Post-doc Fellow, Centre For Jewish Studies - University Of Graz
Meghan Tinsley, Presidential Fellow , University Of Manchester
Elsa Peralta, Senior Researcher, Universidade De Lisboa, Faculdade De Letras
Silvia Correia, Professor , Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro
Moderators Silvia Correia, Professor , Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro
Elsa Peralta, Senior Researcher, Universidade De Lisboa, Faculdade De Letras
This panel intends to analyse the ways in which individuals and groups mediate their experiences of war and displacement within larger historical and/or cultural memory frames. It seeks to put forward an empirically grounded theoretical proposal that highlights the multidirectional nature of the memory of violent historical experiences. The focus will be on the ways in which multiple memory frames are inter-activated, and how a common language for articulating war, violence, and displacement are connectively worked through, over owing temporal and geographical limits and entangling di erent historical processes. In particular, the panel contends that the memories of armed con ict and displacement of the twentieth century cannot be disentangled from the colonial episteme and from the longue durée of colonialism's operations of power and dominance. The several communications included in the panel thus seek to frame experiences of war and violence within colonial historical processes, and to emphasize the relevance of such entanglements for the producing of cultural memory. An interdisciplinary group of researchers will present discussions that provincialize European contemporary experiences, moving the colonial past and the associated instruments of power and violence to the centre of the discussion. Thus, Correia will seek to show how remembering the First World War means remembering the colonial past, as these are entangled narratives. In a similar vein, Peralta will connect experiences of forced displacement and/or economic migration to the wars that accompanied the end of European colonial empires in the post-WWII era. Both Rosseto and Tinsley will address ongoing processes of dis-acknowledgement of troubling colonial pasts, fostering a discussion about their implications for national identity formulations in Europe. Rosseto will look at the invisibility of postcolonial repatriations and its place within the European collective memory. Tinsley will turn to sites that commemorate colonial violence and their power to unsettle cohesive memories and collective identities. Finally, Prinzleve will relate di erent genocides, their uneven distribution in contemporary heritage regimes and their "complex implications" in the European urban space. The various communications will place seemingly disparate experiences of war and violence within a joint analytical framework to provide a displaced angle that will help revitalize research on cultural memory by suggesting a systemic, multi-layered approach. The panel will thus contribute to overcome the theoretical shortcomings arising from conventional academic approaches to comparison by stressing the multiple entanglements between disparate frames of memory. Moreover, it will consider the centrality and signi cance of other geographies, not only regarding twentieth-century experiences of war, but mostly with respect to their processes of remembrance. Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of this proposal, connecting perspectives from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, dedicated to cross-cutting approaches to Memory Studies.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D12: Convergences and Divergences. Contemporary Eastern European and North American Diasporic Children’s Literature of Atrocity Room_12 Speakers Elina Moraitopoulou, PhD Student, University Of Hamburg
Justyna Mętrak, MA (graduate Student), University Of Wrocław
Dorota Michułka, Professor, University Of Wrocław (Institute Of Polish Studies)
Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg, PhD/ Assistant Professor, University Of Wrocław (Institute Of Slavic Studies)
Mateusz Świetlicki, Dr./ Assistant Professor, University Of Wrocław (Institute Of English Studies)
Moderators Mateusz Świetlicki, Dr./ Assistant Professor, University Of Wrocław (Institute Of English Studies)
John Locke's concept of the child's mind as a blank slate (tabula rasa) introduced in Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), as well as Jean Jacques Rousseau's arguments in Émile, ou De l'éducation (1762) that the way adults educate their innocent children is responsible for all of their potential future wrongdoings, have had a signi cant e ect on the development of Western children's literature. Despite the struggles of Locke and his followers to protect children from scary stories, "children's literature has become a veritable repository for chilling tales of the supernatural" (Ulanowicz 2). With the continuous popularity of children's and YA speculative ction, a di erent type of challenging texts for young readers appeared in the late twentieth century–narratives devoted to real horrors of the recent past, especially the Holocaust (Kokkola I). This panel, considering a range of children's books on Eastern European history, seeks to explore convergences in the various approaches to national and transnational memory in texts written by both local and diasporic authors. Kenneth Kidd calls this type of texts "children's literature of atrocity" (121) and Jane Gangi uses the term "the literature of genocide for young people" (7). Kidd notes that despite the di culty to talk about war atrocities with children, "there seems to be consensus now that children's literature is the most rather than the least appropriate literary forum for trauma work" (119). He further adds that "almost as if we now expect reading about trauma to be traumatic itself – as if we think that children can't otherwise comprehend atrocity" (120). While children's literature scholars note that the focus of most of the authors of this type of texts is on the need to address individual and collective trauma (Bosmajian, Kertzer) and portray postmemory (Hirsch) /second-generation memory (Ulanowicz), this panel seeks to examine the potential of literature to become the source of such memory for contemporary readers. References: Bosmajian, Hamida. Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust. Routledge 2002. Gangi, Jane. Genocide in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur. Routledge 2014. Hirsch, Marianne, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1997. Kertzer, Adrienne. My Mother's Voice: Children's Literature and the Holocaust. Peterborough, ON, Broadview Press 2002. Kidd, Kenneth B. ""A" is for Auschwitz: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the "Children's Literature of Atrocity"." Children's Literature, no. 33, 2005, pp. 120-149. Kokkola, Lydia. Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature. New York: Routledge 2003 Trubunella, Erik L., Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature. University of Tennessee Press 2010.Ulanowicz, Anastasia. Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images. Routledge 2013.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D13: Di!cult Memories of Violence: Reading Traumatic Pasts in/as Present Convergences Room_13 Speakers Jessica Young, Assistant Professor, New College Of Florida
Dina Georgis, Associate Professor, University Of Toronto
Amber Dean, Associate Professor, McMaster University
Phanuel Antwi, Assistant Professor, University Of British Columbia
Angela Failler, Professor, University Of Winnipeg
Moderators Angela Failler, Professor, University Of Winnipeg
This collection of papers o ers a range of engagements with di cult memories of violence, searching for new ways to read the traumatic past and its repetitions/returns in the present. Panelists cut across lm, literature, documentary and news media to explore how representations of violence in these forms might invite re ection on how loss is embodied and lived. What conditions do remembrance practices need to foster for working through traumatic pasts in ways that support us to dwell with di cult memories, and forego the too-simple pleasures of presuming "a lesson learned" or a "never again"? What are the complex, embodied a ects, pleasures, con icts, and desires that can accompany loss (and our engagements with representations of loss)? Traversing memories of war, anti-Black racism, settler colonial violence, terrorism, and the recent COVID crisis, this panel gathers around present convergences of historical traumas, and possibilities of representing and living with di cult memories.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D14: Gender and Memories of Radical Left Activism
Room_14 Speakers Martina Biondi, PhD Fellow, University Of Perugia
David Farrell-Banks, PhD Candidate, Newcastle University
Ana So"a Ferreira, Professor, New University Of Lisbon
David Beorlegui, Postdoc Researcher, University Of The Basque Country
Lucie Drechselova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Czech Academy Of Sciences
Moderators Lucie Drechselova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Czech Academy Of Sciences
Our panel will address the gendered experience of activism focusing on the radical left and the 1970s across several case studies which speak to each other. We examine written and oral autobiographical accounts of female activists with two interlinked aims – rst, to uncover the gendered dimension of activist's labour in the 1970s; second, to analyse the gendered features of activist memory. On an individual level, this means to uncover how the process of remembering shapes one's understanding of earlier activism. But the retrospective revision of individual experience doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens within and without the existing narratives about the radical left. It is thus necessary to uncover the tensions, negotiations and ssures that gendered remembering engenders with what constitutes the dominant or canonical story about the past. It appears across the case studies that the posterior encounters with feminism were instrumental for individual resigni cation of experience since the feminist movement provided discursive and experiential resources for re- reading of the past experience. We seek to clarify the speci c weight of feminist discourses in the con guration of activist's subjectivities and its memory. The panel assumes the necessity of establishing a dialogue between di erent countries to analyse the de ning issues of female radical activism in the 1970s. It attempts to identify some shared narratives and patterns of emotions that are constitutive of a whole generation of activists and its (cultural) memory. Notwithstanding the importance assigned to comparative and even transnational memories, each case study displays the particularities of the remembrance processes nowadays within each speci c context.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D15: Memories of the Lost Cause. Communities of Defeat in Germany, Poland and the United States Room_15 Speakers Alexandra Viets, Lecturer , Johns Hopkins University
Martin Bayer, CEO/federal State Of Berlin Section, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge E.V.
Hanno Hochmuth, Dr., Leibniz Centre For Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
Tilmann Siebeneichner, Dr. Phil
Maria Kobielska, Assistant Professor, Faculty Of Polish Studies Of The Jagiellonian University In Cracow
Moderators Tilmann Siebeneichner, Dr. Phil
Up to this day, Southern nationalists in the US refer to the Civil War as a "War of Northern Aggression" and regard the Confederates' e ort as a "lost cause" in their ght for self-determination. De ant memory communities, however, can also be found in other nations' histories. Both the notorious "stab-in-the-back myth" ("Dolchstoßlegende") of the Weimar Republic era and public discourses about the GDR's "sellout" after 1989 are well-known German examples of adhering to a lost cause. In Poland, in turn, the "doomed soldiers" who kept ghting against the Soviet occupiers after the Second World War have been commemorated as heroes of a "lost cause", regardless of the fact that many of them committed barbaric crimes. These examples show that a "lost cause" transfers multiple meanings, referring to a former territory or a past society, but is always connected to a sense of "defeat". When applying the term to a "defeated" society, interesting analogies between Germany, Poland and the US appear: the adoration of the large-agrarian South and the popular distrust towards the capitalistic "Yankee" resemble "ostalgic" memories about the GDR's welfare state in sharp contrast to West-Germany's capitalist "dog- eat-dog society". The commemoration of the "doomed soldiers" is largely based on an almost mythical memory. The alleged backstabbing on their own troops that had been "undefeated in the eld" was a popular trope in Germany's post-World War I-society that corresponds with the glori cation of the "doomed soldiers" in Poland today. The commemoration of "patriotic" soldiers who have fallen for the nation's cause frequently comes along with the glori cation of military leaders such as eld marshal Paul von Hindenburg or the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The session "Memories of the Lost Cause" takes up a comparative perspective directed towards "communities of defeat" in Germany, Poland and the US throughout the 19th and 20th century. By addressing how such communities are constructed and how they interact, the session discusses structures, practices and purposes connected to a "lost cause" in a historical and transnational perspective. What role did these "inferior" narratives play in overcoming crisis-ridden transformation periods (in bridging or deepening societal division)? Who provided and stimulated „lost causes" and how did they interact with popular media? To what extend are they fueled by economic interests or could even considered to be inventions of the economy itself? Discussing economic, historical and cultural dimensions of a "lost cause" might also shed a light on the social processes of temporalizing contested places such as the American "South", the GDR and war-torn Poland since they all symbolize a lost and somewhat idealized past. Introducing "Memories of the Lost Cause" complicates public commemoration and addresses "inferior" discourses about the purposes of history in the past and in the present. A transnational approach as provided in the proposed session allows for a re ection on the development and status quo of Public History both in Central Europe and the US.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D16: Memory and Geography. Part 2(4): Ruins and Rights - Urban Memory Politics
Room_16 Speakers Pamela Sertzen, Ph.D. Candidate, Syracuse University
Stefan Norgaard, PhD Student In Urban Planning, Columbia University
Adam Lundberg, PhD Student, Department Of Social And Economic Geography, Uppsala University
Gruia Badescu, Research Fellow Zukunftskolleg & Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University Of Konstanz
Scott Webster, Dr, The University Of Sydney
Moderators Rebecca Sheehan, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Memory takes place somewhere. Memory, memorial landscapes, and memory work have thoroughly permeated the eld of geography, and geography, in turn, has begun to in uence a spatial turn within memory studies. As the social science of where, geography is uniquely placed to examine the spaces, places, and landscapes that attend the process of remembering and forgetting. This panel seeks to further bridge geography and memory studies through interdisciplinary engagement with ruination, social justice, and materiality, particularly in urban settings. This panel explores this spatial turn in memory studies and what an intense focus on the geographies of memory might o er theoretically, empirically, and politically. With contributions from a broad array of scholars studying the spatiality of memory, as well as those whose research speci cally is in dialogue with the conference highlight on "the role of public memory in democratic societies and in the struggle for racial justice," this second of four panels highlights two clear themes of ruination and memory in urban contexts. Overall, we hope this session will further link the scholarship of geographers working at the intersection of memory, social justice, and politics with the growing voice of the memory studies community. Keywords: Geography, Landscape, Space, Place, Justice, Narrative, History, Politics, Ruin, Urban
05:00PM - 07:00PM D17: Remembering Absence: Memorializing Trauma in Contested Spaces
Room_17 Speakers Susan Garza, Professor Of English, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Elijah Gaddis, Assistant Professor Of History, Auburn University
Sarah Dornhof, Dr. / Postdoc, Researcher, Humboldt University Of Berlin
Ulrike Capdepon, Postdoc Rsearch Fellow, Project Coordinator, University Of Konstanz
Jill Strauss, Associate Professor, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
Moderators Sarah Dornhof, Dr. / Postdoc, Researcher, Humboldt University Of Berlin
Memorial landscapes often represent absence: of context, of interpretation, of accountability. Memory becomes contestable through material objects in public spaces. When places hold multiple and opposing memories, the question of whose histories are remembered, or marginalized and excluded, becomes crucial for understanding social dynamics and political transformations. This panel focuses on contested memory practices by bringing in localities in Morocco, Spain, and the United States. The works we examine are lost or destroyed, nonexistent, or lacking in their capacity to fully account for their memorial aims.
05:00PM - 07:00PM D18: Commemorating Racism and Slavery
Room_18 Speakers Jen-Chieh Lin, PhD Student In History, King's College London
Jenny Woodley, Senior Lecturer In Modern History, Nottingham Trent University
Jeff Hirschy , Assistant Professor, University Of Southern Mississippi
Danielle Lucksted, PhD Student, Stony Brook University
Ashley Reichelmann, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Moderators Astrid Rasch, Associate Professor, Norwegian University Of Science And Technology
05:00PM - 07:00PM D19: Embodying memory
Room_19 Speakers Catrina De Rivera, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Monika Żychlińska, Doctoral Student, University Of Warsaw
Marije Hristova, Assistant Professor, Radboud University
Lise Zurné, PhD Candidate, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Raina Zimmering, Prof.Dr., Institut Für Internationale Politik
Moderators Clare Par"tt, PhD Supervisor, University Of Chichester
05:00PM - 07:00PM D20: Cinematic Representations of War and Trauma
Room_20 Speakers Elke Heckner, Lecturer, University Of Iowa
Tebessüm Yilmaz, PhD Candidate, Humboldt University Of Berlin
Elisa Kriza, Postdoc, University Of Bamberg
KAMELIA Talebian Sedehi, PhD Candidate, La Sapienza University Of Rome
Eva Kingsepp, Associate Professor, Karlstad University
Moderators Chair TBA
07:00PM - 08:30PM Keynote Lecture: Olivette Otele - Memory of Colonial Enslavement: Convergent Activism in 21st Century Britain Keynote lecture Moderators Jenny Wustenberg, Associate Professor, Nottingham Trent University
Day 3, Jul 07, 2021
09:30AM - 11:30AM E1: European Societies in Transition Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_1 Speakers Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Professor Of Peace And Con ict Studies, Center For Con ict Studies. Philipps University Marburg
Maria Czaputowicz-Głowacka, PhD Student, University Of Warsaw
Joerg Hackmann, Professor, U Szczecin
Dobre Claudia-Florentina, Researcher, N. Iorga Institute Of History, Bucharest
Bernabé Wesley, Assistant Professor, Université De Montréal
Moderators Chair TBA
09:30AM - 11:30AM E2: Memory and ideology in discourse of human rights in Croatia and Serbia Track : Critical Human Rights and Memory WG Room_2 Speakers Lea David, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
Sven Milekić, Phd Fellow, Maynooth University
Nikolina Židek, Adjunct Professor/ Fellow, School Of Global And Public A airs IE University Madrid/Center For Advanced Studies Of Southeastern Europe,
University Of Rijeka
Jelena Đureinović , Scienti c Coordinator Of The Research Platform Eastern Europe And Transformations, University Of Vienna
Ana Ljubojevic, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of Graz
Moderators Ana Ljubojevic, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of Graz
This set of papers analyses the role of memory entrepreneurs in facilitating convergences of memory and ideology through the discourse of human rights. Our rst question deals with identifying memory actors on the ground before researching some visible processes of shifts of memory discourses related to the WWII and 1990s wars in Croatia and Serbia. What kind of initiatives and institutionalized roles are mobilized? Who are they addressing and why? Our second focus is on changes and convergences from a longue durée perspective. What kind of ideologies are embraced and related to memories of war and their legacies? How are they ltered through a human rights discourse? Which historical circumstances are enabling particular present-day narratives?Two of the proposed papers deal with institutional actors anchored in the political system of situation countries, while the other two shed light on powerful communities of memory, i.e. diaspora and war veterans. Although di erent in content, the use of ideology (and particularly the right-wing one) and human rights discourse mirrored similar strategies in all of the proposed case studies. We look forward to discussing and share them with fellow memory studies colleagues.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E3: Changing Versions of the Past Track : MSA Asia RG Room_3 Speakers Vandana Saxena, Assistant Professor, Xiamen University Malaysia
Kar Yen Leong , Assistant Professor , Tamkang University
Jocelyn Martin, Assistant Professor, Ateneo De Manila University
Le Hoangan Julien, PhD Student, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté University
Moderators Kar Yen Leong , Assistant Professor , Tamkang University
As we move into an age where the violent events of the 20th century are being increasingly remembered by those who did not participate in them directly, we are confronted by ever changing versions of the past. Instead of a clear line between the victims and perpetrators, the memories often shift to dwell on the grey zones where such distinctions blur into each other. These changes may arise from the shift in the attitudes over a period of time. Or they may be the e ect of the temporal and spatial distance that creates conditions for the intervention of alternative narratives and justi cations. Or the changes in o cial positions which leads to the attempts of re-shaping the memory of an event according to the present political, social and economic exigencies. In this sense, memory of an event becomes a palimpsest of ideologies and trends of thought that dominate the intervening years. This panel looks at the shifting memories of the past and the changing images and perceptions of the perpetrators of the con ict in di erent parts of Southeast and East Asia. We are especially interested in the way such changes in the frameworks of the memory surrounding an event allow us to interpret and understand the present national and international concerns.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E4: (De)nationalizing Memories: Interrogating Chineseness from the ‘Peripheries’
Room_4 Speakers Wenzhuo Zhang, PhD Candidate, Centre For Heritage And Museum Studies, The Australian National University
Licheng Qian, Assistant Professor Of Sociology, Zhejiang University
Yiwen Liu, PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University
Linshan Jiang, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara
Jin Dai, PhD Candidate, Loughborough University
Andong Li, PhD Candidate, King's College London
Moderators Andong Li, PhD Candidate, King's College London
In line with the studies of 'transnational memory' that have ourished in recent years, this panel asks how memories are nationalized and/or denationalized in di erent scales and through di erent media. It contributes to the conference's overall theme by assembling an array of theoretical and empirical re ection on the ways in which overlapping memories of (de)national belongings travel, compete, and converge in contemporary post-revolution, post-Cold War China. The papers regard critical analyses of (de)nationalization of memory as an approach to questioning – while still acknowledging the saliency of – the national frame. In particular, the papers focus on the relationship between memory and Chinese nationalism, interrogating 'Chineseness' by not only unpacking the concept from Greater China's 'peripheries' (Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the overseas) but also problematizing the 'center-periphery' dichotomy itself. The panel is organized with four empirical papers that also address theoretical issues. The papers examine (de)nationalization of memory in global, national, familial, and personal scales and through various media. On the collective level, this panel investigates representations of the past xed through cultural formation such as lm and literature. On the individual level, the panel explores how individuals remember in sociocultural contexts through mediated ways such as photography and social media. By examining memories of Hong Kong 1967 Riots depicted in an independent lm, the rst paper argues that the lm's foregrounding subjugated memories is a critical investigation into how we make meanings of contemporary social movements outside of binarized national frameworks. The second paper compares the recurrent representation of Nieh Hua-ling's war memory as a refugee student in the Second Sino-Japanese War and explores the relationship between rewriting and 'working through traumatic memories'. The third paper shows how mainland Chinese young people nationalize their childhood memories of watching Taiwanese 'idol dramas' by remembering and comparing their experiences of watching them in their childhood and rewatching them on social media when they grow up. The fourth paper treats family- owned photographs as 'memory objects' and focuses on a series of 'practices of remembering' conducted on photographs among Han Chinese families in Xinjiang, revealing how Han Chinese memorize their resettlement between 'ideological frontier construction' and 'personal life survival'. The papers share the common thread of transcending the 'center-periphery' dichotomy and the national frame – which underlies the dichotomy – by showing that 1) the nation-state of China is one among various scales within and across which 'Chineseness' is remembered and imagined, and 2) the nation-state and its center/periphery are not homogeneous and static but heterogeneous and dynamic, which suggests (de)nationalization of memory as 'becoming' rather than 'being'. (De)nationalizing Memories will be chaired by Andong Li and discussed by a scholar a liated to a Chinese university. Considering sensitive issues this panel may cause according to the Hong Kong national security law, the panel organizers decided to keep the discussant anonymous and not add his name to the panel submission.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E5: Dreams Un/abducted. Antifascist Memory Reconsidered
Room_5 Speakers Maximilian Becker, Lise Meitner Research Fellow, Institute Of Culture Studies And Theatre History, Austrian Academy Of Science
Emma Kuby , Associate Professor And Assistant Department Chair, Department Of History, Northern Illinois University
Máté Zombory, Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University
Zoltán Kékesi, Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellow, Zentrum Für Antisemitismusforschung, TU-Berlin
Moderators Joanne Sayner, Senior Lecturer In Cultural And Heritage Studies, School Of Arts And Cultures, Newcastle University "A Dream that Cannot be Abducted. My Way between East and West," is the title of a 1967 memoir of Heinz Brandt, a Jewish- Communist resistance ghter, Auschwitz survivor, East German dissident, trade unionist, and anti-nuclear activist. The title of his memoir testi es to antifascism as a "remembered horizon" (Eley 1996) of political action and as an inherently international, cross-Cold War phenomenon. Since the 1970s, however, antifascist memory as cultivated by Brandt and so many in his generation has been, indeed, "abducted" by the revisionism of an all pervasive anti-antifascist consensus (Traverso 2016), including di erent ideological branches such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and anti-totalitarianism. As a result of the pan-European decomposition of the antifascist consensus (Stone 2014), former antifascist dreams have consistently been presented as totalitarian nightmares of naïve intellectuals and repressive regimes. Our panel presents new research that challenges the anti-antifascist consensus as it has dominated memory studies scholarship and post-1989 memory politics. Inspired by new scholarship on both postwar memory and antifascism, our panel critically reconsiders some central assumptions that described antifascism 1) as a merely Eastern European and/or communist phenomenon that 2) suppressed the memory of the genocide in order to 3) maintain heroic self-representation that supported state-socialist propaganda. In contrast, participants explore antifascist memory as a heterogeneous and transnational phenomenon that emerged from the cooperation of memory institutions and agents from across divided Europe and produced a powerful framework to preserve converging histories-Jewish and non-Jewish, communist and non-communist, Eastern and Western European. No doubt, antifascist discourses were instrumentalized in the Cold War and, to some extent, controlled by socialist state apparatuses. Yet, they were anything but homogeneous. Instead, they created potent and diverse ways to remember war and genocide-ways that remained divergent and contested even inside political camps and national boundaries. On the other hand, antifascist memories were shared and cultivated across such barriers. For all those involved in their preservation, the stakes were highly political. Rather than branding it as mere propaganda, our panel would like to ask the question how memory agents explored the political potentials of remembrance-be it in relation to anti-colonial struggles, anti-Capitalist agendas, or anti-nuclear protests. Thus our panel has the ambition to reconsider antifascist memory as a historical phenomenon and, by addressing some core topics of the conference, reclaim it as an exemplary site of Western and East Central European historical convergences, transnational dialogues of memory agents and institutions, and converging political discourses.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E6: History and Memory of Holodomor Reconsidered
Room_6 Speakers John Vsetecka, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
Kristina Hook, Research Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Elise Westin, PhD Candidate, University Of Adelaide
Andreea Kaltenbrunner, Post-doctoral Position, University Of Vienna
Karolina Koziura, PhD Candidate, The New School For Social Research
Moderators Charley Boerman, PhD Candidate, Radboud University
Until the 1980s, the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known now as Holodomor, was widely perceived as a mere "food shortage" and "widespread malnutrition." Denied by the Soviet regime up to its collapse, the Famine remained one of the biggest unacknowledged atrocities of the twentieth century. Today, empirical knowledge about the Famine, its unravelling logic, and interpretation, is still marked by uncertainty and historical erasure. Various statistics point to a death toll ranging from four to ten million people, and academics argue over its genocidal framework and intentional character. Famine survivors and their families still struggle for proper recognition. Why, more than eighty years after the Famine, is Holodomor still at the center of contested discussions among scholars, politicians, and citizens? How should the events of 1932-1933 be chronicled and understood? And, more importantly, who has the legitimacy to assess and (re)write this traumatic past?This panel will address these questions by problematizing the relationship between history and memory in ways in which we came to know Holodomor. By analyzing the travelling of Holodomor memory across space and time, the panelists will problematize the complexities of framing the Famine as a collective memory, transgenerational trauma, historical event, and an act of genocide. The panel will further problematize the meaning of Holodomor as an event that happened on every possible scale, from the most intimate and personal scale of human and community su ering to the national and global scales of knowledge politicization. By showing ways in which history blends with memory, this panel demonstrates that Holodomor is not just a "thing in the past" (Verdery and Kligman 2011) but rather a way through which the Soviet past and the post-Soviet present are recon gured.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E7: Modalities of memory debates in Central and Eastern Europe
Room_7 Speakers Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek, Dr/Assistant Professor, Pedagogical University Of Cracow
Karen Kiss, Research Assistant
Filip Lyapov, PhD Candidate, Central European University
Olga Malinova, Professor, National Research University Higher School Of Economics
Stefan Berger, Professor Of Social History, RUB
Alexey Miller, Professor, European University At Saint Petersburg
Moderators Stefan Berger, Professor Of Social History, RUB
The panel will look at four important cases of memory politics in Central and Eastern Europe with focus on modalities of interactions in international and domestic arena, and entanglement of these two aspects. Panelists will use the conceptualization of the opposition between antagonistic and agonistic approaches to politics of memory, suggested by Anna Cento Bull and Hans Hansen, and further developed, among others, by Stefan Berger.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E8: Religion and the politics of memory as tools of in- and external securitization in Eastern Europe Room_8 Track : Roundtable
Speakers Agáta Šústová Drelová, Researcher, Institute Of History, Slovak Academy Of Sciences, Slovakia
Tatiana Voronina, PhD Candidate, University Of Zürich, Switzerland
Yuliya Yurchuk, Assistant Professor, Department Of Historical, Philosophical And Religious Studies, Umeå University
Heidi Hein-Kircher, Senior Researcher, Herder Institute For Historical Research On East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany
Irina Paert, Senior Researcher , University Of Tartu
Liliya Berezhnaya, Dr.
Moderators Liliya Berezhnaya, Dr.
Remarkably, history is currently not only politized but also sacralized. Historical evidences, myths, and stereotypes are declared "authentic" and therefore beyond doubt or criticism. Secular and sacral rituals, venerated objects, and marked spaces are used to strengthen feelings of national identity, belonging, and security. Religious authorities and churches are often involved in the sacralization of historical politics.In the recent years the notion of security turned to be a powerful topos being capable of legitimizing a vast number of political actions. Securitizing arguments are interwoven with those of the memory politics: populist parties and churches make use of history in this manner. Politics of memory as means of institutionalization of security often play a crucial role in shaping national identities and legitimizing claims to leadership.Our roundtable will explore the sacralization of memory politics as part of securitizing discourses in Eastern Europe. Here, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the partial erasure of Soviet traditions and interpretations of history have enabled politicians and societies to search or rediscover a connection to their "own usable past." On the basis of selected case studies coming from Russia, Poland, Estonia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, the roundtable participants endeavor to explore the following topics from a comparative perspective:• Who are the political and societal actors promoting the sacralization of the politics of memory?• What role do church actors play in this process? Are there di erences between the variouschurches and denominations? How do the dynamics of security and of perceptions and representations of security (including forms and types of securitization) in uence in this context the politics of memory?• How is legislation used?• Which historical topics seem best suited for the sacralization of the politics of memory as a tool of securitization?• Which periods, gures of the national past are revived in this process? Which are neglected?
09:30AM - 11:30AM E9: Social conditions of the narrative about the Holocaust in contemporary culture in Poland Room_9 Speakers Aleksandra Szczepan, MA/Researcher, Jagiellonian University In Kraków
Tomasz Żukowski, Professor, Institute Of Literary Research, Polish Academy Of Sciences
Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak, Assistant Professor, Institute Of Sociology, University Of Lodz
Katarzyna Chmielewska, PHD; Assistant Professor, Institute Of Literary Research Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences (IBL PAN)
Moderators Tomasz Żukowski, Professor, Institute Of Literary Research, Polish Academy Of Sciences
In this panel, we would like to discuss the social determinants of narration about the Holocaust in contemporary narratives. We want to ask how the factor of social class, groups, political, social, religious and cultural power and authority in uence the shaping of the story. We are interested in examining which subjects and threads are acceptable, which will be omitted, who is allowed to speak and who should remain silent. We will consider how this eld of tension acts in Poland.
09:30AM - 11:30AM E10: Commemoration in the times of pandemic
Room_10 Speakers Liene Ozolina, Associate Professor, Latvian Academy Of Culture
Magda Schmukalla, ESRC Research Fellow, Birkbeck University Of London
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor Of Social Demography And Anthropology, Carleton College
Rosemary Rich, PhD Researcher, University Of Brighton
Avishek Parui, Dr/Assistant Professor , Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
Sandra Terracina, Coordinator, Associazione Progetto Memoria
09:30AM - 11:30AM E11: Communism on Display
Room_11 Speakers Ene Koresaar, Associate Professor, University Of Tartu
Franziska König-Paratore, PhD Candidate, The New School For Social Research
Ana Lolua, PhD Candidate/student At History Department , Ilia State University; Georg August University Goettingen
Valentyna Kharkhun, Professor, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University
Kirsti Jõesalu , Researcher, University Of Tartu
Michal Louc, PhD. Candidate; Researcher, The Institute For The Study Of Totalitarian Regimes
Moderators Zo"a Wóycicka, Researcher, German Historical Institute Warsaw
09:30AM - 11:30AM E12: Digital Memory. Part 1(2): Museums
Room_12 Speakers Piotr Szpunar, Assistant Professor, University At Albany, SUNY
Sarah Gri#ths, PhD Student, University Of Bath
Randi Marselis, Associate Professor In Cultural Encounters, Roskilde Universitet, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde
Maija Spurina, Dr., Latvian Academy Of Culture
Nathalia Lavigne, PhD Graduate , University Of São Paulo
Moderators Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
09:30AM - 11:30AM E13: Exhibiting Migration
Room_13 Speakers Ulla Savolainen, Senior Researcher, University Of Helsinki / Department Of Cultures
Nika Potinkara, Post-doctoral Researcher, University Of Helsinki
Kristina Kwacz, Alumna, SUNY Empire State College
Aleksandra Kubica, Independent Researcher
Olga Zabalueva, PhD Student, Linköping University
Bernardo Armanni, Research Assistant, University Of Trento
Moderators Nela Milic, Dr, University Of The Arts Of London
09:30AM - 11:30AM E14: Memory of Objects - Objects of Memory
Room_14 Speakers Ana Adamović, PhD
Jagoda Mytych, PhD Candidate, Jagiellonian University
Zsuzsi Flohr, PhD In Practice Fellow, Institute Of Fine Arts, Art Theory And Cultural Studies At Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna, Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute Of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy Of Sciences
Stefanie Kappler, Associate Professor In Con ict Resolution And Peacebuilding, Durham University
Annika Björkdahl, Professor Of Political Science, Lund University
Philipp Schultheiss, Dr., University Of Marburg
Moderators Zo"a Wóycicka, Researcher, German Historical Institute Warsaw
09:30AM - 11:30AM E15: Polish Perspectives on Holocaust Memory
Room_15 Speakers Joanna Nizynska, Associate Professor Of Polish Literature And Culture, Indiana University (Bloomington, USA)
Paweł Michna, PhD Student, Jagiellonian University
Maria Ferenc, PhD/research Fellow, Jewish Hisotrical Institute
Jan Borowicz, Dr, University Of Warsaw
Matilda Mroz, Lecturer In Film Studies, The University Of Sydney
Moderators Erica Lehrer, Professor, History & Sociology-Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
09:30AM - 11:30AM E16: Professional Discourses on Memory
Room_16 Speakers Victoria Tkachenko, Senior Lecturer, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Laurynas Peluritis, PhD Student, Vilnius University
Benjamin Nienass, Assistant Professor, Montclair State University
Aytac Yurukcu, Visiting Researcher - Specialist, University Of Eastern Finland - Turkish Historical Society
Moderators Chair TBA
09:30AM - 11:30AM E17: Theorizing Non-Human memories
Room_17 Speakers Cilliers Van Den Berg, Associate Professor, University Of The Free State, South Africa
Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Evelien Geerts, Research Fellow, University Of Birmingham
Katarzyna Glab, PhD Researcher, SWPS University Of Social Sciences And Humanities In Warsaw
Sami Keto, Doctoral Student, Tampere University
Raisa Foster, Senior Researcher, PhD, Tampere University
Moderators Roma Sendyka, Prof., Jagiellonian University Kraków
11:30AM - 01:00PM Marek Cichocki and Ivan Krastev: Europeanization of Memory, Politics, and Covid-19 Moderators Plenary Session Małgorzata Pakier, Head Of The Academic Department, European Network Remembrance And Solidarity
Marek Cichocki and Ivan Krastev Chair: Małgorzata Pakier
01:00PM - 03:00PM F1: European Memory Formation in Post-socialist German Literature Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_1 Speakers Timothy Attanucci, Researcher (Post-Doc), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Amy Leech , Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Michel Mallet, Dr. / Assistant Professor, Université De Moncton
Kristin Rebien, Associate Professor, San Diego State University
Maria Mayr, Associate Professor, Memorial University Of Newfoundland
Moderators Maria Mayr, Associate Professor, Memorial University Of Newfoundland
Much of the post-1989 scholarship on Eastern Europe's socialist past has focused on the 'Aufarbeitung' of authoritarianism, surveillance, or dictatorship, creating a master narrative of the post-socialist past primarily focused on trauma and atrocity. As Ann Rigney (2018) has argued, however, memory studies ought to "go beyond its present focus on traumatic memories and to develop analytical tools for capturing the cultural transmission of positivity and the commitment to particular values." This panel speaks to the need for a more encompassing study of post-socialist European memory by shifting the focus to the hopes and dreams that never came to fruition and the unrealized, alternative futures embedded in the socialist past. Looking at contemporary German-language literature as a case study, the panelists argue that critiques of "real existing socialism" before 1989 and narratives of opposition and dissent not only revisit the past, but also challenge a European memory culture formed around the commemoration of victimhood and repression in Eastern Europe. Rather than framing the unrealized pre-1989 expectations and envisioned futures as failures on grounds that they did not come to pass, the panelists probe post-socialist memory for its future-oriented potential to rethink issues of community, equity and equality, late-stage capitalism, and European unity, foregrounding a nuanced, ambivalent, and at times paradoxical relationship to the socialist past. Looking at German-Romanian Nobel laureate Herta Müller, Michel Mallet shifts focus away from the prominent trope of trauma in her work to argue that Müller's use of assemblage and collage reveals a concern for future transnational European trajectories. Taking German-language writers from former Yugoslavia as her case study, Maria Mayr argues that the depicted memories of Yugoslav socialism form a European legacy of both trauma and hope. Timothy Attanucci analyses German- Hungarian Térezia Mora's Darius-Kopp trilogy with a view to capitalist melancholy and argues that the trilogy de- and reconstructs the cultural memory space of 21st century Europe. Analyzing a drama collectively authored by East and West European German-language writers, Amy Leech argues that Ein europäisches Abendmahl engages with the unful lled dreams of the socialist past to signal futurity and hope. Finally, Kristin Rebien turns to the East-German writer Lutz Seiler and argues that his work is able to negotiate seemingly incompatible European memory regimes by conceiving of the Eastern European past beyond the narrow lens of oppression. Together, the panelists shed light on how transcultural re ections on histories and memories in Eastern Europe can contribute to a sense of European unity. Giving the ongoing economic, social and political divides between East and West, it seems paramount to assess the legacy of the 'Eastern pasts'. This not only better re ects the wide scope of the East's artistic and intellectual legacies but also draws due attention to what Maria Todorova (2018) calls "the things that were recklessly washed away in the shock-therapy shower" of the end of the Cold War.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F2: Convergences between Entertainment Media and Memory Processes in Digital Spaces in Latin America Room_2 Track : Latin America RG
Speakers Holle Ameriga Meding, M.A., PhD Candidate, Free University Of Berlin
Evelyn Hevia Jordán, Doctoral Student, Freie Universität Berlin
Maxim Karagodin, Doctoral Student
Andrea Cagua, Doctoral Student, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Mónika Contreras Saiz, Associate Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
Moderators Mónika Contreras Saiz, Associate Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
Di erent products from the entertainment eld (television series, movies, telenovelas, comics, tourist routes, video games and social media) have historically triggered memory processes in various parts of the world. At the same time, digital spaces are becoming increasingly more present in di erent spheres of our daily life, in uencing and mediating between memorial processes and memories generated through entertainment media. In this panel, we examine the convergences between the entertainment eld and memory processes in two Latin American countries and share our thoughts on how digital spaces come into play in this convergence. With presentations on the Chilean and Colombian case, researchers from the disciplines of history, psychology and cultural and Latin American studies will present results of their ongoing research.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F3: Activism and the Memory of (Non)Violence Track : Memory and Activism WG | Memory and Arts WG Room_3 Speakers Tashina Blom, PhD Candidate, Utrecht University
Duygu Erbil, PhD Researcher, Utrecht University
Emilia Salvanou, Post-doc Researcher, Utrecht University
Ann Rigney, Professor, Utrecht University
Moderators Orli Fridman, Associate Professor, Faculty Of Media And Communications (FMK)
Proposal submitted and accepted in 2019; resubmitted in 2020In this panel we will present some of the results of the ongoing project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct) being carried out at Utrecht University. More information at: www.rememberingactivism.eu. This project studies the memory-activism nexus from di erent angles and with respect to di erent cases across Europe in order to gain a broader understanding of how the culturally mediated memory of activism feeds into new forms of civil resistance. In our panel we concentrate on the role played by the memory of violence, committed by state actors but also by protesters themselves, in these dynamics.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F4: Explosive Convergences. Popular Memory Images in Current Political Con#icts (Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland) Room_4 Track : PoSoCoMeS WG
Speakers Hanna Vasilevich, Chair Of The Board, International Centre For Ethnic And Linguistic Diversity Studies
Heike Winkel, Dr / , Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Berlin, Germany
Roman Dubasevych, Juniorprofessor, Greifswald University
Anika Walke, Dr / Associate Professor , Washington University In St. Louis
Felix Ackermann, Dr. Phil. / Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Matthias Schwartz, Dr. / Head Of The Program Area World Literature, Leibniz Center For Literary And Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin
Moderators Nina Weller, Dr / Postdoctoral Researcher, European University Viadrina In Frankfurt (Oder)
During the protests against election fraud and police violence in Belarus in late summer and autumn 2020, one could repeatedly observe that popular images and topics from the collective memory of World War II and the Gulag were used for current political messages, posters and slogans. When Lukashenka was depicted as Hitler and prisons as concentration camps, however, these images were usually not discursively based comparisons or argumentatively derived parallels, but rather catchy 'memes' that addressed possible convergences of the past and present. Regardless of their problematic implicit message, these images obviously possessed an enormously provocative and agitating explosive power. In political discourses in Lithuania, Poland or the Ukraine, too, similar convergence logics have played a major role for years, be it in Polish allegations of fascism against Germany or Russia or the self-designation of Ukrainian patriots as "Zhydo-Banderovtsy". At the same time, we are observing increasing attempts by various local actors to converge their own national discourses of remembrance with global commemorative topoi, which causes explosive tensions as well. The current tendency to mark local historical experiences of su ering as 'genocide' is a telling example in this respect. The panel will examine these phenomena in more detail and ask how such 'explosive convergences' in the political eld a ect our understanding of communicative memory and the possible functions of 'normalised' (Gavriel D. Rosenfeld) remembrance cultures in a globalised world.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F5: The memorial wars in the post-Soviet space Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_5 Speakers Olga Lebedeva, PhD Candidate, University Of Warsaw
Elmira Nogoibaeva, Director, Public Association Center Polis Asia
Oksana Dovgopolova, Professor, Odessa National University
Aleksey Kamenskikh, Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School Of Economics
Moderators Aleksey Kamenskikh, Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School Of Economics
The fall of the Soviet Union launched processes of re-invention of nations with their speci c past. Today we appear at the su cient temporal distance to see the results of these processes and to analyze the destiny of Soviet heritage in each country. In Soviet times these countries existed in a harsh ideological frame, which supposed re-writing of history, shadowing of national peculiarities, creating of hard memorial archive (in terms of A.Assmann). The post-Soviet memorial constructions were launched with di erent triggers from resentment to seeking of continuity and stability. Nearly three decades of separate development allows us to see the complicated memorial quests with the spectrum of decommunization policy and elaborating national narratives. The strategies of decommunization (successful of not; timely or not), ways of adaptation of habitual Soviet dates for new realities are quite di erent in post-Soviet countries. The di culties of such processes entail the inevitable memorial con icts. Our panel is devoted to such con icts. Alleged transparency of these con icts' interpretation breaks about the reality. In focus of our panel are the lines of memorial con icts in di erent post-Soviet countries. We see necessity of comparison of the experience of countries, being quite far from one another at the present moment: Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Ukraine. We need this optics in context of the problem of re-interpretation of Soviet memorial habits, that is quite di erent in the noted countries. Working through/in-line-with Soviet memorial traditions here mirrors the complicated processes of post-Soviet political evolution. It is important to compare memorial policy of the countries, a) evolving towards aggressive authoritarian regime (Russia), b) turbulently trying to assert its independence (Ukraine) and c) balancing in search of working through tragic past and searching the positive memorial language (Kyrgyzstan). The place of the Big Terror (Soviet political repressions of 1937-38) in these countries reveals the di erent positions of states concerning totalitarian values. Incompleteness of the decommunization processes in each of these countries was used by political elites in di erent ways. Political regime in Russia turned out the processes of decommunization, reviving the mechanisms of repressions justi cation at the sake of the State. It's important the war between state memorial politics and memorial institutions, working in the eld of human rights activism. The di erent strategies of the Big Terror memory reveal the peculiarities of political situation in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. We pay the special attention at this panel to the problem of unseen lines of memorial con icts, such as the memory of IDP's in Ukraine. At the background of sometimes scandalous decommunization processes and reboot of the World War II memory, the IDP's temporal picture of the world has no language for narrativization. Our panel accents the role of art practices in revelation/working-through the memorial con icts. The re-interpretation of the concept of "common past" appears inevitable in context of the Russian-Ukrainian military con ict. Our aim is to point and discuss the peculiarities and similarities of memorial wars in Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Ukraine.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F6: Convergences in the marginalised memories of communist repressions in Estonia, Romania, Ukraine and Russia: integrating gender, religious and ethnic minorities Room_6 Speakers Ionut Biliuta, Researcher, Gheorghe Sincai Institute/Romanian Academy
Tatiana Vagramenko, Post-doctoral Researcher, University Of Barcelona
Monica Ciobanu, Professor , State University Of New York At Plattsburgh
Katya Tolstoj, Prof.dr., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Irina Paert, Senior Researcher , University Of Tartu
Moderators Irina Paert, Senior Researcher , University Of Tartu
The focus of the panel is on the marginalised stories in the memory of the communist repreression, focusing on gender, religious and ethnic minorities. The panel will provide a comparative perspective on memories of the traumatic past in four national contexts: Russia, Ukraine, Estonia and Romania, looking at the ways in which marginalised subjects were remembered or forgotten in post-communist societies. The panel will look at the complex representations of women and ethnic and religious minorities in various discourses (secular, religious, academic, popular), engaging with the problem of collaboration and victimisation. The panel will assess the claims of di erent memory actors, including the church and secular institutions in order to understand the role of minorities and women in post-communist memory politics. How are experiences of women, ethnic and religious minorities shift our perspective on what constitutes a shared memory of the communist repression? To what extent do minorities provide an insight into the mechanisms of political repression and into the forms of marginalisation that nationalist discourses employ? Using the archives of the secret police, and making these ndings publically available, how di researchers participate in the shaping of the memory and provide a critical and agonistic perspective to the representation of the minorities? How does researher's perspective converge with the existing forms of public memory? The newly declassi ed archives can compromise religious groups who survived repression and had underground experience in the Soviet period, as many religious leaders and ordinary believers turned out to be secret agents and informers. One of the tasks of this panel is to question the dominant victim-traitor discourse, arguing that there were no clear boundaries between victims and collaborators, or between agents and believers. A similar perspective can be applied to women, who often are either marginalised or regarded as ultimate victims. How do we approach women who were guards in the camps and collaborators? As for the ethnic minorities, we need to assess their place in the discursive 'us' and 'them' representations characteristic for the nationalist memory politics. Is Russianness always a mark of the perpetrator in the discourse of the nations who su ered from the Soviet occupation?
01:00PM - 03:00PM F7: From Spaces of Perpetration to Sites of Memory
Room_7 Speakers Sarah Nimführ, University Lecturer/Post-doctoral Researcher, University Of Art And Design Linz
Francisco Ferrandiz, Tenured Researcher, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Brigitte Jirku, Full Professor (German Studies), Universitat De València
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, Senior Professor, University Of Valencia
Moderators Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, Senior Professor, University Of Valencia
This panel will analyze the transformation of four emblematic cases from spaces of repression to sites of memory with a particular focus on the resignifying processes of the spaces and the narratives that accompany them. The presenters are members of the research project "From Spaces of Perpetration to Sites of Memory. Forms of Representation", led by Vicente Sánchez Biosca and associated with the research group REPERCRI (Representaciones de perpetradores de crímenes de masas). The four cases presented here are representative of four historical forms of exercising violence and other transformation models of spaces of mass crimes into sites of memory. However, these spaces are quite di erent from one another and belong to very diverse contexts of violence, from German Nazism to the Khmer Rouge's ultracommunism. Firstly, we address the case of Buchenwald, the largest and one of the most long-standing concentration camps in German territory. The camp presents memories linked to the su ering of violence but also related to detainees' political a liation. Secondly, Villa Grimaldi in Chile, which was the central detention and torture center of Pinochet's dictatorship and its system of repression. It has since been transformed into the Parque por la Paz with the objective of honoring victims' memory and consolidating democratic memory. Thirdly, the case of S-21-Tuol Sleng in Cambodia, which was a Khmer Rouge detention and torture center for the extermination of internal enemies, dissidents or traitors and which currently operates as the Genocide Museum. Lastly, the case of the Valle de los Caídos in Spain, which, at di erent moments, functioned as a space of forced labor, as a memorial to Francoism and the mausoleum of Franco himself. The purpose of this panel is to compare and establish a dialogue among these four diverse historical experiences which, nonetheless, present problems and con icts in common with one another. Additionally, the panel aims to present di erent paths of analysis to address the nature and symbolic transformation of these spaces. The German case is studied through the literary analysis of an autobiographical novel; the Chilean case through survivor testimonies and the documentation generated at the detention center; the Cambodian case is studied through the transformations undergone in the space itself and through an archeological perspective that unravels and historicizes the di erent overlapping memory rationales therein. Lastly, the Spanish case is analyzed through the recent television broadcast of the dictator's exhumation. The panel addresses literature, testimony, archive materials, television discourses and the special and symbolic shaping of the museum as an object of analysis that may help understand the complexity of resignifying processes of these spaces of violence which, over time, have been transformed into sites of memory.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F8: Holocaust Commemoration in Contemporary Culture
Room_8 Speakers Verbena Giambastiani, PhD In Philosophy
Andrea Schlosser, Graduate Student, Ruhr Univ
Lola Serraf, Doctor , UAB (Universitat Autónima De Barcelona)
Christine Berberich, Reader In Literature, University Of Portsmouth
Moderators Christine Berberich, Reader In Literature, University Of Portsmouth
Barbara Christophe, Dr.habil., Georg Eckert Institute For International Textbook Research
Building on the success of a panel on 'The Holocaust in Contemporary Popular Culture' at the Memory Network Conference in Madrid in 2019, this panel looks at contemporary engagement with the Holocaust in a wider cultural setting. The panel brings together the same group of scholars who have, since the 2019 conference in Madrid, successfully collaborated on a special journal issue and who are building up a strong and successful international collaboration that brings together postgraduate students, early and mid-career academics from four di erent countries. Building on this track record, this panel aims to further probe into the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary culture. With the generation of the survivors slowly disappearing, cultural representation of the Holocaust is becoming more important than ever. It is vital for the voices of the survivors to be preserved, but also for new forms to representation to be developed to ensure that new generations engage with the Holocaust in a meaningful way. The proposed papers focus on a variety of di erent genres - the realist novel, the graphic novel, the crime novel - that all focus on the same issue, though: the attempts of contemporary society to engage meaningfully with the legacy of the Shoah, be that in attempts to express and de ne personal identity or e orts to formulate wider questions of personal versus collective guilt.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F9: Infrastructures of Cultural Memory Track : Roundtable Room_9 Speakers Anna Rogozinska, Assistant Professor, University Of The Arts Poznan (UAP)
Sabine Stach, PhD, Leibniz Institute For The History And Culture Of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
Tomasz Załuski, Assistant Professor, University Of Lodz
Tomasz Kozuchowski, Doctoral Student, University Of Gdansk
Hanno Hochmuth, Dr., Leibniz Centre For Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
Marcin Adamczak, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Moderators Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Memory studies usually focus on cultural representations of the past. Books, lms, exhibitions, games, digital contents etc. are told to shape mnemonic discourses. While much of the research is devoted to the aesthetics and politics of memory, the questions concerning technical and nancial aspects of cultural memories have remained largely unanswered yet. In this roundtable we want to emphasize that memory culture does not come out of nowhere. It is made, produced, nanced and managed by individuals who act within particular infrastructures.Following both the Actor-Network Theory as well as the infrastructure studies as represented by, among others, Susan Leigh Star and Geo rey Bawker, the participants of this panel argue that the agencies of the material, bureaucratic and nancial factors of cultural memories need further research. We aim at discussing the concept of infrastructure as a methodological approach which helps opening the Black Box (Bruno Latour) of memory. How does the distribution of money between public and commercial institutions a ect the construction of museums or the production of history lms? How can memory be in uenced by administrative acts such as, for instance, the construction laws? How does the technical environments shape the archives? Following examples from Polish, German, Czech and Italian mnemonic landscapes, the discussants will explore the power of money, bureaucracy and technology for constructing cultural memories.Interestingly enough, the concepts of black-boxing and infrastructures are not new in the many disciplines that contribute to memory studies. The participants of this roundtable represent therefore various academic elds: history, art history, culture studies, lm studies and curatorial studies. The stories to be told include examples of nancial shortcuts that may have an impact on the production of history lms; of ticket pricing that in uences museum exhibitions; of technological de ciencies that a ect the construction of the archives; as well as of material objects that support tourist guides. Hanno Hochmuth will refer to the GDR-Museum in Berlin which is one of the most successful 'memory companies' although it receives no public funding. Marcin Adamczak and Tomasz Kożuchowski will pick up the topic of nancing memories by exploring the production of history lms. In dialogue with them, Sabine Stach will show that it is not just money but also technology that is needed to create a prosperous 'memory product' on the tourism market. Tomasz Załuski will continue the technological issues by discussing the role of computers and databases for creating artistic canons. Lust but not least Anna Rogozinska will ask questions about the sustainability of memories that need to be constantly 'managed'. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska will give a short introduction and chair the discussion.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F10: Memories from the Margins: Bottom-up Practices for Dealing with Con#ict- Produced Heritage Room_10 Speakers Daniele Rugo, Reader In Film , Brunel University London
Adriana Rudling, Dr, Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway
Chris Reynolds, Professor Of Contemporary European History And Memory Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Lorena Cecilia Vega Dueñas, Assistant Professor , Ponti cia Universidad Javeriana
Carmen Abou Jaoude, Dr, Saint Joseph University Of Beirut
Moderators Nina Parish, Professor Of French And Francophone Studies, University Of Stirling
This panel presents the work of a British Academy-funded project from their Global Research Challenges Fund: 'Memories from the Margins: Bottom-up Practices for Dealing with Con ict-Produced Heritage' in Lebanon and Syria (www.memoriesmargins.com / @memoriesmargins). Work was due to start in earnest on this project in spring 2020 but all plans and eld trips were put on hold by the current Covid-19 pandemic. The memory work, however, is still ongoing. As a result, we decided to start work on the project in a di erent way by putting together a series of publications, which address the aims of our project with its focus on informal memories of violence and open it up to case studies other than Lebanon and Syria so that we are able to learn from them. We are interested in how bottom-up practices to memorialization can be inclusive, address citizens' lack of agency and contribute to sustainable peace in contexts marked by obstruction from formal institutions. By exploring personal archives and oral narratives from Lebanon, Syria, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Vietnam, Colombia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the publications explore informal practices of memorialisation that challenge amnesia and hegemonic discourses of con ict and advance demands for justice. We also aim to retrieve the sensory, aesthetic dimension of the heritage produced by con ict and evaluate and probe its descriptive and explicative mechanisms. Providing evidence on the link between the ways in which heritage of con ict is dealt with and the emergence of new violence is also key to our aims as is understanding whether unconventional practices and methods can be transferred from one context to another and integrated into policy. In this panel, we will present our project and its aims in further detail and then explore these through the case studies of Lebanon, Colombia and Northern Ireland.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F11: Memory and Geography. Part 3(4): Racial Justice
Room_11 Speakers Mary Biggs, Graduate Student Researcher, University Of North Carolina
Doron Eldar, Ph.D. Candidate, Uppsala University
Jordan Brasher, Assistant Professor Of Geography, Columbus State University
Rebecca Sheehan, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas , Assistant Professor, University Of Florida, Gainesville
Moderators Derek Alderman, Professor, University Of Tennessee
Memory takes place somewhere. Memory, memorial landscapes, and memory work have thoroughly permeated the eld of geography, and geography, in turn, has begun to in uence a spatial turn within memory studies. As the social science of where, geography is uniquely placed to examine the spaces, places, and landscapes that attend the process of remembering and forgetting. This panel seeks to further bridge geography and memory studies through interdisciplinary engagement with race and racial justice. This panel explores this spatial turn in memory studies and what an intense focus on the geographies of memory might o er theoretically, empirically, and politically. With contributions from a broad array of scholars studying the spatiality of memory, as well as those whose research speci cally is in dialogue with the conference highlight on "the role of public memory in democratic societies and in the struggle for racial justice," this third of four panels highlights the often transnational overlaps of historicization, memory, and racial justice in space and place. Overall, we hope this session will further link the scholarship of geographers working at the intersection of memory, social justice, and politics with the growing voice of the memory studies community. Keywords: Geography, Landscape, Space, Place, Justice, Race, Transnational, US South
01:00PM - 03:00PM F12: Memory and Policy
Room_12 Speakers Félix Krawatzek, Senior Researcher, Centre For East European And International Studies (ZOiS) In Berlin
Emilie Pine, Professor, University College Dublin
Yifat Gutman, Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev
Noam Tirosh, Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev
Moderators Sarah Gensburger , Research Professor , French National Center For Scienti c Research In Paris (CNRS)
This panel addresses the manifold ways in which memory and policy intersect. Memory scholars usually focus on the construction of social memory in sites, acts, and narratives about the past, without realizing that while these shape state and international policies, policies are also signi cant in shaping all three. Policies reveal con icts between competing perceptions of the past and struggles over inclusion and exclusion; the study of memory policies considers state legitimacy and how public opinion can be translated e ectively into binding laws. It evaluates the impact of legislation and the ways it operationalizes decision-making in regulation and institutional arrangements. Memory policies research reveals important institutional, economic, cultural and communicative changes, and its ndings enable comparisons and generalization that is often missing in memory studies.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F13: The Memory of Political Crisis and Transformation in East-Central Europe - a Comparative Approach Room_13 Speakers Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski, Professor, SWPS University
Michał Przeperski, PhD, Institute For The History Of Science, Polish Academy Of Sciences/Bureau Of Scienti c Research In The Institute Of National Remembrance
Anna Nakai, Associate Researcher, Central European University
Aleksandra Konarzewska, PhD, University Of Tübingen
Andrzej Czyżewski, PhD/Assistant Professor, University Of Lodz
Moderators Jakub Gałęziowski, PhD, University Of Warsaw
The memory of the communist and early post-communist era remains a signi cant point of reference in the contemporary debates in East-Central Europe, still inciting controversies in the sphere of culture and politics. The aim of our panel is to provide an in-depth analysis of this phenomenon. In particular, we want to focus on the memory of crisis and transformation in Poland and Czechoslovakia, as in both countries they still play a crucial role in the public discourse, being susceptible to various forms of manipulation. Our papers cover a wide range of approaches, from the point of view of the literature studies, the social and political history, oral history, up to the intellectual history. Those elements put together create a solid foundation contributing to the new perspective on the role memory, and the politics of memory, play in the countries of East- Central Europe. The presentations will be based on varied sources: visual materials, narrative interviews, non ction literature, memoirs, and intimate journals. Furthermore, we refer to di erent methodological inspirations, such as masculinity studies, biographical method, Aleida and Jan Assmann's theory of communicative and collective memory, as well as Karl Mannheim's concept of generation. The interdisciplinary approach that we propose will be an opportunity to provide new dynamics to the research focusing on multidimensional aspects of Histoire au second degré, as we are not only investigating the memory canon of political crisis and transformation, but also contributing to theoretical debate within memory studies.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F14: Transcultural Memory Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Part 1(2): Convergences and Entanglements Room_14 Speakers Jarula Wegner, Dr, Goethe University Frankfurt Jarula Wegner, Dr, Goethe University Frankfurt
Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Dr./Research Associate, Universität Des Saarlandes
Leonie John, Ph.D. Candidate, A.r.t.e.s. Graduate School For The Humanties Cologne (University Cologne)
Magdalena Zolkos, Research Fellow, Goethe University / Humboldt
Hanna Teichler, Dr./Postdoc, Memory Studies Association
Moderators Hanna Teichler, Dr./Postdoc, Memory Studies Association
As Arjun Appadurai (1996) succinctly argues, media and migration are the two driving forces of what he frames as a globalized modernity. "Diasporic public spheres" reaching across national, cultural and historical boundaries are both signi ers and the result of an ostensibly limitless and potentially global mobility (Appadurai 3). British imperialism left its mark on the world map, and one of its ambivalent legacies is the rise of English as the world's most widely used lingua franca. Notwithstanding that imperialism and colonialism forcibly mobilized and uprooted peoples across the globe, wreaking havoc in their wake, migration, trade and travel have always shaped the world map and created an intricate network of entangled histories (cf. Hofmeyr 2012, Desai 2010). Global mobility also fundamentally shapes practices of remembering. According to Astrid Erll (2011), memory's modus operandi is travel: memories are mobile and simultaneously able to mobilize. We propose a stream of two panels which will put memory studies and transcultural and postcolonial studies in relation to each other. The beginnings of postcolonial studies historically coincided with that of memory studies: These two crucial innovations were developed throughout the 1980s in university departments around the world. Although both are conceptually and e ectively interdisciplinary research elds and consequently spread across university departments, surprisingly for almost three decades the two did not join forces. This is slowly changing, but the full potential of their conjunction certainly lies ahead of us. We argue that such a dialogue can enrich each eld's critical grammar and research perspectives. Many of the sources we analyse are shaped by the memories of (an idealized) 'home', of colonialism and its end, of independence and mobility. Such texts represent and explore hybrid identities and histories as they literally and guratively travel the world. In turn, the experience of travel impacts on memories and identities in various manners.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F15: (Un)expedient, (un)abridged, (un)$tting stories: Methodologies of memory and oral history research on Ukraine’s past Room_15 Speakers Barbara Christophe, Dr.habil., Georg Eckert Institute For International Textbook Research
Natalia Otrishchenko, PhD, Sociologist, Researcher, Center For Urban History Of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Professor And Director, CIUS, Canadian Institute Of Ukrainian Studies, Faculty Of Arts, University Of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Alina Doboszewska, PhD Student , Institute Of Sociology Of The Jagiellonian University
Gelinada Grinchenko, Professor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Eleonora Narvselius, University Lecturer, Lund University, SOL
Moderators Gelinada Grinchenko, Professor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Since the new millennium, the shift of focus from (geo)political cleavages and historical macro-events to convergencies of histories, identities and biographies has gained momentum in Ukrainian Studies. Such an adjustment of the perspective has been accompanied by increasing interest in microhistories, memories and studies of daily live referring to turning points of Ukraine's past. The ambition of this panel is to outline problems as well as to discuss opportunities and creative use of current methodologies aiming to uncover memory narratives relating to Ukraine. At the core of the panel's presentations are interplays of political engagement, mundane interests, moral choices and research ambitions behind (un)expedient, (un)abridged, (un) tting stories. The panel builds on the studies collected at the forthcoming volume "Питання, відповіді, інтерпретації: усна історія України ХХ-ХХІ ст." (Questions, Answers, Interpretations: Oral History of Ukraine in the 20th-21st Centuries) edited by Gelinada Grinchenko.
01:00PM - 03:00PM F16: Unsilencing the Past: Experiences of Atrocity and its Legacy in Literature and Art. Part 1(2) Room_16 Speakers Anna Katila, PhD Candidate, King's College London
Beth Pyner, PhD Candidate
Anindita Mukherjee, PhD Candidate, Ashoka University
Erika Natalia Molina Garcia, Dr
Helena Duffy, Collegium Researcher, University Of Turku, Finland
Moderators Caroline D. Laurent, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University
01:00PM - 03:00PM F17: Decolonizing Museums & Textbooks
Room_17 Speakers Herman Lebovics, SUNY Trustees Distinguished Professor, Dept. Of History Emeritus, Stony Brook University
Nancy Mykoff, Dr. Nancy Myko - Faculty. Senior Lecturer American History And Studies, Utrecht University's University College Roosevelt
Paul Mersh, Post Graduate Researcher, University Of Greenwich
Tim Gruenewald, Dr. Tim Gruenewald, The University Of Hong Kong
Antje Gunsenheimer, Dr.phil./Senior Researcher, Full Time, University Of Bonn, Department For The Anthropology Of The Americas
Moderators Amy Sodaro, Associate Professor Of Sociology, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
01:00PM - 03:00PM F18: Digital Memory. Part 2(2): Holocaust
Room_18 Speakers Ruta Kazlauskaite, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University
Tabea Widmann, PhD Candidate, University Of Konstanz
Kate Marrison, PhD Researcher , University Of Leeds
Anna Maria Droumpouki, Research Fellow, Gerda Henkel Foundation
Ste# De Jong , Dr. , Universität Zu Köln
Moderators Victoria Walden, Senior Lecturer, Sussex Weidenfeld Institute Of Jewish Studies/School Of Media, Arts And Humanities, University Of Sussex
01:00PM - 03:00PM F19: Literature and Transnational Memories
Room_19 Speakers Astrid Rasch, Associate Professor, Norwegian University Of Science And Technology
Doris Mironescu, Associate Professor, University „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iași, Romania
Dana Mihailescu, Associate Professor, University Of Bucharest
Guido Bartolini, Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Cork
Lika Balenovich, Graduate Student , University Of California, Los Angeles
Moderators Chair TBA
03:00PM - 04:30PM A short reading from "Notes to Self" and a conversation with Sara Jones about writing autobiography as a memory scholar Plenary Session Speakers Emilie Pine, Professor, University College Dublin
Moderators Tea Sindbaek Andersen, Associate Professor, University Of Copenhagen
Plenary session:Emilie Pine, A short reading from Notes to Self and a conversation with Sara Jones about writing autobiography as a memory scholar.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G1: Virtual City Walks in Warsaw. Part 2(3): The Alternative Archives of Warsaw Track : Cultural program Room_1 Moderators Aleksandra Szczepan, MA/Researcher, Jagiellonian University In Kraków Kinga Siewior
Virtual City Walks in Warsaw. Part 2: The Alternative Archives of WarsawKarol Radziszewski-Agnieszka Gra -Wojciech WilczykChair: Kinga Siewior and Aleksandra Szczepan
04:30PM - 06:30PM G2: The Reality of Theory: Intergenerational Remembrance and Traumascapes in Sarajevo Room_2 Track : Genealogies of Memory
Speakers Jovana Janinovic, PhD Researcher, University Of Valladolid/University Of Pavol Joszef Safarik Kosice
Claudia Zini, Director, Kuma International
Ena Kukic, Universitätsassistentin, Technische Universität Graz
Selma Catovic Hughes, Adjunct Faculty, American University Of Sharjah, College Of Architecture, Art And Design, UAE
Sabina Tanovic, PhD, Delft University Of Technology / Designing Memory
Moderators Sabina Tanovic, PhD, Delft University Of Technology / Designing Memory
This panel will focus on intergenerational mediation of traumatic memory through architecture on authentic sites in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The four contributions will zoom into speci c case-studies related to the Siege of Sarajevo (1992- 1995), to problematize and re-examine materiality in processes of private and collective remembrance. Approaching a 30th anniversary since the beginning of the siege, numerous issues regarding current o cial politics of memory and its manifestation in the public space arise. Some of the most pertinent ones relate to how and whether younger generations are invited to take part in memorialisation processes and, by extension, how young people who do not have rst-hand experiences of this watershed event perceive its traumascapes and what are the implications thereof for the European culture of remembrance. By including four di erent design and curatorial approaches to dealing with this particular heritage, conceived and practiced by designers and curators who experienced the siege and those who have second-hand memories about it, the aim of this panel is to propose new mediums for memory transmission within frameworks of ever-evolving collective remembrance.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G3: Building and Sharing Family Memories: Values and Identities for the Next Generation Room_3 Track : Family Memory and Intergenerational Exchange WG
Speakers Riccardo Capoferro, Associate Professor, Sapienza University Of Rome
Stefania De Lucia, Lecturer, Università Di Napoli Federico II
Barbara Ronchetti, Associate Professor, Sapienza University Of Rome
Sona G. Lutherova, Research Fellow, Slovak Academy Of Sciences
Öndercan Muti, PhD. Candidate, Humboldt University Berlin
Pilar Dominguez, Honori c Professor, University Of Las Palmas Of Gran Canaria,Spain , IOHA
Moderators Radmila Svarickova Slabakova, Associate Professor, Palacký University Olomouc
This is the rst panel presented by a newly established Working Group Family Memory and Intergenerational Exchange at a MSA Conference. The panel will present and discuss some research projects on family memory, carried out by the (future) members of the Working Group, which are expected to be published by prestigious publishers. The contributions are aimed to underline the importance of memory, kept, preserved and transmitted in homogeneous community, more speci cally in family communities and throughout the divided Europe and the totalitarian regimes in the 20th century. Hidden from the public eyes, the small, private unit of the family has a precious memory, that needs to be understood, preserved and transmitted to the younger generation, unaware of what happened in the past. This memory, both intimate and artistic in some way, may have a great e ect not only on the members of the group, but also on broader political decisions and social actions in the state. The contributors will discuss how family memories are built, how they are transmitted between generations and how they intersect with individual and national memories; moreover, they will analyze the functioning of the Humanities when confronted with private and public oppression. Various disciplines may be involved in the study of family memory, thus interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of this panel. The practices of family memory will be tackled from historical, sociological, ethnological and literary perspectives. From the methodological point of view, most contributions will draw on the careful analysis of oral interviews. A particular attention will be paid to women´s recollections, a recent photographic turn in humanities and social sciences will be also present as well as a transnational point of view. This panel collects contributions relating to ve di erent national states but in many perspectives, their scope and implications will transcend the national borders.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G4: Una mirada decolonial a los artefactos controversiales de la memoria latinoamericana Room_4 Track : Latin America RG
Speakers Leonor Abujatum, Phd Candidate, Universität Potsdam
Angélica Vásquez Zárate, PhD Candidate, Cadiz University
Carolina Garay Doig, Student, University Of Bonn, Department For The Anthropology Of The Americas
Fabiola Arellano Cruz, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher , University Of Amsterdam
Moderators Katharina Farys, Post-Doc
Decolonial studies and decolonial movements have once again positioned themselves strongly within academic, political and cultural debates in countries of the global south. At the same time, various initiatives of this nature are beginning to be visible in the West, where they echo the so-called decolonial turn. From this perspective, powerful questions have been drawn against dominance hierarchies, which impose – among other issues – their ways of understanding and representing stories, trajectories, and ways of being in the world. Precisely, in this panel we seek to embrace these debates, and bring this perspective closer to memory studies. We will do so exploring the presence and materialization of the prevailing Eurocentric discourses and perspectives in the various artifacts of memory, such as monuments, soundscapes, objects, among others, connected to the violent and colonial pasts of the countries of Latin America. Along these lines, we propose to seek points of convergence and discuss alternatives to the claims of decolonization in the construction of memory in its multiple manifestations, spaces and narratives. We consider this convergence to be a starting point to disrupt epistemic racism, the imposition of ways of representing memory and other types of domination. Los estudios y corrientes decoloniales han vuelto a posicionarse con fuerza dentro de los debates académicos, políticos y culturales en los países del sur global. Al mismo tiempo, diversas iniciativas y movimientos de esta índole empiezan a ser visibles en occidente, donde hacen eco al llamado giro decolonial. Desde esta perspectiva, se han elaborado potentes cuestionamientos a las jerarquías de dominación, que imponen – entre otras cuestiones – sus maneras de entender y representar las historias, las trayectorias y las formas de ser y estar en el mundo. Precisamente, en este panel buscamos recoger esos debates, y aproximar esta perspectiva a los estudios de la memoria. Lo haremos a través de un análisis que explora la presencia y materialización de discursos y criterios eurocéntricos imperantes en los diversos artefactos de la memoria, como monumentos, paisajes sonoros, objetos, entre otros, conectados a los pasados violentos y coloniales de los países de América Latina. En esa línea, proponemos buscar puntos de convergencia y discutir alternativas frente a los reclamos de descolonización en la construcción de la memoria en sus múltiples manifestaciones, espacios y narrativas. Consideramos que esta convergencia es un punto de partida para desbaratar el racismo epistémico, la imposición de los modos de representar la memoria y otros tipos de dominación.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G5: Memory and Arts: The space aside: translations between the personal and the collective memory in art practice and beyond Room_5 Track : Memory and Arts WG
Speakers Sharone Lifschitz, Senior Lecturer , University Of East London
Katya Oicherman, Independent Scholar
Rebecca Harris, Researcher, Independent Researcher
Moderators Astrid Schmetterling, Senior Lecturer In Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University Of London
This panel discussion forms the rst part of a collaborative project between curator and writer Rebecca Harris and artists Sharone Lifschitz and Katya Oicherman. In this panel we will re ect on the di erent strategies our respective work utilizes to address interplays of personal and collective memory in relation to the role of public memorial practices in our societies. Short focused presentations will provide the basis for discussion among ourselves and the audience that will be recorded and developed into a publication and an exhibition in the future. In Sharone's work memory is traced within public 'non- spaces', through encounters and conversations with strangers. In Katya's short animations she re ects on the elusive personal character of mass-produced textiles hinting at the absent body. Rebecca's reading of poetical language in relation to a cultural and intellectual engagement with literature outside of the traditions of Art History attempts to create a framework for the reading of artworks. Crossing disciplines and geographies our presentations will engage with shifting acts of translation between personal and collective memory in the di erent contexts of our practices: human interaction in travel and urban space in contemporary Germany, acts of misreading and unmaking and poetical language, and linking family stories and textile patterns in the Soviet Jewish family archive.This panel will approach ideas surrounding the art language that permits absences and movement, leaving space for the viewer/reader's engagement with her/his own emotional and intellectual response, so opening the possibility of an engagement with the past and our present aside of our daily experiences of public memory.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G6: Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals Room_6 Track : Museums and Memory WG
Speakers Frauke Kempka, Associated Researcher To GMM Project
Markéta Bajgerová, PhD Student In GMM Project, Institute Of Culture Studies And Theatre History, Austrian Academy Of Sciences
André Hertrich, Post-Doc Researcher, Austrian Academy Of Sciences, Institute Of Culture Studies And Theatre History
Eric Sibomana, PhD Student, ÖAW
Zuzanna Dziuban, Senior Postdoc, Institute For Culture Studies And Theater History, Austrian Academy Of Sciences
Ljiljana Radonic, ERC Project Leader, Priv.doc. Dr., Austrian Academy Of Sciences, Institute Of Culture Studies And Theatre History
Moderators Maria Kobielska, Assistant Professor, Faculty Of Polish Studies Of The Jagiellonian University In Cracow
Memorial museums are institutions of public memory stretched between being agships of national (and sometimes regional) identity and transnational memory trends, albeit to very di erent degrees. This panel focuses on institutional convergences looking at how memorial museums across the world learn from each other as their knowledge, aesthetics, and images travel across regions – and what gets lost or transformed in this process of translation into the indigenous context. We also focus on historical convergences when comparing how European, especially Central-East European, representations of WWII memory resonate with Japanese and Chinese musealizations of the Asian-Paci c WWII arena. Furthermore, we are not only interested in traveling tropes when it comes to musealization of WWII, but also include case studies of memorial institutions dealing with the recent genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia. The panel is built around the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals", which critically examines the concepts of "globalization of memory" and "universalization of the Holocaust" through a systematic comparison of 50 memorial museums worldwide. We are interested in references to international trends and traveling tropes in the museums' narratives, aesthetics and musealization techniques. The panel looks, for instance, into the cases of a Chinese museums' architect saying that his design for the memorial museum in Nanjing was inspired by the Holocaust memorial museums of Yad Vashem and the USHMM, and into the Kigali Genocide Museum in Rwanda, designed by a British Holocaust Remembrance NGO, the Aegis trust. Simultaneously, we discuss the limits of what such references to the Holocaust can tell us about a respective museum and the politics behind it, arguing that the attempt to test the much- discussed normative concepts of "universalization of the Holocaust" or "globalization of memory" overtrump the analysis of the respective national and regional speci cs. We are especially interested in how international memorialization and musealization trends converge with the transformation of national memory politics in countries as di erent as Poland and China. We ask how musealization techniques, such as the individualization of the victim – as opposed to earlier representation of anonymous victims and as a mass – travel and get translated in di erent museums in Japan or Hungary. We inquiry into the ways in which the globally unfolding turn towards forensics and forensic investigation a ects necropolitics of countries like Poland and Rwanda – and in how far indigenous con icts over a "digni ed" treatment of human remains dominate the discussion rather than international trends. The panel brings together scholars from/experts on the respective countries who have joined the GMM project very recently, a team with a variety of regional and academic backgrounds, PhD students as well as early and senior post-docs.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G7: Transnational memory and performance making Track : Memory and Performance WG | Roundtable Room_7 Speakers Natasha Oxley, Lecturer In Drama, University Of Greenwich
Clare Par"tt, PhD Supervisor, University Of Chichester
Melissa Blanco, Reader In Dance And Performance, Royal Holloway University Of London
Andrew Westerside, Associate Professor, University Of Lincoln
Michael Pinchbeck, Associate Professor, University Of Lincoln
Martina Karels , Assistant Professor, St. Francis College
Phil Green, Lecturer, University Of Derby
Carmen Levick, Lecturer In Theatre, The University Of She eld
Moderators Carmen Levick, Lecturer In Theatre, The University Of She eld
The roundtable consists of s series of short provocations that focus on issues of transnational memory and performance making, performing commemoration and remembrance and memory in circum-Atlantic performances of blackness.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G8: Memory and Trauma: Embodying and the Challenge of Resilience Track : Memory and Trauma WG Room_8 Speakers Tyler Wertsch, PhD Candidate, Bowling Green State University
Dora Pataricza, Post-doc Researcher, Szeged Jewish Community
Sana Saboowala, PhD Candidate , University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mykola Makhortykh, Postdoctoral Researcher, University Of Bern
Moderators Anne St. John-Stark, Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Memory and trauma tangle individuals and society at large in webs of identity formation and change, relationships that can be performative for self and for others, challenges of play and expressiveness, survival, and intergenerational transmission. All threads lead us to questions about embodiment, identity and resilience. Panelists examine embodiment and expression, in the context of trauma and resilience. Memory, trauma and societal narratives converge in theatre and in computer games, and expressions of self as resilient - or not - are clear at these points of convergence. Recovery of lost possessions for members of a Jewish community post-Holocaust was the intersection of memory with the possibility of building a future wholeness, based within resilience. This panel also captures all presentations into a larger, provocative question of the transmission of trauma across generations: what is embodiment and expression, what is resilience and identity when events of trauma move from past through present, and into future?
04:30PM - 06:30PM G9: Transgressions of "Post". Art Forms and Embodiments Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_9 Speakers Justyna Tabaszewska, Assistant Professor , The Institute Of Literary Research Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences And Institut Für Die Wissenschaften Vom
Menschen
Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams, Deputy Director & Jean Monnet Research Fellow, The Australian National University
Irene Sywenky, Associate Professor, University Of Alberta
Andreea Mironescu, Senior Researcher, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Of Iasi, Romania
Moderators Simona Mitroiu, Senior Researcher, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Of Iasi, Romania
In recent years, signi cant theoretical debates and ample case studies explored the relationship between memory and post- socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (Blacker et al.; Todorova et al.). Despite the rich and complex developments, this space of mnemonic convergences still remains only partially surveyed in its palimpsestic intersections of various "posts": post-imperial, post-war, post-Holocaust, post-totalitarian, post-communist (even postcolonial, for some critics), post- transitional. Starting with the year 1989, and particularly at the beginning of the new millenium, all these di erent temporalities and their past legacies signaled by the "post" pre x overlapped, giving rise to astonishing convergences and embodiments in various memorial and artistic forms, but also to violent memory wars in the region. The post-socialist condition not only encapsulates all these colliding "posts", but it is also deeply marked by its own, intrinsic, "posts", among which post-history, post-ideology and, more recently, post-truth and post-politics. How are these "posts" mirrored by the memory studies in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in other parts of the globe, and in what forms are they currently discussed? Are the recent developments in the eld touching upon the richness of the "posts"? And, more importantly, are these developments converted in viable attempts to critically address the "post-"condition by searching alternative artistic forms and theoretical frameworks that may encompass and also transgress it? The panel stems from these grounding questions and focuses on theoretical, historical and artistic discourses in order to explore the possible transgressions of "post" in Central and Eastern Europe, in relation with other regions of the globe. Given the relative conceptual elusiveness of many of the post-notions applied to the Central and Eastern European space, the panel opens with a critical survey of the most in uential literature on this matter, asking whether the this pre xoid can be properly theorized. The second paper engages travel and life writing produced by writers from the Eastern European borderlands, who grapple with various pasts and multiple "posts." The exploration of the borderline not as much as a spatial, but as a temporal category reveals how the "post" condition of Central and Eastern Europe can be comprehended in both local and trans-national terms. In the third paper, "post" is further analyzed using the cinematic discourses and especially their reference to post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe as a site of otherness, a condition signaled by the horror tropes employed in several lmic narratives. This paper o ers valuable insights on the complex relation between postcoloniality and the repacking and commodi cation of collective traumas in order to be consumed by a global audience. Finally, the "post" condition is explored, in the fourth paper, in relation to the "past futures" and their in uence on the politics of national memory. Fictional and cultural texts that explore alternative versions of Polish history and alternative futures are analyzed, questioning the real nature of "post" and its political existence. Thus, our panel deepens the current debates on the "posts", o ering both a theoretical and a comparative, trans-national and trans-regional perspective on this topic.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G10: The visual analysis of history textbooks Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_10 Speakers Laura Galián, Post-doc, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid
Luz Gómez, Professor, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid
Lourdes Hurtado, Associate Professor Of History, History Department, Franklin College
Anna Topolska, Doctor, Independent Scholar
Jarema Drozdowicz, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University In Poznań
Mischa Gabowitsch, Senior Researcher, Einstein Forum
Moderators Barbara Christophe, Dr.habil., Georg Eckert Institute For International Textbook Research
Unsurprisingly, textbook analysis has traditionally been an analysis of texts. In the study of history textbooks in particular, scholars have focused almost exclusively on themes, discursive frameworks, and historical narratives. The visual analysis of textbooks is in its infancy. Some pioneering studies have looked at science and geography textbooks and their perception by learners, usually approaching them from the practical pedagogical perspective of improving learning e cacy. For history textbooks, the few attempts that have been made so far tend to focus on a tiny sample and treat illustrations as just another form of narrative. The eld of bibliometric analysis in turn has seen much debate about visualization methods, but what is being visualized is almost exclusively textual data such as citations. In the literature there is some discussion of the pictorial turn in the humanities and a shift from textual to visual information processing among learners in the digital age, but methods developed by recently emerging elds such as visual history and visual sociology have yet to be applied to the analysis of history textbooks, whether recent or older. This panel showcases innovative concepts and (qualitative and quantitative) methods in the visual analysis of history textbooks across four continents. It presents case studies from Canada, Peru, Poland, and Spain ranging from 1942 to the present day and from rst-grade primers for illiterate adult populations to Baccalaureate-level history textbooks, as well as a large-scale quantitative study of how war memorials are visually presented in history and social studies textbooks in the Soviet Union and 15 successor states from 1944 to 2019. The methods used range from semiotic approaches drawing on Roland Barthes' distinction between studium and punctum in the impact of photographies to pragmatic sociology's concept of a familiar regime of engagement built on intimate, pre-discursive habitual experiences.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G11: The (Im)Possibilities of Bearing Witness: The Intrinsic Value and Healing Power of Autobiographic Narratives Room_11 Track : Witnessing Memory WG | Roundtable
Speakers Jason Williamson, Senior Lecturer, University Of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Deeplina Banerjee, Ph.D Student, University Of Western Ontario
Rachel Newsome, Doctoral Researcher, The University Of Salford
Cheryl Cha#n, English Faculty, Cabrillo College
Idit Gil, Dr., The Open University Of Israel
Mirta Kupferminc, Directora De Gra ca Insurgente, Gra ca Insurgente Association
Jill Strauss, Associate Professor, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
Moderators Stefanie Hofer, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
This roundtable will discuss the role of the researcher and the ways in which his/her testimony with traumatic experiences in uences the course of research, but also the way in which the individual traumatic experiences of the researcher a ect his/her methodology and narratives produced. Moreover, we aim to explore ways through which witness testimonies can in uence researchers and readers and if (and to what extent) testimonies may help post-traumatic healing and recovery.According to the psychiatrist Dori Laub, a victim needs the presence of a witness (an empathetic listener or reader), to confront the darkness of painful memories and to organize and process traumatic experiences. "'Arousers' of memories" helped the Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1990) discover meaning in writing. For him, the true witness bears the responsibility to serve as a "moral witness," to testify with a "moral purpose" (Margalit, 2002, 149). Often researchers are put in the position of the witness while investigating the impact of traumatic events. How does such implied moral purpose in uence the scholarly endeavors? And how does the arousal of the scholar's own memories in the process of witnessing shape the course of the research conducted? Can a researcher turn into "a witness to himself"/herself (Laub, 1991, 58), potentially working through his/her own traumatic past while witnessing the trauma of others? How can such self-re ections and self-explorations-of both survivor and/or researcher-become part of scholarly writings, and contribute to healing which reaches a wider audience than the ivory tower of academia?Dr. Idit Gil focuses on the structure and language of a history narrative as agencies to represent the "moral witness." She raises the question of transference for a Holocaust researcher and a daughter of a Holocaust survivor when writing academically on the subject. Another second-generation survivor, the artist Mirta Kupferminc, uses two photos-one by a member of the death machinery, the other, like her father, an imprisoned man in the ghetto of Lodz-to discuss testimony through art as means to work through historic wounds. Dr. Jill Strauss presents ndings of and emotional reckonings with her autoethnography about a German town where her Jewish ancestors once lived. Dr. Cheryl Cha n raises ethical questions about her memoir which uses the life of Primo Levi as a touchstone for personal memory.Rachel Newsome o ers creative readings of her short stories thereby exemplifying how auto ction can bear witness to her trauma through the distancing e ect of ctionalization, while also o ering a pathway to recovery for both herself and readers. Dr. Jason Williamson uses his traumatic experience, narrowly surviving the Oklahoma City bombings, as a starting point for his research on German leftist terrorism and its cultural representations that have neglected the victim's perspective. While re ecting on her own privileged status as upper-caste academic, Deeplina Banerjee argues that the Indian government's failure to protect Dalit women from rape is an attempt to normalize caste-based sexual violence to maintain the social hierarchies, and hence she advocates for a dismantling of the caste-system.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G12: Asian American Memory Activism Track : Roundtable Room_12 Speakers Judith Mirkinson, President, “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition
Linda Hasunuma, Assistant Director, Temple University, Center For The Advancement Of Teaching
Jung-Sil Lee, Adjunct Professor , Maryland Institute College Of Art
Lillian Sing, Co Chair , “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition
Kathy Masaoka, Co-Chair, Nikkei For Civil Rights & Redress
Mary McCarthy, Professor, Drake University
Moderators Mary McCarthy, Professor, Drake University
Based on Yifat Gutman's (2015) conception of memory activism as seeking "to rst look backward to intervene in society's dominant understanding of the past in a way that a ects the understanding of present problems and projects future resolutions" ("Looking backward to the future: Counter-memory as oppositional knowledge-production in the Israeli- Palestinian con ict," 58), this roundtable of Asian American activists and scholars of Asian American activism, will explore how remembering the past is an activity in creating a more equitable present and future.Our roundtable participants span decades of memory activism and support for historical injustices across the Asian American community.Since 1980, Kathy Masaoka has been active in the National Coalition for Redress & Reparations, now Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, which helped to lead a grassroots campaign to successfully win redress for Japanese Americans interned during World War II and now conducts educational programs to preserve that history.Judge Lillian Sing (Ret.), the rst Asian American woman judge in Northern California, is a founding member of Chinese for A rmative Action, Rape of Nanjing Redress Coalition, and "Comfort Women" Justice Coalition. She retired from San Francisco Superior Court in 2015 to help build San Francisco's "Comfort Women" Memorial.Dr. Jungsil Lee is an Adjunct Professor of Art History at Maryland Institute College of Art and George Washington University, whose dissertation explored the signi cance of public memorials and their roles in healing trauma and peacebuilding. She is also the president of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc., which promotes public awareness regarding wartime sex slavery during World War II.Judith Mirkinson is a founder of the GABRIELA Network, one of the original organizations to document the "comfort women," and coordinated the rst US national tour of a former "comfort woman" in 1993. Mirkinson currently serves as the President of the "Comfort Women" Justice Coalition.Dr. Linda C. Hasunuma is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bridgeport. She has published on Asian American memory activism, and gender politics in Japan and South Korea. She is currently developing a book project on Asian American activism.Dr. Mary M. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Drake University. She is preparing a book manuscript on the contemporary legacies of the Asia-Paci c War, which includes dozens of interviews with those engaged in Asian American memory activism.This roundtable is part of a year-long conversation about Asian American memory activism, among activists and scholars, that will culminate in a published article about the interaction between activism and scholarship, and the varied roles of activists and scholars, in Asian American memory activism.At the MSA roundtable, the discussion leader will pose questions to engage the roundtable participants and audience in areas such as: the importance of historical narratives in the present and the future of a minority group or diaspora, activist responses to the hegemonic power of the state, the impact of transnationalism, and the relationship between activism and scholarship.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G13: Converging Classrooms: A Framework to Guide Multi-disciplinary Memory Studies Courses & Conversations Room_13 Speakers Taylor Drake, Memory Studies Major, Davidson College
William Hirst, Professor, New School For Social Research
Maurice Norman, Digital Projects Fellow, Davidson College
Luisa Pereira, Memory Studies Major, Davidson College
Kristi Multhaup, Vail Professor Of Psychology, Davidson College
Scott Denham, Charles A. Dana Professor Of German Studies, Davidson College
Moderators Kristi Multhaup, Vail Professor Of Psychology, Davidson College
In "Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation: Analogous Processes on Di erent Levels," Anastasio et al. (2012) discuss memory from their scholarly perspectives: neuroscience, psychology, history, and anthropology. They argue that individual and collective memory consolidation can be understood as both parallel and analogous processes. The scholars outline a "three-in-one model of consolidation" that aims to "develop a coherent theory of memory that can move the eld [of memory studies] beyond yet another description of the construction of (collective) memory to something approaching a functional, explanatory model" (Anastasio et al. 79). In Spring 2019, ve Davidson College professors used a modi ed version of this model to connect their individually taught courses in Africana Studies/Education, English, German Studies/History, Psychology, and History. The ve courses met twice per week, as separate courses one day and all together (~70 students) the other day; the latter was called the Memory Commons. Panelists will include ve Memory Commons participants who represent di erent perspectives based on discipline, academic roles (professors, students), and in uence on current work (e.g., recent graduate now working in the Archives, Memory Studies majors, participants in version 2.0 of the course). In addition to participants' re ections and critiques, a discussant will both highlight strengths of the framework and suggest ways to improve the approach. Anastasio et al. argue that individual and collective memory function in parallel processes of short-term storage, association of items, and long-term storage within their relevant entity (e.g., person, nation). Scholars of individual memory study working memory, hippocampal function, and schema; scholars of the collective level explore artifacts such as media and journals, debate, and books and museums. This model has potential for "true, two-way interdisciplinary scope" (Lancaster, 2013) that builds on work done by both scientists and humanities scholars. On the other hand, the model lacks important concepts such as false memories (Lancaster, 2013), the (in)stability of collective memory (Michaelian, 2014), and in uences on memory formation such as gender, race, and group identi cation. These critiques came to life in the Memory Commons discussions. The professors presented the modi ed three-in-one model from psychological and historical perspectives to create a shared vocabulary across courses. Participants grappled with tensions that existed among scholars from di erent disciplines. The debates that grew from this interdisciplinary tension deepened our understanding of memory formation, remembering, and representation. We share examples of when using the Anastasio et al. model to accommodate the ve courses' di erent lenses succeeded and when it did not. The Memory Commons functioned as connective tissue between disciplines, laying a foundation for cross-disciplinary discussion for both experienced scholars and students pursuing Memory Studies. Our panel will provide insight on how scholars of various disciplines can bring their own distinct approaches to Memory Studies to create a rewarding, collaborative undergraduate course.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G14: Entanglement of Capitalist Transition and Memory after 1989
Room_14 Speakers Michael Rothberg , Professor
Sanja Horvatincic, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute Of Art History, Zagreb
Saygun Gökarıksel, Assisant Professor , Saygun Gökarıksel
Gal Kirn, DR/ Visiting Fellow, ICI Berlin
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Dr Hab., The Center For Research On Social Memory, Faculty Of Sociology, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Stefan Berger, Professor Of Social History, RUB
This panel navigates between the threads of "historical convergences" and "political discursive convergences." As a whole, the panel aims to develop a critical historical and materialist approach to memory by bringing together panelists who are involved in the research of memory forms, revisionism, and cultural politics within the historical and contemporary processes of political and economic change in Eastern Europe. While memory studies have recently started to take a notice of the implications of socioeconomic inequalities for memory, there is still much theoretical and practical work to be done to understand the historical materiality of memory practices, institutions, laws, and politics. How might we conceive memory as internally linked to the material operation of capital, ideology, nation-state, and the production and reproduction of life and death? In what ways might we understand memory within the tensions and contradictions of nation-state formations and capital-labor relations, and within the classed, gendered, sexualized and racialized forms of inequality and exclusion? How might we think of the relationship between memory and violence including class dispossession and exploitation, materially and historically? Which memory and gures are repressed and which are promoted or highlighted in the processes of revisionism? The panelists approach these questions from the location of southeastern and eastern Europe. With its tumultuous history of wars, nation-state building, historical communism, fascism, and liberal and neoliberal capitalism in the periphery/semi-periphery of world capitalism, this location o ers fruitful insight to begin to problematize the historical materiality of memory and challenge the teleological understandings of "transition" and "memory as cure," while at the same time insisting on the tradition of the oppressed beyond a mere nostalgic return. Situated in Slovenia/former Yugoslavia, Gal Kirn o ers a longer perspective to analyze the "primitive accumulation of memory" in post-Yugoslavian nationalized time- space and interrogate anti-communist historical revisionism, linking capitalist restoration with deep changes in memory politics (new realms of memory). On the basis of her oral history project with industrial workers in Poland, Joanna Wawrzyniak examines the vernacular memories of "shock therapy" following nancialization and privatization of state-led industries in early 1990s. Saygun Gökarıksel aims to unpack the moral-political vocabulary of transitional justice, especially lustration, within the context of capitalist transformation in Poland and examine the dilemmas posed by capital's violence for the memory laws and judicial processes regarding the communist past. Working from the perspective of the critical heritage from below, Sanja Horvatinčić analyzes the emancipatory potential of community based, self-organized practices focused on socialist heritage that challenge the o cial heritage discourse created after the reactionary change of paradigm in post- socialist European context.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G15: Memory and Geography. Part 4(4): Innovations and Intersections Track : Roundtable Room_15 Speakers Miranda Meyer, Graduate Assistant, City University Of New York Graduate Center
Pamela Sertzen, Ph.D. Candidate, Syracuse University
Stefan Norgaard, PhD Student In Urban Planning, Columbia University
Rebecca Sheehan, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Mark Rhodes, Assistant Professor Of Geography, Michigan Technological University
Gruia Badescu, Research Fellow Zukunftskolleg & Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University Of Konstanz
Moderators Jordan Brasher, Assistant Professor Of Geography, Columbus State University
Memory takes place somewhere. Memory, memorial landscapes, and memory work have thoroughly permeated the eld of geography, and geography, in turn, has begun to in uence a spatial turn within memory studies. As the social science of where, geography is uniquely placed to examine the spaces, places, and landscapes that attend the process of remembering and forgetting. This roundtable rounds out a series of paper sessions on geography and memory. We especially hope to highlight intersections and new innovations in geography and critical memory studies. We bring together diverse voices from geography, urban planning, and memory studies who work on commemorative issues around the world to develop links between geography and memory and to discuss the potential for a Memory and Space Working Group within MSA. Overall, we hope this roundtable will further link the scholarship of geographers working at the intersection of memory, social justice, and politics with the growing voice of the memory studies community and provide a forum for discussion following a series of paper panel sessions on geography and memory.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G16: Memory, Literature, and Race
Room_16 Speakers Utitofon Inyang, Graduate Student, University Of California, Riverside
Yu MIn Claire Chen, Assistant Professor, National Taipei University Of Technology
Ankita Sharma, PhD Research Scholar
Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Dr., Washington University In St. Louis
Nicolas Ramos Flores, Assistant Professor Of Spanish , Colby College
Moderators Astrid Rasch, Associate Professor, Norwegian University Of Science And Technology
04:30PM - 06:30PM G17: Political use of the past in the Chilean social uprising of October 18th 2019
Room_17 Speakers Roberto Fernández, Faculty Member, Universidad De Chile
Mónica Iglesias, Adjunct Professor , Universidad De Valparíso
Loreto López, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad De Chile
Nicolas Ortiz-Ruiz, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad Catolica Cardenal Silva Henriquez
Moderators Loreto López, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad De Chile
The Chilean social uprising that began on October 18th 2019, also called a revolt or social outbreak, is one of the most relevant social mobilization processes of the last thirty years. From that date to the present, citizens have taken to the streets to express their discontent and repudiation of the neoliberal model installed in the dictatorship and consolidated during the post-dictatorial governments. The protests have also called into question the system of political representation demanding a new order, enshrined through a new Constitution. The pressure of the proteste forced the government to call for a plebiscite, resulting in a landslide victory of 78% for the election of a new carta magna through a constituent assembly. Although the mobilization expressed the desire for transformations in the present to achieve a di erent future, it has also shown various expressions that re-inscribe the past in current political struggle. This is what we call "political use of the past", the means by which collective memories are built in the framework of political struggles. During the last year it is possible to appreciate the recurrence of slogans and symbolic repertoires that refer to struggles from the past, the recovery of historical gures, the repositioning of denunciation and commemorative practices, and as a whole the articulation of critical readings of the recent past that focus on the continuation of the dictatorship in the present. The latter challenges the eld of memory in our country, which, as in other countries of the Southern Cone, has been mainly focused on the analysis of memories of State country, which, as in other countries of the Southern Cone, has been mainly focused on the analysis of memories of State terrorism. At the same time, it shows one of the ways in which memory studies intersect with social movements studies, as an important part of the mobilization process observed in the Chilean social uprising has been carried out by di erent movements with previous existence. Despite the Covid 19 pandemic, social mobilization continued on social media, and street protest were reactivated as soon as the restriction measures started lifting. In this way, on October 18th 2020, summoned various demonstrations that included a commemorative nature. In this context, this panel provides a theoretical and conceptual guidelines to understanding the relationship between memory and political action within the framework of the October's social upheaval in Chile, to share observations and analysis on di erent ways in which the past is used, together with the description of the political memories involved in this process.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G18: Post/War Refugee Stories, Images, and Afterlives: Precarious Implicated Subjects
Room_18 Speakers Didem Uca, Assistant Professor Of German Studies, Emory University
Karen Remmler, Mary Lyon Professor Of Humanities, Mount Holyoke College
Friederike Eigler, Professor, Georgetown University
Karolina Hicke, PhD Candidate , University Of Massachusetts Amherst
Samantha Grayck, PhD Candidate, Georgetown University
Moderators Karen Remmler, Mary Lyon Professor Of Humanities, Mount Holyoke College
This panel places Michael Rothberg's Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019) in relation to literary and visual representation of refugee subjects during and in the aftermath of World War II and in recent years. We propose a panel that examines the problematic juxtaposition of the afterlives of those displaced by World War II, the Holocaust, and current wars within the context of shifting European borders and identities a ecting non-European refugees/migrants. Through analysis of literary works, visual representations, and transnational convergences, this panel seeks to address the following questions: How does migration emerge as a prevailing literary theme in works that link di erent traumatic histories through the migratory experiences of characters that defy temporal and spatial rigidity? What are the pitfalls of representing forced migration of expellees, for example, in the immediate postwar period and in the larger context of displacement and forced labor in Nazi Germany? How do visual representations of contemporary migrants frame their (un)grievable deaths within iconic images of Holocaust victims? How do current migrants place their own life trajectories within historical frameworks that draw on shifting constructions of otherness and implicated subjectivities? How does the physical disappearance of entire ethnic groups, i.e., Eastern European Jews, leave traces in collective and institutional memory?
04:30PM - 06:30PM G19: Transcultural Memory Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Part 2(2): Convergences and Entanglements Room_19 Speakers Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Dr./Research Associate, Universität Des Saarlandes
Jonas Nesselhauf, Junior Prof. Dr. , Saarland University
Sophia Hannah Mehrbrey, Post-Doc, Saarland University
Silvia Anastasijevic, PhD Candidate, Goethe University Frankfurt
Hanna Teichler, Dr./Postdoc, Memory Studies Association
Moderators Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Dr./Research Associate, Universität Des Saarlandes
As Arjun Appadurai (1996) succinctly argues, media and migration are the two driving forces of what he frames as a globalized modernity. "Diasporic public spheres" reaching across national, cultural and historical boundaries are both signi ers and the result of an ostensibly limitless and potentially global mobility (Appadurai 3). British imperialism left its mark on the world map, and one of its ambivalent legacies is the rise of English as the world's most widely used lingua franca. Notwithstanding that imperialism and colonialism forcibly mobilized and uprooted peoples across the globe, wreaking havoc in their wake, migration, trade and travel have always shaped the world map and created an intricate network of entangled histories (cf. Hofmeyr 2012, Desai 2010). Global mobility also fundamentally shapes practices of remembering. According to Astrid Erll (2011), memory's modus operandi is travel: memories are mobile and simultaneously able to mobilize. We propose a stream of two panels which will put memory studies and transcultural and postcolonial studies in relation to each other. The beginnings of postcolonial studies historically coincided with that of memory studies: These two crucial innovations were developed throughout the 1980s in university departments around the world. Although both are conceptually and e ectively interdisciplinary research elds and consequently spread across university departments, surprisingly for almost three decades the two did not join forces. This is slowly changing, but the full potential of their conjunction certainly lies ahead of us. We argue that such a dialogue can enrich each eld's critical grammar and research perspectives. Many of the sources we analyse are shaped by the memories of (an idealized) 'home', of colonialism and its end, of independence and mobility. Such texts represent and explore hybrid identities and histories as they literally and guratively travel the world. In turn, the experience of travel impacts on memories and identities in various manners.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G20: Transitional Justice Institutions and Practices in Local and Regional Historical Processes in Latinamerica Room_20 Speakers Benedict Olgado, Assistant Professor , University Of The Philippines
Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor, George Mason University
Mercedes Figueroa, PhD Candidate, Lateinamerika Institut (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin
Ximena Malaga Sabogal, PhD Candidate, New York University
María Eugenia Ulfe, Professor Of Anthropology, Ponti cia Universidad Católica Del Perú
Moderators Ximena Malaga Sabogal, PhD Candidate, New York University
In recent decades, transitional justice policies have assumed an important role in the installation of democratic processes in post-con ict countries. In Latin America this has meant that certain mechanisms, discourses, and practices of transitional justice are taken as forms that must be followed in the construction of democratic societies. However, there have been little discussion on the shape these paths take, the debates and the local historical processes in which they are inserted or with which they (sometimes) clash. Our panel re ects on how local practices emerge as a result of the con uence of transitional justice processes and local and regional historical processes in Latin America. We will look at both levels, from the States, as well as from social organizations and the collective, and how individual actors are involved in these processes.
04:30PM - 06:30PM G21: Unsilencing the Past: Experiences of Atrocity and its Legacy in Literature and Art. Part 2(2) Room_21 Speakers Caroline D. Laurent, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University
Anna Maria Sienicka, PhD Candidate, University Of Burgundy, France
Raphaëlle Tchamitchian, Dr, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Marie Jadot, PhD Researcher, Université De Liège
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż, Associate Professor, University Of Warsaw
Dominic Williams, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
Sue Vice, Professor, The University Of She eld
Katarzyna Bojarska, Assistant Professor , SWPS University Warsaw
Moderators Anna Katila, PhD Candidate, King's College London
Collective memories of mass atrocity, including genocide, are shaped by the political and cultural realities of the aftermath of violence. Some narratives and experiences are commemorated, whilst others are marginalised, silenced or overlooked. This panel examines the ways in which literature or other creative responses expose previously invisible memories, creating new spaces for public discourse and collective memory. Focusing on the complete destruction of social fabric by genocide and war, the papers in this panel address the legacies of the Holocaust, Armenian and Bosnian genocides, military rule in Chile, war and genocide in Bangladesh, Zimbabwe's war of independence, the atomic bombs and radiation in Japan, and the history of enslavement and slavery in the USA. Exploring convergences across these diverse contexts, this panel identi es shared questions and concerns of collective memory that resonate across the di erent contexts and political situations. Challenging the dominant public discourse, literature and di erent art forms can foreground the voices of marginalised groups or positionalities. This panel also identi es shared narrative strategies in di erent narrative forms. Panel 'Unislencing the Past' is shared into two components with the rst focusing on the ongoing need to recognize and unsilence women's experiences and the second on navigating silenced memories from a generational distance. The rst part of the panel exposes the recurring silence, stigma and shame surrounding women's bodily su ering, rape, and struggle to mother. The speakers in part I demonstrate the prominent role of women's bodies in destroying and rebuilding national, social or religious groups. The second part of the panel explores a broad range of narrative forms from lm and literature to drama and dance which focus on violent histories from the perspective of the (narrative) present. The papers examine the ways in which creative responses to violence shape postmemory and second generation memories, unsilencing the previously unknown. Brought together, the papers in this panel demonstrate the recurring patterns of exclusion and inclusion in memory-making and commemoration practices across di erent time periods and geographical locations.
06:30PM - 08:00PM Michael Rothberg
Plenary Session Speakers Michael Rothberg , Professor
Moderators Chair TBA
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Day 4, Jul 08, 2021
11:00AM - 01:00PM H1: Online Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past via the New Media Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_1 Speakers Milica Popovic, PhD Candidate/Junior Visiting Researcher, Sciences Po Paris And University Of Ljubljana/Central European University
Roman Abramov, Professor, National Research University Higher School Of Economics
Kirill Molotov, Student, Higher School Of Economics
Maria Silina, Adjoint Professor, Université Du Québec à Montréal
Ola Siebert, PhD Candidate, Université Du Québec à Montréal
Lena Hübner, PhD Student, Université Du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Katharina Niemeyer, Professor , Université Du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Mykola Makhortykh, Postdoctoral Researcher, University Of Bern
Moderators Ekaterina Klimenko, PhD Candidate, Institute Of Philosophy And Sociology, Polish Academy Of Sciences
Nostalgia continues to be one of the most prominent features of the post-socialist memory cultures. And like other aspects of contemporary memory culture, it has been a ected by the expansion of the Internet as the memory media. Recent memory scholarship discusses the transformations in memory cultures due to the spread of the Internet and the social media (Erll & Rigney, 2009; Garde-Hansen, Hoskins, & Reading, 2009; Hoskins, 2009). The Internet allows memories to travel faster, further, and in uence broader audiences. Collective memories become part of the 'convergent' Internet culture (Jenkins, 2006). Similarly, the Internet accelerated some aspects of nostalgia. Online platforms enable sharing nostalgic content, including personal stories (through text, videos, and pictures), as well as responding to the others' reminiscences - some even have built-in "a ective" reactions such as likes and emoji. Online nostalgic communities are easy to participate in, add one's own experiences, and enjoy. New media bring together people interested in the past and willing to collectively remember the best parts of their childhood or youth, which today could be regarded as rare occasions of connection over the common past despite all di erences and divisive issues. However, even nostalgic content can cause debate and dissent. Papers in this panel discuss the speci c features of online nostalgia in di erent post-socialist countries and about di erent pasts (e.g. di erent periods of the USSR, GDR). In what way do the Internet and social media, in particular, accommodate the spread of nostalgia and in what way do they limit it? How does trauma a ect nostalgia and how nostalgia is invoked in other memory debates? What roles do nostalgic narratives play in re ecting on the present? Is the Internet generation completely immersed in the convergent culture of the Web or is materiality still a signi cant part of yearning for the past? The panel aims to discuss these questions and, in general, the features and future of online nostalgia.
11:00AM - 01:00PM H2: Memory and Area Studies: re#ections on convergence and future direction Track : Southeast Asia RG Room_2 Speakers Sarah Anais Andrieu, Associate Researcher, Centre Asie Du Sud-Est, Paris
Quan Tran, Lecturer In Ethnicity, Race, And Migration, Yale University
Elsa Clavé, Assistant Professor, Hamburg Umiversity
Joyce Arriola, Dr. , University Of Santo Tomas
Moderators Elsa Clavé, Assistant Professor, Hamburg Umiversity
The panel intends to show how memory and Southeast Asian studies – which are two large multidisciplinary elds – can go beyond their respective limits and common paradigms when they enter in a thorough dialogue. Using concepts and methods drawn from memory studies as heuristic tools, the panel will demonstrate, through key studies from Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, how applying an approach from memory studies to traditional themes of Southeast Asian studies allow reviewing what may be considered classical approaches in area studies. At the same time, the panel intends to show how ethnic diversity and complex historical processes found in Southeast Asia – where di erent temporalities and relations to the past exist side by side – is a fertile ground to test previous assumptions on dimensions (material, social and mental), levels (individual and collective) and modes of memory (how do we remember) drawn mostly from European or Northern American cases and frameworks. The panel will emphasize two fruitful outcomes from the encounters between area and memory studies. First, that former paradigms of area studies, like the division between Asian and Asian-American studies – two domains conceptualized separately with their own histories and focusses – may be broken when memory is the eld of inquiry. Second, that Southeast Asian experiences of the past and its relation to the present may contradict previous assumptions of memory studies. The panel will present the rst stage of papers which will be part of the Handbook of Memory Studies in Southeast Asia (Brill).
11:00AM - 01:00PM H3: Memories of the Revolution. Remembering radical reorganizations of class structure in the socialist bloc Room_3 Track : Work, Class, and Memory WG
Speakers Agata Zborowska, PhD, University Of Warsaw
Maja Głowacka , M.A. / Doctoral Student , Doctoral School Of Humanities, University Of Warsaw
Joy Neumeyer, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
Magda Szcześniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor , Institute Of Polish Culture, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Magda Szcześniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor , Institute Of Polish Culture, University Of Warsaw
The introduction of socialism in Eastern Europe – in 1917 in Russia and after World War II in other Eastern European countries – facilitated a radical reorganization of class structures in the region. These predominantly rural societies with a powerful pre-modern gentry and poor peasantry, a developing bourgeoisie, an economically weak, but symbolically in uential intelligentsia and a scattered industrial working class were to evolve into a modern socialist society ruled by the enlightened working classes ("the dictatorship of the proletariat") and then to a state in which classes as such are supposed to dissolve. Although the end goal was never attained, the social structure of Eastern European societies did undergo radical changes. Rapid industrialization facilitated the upward mobility of peasants into factory workers; a new "technical" intelligentsia, often recruited from the peasantry and working classes, emerged to service state institutions and industry; former landowners and industrialists experienced downward mobility after their estates were nationalized. These changes were emphasized and manifested by the socialist states symbolically – through a conscious politics of representation – but were also registered, memorialized, represented and narrated by those who experienced a change in their class status or a revision of the social status of their class. Created "in the moment of change," in its wake, or sometimes even after the change itself was called into question by the eradication of state socialism, these representations in uenced the ways in which the radical socialist reorganization of class structure was perceived, experienced and politicized. The proposed panel will seek to examine the politics of representing (and thus remembering) the "class revolutions" of socialism. By bringing together papers focusing on di erent socialist societies, as well as di erent classes within them, we will seek to map out a range of ways in which the changes of class structure were narrated. We will attempt to answer the following questions: what were the genres and media through which radical changes in social structure were represented? What are the temporal politics of representing the class revolution? How does the passing of time in uence the ways in which change is experienced and remembered? How does the change of system in uence the ways in which the post-war changes are represented? What role does the memory of pre-socialist times play in the experiences and representations of socialist change?
11:00AM - 01:00PM H4: Agonism, Political Con#ict, and Diasporic Memory-Making in Poland, Armenia, and Pakistan Room_4 Speakers Umber Bin Ibad, Associate Professor
Abdullah Burki, Graduate Student, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore Pakistan
Nina Parish, Professor Of French And Francophone Studies, University Of Stirling
David Clarke, Professor
Sophie Whiting, Senior Lecturer
Ruzanna Tsaturyan, Researcher
Ryan Brasher, Assistant Professor / Chair Department Of Political Science, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore Pakistan
Moderators Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Associate Professor, University Of Warsaw
Bull and Hansen (2016) have argued that political elites and civil society actors typically construct collective memory of past con ict in two ways: an antagonistic mode that vili es the other as a deadly enemy that must be opposed at all costs; and a cosmopolitan mode that seeks a universal moral narrative with abstract victims and perpetrators but ignoring the complex personal stories of concrete individuals involved. Paradoxically, attempts to enforce a cosmopolitan collective memory can provoke antagonistic reaction to it, as evidenced in the current rise of right-wing populism. Bull and Hansen instead invoke Chantal Mou e's (2013) concept of "pluralistic agonism" where multiple interpretations of the past remain in tension with one another, and where the right of past o enders to voice their perspective is guaranteed as a means to understand how past atrocities came about. In this panel, we propose to interrogate the agonistic approach to memory-making in the context of past territorial disputes in Poland, Armenia, and Pakistan. Clarke and Parish examine how the creation of virtual museums by post-genocidal Armenian and post-World War II Polish diaspora communities construct a "diasporic consciousness" that leaves more space for debate and grass-roots participation by groups that would not have the resources to create a physical museum space. Whiting and Tsaturyan analyse how women's groups in Armenia and Poland pursue agonistic means of creating greater representation in con ict resolution, in the context of a largely cosmopolitan United Nations initiative and individual nation-states based on antagonistic memory of past con icts. Bin Ibad shows how performing arts groups grounded in subversive subaltern identities manage to nd space in the context of a Pakistani state attempting to supplant religious extremism by constructing an antagonistic collective memory in opposition to neighboring India. Brasher and Burki also look at diasporic communities of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, particularly to what extent every-day communicative memory-making as well as institutionalized collective memory processes has led them to integrate into or separate from their host society with which they share a common ethnic identity.
11:00AM - 01:00PM H5: Comics as a Medium of Memory
Room_5 Speakers Sarah Yeung, PhD Candidate, The University Of Western Australia
Sunil Choudhary, N.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University
Usevalad Herasimau, Lecturer, Moscow School For The Social And Economic Sciences
Artemii Plekhanov, Research Fellow , Institute Of Ethnology And Anthropology RAS
Tiziana D'Amico, Researcher, Ca' Foscari University Of Venice
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H6: Contentious Memories of the Great War and the Armenian Genocide
Room_6 Speakers Eric Moed, Partner, O ce Of Open Practice, LLC
Themistocles Kritikakos, PhD Candidate, University Of Melbourne
Anna Branach-Kallas, University Professor, Nicolaus Copernicus University In Toruń
Andrea Toth, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University SUNY
Titas Krutulys, PhD Candidate, Vilnius University
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H7: European Famine Legacies as Convergences of Memory
Room_7 Speakers Anne Van Mourik, PhD, NIOD Institute For War, Holocaust And Genocide Studies
Charley Boerman, PhD Candidate, Radboud University
Gloria Román Ruiz, Dr, Radboud University/NIOD
Marguérite Corporaal, Full Professor, Radboud University
Moderators Marguérite Corporaal, Full Professor, Radboud University
European famine pasts continue to be recalled and politicised in public debates. For example, during the 84th commemoration of the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, also known as 'Holodomor', President Poroshenko called on Russia to nally 'repent' for the famine their regime had caused (RFE 2017). Furthermore, in December 2018 British Conservative MP Priti Patel sparked o popular outrage when she stated that potential food shortages in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit could be used as 'leverage to force Ireland to give up the backstop' (INews 2018). What we witness is a convergence of famine memories with present-day controversies in public debates. However, European famine legacies-in commemoration, education, cinema and museum practices-also converge transnationally with one another, and with other cultural memory traditions not concerned with famine, in processes of countermemory which 'complicate and destabilize hegemonic narratives' (Kirschenbaum 2016: 178). Additionally, in the construction of these famine legacies, one can speak of a convergence of media of remembrance: lmic representations intersect with oral testimonies, for example. This panel, involving researchers from Radboud University and NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies collaborating on the NWA-ORC Project Heritages of Hunger (funded by the Dutch research council NWO), brings together papers which examine these various manifestations of mnemonic convergence from comparative perspectives. Examining case studies related to Ireland, Ukraine, Spain and Germany, this panel will shed light on how these famine memories operate transgenerationally as well as transculturally, in a variety of media of remembrance (Erll 2009: 130).
11:00AM - 01:00PM H8: Holocaust Memory: Witnesses and Trauma
Room_8 Speakers Lauren Cantillon, PhD Candidate , King's College London
Elise Sammons, PhD Candidate, Department Of Political Science, University Of Alberta
Hannah Wilson, PhD Student, Nottingham Trent University
Lenka Skardova, M.A. Et Bc., Department Of History, Philosophical Faculty, Palacky University, Olomouc, The Czech Republic.
Alexander Williams, RMA / Student, University Of Amsterdam
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H9: Mediatized Discourses on Memory
Room_9 Speakers Hülya Tuncor, Ph.D. Student, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Juliana Tillmann, Doctoral Candidate , Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro
Rebeca Helfer, Associate Professor, University Of California, Irvine
Annyston Pennington, Graduate Student, University Of Virginia
Andres Aluma-Cazorla, Chair Of The Department Of Humanities , Connecticut State College
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H10: Memory's Futures
Room_10 Speakers Katarina Damčević, Doctoral Student, University Of Tartu David Tollerton
Laney Lenox, PhD Candidate, Ulster University
Romain Bertrand, Doctorant, Université Lumière Lyon 2 - Toulouse Métropole
Luis Guerra, PhD Student, University Of Technology Sydney
Moderators Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Professor, University Of Iceland
11:00AM - 01:00PM H11: Narrating World War II in Museums
Room_11 Speakers Barbara Markowska, Assistant Professor, Collegium Civitas
Magdalena Lachowicz, Assistant Professor, Faculty Of History, Adam Mickiewicz University In Poznan,
Stephan Jaeger, Professor, University Of Manitoba
Magdalena Ubysz, PhD Student, Jagiellonian University
Mirco Carrattieri, Chairman, Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri
Moderators Zo"a Wóycicka, Researcher, German Historical Institute Warsaw
11:00AM - 01:00PM H12: North Korean memories of victimisation and transnational convergences for memorialisation and redress Room_12 Speakers Franziska Link, M.A. / Doctoral Candidate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Dan Bielefeld, Technology Director, Transitional Justice Working Group
Joanna Hosaniak, Lecturer, Yonsei University
Sarah Son, Lecturer In Korean Studies, The University Of She eld
Moderators Sarah Son, Lecturer In Korean Studies, The University Of She eld
This panel engages with processes and practices of remembering experiences of human rights abuses in North Korea and discusses how international institutions and methodologies of public memory record creation are contributing to the dialogue on memories of victimisation experienced in North Korea. The panel highlights recent historical, institutional and disciplinary convergences that are now being explored with victims of North Korean state policy. Over the last two decades, the documentation and advocacy work of civil society organisations and victims' associations in neighbouring South Korea has brought the question of responsibility for ongoing North Korean human rights abuses to the attention of the international community. However, this work has experienced a mixed reception domestically, and in recent years, civil society e orts have faced increasing marginalisation and even silencing while the South Korean government has sought to engage in diplomacy with North Korea. Thus far, the only formal public mechanism that has recognized and acknowledged the su ering of North Korean victims and called for action to prevent continuing rights abuses has been the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights in North Korea, established by a UN resolution sponsored by EU countries and Japan. The groundbreaking work of the COI was a milestone toward future accountability e orts and generated much international interest. In order to understand the impact of the COI on remembering human rights abuses committed in North Korea, this panel discusses two themes. First, it explores how, in the aftermath of the Commission's report, victims' voices have been represented in subsequent South Korean and international media coverage of the situation, with a view to understanding the shape of the current discourse on the problem and what it might tell us about the social and political attitudes towards practices of remembering victimisation in South Korea and abroad. Second, the panel explores new civil society e orts to replicate successful models of remembrance in other settings of past mass atrocity. Drawing on the recommendations of the COI and the UN Panel of Experts on Accountability in the DPRK (North Korea), and in the absence of o cial South Korean government initiatives, civil society organisations have taken it upon themselves to create various accountability-related projects in cooperation with international institutions of public memory. These projects have included training programs on transitional justice for the North Korean university students, and uncovering documentation on North Korea in the archives of the European institutions in charge of the secret police les. It has also included the use of Geospatial Information Systems technology to create digital maps of human rights abuses for scienti c analysis and to support future investigations into alleged crimes against humanity. Through describing these projects and the lessons learned from them, the panel exposes the challenges and opportunities associated with remembering human rights abuses that occurred North Korea, and attempts to explore what an agenda for institutionalised accountability that builds on the methodological and socio-political lessons learned in other settings, might look like in a changed Korean Peninsula in the future.
11:00AM - 01:00PM H13: Populist (mis)uses of the past
Room_13 Speakers Sarah Sporys, Doctoral Candidate, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Vanessa Tautter, PhD Candidate, University Of Brighton
Tsveta Petrova, Lecturer, Political Science, Columbia University
Tóra Djurhuus, PhD Fellow, University Of Copenhagen
Jennifer Yoder, Professor Of Government And Global Studies, Colby College
11:00AM - 01:00PM H14: Postsocialist Britain? Memory, Representation and Political Identity amongst German and Polish Migrants to the UK Room_14 Speakers Paweł Duber, Independent Researcher
Charlotte Galpin, Lecturer In German And European Politics, University Of Birmingham
Maren Rohe, Independent Researcher
Sara Jones, Professor Of Modern Languages, University Of Birmingham
Jenny Wustenberg, Associate Professor, Nottingham Trent University
Moderators Ute Hirsekorn, Assistant Professor Of German Studies, University Of Nottingham
In this panel, we will present the outline of a new project exploring the intersection between memory, migration and political identity. We ask the question: What happens to the link between memory and political identity in the process of migration? We seek to answer it through an interdisciplinary methodology based on the case studies of Polish and German migrants to the UK. The project works with multiple 'convergences': between memory, migration and politics, between migrant memories and experiences in Britain, between disciplinary frameworks from cultural studies, history and political science, between 'Brexit' and the rise of right-wing populism in Poland and Germany, between a growing concern with the persistence of colonial structures and the racialisation of Eastern European communities in the UK. Our point of departure are the insights of memory studies that show the link between past experience and present political identity; however, the project breaks out of the national framework that often underpins this work by asking what happens to that relationship in the process of migration. We examine the intertwining of memory, representation, inclusion, and political identity within two of the largest immigrant groups living in Britain. When people move, they take their memories with them, and yet these memories are expressed in a di erent socio-cultural and political environment. If memories are produced relationally, that is, in connection with and in reference to others (Erll 2018), immigrants occupy an in-between space. Their memories are connected to the country of origin and sustained by ongoing links to that community; however, they are also in ected by experiences in the new country (Glynn & Kleist 2012). By studying memory in migration, the project provides signi cant new understandings of the social factors that contribute to xenophobia and extremism. Rather than assuming that memory of authoritarianism or discourse about dictatorial pasts straightforwardly underpin political identities in the present, it examines the ways in which such identities are built on multiple interwoven factors, of which memory is one. To do justice to this complex topic we deploy an innovative interdisciplinary approach. The project is divided into four strands: 'Narratives', 'Networks', 'Media', and 'Communities'. The panel will o er an overview of the project and its aims, introduce each of these four strands and outline the proposed outputs. Our aims is to gain feedback on the project as it develops and present our emerging ndings.
11:00AM - 01:00PM H15: Reclaiming Women's Voices (Dictatorship, Colonialism, Sexual Violence)
Room_15 Speakers Evelyn Saavedra Autry, Postdoctoral Associate , Rutgers University
Tzu-yu Lin, Research Fellow In Translation, University College London
Cherilyn Elston, Lecturer, University Of Reading
Bethsabe Huaman Andia, Assistant Professor, Saint Catherine University
Proma Chowdhury, PhD Student In English Literature, University Of Southern California
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H16: Remembering Civil War & Franco's Spain across Generations
Room_16 Speakers Clara Gutiérrez, PhD Student, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid
Lorena Ortiz Cabrero, Junior Lecturer, Maastricht University
Maria Lojo, Doctoral Candidate, University Of Seville
Mireia Ludevid Llop, Student, University Of The Arts Of London
Marta Paradés, Adjunct Professor, Universidad Ponti cia De Comillas
Moderators Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Professor, University Of Iceland
11:00AM - 01:00PM H17: Remembering Refuge and Migration
Room_17 Speakers Simone De La Rie, Phd/Clinical Psychologist/Senior Researcher, ARQ Centrum '45
Sarah Bishop, Associate Professor, Baruch College, CUNY
Sonja Stojanovic, Assistant Professor Of French, University Of Notre Dame
Yawen Li, PhD Student, National University Of Singapore & King's College London
Tobias Ebbrecht Hartmann, Lecturer, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H18: Social Network Memory
Room_18 Speakers Anne Comer, Student , The New School For Social Research
Chen Chen, PhD Student , The Chinese University Of Hong Kong
Quoc-Tan Tran, Research Fellow, University Of Hamburg
Katarina Ristic, Lecturer, Global And European Studies Institute, Leipzig University
Moderators Chair TBA
11:00AM - 01:00PM H19: Victims, Perpetrators and Implicated Subjects in Central and Eastern Europe
Room_19 Speakers Ljiljana Radonic, ERC Project Leader, Priv.doc. Dr., Austrian Academy Of Sciences, Institute Of Culture Studies And Theatre History
Diana Popa, ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tallinn University
Anna Artwińska, Junior Professor Of Slavic Literatures And Culture Studies , University Of Leipzig
Daria Mattingly, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University Of Cambridge
Margaret Comer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Tallinn University
Moderators Eneken Laanes, Professor, Tallinn University
Many scholars in memory studies have drawn attention to the inadequacy of the victim-perpetrator dichotomy for understanding political violence in various historical situation and even more so in remembering the violence by subsequent generations. Eastern Europe is a case in point here. Soviet repressions in Russia often turned perpetrators of the rst wave of repressions into the victims of the next (Etkind 2013). During WWII in East Central Europe, Ukraine and the Baltic states the victims of one occupying regime sometimes became the perpetrators of the next. During the socialist regime in Eastern Europe most of people did not occupy neither of these two positions, but still su ered and/or were complicit with autoritarian regimes. How to describe the convergence of these subject positions in relations to violence? And what are the forms of implication (Rothberg 2019) of contemporary generations of Eastern Europeans in this past? More often than not we see the national states in the region externalise violence and identify with victims of past violence without bringing up the question of responsibility for collaboration and complicity. How to describe the implicated subjects in Eastern Europe and what are the ways in which they are implicated in the past of the region? The panel seeks answers to these questions by exploring commemorative practices and aesthetic media of memory that enable to forge subject positions that are resisted and made di cult to imagine or to adopt by the politics of memory in di erent contexts in Eastern Europe.
11:00AM - 01:00PM H20: Women and Memory
Room_20 Speakers Małgorzata Radkiewicz , Prof. Dr Hab., Associate Professor , Jagiellonian University In Cracow, Institute Of Audio Visual Arts
Jennifer O'Mahoney, Lecturer In Psychology, Waterford Institute Of Technology
Áine McKenny, PhD Researcher, University Of Brighton
Jakub Gałęziowski, PhD, University Of Warsaw
Margaret Tali, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute Of Art History And Visual Culture, Estonian Academy Of Arts
Moderators Alicia Salomone, Full Professor, Universidad De Chile
01:00PM - 03:00PM Critical thinking on memory and human rights Track : Critical Human Rights and Memory WG | Roundtable Sub-plenary session 1 Speakers Magdalena Zolkos, Research Fellow, Goethe University / Humboldt
Ekaterina Markovich, PhD Student, University Of Turku, Finland
Aline Cateux, PhD Researcher, LAAP/IACCHOS/Louvain-la -Neuve
Sara Jones, Professor Of Modern Languages, University Of Birmingham
Lea David, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
Valerie Rosoux, Prof. / Research Director, UCLouvain - FNRS
Ljiljana Radonic, ERC Project Leader, Priv.doc. Dr., Austrian Academy Of Sciences, Institute Of Culture Studies And Theatre History
Moderators Lea David, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
In this core roundtable of our MSA working group on memory and human rights, we bring a number of scholars to re ect on major issues raising from their own research about critical thinking on memory and human rights. The idea is to bring many di erent angles and to critically map intersections between human rights and memory. To do so, we address common threads and media in which this junction is best seen, including memory-work through museums and monuments, victim associations and victimhood, truth and reconciliation committees, and other practices and discourses that re ect this tension. This roundtable is also meant to embody the discussions developed in previous workshops of our working group. Moreover, it invites the MSA community to re ect on possible ways in which we can think critically on the relationship between memory and human rights.
01:00PM - 03:00PM Memory politics in public diplomacy - challenges and risks
Sub-plenary session Speakers 2 Karen Petrone, Professor Of History, University Of Kentucky
Michał Łuczewski, Professor, The Center For Research On Social Memory, Faculty Of Sociology, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, PhD, Institute Of European Network Remembrance And Solidarity / History Institute Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences In
Warsaw
Public diplomacy is understood as government-sponsored e orts aimed at communicating directly with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and in uence foreign public. It is researched since 1960s, however its scope and methods have changed over time. Some countries like France, Great Britain or Germany have conducted this type of diplomacy to some extent already in the 19th century, whereas many others applied the strategy of winning foreign support only at the beginning of the 21st century. Beginning of that century also saw the growing impact of memory on research and politics – both internal and external, which consequently in uenced public diplomacy. In the light of the growing importance of identity politics worldwide (F. Fukuyama), this is an even more burning issue. Therefore the aim of the roundtable is to discuss the in uence of collective memory and politics of memory on diplomacy worldwide.
01:00PM - 03:00PM To whom does the museum belong?
Sub-plenary session Speakers 3 Dwandalyn Reece Anne Wetsi Mpoma
Günter Morsch, Prof. Dr., Freie Universität Berlin Otto-Suhr.-Institut Piotr Maciej Majewski
Zo"a Wóycicka, Researcher, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Moderators Zo"a Wóycicka, Researcher, German Historical Institute Warsaw
In recent years, the International Council of Museum (ICOM) has been working intensively on a new de nition of a museum. As stated in the recommendations submitted by the Standing Committee for Museum De nition to the Executive Board of the ICOM, in museums "the expectations for in uence, participation and direct involvement are growing amongst constituents. […] Across the world museums are experimenting with expanding their realms and methods to include and support new paradigms of public participation, in a positive, productive tension between being both an expert institution and a community platform." These developments, the Committee postulates, have to nd expression in a new de nition of museums. Whatever the nal wording of the new de nition will be, the cited document is a manifestation of wider e orts to make museums more democratic, inclusive and participatory. But what does that mean in praxis? Do museums come up to these expectations? What obstacles do they encounter when trying to reach these goals?The question is manifold. On the one hand, it is the issue of the relations between museums and their sponsors, including notably state and local authorities. In Poland this question became acute after the then newly elected national-conservative PiS government conducted a „hostile takeover" of a number of Polish museums, including most prominently the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (2017). However, this was only the end-result of a long-lasting malaise of the Polish cultural policy, which in the recent decades failed to establish a system, which would ensure public museums a greater scienti c autonomy and independence from current politics. However, the problem is much more widespread. In Germany the big struggle on how to ensure museums a democratic legitimacy and scienti c autonomy at the same time started already in the 1980s/90s as a reaction to new politics of remembrance under Helmut Kohl. However, the solutions elaborated back then are still a subject to disputes and controversies. Problems with dependencies between museums and public and private donors occur also elsewhere. E.g. the newly re-opened Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA) in Tervuren was co-sponsored by Umicore, a Belgian mining company that operated in Congo since the early 20th century. Critics claim that this fact resulted in the at times unclear stance the new exhibition takes towards the role Belgians played in this region. Another important issue is the relation of museums with other agents of memory, including foremost the source communities. Good examples of such community involvement are the intense but often strain relations between the African diasporas in Belgium and the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, or between the Buchenwald Memorial Museum and the former prisoners of Nazi and Stalinist camps. How to empower memory groups, local communities and other agents not compromising on the museum's professional autonomy? Who is and who is not entitled to participate in the negotiation process and how to structure it? How to mediate between these groups with their, often contradictory, expectations towards the museum? What are the con icts to mediate between these groups with their, often contradictory, expectations towards the museum? What are the con icts which used to occur? What good practices were elaborated until now? The panel is nanced by the German Historical Institute Warsaw. The event is at the same time part of a series of events held regularly by the GIH titled "Lelewel-Talks".
01:00PM - 03:00PM Memory and Neoliberalism Track : Roundtable Sub-plenary session 4 Speakers Youssef Cassis, Professor, European University Institute
Saygun Gökarıksel, Assisant Professor , Saygun Gökarıksel
Thomas Fetzer, Associate Professor, Central European University, Department Of International Relations
Stefan Berger, Professor Of Social History, RUB
Sarah Gensburger , Research Professor , French National Center For Scienti c Research In Paris (CNRS)
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Dr Hab., The Center For Research On Social Memory, Faculty Of Sociology, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Jenny Wustenberg, Associate Professor, Nottingham Trent University
Partly as an e ect of the 2008-9 nancial crisis and the widening of social inequalities across the world, recent years have seen a rise of critical scholarship that explores the intersection of memory and economy from a social and historical perspective. Much as in the elds of human rights and transitional justice, memory scholars and activists increasingly highlight the relationship between memory and neoliberal capitalism in order to better understand the roots of current populist movements. This panel wants to set the agenda further to inquire about the links between the historical conditions of the "memory-boom" of the 1980s and 1990s, which are largely shaped by deindustrialization and uneven neoliberal globalization, and the dominant forms memory has taken in the last decades, what is sometimes referred as the Holocaust- centered cosmopolitan liberal memory and the particularistic, nationalist populist memory.This roundtable aims to provide a forum to think more systematically through the intersection of memory and economy: how might we relate memory practices, institutions, and politics to neoliberal and socioeconomic transformations more generally that involve massive social change, property transformation, expropriation, deindustrialization, class dispossession, and social dislocation? What might a focus on memory reveal about the social history of such transformations, and conversely, what might these transformations reveal about the dominant or hegemonic memory regimes, mnemonic practices, and ideologies within and beyond nations? For instance, how might we explain the simultaneous "surfeit of memory" and ascendancy of neoliberalism across the world in the 1980s and 1990s? In what ways neoliberalism, with its particular conceptions of time, space, morality, and subjectivity, shape the dominant forms of memory (mnemonic practices, institutions, policies, and laws)? How do particular memory regimes enable the entrenchment of neoliberal form of accumulation by dispossession? And how does memory become a source of contention and even resistance against social inequality and injustice? What kind of methodologies and concepts can we draw on in order to develop a richer, non-reductive, and mutually constitutive understanding between economy and memory? We invite panelists to re ect on such questions from their speci c research sites and topics. Our aim is to clarify and sharpen this relatively understudied, yet crucial intersection of memory and economy.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I1: Theatre performance. TBC Track : Cultural program Room_1 Moderators Maria Kobielska, Assistant Professor, Faculty Of Polish Studies Of The Jagiellonian University In Cracow
Chair: Maria Kobielska
03:00PM - 05:00PM I2: Leaking Lands Track : Special event Room_2 Speakers Ofri Cnaani, PhD Researcher And Associate Lecturer , Goldsmiths, University Of London
Moderators Ofri Cnaani, PhD Researcher And Associate Lecturer , Goldsmiths, University Of London
Leaking LandsLast autumn, a fatal re brought to an end two centuries' worth of treasures in Brazil's national museum.It feels almost unimaginable that so many valuable objects were simply wiped o the earth without leaving any digital trace. One would hope that of contemporary technology would o er its most treasured artifacts a better survival rate than the Library of Alexandria. At the age of algorithmic reproduction, when the automatic backup is the default standard on most digital devices, many commentators have argued for the right to be forgotten. The case of the National Museum's loss suggests that the technological practices of saving and deleting are still entangled by the geopolitical biases and cultural struggle for the right to be remembered.Only a handful of artifacts of the 20 million items that were housed at the museum survived this colossal disaster. Because of the various ways objects were captured and stored most of the surviving collection is available online, and open to the public to view and use. The digital les are accompanied by a full virtual tour, a product of Google Arts & Culture. One can easily visit the no-longer exist museum. The digital collection that formed from users/visitors contributed content can be found on Wikimedia Commons, and includes photos of the collection as re ected by its visitors on their personal visits to the museum.Without a systematic digitization e ort at the Brazilian museum, the fragmented collection that remains represents a challenge to xed taxonomies and epistemic frameworks, traditionally designed by the state. It looks sporadic or marginal, but this eclectic digital collection presents a new amalgamation and o ers new qualities. Analyzing the digital remains of the Museu Nacional, through this spectral collection, we can get a sense of a collection as it had been viewed, understood, and mediated neither by museum scholars, nor through a large-scale, semi-automated digitization system but rather via the eyes of small interest groups or visitors who captured images from the collection that are now stored on their personal devices or their cloud services and shared via their social media. They are a portal to much other data they have been slowly aggregating: other images they saw, locations they checked in at, a personal library organized by geolocation or facial recognition software, social networks, and other data points.The lecture-performance uses the hybrid collection, or a digital recollection, to look at ways data systems intermingled and refused the canonic institutional order and its indexing system, industry standards, and the forms of governing these orders represent. The performance takes this saga, that presents a tension between two colonialists, as an invitation to think on the new species of spaces that emerge in this current techno-political environment: where vertical institutional hierarchies and horizontal network entangle in a new political mesh.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I3: The Rescue Turn. Holocaust Memory, Politics, and Debates Track : Genealogies of Memory | Roundtable Room_3 Speakers Mark Roseman, Professor In History, Indiana University (Bloomington, USA)
Anna Maria Droumpouki, Research Fellow, Gerda Henkel Foundation
Anna Bikont, Senior Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza
Natalia Aleksiun, Professor, Touro College/Imre Kertesz Kolleg
Sarah Gensburger , Research Professor , French National Center For Scienti c Research In Paris (CNRS)
Zo"a Wóycicka, Researcher, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Moderators Raphael Utz, Dr./ Managing Director, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich-Schille-University Jena
The Holocaust remains a widely debated and, indeed, contested theme of 20th century history commanding unparalleled attention of a wider public. At the heart of the story, we nd German perpetrators and Jewish victims, with local collaborators having become more prominent since the 1990s both in academic and public discussions. In recent years, however, various actors in Europe and beyond have begun to shift the focus on attempts by non-Jews to rescue Jews. Growing political interest in the topic can be seen both on national and international level.This roundtable will discuss the question of the memory about the Righteous among the Nations by analysing the developments in such countries as Germany, Greece, France and Poland. Focusing on rescuers helps to neutralize di cult debates about the past and therefore o ers an attractive strategy of inscribing oneself in the global trend of commemorating the Holocaust without diminishing the sense of national pride. In some European countries, the emergence of the memory of people who saved Jews was a direct response to growing debates on collaboration. It is di cult to deny the political dimension here, including the potential for mobilization of nationalist master narratives. However, in each country remembering and honouring the Righteous takes on a di erent form and it ful ls a di erent function. Despite the obvious political dynamic, there are scholarly bene ts in terms of growing interest in the societies under occupation and their agency vis-à-vis the genocidal policies implemented by the German authorities.The roundtable will be based on the forthcoming edited collection: "The Rescue Turn. Holocaust Memory, Politics, and Debates", Natalia Aleksiun, Raphael Utz, Zo a Wóycicka (eds.), Wayne State University Press. The book consist of ten articles, each dealing with a di erent country – Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine – and focusing on di erent aspects and manifestations of the memory of the rescue of Jews. This should allow for a broader comparison of developments in di erent parts of Europe, which will also be the main focus of our roundtable discussion.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I4: Género, generaciones y memorias emergentes en el Cono Sur (in Spanish) Track : Latin America RG Room_4 Speakers Diego Sempol, Researcher, Facultad De Ciencias Sociales Universidad De La República
Ana Laura De Giorgi, UdelaR, UDELAR
Claudia Andrea Bacci, Sociologist/Assistant Professor, Instituto De Estudios De América Latina Y El Caribe, Universidad De Buenos Aires
Mariela Peller, UBA-CONICET
Tamara Vidaurrazaga Aránguiz, Researcher, Universidad Academia De Humanismo Cristiano, Grupo De Trabajo Red De Feminismos, Género Y Memorias En
AlyC, CLACSO
Moderators Tamara Vidaurrazaga Aránguiz, Researcher, Universidad Academia De Humanismo Cristiano, Grupo De Trabajo Red De Feminismos, Género Y Memorias En
AlyC, CLACSO
Este panel presenta investigaciones de integrantes de la Red de Género, Feminismos y Memorias de América Latina y el Caribe (Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO) que indagan enmemorias emergentes que problematizan la mirada sobre los sujetos, sus afectividades y acciones en el pasado reciente, así como las historias de las luchas por la memoria en la región. A través del abordaje de nuevas voces y lecturas de ese pasado, y en un contexto de avanzada y a la vez satanización de la ampliación de derechos a las personas no heteroconformes y del protagonismo de la teoría y el movimiento feminista, buscamos hacer lecturas que produzcan desplazamientos desde el género y las generaciones, respecto de los temas y los objetos hegemónicos en los estudios de memoria de la región.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I5: Memories and democracy. Argentina and Chile in the post-dictatorship (RIEMS Panel) Room_5 Track : Latin America RG
Speakers Mario Boido, Associate Professor, University Of Waterloo
Claudia Feld, Researcher, (CIS/CONICET-IDES), Núcleo De Estudios Sobre Memoria
Milena Gallardo, Investigadora Postdoctoral , Universidad De Valparaíso
Valentina Salvi, Dr., CIS-CONICET/IDES
Alicia Salomone, Full Professor, Universidad De Chile
Moderators Alicia Salomone, Full Professor, Universidad De Chile
This panel discusses how memories about human rights crimes committed during the dictatorships in Argentina and Chile, in di erent degrees, operate as a key promise that framed the democratic transition and the following years. In the case of Argentina, the dictum Never Again strengthened the necessary relationship between the building up of democratic, non- violent futures, and the start-up of a "duty of memory" that demanded "remembering for not repeating". The dictum was framed under an ethical imperative that pointed out two elements. On the one hand, addressing the duty of remembering the past atrocities. On the other hand, identifying those responsible for those crimes. This legacy persisted and de ned a justice claim that derived in the realisation of trials for crimes against humanity. In Chile, at the beginning of the political transition, the Never Again fostered struggles for memories. However, the agreed nature of that process not only limited transitional justice but the inclusion of crimes against humanity's memories as a crucial component of the democratic project. Nevertheless, the social movements in the 2000s and the ongoing riot, which has received a violent response by the State, reinstalled the debate on human rights and dictatorship's memories. The former is being assumed as a primary issue for the new democratic agenda while the latter appear as discursively linked to the present demands in the political and cultural practices by the social movements.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I6: Memory Reinventing the Museum: Narratives, Modes, Activism Track : Museums and Memory WG Room_6 Speakers Naomi Kawamura, PhD Candidate, University Of British Columbia
Marita Sturken, Professor Of Media, Culture And Communication, New York University
Alison Landsberg, Professor Of History And Cultural Studies/Director, Center For Humanities Research, George Mason University
Katherine Hite, Professor Of Political Science On The F. Thompson Chair , Vassar College
Moderators Amy Sodaro, Associate Professor Of Sociology, Borough Of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
This panel examines the use of narrative, temporality and digital media in memorial museums as potential sites of activism, contestation and the rewriting of hegemonic histories.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I7: Discussion on the book "The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Right" by Lea David (in collaboration with Critical Human Rights Room_7 group and PoSoCoMeS group) Track : PoSoCoMeS WG | Critical Human Rights and Memory WG | Roundtable
Speakers Sara Dybris Mcquaid, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Rebecca Kook, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University
Lea David, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
Daniel Levy, Professor, Stony Brook University
Mischa Gabowitsch, Senior Researcher, Einstein Forum
Moderators Lea David, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
Book abstract:This book investigates, from a critical point of view, the relationship between human rights and memory, suggesting that, instead of understanding human rights in a normative fashion, human rights should be treated as an ideology. Conceptualizing human rights as an ideology gives us useful theoretical and methodological tools to recognize its real impact on the ground. The book brings into question one of the most basic, deeply embedded presumptions in human rights and transitional justice: that 'proper' memorialization is a crucial step in establishing moral responsibility for past atrocities and, consequently, human rights values in con ict and post-con ict settings. The book analyzes the rise of the human rights memorialization agenda, termed 'Moral Remembrance', and explores what happens in local communities once this agenda becomes implemented on the ground. Based on evidence from the Western Balkans and Israel/Palestine, the book argues that the human rights memorialization agenda, once transformed into policy-oriented memorialization e orts, creates false premises that, for the reasons elaborated in the book, in the long run, do not lead to a better appreciation of human rights but often transform into an oppressive force that only serves to strengthen divisions and leads to new forms of social inequalities.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I8: Emerging Scholars Workshop: Looking for Convergences in the East-Central Europe and Beyond Room_8 Speakers Oliver Reisner, Professor, European And Caucasian Studies, Ilia State University Tbilisi
Kedma Louis, Ph D Student , EHESS (école Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales)
Hélène Kekelia, Doctoral Candidate , University Of Virginia
Sabine Volk, Doctoral Candidate, Jagiellonian University
M. Paula O’Donohoe , PhD Student, Universidad Complutense De Madrid
Andrii Nekoliak, Doctoral Candidate/junior Research Fellow, University Of Tartu
Moderators Andrii Nekoliak, Doctoral Candidate/junior Research Fellow, University Of Tartu
The fall of communism in East-Central Europe (ECE) brought the emergence of new memory politics regimes in the region. While the region is often invoked for illustrating how various 'memory warriors' instrumentalize the past, this panel goes beyond examining a plain view of memory politics. It asks what is theoretical relevance and comparative value of examining memory politics regimes across the region (and beyond) for memory studies. Against this backdrop, the panel is meant to be an intensive PhD students workshop. It brings a cohort of junior scholars, all graduates of Je rey Olick's course on memory o ered by University of Virginia in spring 2020, to get extensive feedback on paper manuscripts from a senior scholar in the eld. Each of the papers engages with a particular concept or an idea and explores it in the context of a case study relevant to the region and/or to the scholarship on memory politics more generally. Andrii Nekoliak's paper conceptualizes 'memory law' and explores Ukraine's memory laws politics since 1991 asking about the implication that memory laws pose for the quality of democracy in Ukraine. Paula O'Donohoe continues to explore the notion of memory law by discussing the case of the new Spanish legislation of 2020. Paula's paper explores the tension between competing conceptualizations of 'historical memory' vs. 'democratic memory' as exempli ed by Spain's memory law of 2007 and the project of the new law from 2020 and surrounding parliamentary discourses. She asks what the recent change in the legislative discourse means for a broader society and the culture of commemorating victims of the Franco's regime in today's Spain. The next two contributions turn to populist memory politics and the cases of memory narratives produced by the recent rise of nationalist politicians around the globe. Sabine Volk examines the politics of commemoration in ECE. Her comparative case study of the 30th anniversaries of 1989 explores how contemporary far-right actors in Central Europe relate to memories of democratic revolutions. Moreover, Gisele Almeida parallels this endeavour with the analysis of Brazilian memory politics after the general elections of 2018. Gisele examines President Bolsonaro's apologetic views about the military dictatorship that ruled over Brazil in 1960s- 1980s. Both papers contribute to how one can better conceptualize populist memory politics as a category for analysis and look at rami cations that this politics poses for societal pluralism. Finally, the last two presentations deal with memory and ethnography. Kekelia and Reisner's paper explore narratives around Stalin's monuments in post-Soviet Georgia since 1991. Kedma Louis turns to issues of identity and victimhood in Haiti. She explores memorialization of Cazale massacre of 1969 carried out under François Duvalier's regime. Both contributions examine the phenomenon of 'memory layering', that is how seemingly settled memory sites circulate competing visions of the past. All panelists expressed their willingness to come to Warsaw conference or participate in a virtual format. The papers by Nekoliak and Kekelia & Reisner for the panel were selected for the MSA Charlottesville conference before.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I9: Historical Memory and Con#icts of the Present in Ukraine, Georgia, the Russian North Caucasus Room_9 Speakers Kateryna Bohuslavska, Ph.D. Student, The National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Elena Natenadze, PhD Candidate, Researcher At The Institute Of History, At University Of Bern, University Of Bern
Cécile Druey, Dr., University Of Bern
Oksana Myshlovska, Postdoctoral Researcher , University Of Bern
Moderators Oksana Myshlovska, Postdoctoral Researcher , University Of Bern
This panel investigates the role of historical memory in contemporary con icts. Focusing on various cases in the post-Soviet space (Ukraine, Georgia, the Russian North Caucasus) and beyond, it aims to explore the ways in which history and memory impact on political thinking and action, and how they are used in coping with the losses and traumas and as an instrument in the recon guration of political communities. The panel also critically engages with the processes of the restoration of justice and re ects on how they have been used for political contestation in the present.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I10: Memory, Gender and Revolutionary Violence in Latin America
Room_10 Speakers Edna Yiced Martínez, Researcher
Guillermo Ruiz-Torres, Doctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
Caterine Galaz, PHD, Universidad De Chile
Isabel Piper-Sha"r, Professor, Universidad De Chile
Margarita Vélez, Estudiante, Universidad De Chile
Moderators Isabel Piper-Sha"r, Professor, Universidad De Chile
Based on the assumption that the processes of collective memory constitute political practices, historically situated, genderized and producing social realities, we propose to analyze the meanings elaborated around experiences of struggle, resistance and revolutionary violence exercises in Chile, Colombia and Peru, focusing specially on periods of political transition. We will show how within the framework of these transitional processes there are continuities and transformations in the resistances and in the political exercises of violence. The papers that make up this panel are based on empirical qualitative research, contributing to understanding the history of revolutionary movements in Latin America, as well as to surveying and understanding –from a gender perspective– the memories of their actors. On the other hand, it seeks to re ect on the recon gurations of the relationship between violence and politics that occur in transitional periods. The panel will consider the four communications, all linked to the research work of CLACSO's Working Group Collective Memories and Practices of Resistance:
03:00PM - 05:00PM I11: Nationalist memory versus cosmopolitan memory: Evidence from recent research into the social memory of Auschwitz and the Holocaust in Poland Room_11 Speakers Sylwia Sadlik, PhD Student, Jagiellonia University
Katarzyna Odrzywołek, MA / PhD Stipend Holder, Jagiellonian University In Kraków, Institute Of Sociology And Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum In Oświęcim
Katarzyna Stec, Phd, Institute Of Sociology Of The Jagiellonian University
Maciej Koniewski, Assistant Professor, Institute Of Sociology Of The Jagiellonian University
Marta Duch-Dyngosz, Dr / Researcher, Jagiellonian University In Kraków, Institute Of Sociology
Moderators Marek Kucia, Professor, Jagiellonian University In Kraków, Institute Of Sociology
Over the past years, nationalists in Poland-the president, the government, and the extreme right-have been very active in developing and propagating their visions of the nation's past, particularly of World War II, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz. These visons comprise a new nationalist memory that stands in opposition to the cosmopolitan memory of the Holocaust that has developed globally and has supported the development of Holocaust and Auschwitz memory in Poland since late 20th century. The war, the destruction of Jews, and Auschwitz have been key themes of the new nationalist narratives for a variety of reasons, the common most important of them being that all the themes, having a universal signi cance, concerned and still concern Poland and the Poles. This panel will deal with selected aspects of the development of nationalist memory in opposition to cosmopolitan Holocaust memory in Poland since 2015, i.e., since Andrzej Duda became the president and the Law and Justice (PiS) party with its allies began ruling the country. The objective will be to discuss theoretical, methodological, and empirical problems of research into nationalist memory and cosmopolitan memory, based upon the results of the ongoing research project titled "Auschwitz in the social memory of Poles 75 years on: In the context of changes of the memory of the Holocaust and World War II and the politics of memory in Poland, Europe and the world," grant No. 2018/29/B/HS6/02133, nanced by the National Science Centre, Poland. The project, begun in 2019 and scheduled until 2022, takes a sociological perspective. It draws upon the social theories of memory advanced by Je rey C. Alexander, Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, and Je rey K. Olick. It uses a variety of social science methods, qualitative and quantitative, from surveys through individual deep interviews to content analysis. The papers within the panel will deal with four topics that we have found the most appealing and important in our research so far. Stec (working with Sadlik) will look at primary education in Poland, analyzing the representations of Holocaust protagonists in educational documents upon the changes in the educational system that the nationalist government enacted in 2017. Duch-Dyngosz (working with Stec) will deal with the Polish extreme right's engagement with Auschwitz on two occasions in 2020: (a) the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on 27 January, the most cosmopolitan commemorative event ever; (b) the 80th anniversary of the arrival to Auschwitz of the rst mass transport of prisoners, the Poles, on 14 June, the event of utmost national signi cance. Odrzywołek (working with Kucia) will analyze the assaults of the extreme right on the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the host and organizer of those and other commemorations and a major agent and carrier of cosmopolitan Holocaust memory, and the museum's replies to those assaults. Koniewski (working with Kucia) will show how nationalist memory and cosmopolitan memory may be measured in quantitative social research and what consequences this has for the theories of those memories.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I12: Neither empty nor homogeneous - Time Perceptions in German-language Literature Room_12 Speakers Juanjo Monsell Corts, Research Fellow, Universitat De València
Anja Rothenburg, Junior Lecturer, Universitat De València
Ana Gimenez, Associate Professor, Universitat De València
Ana R. Calero-Valera, Senior Lecturer, Universitat De València
Hanna Teichler, Dr./Postdoc, Memory Studies Association
Moderators Hanna Teichler, Dr./Postdoc, Memory Studies Association
"Di erent times [are] bleeding through one another" (Barad 2017:18) – this is how Karen Barad gets to the heart of her conception of time. The past must not be understood as something that is 'over', completed and contained, but as part of the present. Therefore, the past may be conceived as dynamic and prone to change, as are the present and the future. However, theory formation and contextual research oftentimes implicitly rely on Newtonian orders of time. More recent approaches seek to challenge established linear orders of time – past, present, future – and argue that memory should be analyzed in terms of its fundamental role in constructing time and temporality, and as source of collective identi cation and identity.[1] Through this dynamic and highly transdisciplinary approach (physics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, literature and media studies etc.), we aim to analyze ctional and non- ctional texts in German-language literature by showing how literary texts are able to reveal di erent understandings of time. Memory, its creation and how it is lived, plays a fundamental role. We will systematically integrate and analyze canonical approaches and theories on time and contrast them with more recent research and the outcomes of our own literary analysis. ______[1] Barad 2017; Erll 2018 and 2011; Huyssen 2003; Hristova 2016; King 2015; Rothberg 2009; Silverman 2013; van Dijk 2007.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I13: Post-Soviet Memory and Jewish Diaspora
Room_13 Speakers Miriam Finkelstein, Assistant Professor, University Of Graz
Josh Lambert, Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor Of Jewish Studies And English, Wellesley College
Alex Moshkin, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of Michgan ( USA)
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor, University Of Washington (USA)
Karolina Krasuska, Associate Professor, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Jonathan Skolnik, Dr., University Of Massachusetts Amherst
Since the last decade of the twentieth century, Russian-speaking Jewish authors writing in English, German, Russian, and Hebrew have achieved notable literary success in their respective countries and beyond. Their writing has transformed the global Jewish cultural and literary scene. Yet, how have they contributed to the discourse of memory? This panel centers on the speci c ways that these migrant writers have intervened into the memory of Cold War and Soviet Jewish past, including WWII and the Holocaust, and forged a record of Soviet Jewish migration itself. Our panel aims to open new research perspectives that do not only ask about the memory of migration, but rather, following recent theoretical frameworks (e.g. Creet 2010; Sigona 2014; Goyal 2020), conceive of migration as a condition that shapes the production of memory, in this case (post-)Soviet Jewish memory. Using literary texts from American and Israeli, but also German-language contexts, this panel looks at historical convergences that resulted in (post-)Soviet Jewish migration and, consequently, the production of transcultural Soviet memory in the Jewish diaspora. With the example of the New Yorker magazine, the panel examines how publishing institutions form a context for the production of Soviet Jewish memory in the U.S. As our panel turns attention to new literary works by Russian-Jewish writers, we discuss how works center attention on a new gure of Soviet Jewish war veterans, a gure that challenges established American-Jewish (and Israeli) narratives that have uncoupled discourse about WWII from discourse about the Holocaust. We also investigate how an engagement with Cold War history, including the transnational movement to support Soviet Jewry, shapes post-Soviet writing in the US. Our focus on the evolution of remembering the U.S.S.R. in Israel, including the memory of dissidents, further widens the perspective, encompassing a di erent national setting. Further, the commentary complements the presentations by supplying the context of literary works from Germany and Austria. This panel aims for comparative analyses that explore the mechanisms of transculturally produced migrant memory and contributes to thinking how "post-Soviet" can be historicized and theorized across languages and literatures.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I14: Pre-emptive Memories. Chronotopes of a crisis
Room_14 Speakers Daniele Monticelli, Professor, Tallinn University
Francesco Mazzucchelli, Senior Assistant Professor , University Of Bologna
Patrizia Violi, Professor Of Semiotics, University Of Bologna
Cristina Demaria, Associate Professor, University Of Bologna
Mario Panico, Post-doc Fellow, University Of Bologna
Moderators Anna Maria Lorusso, Professore, Università Di Bologna
This panel, organized by the research group TraMe, seeks to re ect on temporality and spatiality in the discourse of memory, in the light of Michail Bakhtin's concept of "chronotope" and its contemporary transformations. Since this notion has become very popular within Memory Studies debates, the aim of this panel is to retrace and extends its semiotic roots, in order to analyse how social groups, communities and the media approach the past, citing and reusing narrative forms and genres of testimonies linked to the spatial-temporal reference of other events or, else, historicizing the present into an immediate past. Following the idea of the Russian scholar, who used the chronotope speci cally in the literary context while foreseeing the possibility of using it in other "cultural areas", narratives always propose a connection of particular spaces and a certain type of temporality. In this sense, for Bakhtin, space and time are not passive elements in the economy of the narration, but, on the contrary, can also in uence the characters and their actions, even the way the story can end. From another perspective, this means that the chronotope can generate a series of possible and expected developments. The panel wants to underline this "generative" aspect in regard to cultural memories. Chronotopes function semiotically both as elements of synthesis and as activators of meaning which are solidi ed in their use and repetition. This, moreover, allows chronotopes to create a sort of narrative predictability. In this regard, the panel will propose the idea of "preemptive memory": a provocative notion that takes into account the fact that continuous references to chronotopes of past events anticipate the cultural memory of a present that is still in progress. Starting from these theoretical premises and taking into account our contemporary situation in the Covid-19 pandemic, this panel investigates how the elaboration of what is happening today has activated many chronotopes from the narration of past events, and of contemporary events that have instantly become past in a dilated present. In other words, in the public and media discourses on the pandemic a repertoire of a cultural memory has been used to narrate something that is not yet past, but present and incessantly changing. In this sense, indeed, memorial forms of various kinds have been recovered, from memories of wars to the rediscovery – in a more or less problematic and misleading way – of lost traditions, of rhetoric typical of other traumas such as the Holocaust, Pearl Harbour or 9/11. These chronotopes have become a set of possible convocable narrative universes, rich sources of references that help to understand the event and to structure particular forms of cultural and collective social-coping. In particular, looking at the new ways of conceiving space-time, they will investigate the relationship between present, past and future, i.e. between the memory of places, new spatialities and di erent temporalities, and how this relationship de ned and is de ning the "cultural trauma" of the pandemic.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I15: Race, Memory, and the Anthropocene. Part 1(2)
Room_15 Speakers Lucy Bond, Principal Lecturer
Alexander Hensby, Lecturer In Sociology, University Of Kent
Cydney Phillip, PhD Candidate , Goldsmiths, University Of London
Richard Crownshaw , Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University Of London
Jessica Rapson, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
Moderators Richard Crownshaw , Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University Of London
This panel, in two parts, contributes to the emergent eld of environmental memory studies, and is inspired by recent reconceptualizations of the Anthropocene, particularly those of Kathryn Yuso . While our new geological epoch is de ned by the primacy of the human species' geo-physical agency in altering the planet's chemistry, this de nition presupposes the Anthropos in the age of the human as a universal subject – an undi erentiated victim and/or perpetrator of planetary environmental transformation and its repercussions. This universalization subsumes the racial implications of geological thinking itself. For example, the continuities between the extractive practices, logics and semiotics of colonial settler societies and their postcolonial counterparts, up to the present day, have been masked by an insistence on isolating geological signatures of epochal change in the Earth's strata. To put that simply, the prevailing assumption is that geological thinking has always been ideologically neutral, that it has not been complicit in historical violence, and that its identi cation of epochal markers – the preponderance to identify the beginnings of the Anthropocene in the mid-twentieth century – is not potentially an act of forgetting other histories of this epoch. In reality, the geo-logics of the colonial extraction of resources from the lithosphere and biosphere (that is, from people, animals, plants, and what lies beneath the surface) has generated distinctions between what is deemed human and inhuman, what belongs to a particular place and what is extractable – in other words, what or who, because supposedly inhuman, can be uprooted along with the resources beneath their feet. Or, put another way, the categorization of the human/inhuman has determined who has been disposable, along with their environments that cannot be utilized, in the face of settler colonialism. These distinctions or con ations (that see people as an extractable resource or inert waste) went on to inform slavery, neo-colonialism, and continue to inform what, or rather who, can soak up industrial toxicity, who can act as a barrier to the extremes of a changing climate, and who continues to be subject to environmental racism. Working at the intersections of critical race studies, indigenous studies, the environmental humanities, and cultural memory studies, these related panels variously analyse landscapes and sites, literary texts and theoretical discourses assessing the limits and possibilities of their memorative capacities. The rst panel focuses on commemorative practices in the American South: critiquing hegemonic constructions of history that have marginalized black experiences and endangered African American life, and highlighting forms of community and environmental activism that aim to challenge institutionalized racism. The second panel explores how new conceptions of inhuman, indigeneous, decolonial, and critically humanist memory work might counter the limitations of geologic thinking and resists the universalizations inherent in the established imaginary of the Anthropos.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I16: Resistance, Resentment, Repression and Recovery: Rhetorics of Remembrance in Southern Spaces. Room_16 Speakers Jenna Altomonte, Assistant Professor Of Art History, Mississippi State University
Diane Beltran PhD, Ind. Scholar, Clemson University
Eda Ozyesilpinar, Assistant Professor , Illinois State Univeristy
Whitney Adams, Visiting Assistant Professor Of English, Rhetoric, And Writing, Berry College
Moderators Diane Beltran PhD, Ind. Scholar, Clemson University
Memory is inevitably intertwined with identity and identi cation. Articulating that identity, rooted in memory takes many forms, all of which this panel sees as rhetorical. The act of expressing identi cation is just as rhetorical as are the actions of resistance, resentment, and repression of identities that are part of a larger discourse of public memory. The events of 2017 in Charlottesville remind us that public memory is vexed, tense, and always a matter of identi cation. This panel discusses public memory as practiced and made rhetorical through acts of resistance that critically assess the imposition of 'whiteness', through acts of resentment that are tied to a nostalgia that is ultimately advancement of 'white supremacy', and through the act of reading places with a racist past as a way of uncovering the repression of memories that become con ated with tradition and heritage.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I17: The Continuum of Violence in Memory Studies. Body-territory convergences.
Room_17 Speakers Rosalba Icaza, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Isaias Rojas-Perez, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark
Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis, Assistant Professor, Wageningen University
Astrid Jamar, Lecturer, Open University
Julia Hartviksen, Senior Lecturer, University Of Brighton
Zahira Aragüete Toribio, Posdoctoral Researcher , University Of Genev
Andrea Garcia Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University Of Brighton
Moderators Andrea Garcia Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University Of Brighton
Through the analysis of di erent contexts, this panel challenges linear temporalities that, until recently, have dominated the eld of memory studies (as sharply stressed in the last MSA special issue edited by Hristova et al.). The discussion of our work along with the use of concepts raised in feminist activism and scholarship (the continuum of violence -used by Boesten 2010, Cockburn 2004; Kelly 2010; Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois; True 2020; among others- and the notion of cuerpo-territorio / 'body-territory' -raised by comunitarian feminists Cabnal 2010, Paredes 2010) will allow us to explore epistemological ways in studying memories of violence that disrupt modern conceptualisations of progress and development and shatter chrononormative approaches to peacebuilding and reconciliation processes. While linear narratives tend to create a fracture with the past predicated upon the assumption that violence has ended, attention paid to the bodies (present and absent bodies) reveal the continuum of violences su ered and resisted.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I18: The Memory of the European WWII Reconstruction Era as Mediated by the Plurimedial Visual Network Room_18 Speakers Francesco Pitassio, Prof., University Of Udine
Rossella Catanese, PostDoc Researcher, University Of Udine
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Researcher, Institute For Theatre, Film, And Media Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Perrine Val , PostDoc Researcher, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Andrea Pruchova Hruzova, PostDoc, The Institute Of Contemporary History, Czech Academy Of Sciences
Moderators Rossella Catanese, PostDoc Researcher, University Of Udine
This panel consists of four presentations delivered by researchers, who have been collectively involved in the international research project HERA Victor-E "Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post WW II-Europe" (FR, CZ, GE, IT). The project explores the destruction and reconstruction of public spaces as represented by the non- ction cinema from 1944-1956. The research examines documentaries, newsreels and utility lms as well as the wider periodical visual culture (photo-books, photographs, posters, blueprints etc.) as they promoted speci c forms of historical awareness. All four presentations, drawing upon the elds of lm history, media studies and visual culture studies, understand the examined visual sources as active agents of cultural memory. Even though they provide an insight into four national case studies, the main goal of this panel is to apply a transnational perspective in order to demonstrate some repetitive mnemonic and cultural forms (De Cesari & Rigney 2014), which formed the early post-war decade in the region of Central and Western Europe. They approach the analysed visual media in the context of the plurimedia memory network (Erll 2012) with the use of several methodological tools like comparative, discursive, formalistic and social semiotic analysis. They critically re ect on a relationship of the publicly visible and accessible media material and the governance (Grieveson 2009), when the periodical non- ction lms, accompanied namely by photographs and photo-books, are seen as crucial tools for public education. The panel investigates how the governance was forming these media and how these media were forming the audience as well as how the media were forming the ideas through their di erent technical possibilities and modes of representation (Sturken 1997). On this crossroad of intersections among various epistemic communities (Davis Cross 2012) (namely politicians, lm professionals, architects and artists), e ective formative powers (governance, media, audience) and national regions (Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Germany), the panel reveals the great potential not only for articulation of common transcultural tropes and gures forming the early years of Reconstruction, but it also nds and de nes some important moments in which the discipline of memory studies meets lm, media and visual studies.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I19: Theoretical and political implications of memories and migrations’ intersections
Room_19 Speakers Luciana Hedrera, Ph.D. Student, Universidad Autónoma De Barcelona
Álvaro Ramirez March, Predoctoral Researcher, Universitat Autònoma De Barcelona
Mariana Norandi , Doctora, Universidad Del País Vasco (UPV-EHU)
Belén Rojas Silva, Postdoc Researcher, Utrecht University
Catalina Álvarez Martínez-Conde, PhD Student, Universidad Autónoma De Barcelona
Moderators Belén Rojas Silva, Postdoc Researcher, Utrecht University
Through this panel, we propose a re ection and discussion about the theoretical and political consequences of addressing simultaneously social memories and migrations phenomena. From di erent approaches and research processes, we emphasize, on the one side, how this articulation destabilizes traditional understandings of both phenomena, mainly to the extent that it facilitates a re-reading of the subjects –individual and collective- who migrate, remember, and the frames for this last process. On the other side, we highlight the role of migrant memories as collective (r)elaborations of the past in the present that are political and nourish political action. We present di erent research results that stress how migrant's remembrance becomes part of the eld of dispute that memory elaboration is: 1. Within the general framework of an approach to the study of migrations focused on the interpretations and points of view of its protagonists - memories have participated in the discernibility of multiple pro les, motivations, and impacts of displacements in speci c trajectories, historically and socially embedded. 2. Memories from and about migrations push a reconsideration of stable and xed places through which the act of remembering is activated and consolidated. Equally allow a reassessment of communities of memory understood in a bond of reciprocal de nition and reproduction with the con nes of the nation-state. 3. Migrant's collective recollection challenge the unity and coherence of identities, territories, and belongings; facilitate the con guration of social spaces that provide sustainability of mobility processes; encourage diverse strategies of resistance to invisibility and violence; and potentiate agency in front of the schemes for the characterization, control, and capture of human movements. Considering the above, our presentations will focus on migration memories linked to di erent historical periods: the exiles in the framework of the Southern Cone dictatorships, and contemporary migrations within the context of global advanced capitalism. In both cases, we will tackle subjects and approaches that have been narrowly developed. Regarding exile, we will deal with the narratives of the sons and daughters of Uruguayan exiles who moved to Spain with their parents and did not return; and the dissident memory work of Chilean exiles in France through the processes of construction of an oral archive and its results. Our interest is to expose renewed understandings of exile and thus possibilities for learning and unlearning from the localized speci cities that memories elaborations unveil. Concerning contemporary migrations, we will examine how di erent memories articulates, on the one hand, on the construction of an infrastructure of migrant solidarity at the level of Spanish territory and, on the other hand, on the struggles for the rights of immigrants in Barcelona. Both exercises reveal the role of memory in the con guration of "infrastructures of freedom of movement", emphasizing coalitions and equally immigrant organizations as subjects in resistance. Finally, we will present a discussion about its implications of knowledge production on childhood, memory, and migration. We will deepen on its limitations and at the same time its potential to subvert adult-centered perspectives on both migration and the elaboration of memories.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I20: Thinking After: Writing as Reckoning Track : Roundtable Room_20 Speakers Darcy Buerkle, Professor And Chair, Smith College
Doris Gray, Professor (ret), Honorary Professor, Al Akhawayn University, Roskilde University Denmark
Angelika Bammer, Associate Professor Of Comparative Literature, Emory University
Leslie Morris, Professor Of German, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Karen Remmler, Mary Lyon Professor Of Humanities, Mount Holyoke College
Moderators Karen Remmler, Mary Lyon Professor Of Humanities, Mount Holyoke College
What does it mean to approach histories belatedly-as familial legacies, as chosen alignments, as convergences between lived presents and remembered pasts? And how does thinking become action under such conditions: how do we give it material form and what are the ethical implications of our aesthetic choices? How do we write about pasts that we didn't ourselves experience without appropriating other people's histories? Historical memory is multivalent: it can be generative and it can wound; convergences can become entanglements. Exploring connections across cultures, religions, ethnic, and political di erences, participants in this roundtable will address their own writing practices as forms of reckoning.As scholars who are all engaged with thinking about the legacies of the Holocaust and of historical trauma in Germany, in particular (although not exclusively), we are committed to exploring how our own implicated family histories inform our experience of contemporary racial, social, and cultural memory making in the present. Taking our cue from Angelika Bammer, who poses the question in Born After (2019), "what does it mean to be a human with a history," we will examine how "thinking after" is of necessity both an act of memory and one of living in the present. Representing a range of disciplinary approaches and theoretical preferences, contributors will frame their own implicated histories and re ect on the status of the political present in their writing. Furthermore, they engage multiple facets of psychoanalytical practice and theory within a range of perspectives, including literary and cultural studies, history, German and Jewish studies, and visual studies.Angelika Bammer will re ect on what it means to claim certain pasts as "ours," when the communities we currently live in are marked by the legacy of a di erent past. Which reckonings are our responsibility? Darcy Buerkle will be interested in the role of the educator's traumatic memory in the classroom, and explore the viability and political e cacy of a pedagogy that cultivates foreclosure. Doris H. Gray will explore the connection between personal memory of historic trauma - especially when it is kept secret - and on attempts at healing that transcends boundaries. She re ects on victims' e orts that are not disconnected but are related across time, culture, religion and geography and how to incorporate these themes in the classroom. Leslie Morris will explore the a ective links between literary form and the process of memory. How can traumatic family history, one that is simultaneously absent and present, be written? Karen Remmler will focus on the uncanny patterns of residual traumatic memories that emerge in the wake of family genealogies of war against the backdrop of collective trajectories of adjacent acts of violence and their visual representation.
03:00PM - 05:00PM I21: Time and memory: How the past becomes the past
Room_21 Speakers Robin Wagner-Paci"ci, University Professor, The New School
Eviatar Zerubavel, Prof Of Sociology, Rutgers University
Jill Edy, Associate Professor, University Of Oklahoma Jill Edy, Associate Professor, University Of Oklahoma
Tracy Adams, PhD, Bar-Ilan University
Johanna Vollmeyer, Ayudante Doctor (Research Associate), Universidad Complutense De Madrid
Astrid Erll, Prof. Dr. , Goethe University Frankfurt
Moderators Tracy Adams, PhD, Bar-Ilan University
Understanding how collective memory is temporally positioned generates theoretical and ontological questions as well as invoking issues of temporality. How does the past become the past? How does re ective space open up so that prior events are not seen as a part of the present but rather as moments that can be looked back upon? The idea that the past does not necessarily pass of its own accord but rather is made to pass, or not to pass, can thus be crucial for better understanding the relationships between collective memory, temporality and the past. This panel addresses these relationships. Joanna Vollmeyer addresses the ways in which our postdigital lives have a ected our way of remembering and the ways in which pre-digital cultural artifacts are recycled. Robin Wagner-Paci ci asks whether "cauterization" is required to separate the past from the present, allow for re ection, and considers how this plays out in a time of pandemic. Astrid Erll considers how narratives that are utterly past remain dynamically alive in the present. Tracy Adams and Jill Edy demonstrate how re ective space is opened and closed as British Prime Ministers seeks an ending for the narrative of 9/11. Eviatar Zerubavel steps back to consider how transcontextual patterns can be identi ed in memory processes.
05:00PM - 07:00PM Plenary session: Memory Studies Association Members Meeting Plenary Session
07:00PM - 08:30PM Anne Applebaum and Agnieszka Holland in conversation with So$a Dyak and Simon Lewis Plenary Session Moderators Roma Sendyka, Prof., Jagiellonian University Kraków
Plenary sessionAnne Applebaum and Agnieszka Hollandin conversation with So a Dyak and Simon Lewis
Day 5, Jul 09, 2021
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J1: Local Memory as a Challenge for Dominating Historical Narratives in Poland and Czech Republic Room_1 Track : Genealogies of Memory
Speakers Radmila Svarickova Slabakova, Associate Professor, Palacký University Olomouc
Olga Malinova, Professor, National Research University Higher School Of Economics
Agnes Malmgren, Phd/part Time Lecturer, Lund University, SOL
Igor Pietraszewski, Doktor/adiunkt, Instytut Socjologii Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Tomas Sniegon, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor In European Studies, Lund University, SOL
Moderators Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Professor , Lund University, SOL
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J2: Travelling, Borderland, and Marginal Memories in Europe Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_2 Speakers Irmak Evren, PHD Student, Middle East Technical University
Leszek Drong, Professor, University Of Silesia
Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Professor, University Of Iceland
Biljana Markovic, PhD Student, The University Of Vienna
Moderators Chair TBA
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J3: (Re-)claiming names. Investigations in practices and politics Track : PoSoCoMeS WG Room_3 Speakers Olga Rosenblum, PhD, Assistant Professor, Russian State University For The Humanities
Alexandra Polivanova, Program Curator, International Memorial Society
Lars Breuer, Dr., Independent Scholar, Berlin (Germany)
Heike Winkel, Dr / , Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Berlin, Germany
Moderators Matthias Schwartz, Dr. / Head Of The Program Area World Literature, Leibniz Center For Literary And Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin
The (re-)claiming of names as a practice of remembrance has gained enormous momentum in di erent cultural and political contexts over the past decades in the post-socialist context and beyond. In Russia, in the context of an intensi ed engagement with long marginalized or oppressed pasts, projects such as the "Returning of Names" (Vozvrashchenie imen), which was initiated by the Memorial society in 2007, make a claim to include the memory of Stalinist repression in public discourses. Furthermore, they emphatically emphasize the relevance of individual memory and function as a medium of its performance. At the same time, the disclosure of the names of perpetrators becomes increasingly important for coming to terms with problematic legacies of the past. And activities that seek to elucidate the fates of the victims of both world wars and the inscription of the respective names on gravesites and memorials are being enormously intensi ed. As project ideas and strategies are transferred and further developed transnationally, convergences are highly producticve in this eld. Also beyond the post-socialist context the practice of memory as naming is of signi cant importance. Name politics become relevant in decommunization processes as well as in post-colonalist discourses. In activist movements like Black Lives Matter, the demand #saytheirnames serves as a campaign slogan and emotionally charged call for change. The aim of the panel is to bring together contributions that explore the manifold manifestations and implications of naming as a social and political practice of remembrance carried out by both governmental and civil society actors.
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J4: Hegemonic Narratives: Global, National and Local Dynamics of Memory Politics in the Aftermath of Con#icts Room_4 Track : Roundtable
Speakers Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Professor, Goldsmiths, University Of London
Kathrin Bachleitner, Research Fellow In International Relations, University Of Oxford
Rachel Ibreck, Lecturer
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Professor , Lund University, SOL
Jessie Barton Hronesova, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of Oxford
Moderators Johana Wyss, Research Fellow, Institute Of Ethnology Of The Czech Academy Of Sciences
This roundtable brings together academics working on di erent case studies to discuss the complex and multi-layered relationship between hegemonic narratives and historical representations. While exploring the concept of hegemonic narratives more generally, special attention will be given to the interplay between global, national, and local memory politics in the aftermath of con ict.The relationship between collective memory and hegemony is changing. Whereas in the past, state actors and institutions had a substantial degree of control over collective memories, today's mnemonic hegemony is more diluted and often di cult to pinpoint. Major changes in memory politics and hegemonic narratives are largely the result of developments after World War II, but especially of the past three decades that have seen a global shift in knowledge dissemination and informational travel. Today's world is more decentralized, interconnected and uid. Despite this general uidity, hegemony nevertheless remains determined by power hierarchies and the control over the means to persuade large parts of the population that a given interpretation of reality is the only natural, real and truthful one. Top-down hegemonic interpretations still have a signi cant bearing on collective understandings of our societal roles and historical origins, although the agents and modes of hegemony might vary depending on the cases examinedIn light of the above, how can we conceptualize hegemony and hegemonic narratives that underlie the dominant models of memory politics, particularly in societies dealing with legacies of con ict? And how do such narratives travel and re-emerge in di erent contexts and through context-speci c processes at the local, state and transnational level? These are the questions the panelists will be considering in their presentations.Jessie Barton-Hronešová will examine the ways in which the subject of hegemonic narratives, historical representations, and con ict legacy can be theorised. Rachel Ibreck will o er her re ections on the mnemonic developments in South Sudan, and the role played by South Sudanese understandings and applications of the Rwandan experience of addressing the legacy of genocide. By looking at the case of Serbia, Jasna Dragovic-Soso will discuss the utility of ideal-typical 'models' of dealing with violent pasts while considering how other national experiences can still be productively deployed as a 'springboard' to shed light on di erent mnemonic and historical contexts. Based on a ne-grained case study of a local memory war in Wrocław, Barbara Tronquist-Plewa will discuss tensions between dominant and hegemonic narratives and their role in the construction of identities and counter-hegemonic local narratives. Kathrin Bachleitner will o er her re ections on the study of hegemonic narratives from an International Relations perspective, speci cally looking at how dominant hegemonic practices in human rights played out di erently in the refugee crisis in Germany and Hungary.
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J5: Architectural landscapes and debates for memories
Room_5 Speakers Katarzyna Puzon, Dr, Humboldt University Of Berlin
Laura Bertens, Dr., Leiden University
Funto King, Part II Architect, University College London
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Associate Professor, UIC Barcelona School Of Architecture
Marta Marin-Domine, Associate Professor , WLU Centre For Memory And Testimony Studies
Maria Diletta Giordano, PhD Student
Moderators Chair TBA
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J6: Building national identities and memories
Room_6 Speakers Reyhan Unal Cinar, Phd, Ankara University Wendi Zhou
Blaze Joel, PhD Student, University Of California, Berkeley
Shuyi Yin, PhD Student In Historic Preservation, Columbia University
Olivier Luminet, Prof, UCLouvain
Moderators Chair TBA
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J7: Coming to terms with trauma in Northeastern Asia
Room_7 Speakers Vladimir Stolojan-"lipesco, Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute Of Sociology
Areum Jeong, Assistant Professor , Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute
Nayun Jang, Research Associate Professor, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University
Brendan Wright, Part-Time Professor, St. Mary's University
James Sedgwick, Associate Professor, Acadia University
Moderators Jocelyn Martin, Assistant Professor, Ateneo De Manila University
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J8: Fragmentations of collective memory
Room_8 Speakers Jie-Hyun Lim, Professor/Director, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University
Eric Langenbacher, Teaching Professor, Georgetown Unviersity
Valerie Rosoux, Prof. / Research Director, UCLouvain - FNRS
Constanze Itzel, Museum Director, House Of European History
Michèle Baussant, Director Of Research At The National Center Of Scienti que Research (CNRS, France), CEFRES (CNRS/MAEDI), CNRS, France
Eric Sangar, Lecturer In Political Science, Sciences Po Lille
Anne Bazin, Assistant Professor / Deputy-director Of Sciences Po Lille/ Research Fellow At CERAPS (Lille University) , Sciences Po Lille
Moderators Emmanuelle Hebert, Dr/ Invited Lecturer, Université Catholique De Louvain/ Université De Namur
While there is a burgeoning literature on the uses of the past in con ict and post-con ict contexts, this panel focuses on the concept of the 'fragmentation of collective memory'. Since the 1990s, the so-called 'boom' of memory studies has produced a considerable body of knowledge on the social and political dynamics of intersubjective representations of the past. Building on the foundational work by Halbwachs' sociology of memory, scholars from di erent disciplines have argued that political actors can 'use' the past to build myths for their political communities and thus legitimize present political action. Others have emphasized processes of memory 'reframing' or 'contestation' driven by the agency of subaltern social groups, memory entrepreneurs, or intellectuals. Overall, memory scholars have enabled con ict and post-con ict scholars to understand why political mobilizations of the past may facilitate or constrain the escalation or the overcoming of political violence. Many of the accounts assume an essentially hierarchical relationship between collective representations of the past and their political mobilisation. Political and institutional actors are often perceived as 'imposing' or 'constructing' dominating narratives of the past, which are 'contested' or 'challenged' by subaltern social groups. However, it may no longer be su cient to conceive memory dynamics exclusively as hierarchical struggles between 'dominating' and 'dominated' social actors. Instead, just like armed con icts have become themselves more horizontal and less governed by state actors, this panel's hypothesis is that in those same contexts, collective memory dynamics have become much more diverse and uid, while the central state's capability of 'governing', that is, imposing and legitimising speci c memory discourses, has decreased. More concretely, conditions of the articulation and de nition of social frameworks of memory in con ict and post-con ict contexts have thoroughly changed, resulting in what we call the 'fragmentation of collective memory'. Re ecting larger trends, including tendencies towards political polarisation within political communities, densi cation of transnational memory discourses, and increasing dissemination of 'dominated' memory frames through various media, we suggest an analytical model that di erentiates two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation. 'Horizontal fragmentation' refers to phenomena characterised by the occurrence of several, sometimes con icting memory discourses occurring within the public sphere or the political institutions of a given political community. 'Vertical fragmentation' designates those memory discourses that are produced beyond or below the central state, often transcending national boundaries and sometimes con icting with discourses promoted by the state. Both categories may include a variety of political actors and motivations. This panel is part of a multi- year cooperation started between Sciences Po Lille and the Université catholique de Louvain, that will result in a common publication in 2021/2022. We propose this panel to the MSA as an opportunity to open the re ection to new researchers, who are working outside of France and Belgium and, more importantly, whose expertise goes far beyond Europe. Such opening should deepen the conceptualisation of vertical and horizontal fragmentations of collective memory and look into whether such concepts might be of interest to understand ongoing similar processes in other parts of the world.
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J9: Memories and Monuments
Room_9 Speakers Brady Wagoner, Professor, Aalborg University
Ignacio Bresco De Luna, Associate Professor, Aalborg University
Timothy Williams, Junior Professor Of Insecurity And Social Order, Universität Der Bundeswehr München
Charalampos Karpouchtsis , PhD Candidate, Jena Center For Reconciliation Studies
Duane Jethro, Junior Research Fellow, Centre For Curating The Archive, University Of Cape Town
Magdalena Buchczyk, Junior Professor, Humboldt University Of Berlin
Antoni Zakrzewski, Academic Project Manager, ENRS & University Of Warsaw
Moderators Hanna Teichler, Dr./Postdoc, Memory Studies Association
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J10: Memories of genocide, displacement and war
Room_10 Speakers Fabian Virchow, Professor, Hochschule Düsseldor / University Of Applied Studies Duesseldorf
Tanja Thomas, Prof. Dr. , University Of Tübingen
Nevena Dakovic, Dr, Full Professor, FDA/Dept. Of Theory And History
Marije Luitjens, PhD Candidate, Dublin City University
Stevan Bozanich, Sessional Instructor/PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University
Esther Schoorel, Lecturer/MA, Maastricht University
Simona Tobia, Associate Professor, Université De Pau Et Des Pays De L'Adour
Moderators Chair TBA
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J11: Memory of Places – Places of Memory: East and Central European Cities as Convergence Points Room_11 Speakers Michaela Irimia, Professor, Centre Of Excellence For The Study Of Cultural Identity, Bucharest, Romania.
Amanda Sharick , PhD In English , Harvard University
Katharine G. Trostel, Assistant Professor Of English, Ursuline College
Kamilla Biskupska, PhD, Assistant Professor, University Of Opole
Marek Wilczynski, Professor, University Of Warsaw
Marta Koval, Associate Professot, University Of Gdansk
Moderators Marta Koval, Associate Professot, University Of Gdansk
Svetlana Boym claims that places such as cities are themselves contexts for remembrance and debates about the future. The panel builds on the concept of memory of places and its generic ambiguity. We will look at East and Central European cities (Lviv, Kyiv, Gdansk, and Bucharest) as places of cultural, political, and historical convergences and discuss how their memories are inscribed in cityscape, how these cities create commemorative conventions and rituals, and how their disputable memories are represented in works of art and modern cityscape. Palimpsestic urban memory and ways in which changing mnemonic practice shaped and transformed their identity nds a variety of artistic, cultural, and historical representations that the contributors will analyze. Dramatic pasts of the cities presenters will refer to opens a discussion about the persistence of urban memory, nostalgic memory, memory of exiled population, and social, historical and cultural archeology of the metropolis. Presentations in the panel will analyze palimpsestic urban memory from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives.
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J12: Memory & Politics in Russia
Room_12 Speakers Anna Uvarova, Analyst, Higher School Of Economics
Polina Zavershinskaia, PhD Student, Leipzig University
Julita Komosa, PHD Student, Institute Of The History Of Science Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences
Miguel Vázquez-Liñán, Dr., University Of Seville
Alexander Makhov, PhD Student, Graduate School For Social Research (IFiS PAN)
Moderators Zuzanna Bogumił, Dr, Institute Of Archaeology And Ethnology Polish Academy Of Sciences
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J13: Methodological approaches and disciplinary convergences in memory studies
Room_13 Speakers Daria Khlevnyuk, Postdoc Fellow, HSE Moscow
Inge Zwart, PhD Student, Uppsala University
Erdoğan Altun, PhD. Candidate, Istanbul University
Katarzyna Niziołek, PhD, University Of Białystok
Jason Husser , Associate Professor , Elon University
Laura Roselle, Professor, Elon University
Moderators Barbara Markowska, Adjunct, Collegium Civitas
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J14: Migration, memory and movement between Northern Ireland and Britain in the era of the Troubles Room_14 Speakers Barry Hazley, Dr, University Of Manchester
Máire Braniff, Dr / Senior Lecturer In Politics, Ulster University
Jack Crangle, Dr, University Of Manchester
Liam Harte, Professor
Graham Dawson, Professor, University Of Brighton
Fearghus Roulston, Research Fellow, University Of Brighton
Moderators Fearghus Roulston, Research Fellow, University Of Brighton
From the partition of Ireland in 1921 through the violence of the Troubles and the ongoing Brexit debacle, the recent histories of Northern Ireland and Britain are fundamentally connected. However, what Graham Dawson and Stephen Hopkins describe as "the tendency of the British state towards silence, amnesia and denial regarding its own role in the con ict and responsibility for the con ict's legacies" has meant that these convergences are often occluded, with some important exceptions. This panel will focus on one important facet of the connection between Britain and Northern Ireland in the context of the Troubles – migration from Northern Ireland to England and Scotland, speci cally to Glasgow, Manchester and London. Drawing on an original cache of oral history interviews conducted as part of a three-year research project entitled 'Con ict, Memory and Migration: Northern Irish Migrants and the Troubles in Great Britain', funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), it considers a number of questions related to the e ects, legacies and memories of violence in both Ireland and Britain. How do interviewees remember the experience of migration, and how do these memories di er depending on the social and ethno-sectarian position of the migrant in questions? How do interviewees compose narratives about their identity in the context of the 'silence, amnesia and denial' identi ed by Dawson and Hopkins? Have their memories changed over time, or have the conditions of possibility for the expression of those memories changed since (for instance) the peace process in Northern Ireland? Our aim across the ve papers in the panel is to consider the convergences (and divergences) of memory cultures in Britain and Northern Ireland as they are expressed in the oral recollections of our interviewees. In the opening paper, Dr Fearghus Roulston will analyse the way in which the decision to leave is narrated in a series of interviews. He will be followed by Dr Jack Crangle, who will consider the speci city of the migrant experience for those who moved to Glasgow, unpacking the multiple meanings of home for his interviewees – many of whom found echoes of the sectarian structures of Northern Ireland in their new city. In the third paper, Professor Graham Dawson will focus on memories of the Troubles and on the temporal dynamics and ows of these memories, which unsettle both time and space in the composure of migrant subjectivities. After this, Dr Barry Hazley will examine the disjunctures between Protestant migrants' narratives of settlement in England during the Troubles and popular representations of Ulster- British identity. In the nal paper, Professor Liam Harte will examinea particularly occluded set of historical experiences, those of the children of Northern Irish migrants in Britain. His paper will consider the dynamics of intergenerational memory transmission and the role of inherited memory in second-generation identity formation.
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J15: Remembering catastrophes
Room_15 Speakers Jay Jolles, PhD Student, William & Mary
Akiko Naono, Associate Professor, Kyoto University
Zsuzsa Millei, Professor, Tampere University
Alice Melo, PhD, Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro
Bahar Baser, Associate Professor, Coventry University
Hawraman Karim, Assistant Lecturer At The Sulaimani University., Sulaimani University
Moderators Astrid Schmetterling, Senior Lecturer In Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University Of London
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J16: Remembering the Partition of India and its Aftermath
Room_16 Speakers Tiasa Bal, PhD , Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur
Aiswarya Sanath , PhD Research Scholar , IIT Kharagpur
Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor Of English, University Of Mary Washington
Ankita ., PhD Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Aldo Zammit Borda, Reader (from 1 August 2021), City, University Of London
Moderators Chair TBA
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J17: Spatial Memory of the Holocaust
Room_17 Speakers Julia Sahlstrom, PhD Student, Department Of History, Stockholm University
Marie Eberson Degnæs, PhD-student, The Center For Studies Of Holocaust And Minorities
Katarzyna Grzybowska, PhD Student, Jagiellonian University In Kraków
Jazmine Contreras, Assistant Professor Of European History, Goucher College
Moderators Carmen Levick, Lecturer In Theatre, The University Of She eld
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J18: The Legacy of Dissent in Post-Cold War Europe. Panel 1(2): Remembering Dissent. Constructing, Reclaiming, Disowning Room_18 Speakers Barbara Falk, Professor , Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College Of Canada/University Of Toronto
Daniela Bouvier-Valenta, Recent M.A. Graduate, University Of Toronto
Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu, Post-Doc, University Of Vienna
Caterina Preda, Dr, Associate Professor, University Of Bucharest
Muriel Blaive, Researcher, Institute For The Study Of Totalitarian Regimes
Ferenc Laczó, Universitair Docent 1, Maastricht University
Daniela Koleva, Professor, So a University
Tea Sindbaek Andersen, Associate Professor, University Of Copenhagen
Moderators Tamas Scheibner, Assistant Professor / Senior Research Fellow, ELTE University Of Budapest / ELKH Research Center For The Humanities
Ferenc Laczó, Universitair Docent 1, Maastricht University
The proposed joints panels ambition a rst valuation of the various meanings and uses of communist-era dissent for the remaking of European political cultures after the Cold War. They intend to o er in-depth case studies by experts in various disciplines – history, political science, sociology – on how the biographical trajectories, agendas and social roles of 'post- dissidents' have impacted and been impacted by processes of remembrance over the past three decades. It analyzes how memories and narratives of Cold War-era cultural and political dissent in Eastern Europe have been shaped and reshaped since 1989, and how the institutional legacy and contemporary relevance of these recent histories of dissent have been created and contested. More speci cally, presentations will analyse attempts by various memory agents to construct coherent dissident biographies and derive moral, cultural and political capital from claims to 'dissident pasts.' Particular attention will be paid to how the transnational reputation and impact of leading 'post-dissidents' – including their ability to shape interpretations of the recent past and the present-day situation – has interacted with local-national political and cultural processes. The two panels will also explore the institutionalization of the 'dissident heritage' and the creation of 'legacies of dissent.' More particularly, contributors o er critical analyses of the ways political-ideological, ethnic, religious and gender-related factors have impacted what has been included in and excluded from such processes on the local-national and transnational-European levels. By providing an original account of post-89 trajectories, projects of institutionalization as well as public contestations, the panels ultimately aims to account for common patterns and notable divergences in the remembrance of dissent and the uses and functions of its legacy in contemporary European history. (These panels would draw on the research done by members of the COST Action NEP4DISSENT and, more speci cally, its working group four devoted to the exploration of the cultural memory of dissent).
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J19: The platformization of memory
Room_19 Speakers Donna Chu , Associate Professor, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong
Sacha Van Leeuwen, PhD Candidate
Kimberly Hall, Assistant Professor, English, Wo ord College
Rik Smit, Assistant Professor, University Of Groningen
Taylor Annabell, PhD Candidate, King's College London
Moderators Emily Keightley, Professor
The politics of memory are gradually but surely interweaving with what Gillespie (2010) has called the "politics of platforms." Social media, apps, and other digital services are increasingly facilitating personal and cultural memory work. Moreover, as technologies of memory, they are structuring and steering such processes, up until the point that platforms remember with and for us. However, platforms are not "just" technical infrastructures comprised of code, algorithms, and interfaces. They are also commercial enterprises that are part of "surveillance capitalist" (Zubo , 2019) e orts to render experiences into behavioral data that can be packaged and sold to third parties. In other words, platforms are not neutral intermediaries in the construction of memory, whether this is cultural memory through YouTube, or autobiographical memory through a diary app. This panel scrutinizes this "platformization" (Nieborg & Poell, 2018) of memory by answering how the economic, governmental and infrastructural logic of platforms extends into and a ects digital memory work. The panelists do so by examining the distribution of agency among humans and digital technologies within memory's construction with, on and by platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and memory apps. Additionally, the panelists address how platformization contributes to the quanti cation, metri cation, and data cation of memory, and thus how memory is both prepared for algorithmic processing and the product of this. As such the panel aims to bridge memory studies with critical platform, app, and software studies, a much-needed epistemological step within the eld.
10:00AM - 12:00 Noon J20: Varieties of Memory Activism
Room_20 Speakers Moritz Herrmann, PhD Student, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Anthony Siu, Visiting Assistant Professor , Wenzao Ursuline University Of Languages
Milica Popovic, PhD Candidate/Junior Visiting Researcher, Sciences Po Paris And University Of Ljubljana/Central European University
Liat Steir Livny, Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Sapir Academic College And The Open University
Elizabeth Comer, Secretary, Catoctin Furnace Historical Society Inc.
Moderators Duygu Erbil, PhD Researcher, Utrecht University
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K1: Virtual walks in Warsaw. Part 3(3): Wola District Track : Cultural program Room_1 Moderators Małgorzata Pakier, Head Of The Academic Department, European Network Remembrance And Solidarity
Virtual walks in Warsaw. Part 3: Wola District Chair: Małgorzata Pakier
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K2: Screening of the $lm Intimacy Track : Special event Room_2 Speakers Yael Vishnizki-Levi, MA Candidate, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Chair TBA
"Intimacy" (2017, 30 minuets, Polish with English Subtitles)A Film by Yael Vishnizki Levi (The department of Artes Liberals, University of Warsaw)The lm Intimacy, shot as a documentation of a shadow theatre for two actors, depicts the meeting between my grandfather, a Polish-Jewish communist activist and Wladyslaw Gomulka, the rst secretary of the Polish Communist Party after WWII, in a prison cell in prewar Poland. I learnt about my grandfather acquaintance with Wladyslaw Gomulka from my aunt as I became interested in my grandfather's history only after he passed away. Therefore, I never had the chance to ask him about that experience. After immigrating to Poland, during the process of gaining a Polish citizenship I found a letter in the state archive written by my grandfather in 1957 shortly after he immigrated to Israel in Aliyat Gomulka (Gomulka's Emigration). In the letter my grandfather is writing about his prewar political activities and asking to go back to Poland in order to raise his daughters in a socialist country. The Polish authorities did not allow him to go back and the letter remained his secret. Almost sixty years later, I - his granddaughter - immigrated to Poland. Poland is not a socialist country anymore.The ctional conversation between my grandfather who was a private person and Gomułka who later on became a public gure, combines past, present and future. I treat this story as a case study which enables me and the audience to look at two individuals sharing intimacy in a very tough situation in an isolated environment. The focus on the very speci c moment where these two characters were sharing the same lot will project on di erent historical events that followed this meeting and involved both gures from di erent sides of the barricade.The lm is based on Wladyslaw Gomulka's public speeches and fragments from his biography and memoire. Through the character of Gomulka, I explore the character of my own grandfather, a youngideological and enthusiastic communist, who ed Poland during the war to the USSR where he survived, got married and had two daughters, then, repatriated back to Poland after the war, immigrated to Israel and wished to be part of a socialist society but was not welcomed in any place. In the lm, I deal with the personal struggle that failed, the ideology that transformed into an oppressive regime, the nationalist propaganda and the solidarity that was only temporary and did not manage to reach real partnership and consolidation. The script was written as a result of an artistic research that later on inspired an academic research focused on the political and national identity of Wladyslaw Gomulka and the way it was perceived in the western media. In the conference I purpose to screen the lm after giving a short introduction on the story behind it and conclude with a short Q&A should time allows.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K3: Memory con#icts and historical cultures in contemporary East-Central Europe. Poland and Ukraine Room_3 Track : Genealogies of Memory
Speakers Barbara Markowska, Assistant Professor, Collegium Civitas
Grzegorz Demel, PhD, Institute Of Political Studies Polish Academy Of Sciences
Marta Studenna-Skrukwa, PhD/Assistant Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań)
Volodymyr Sklokin, Associate Professor Of History, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)
Tomasz Stryjek, Professor, Institute Of Political Studies, Polish Academy Of Sciences
Moderators Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin, Dr, University Of Warsaw
The roots of contemporary memory wars in the region of East-Central Europe are, on the one hand, in the experiences of totalitarian governments of 1939-1989 / 91 and on the other – in the dominant ethno-cultural type of national identi cation. Additional factor is the uncertainty and perturbations of transformation processes after the collapse of communism. Thirty years later, these processes led to the construction of nation states that legitimize themselves as the " nal" products of national history throughout the millennium. In 21st century two kinds of memory wars break out in the region: intra-state – between the right and left side of political arena, and inter-state – between nations that used to be in con ict in the 20th century. A crucial role in triggering maintaining of these con icts is played by conservative and nationalist governments that use the politics of memory as their basic tool of national consolidation and identity politics. The panel is organized by researchers working in the project "Historical Cultures in Transition. Negotiating Memory, History and Identity in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe", supported by the grant from National Science Centre (2017–2021). The cases analyzed in this project were Poland and Ukraine and the sources of their memory con ict. A special attention was given to the events of World War II. This con ict reached its peak in 2014-2019 under the in uence of the war with Russia in Ukraine and the politics of memory implemented by the right-wing government in Poland. Its most visible manifestation was the public reaction to the memory laws adopted by the parliaments of both countries – Ukrainian public opinion took Polish memory laws as a hostile act while Polish public opinion thought the same about Ukrainian memory laws. The members of research team looked not for temporary, but for permanent and deep sources of this con ict, seeing them in the di erences between the historical cultures of Poland and Ukraine. Their starting point was the concept of historical culture by Jörn Rüsen. They studied and compared historical narratives in education, references to history in public speeches of politicians, knowledge of common national memory cannon in both countries as well as the local practices related to memory. The results of these studies are going to be published in 2021 in three books in English (Routledge) and Polish (Scholar). The most interesting results of the research will be presented in the panel.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K3: Transnational Memory Politics in Europe and Beyond Track : Genealogies of Memory Room_3 Speakers Kateryna Bohuslavska, Ph.D. Student, The National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Jade McGlynn, Researcher And Lecturer, University Of Oxford
Malkhaz Toria, Associate Professor, Ilia State University
Piotr Chmiel, Associate / External Teacher, University Of Warsaw
Moderators Cathrine Bublatzky, PostDoc, Heidelberg University
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K4: (Trans)national Memory Wonderlands – Europe Track : Genealogies of Memory | Memory and Arts WG Room_4 Speakers Dimitra Gkitsa, Visiting Lecturer, University Of Hertfordshire
Jan Miklas-Frankowski , Dr/Assistant Professor, University Of Gdańsk
Ondřej Váša , Dr/Assistant Professor, Faculty Of Humanities, Charles University
Branislava Kuburovic, Dr / Programme Leader, MA Fine Art, Prague College, Czech Republic
Cathrine Bublatzky, PostDoc, Heidelberg University
Moderators Cathrine Bublatzky, PostDoc, Heidelberg University
This panel is part of the Memory & Arts Working Group. This interdisciplinary panel examines the relation between an expanded eld of the arts and the multiplicity of memories within and beyond the nation states in Europe. Artists are central agents in converging shared memories. Taking the European Union and herein the East-European context in particular as regions of overlapping, disrupting and contradicting memory work, practitioners in the expanded eld of the arts perform di erent forms of citizenship and resistance with regard to 'remembering a/the nation state'. We wish to question and challenge a neatly de ned idea of how the 'nation state' works as an imaginative remembered space. With regard to current shared crises in the European region – the Covid19 pandemic, refugees and migration, increasing (neo)nationalism and populism, repression against minorities – there are serious challenges to societies and their members to participate in and belong to a nation state. Artists who seek for alternative languages and new forms of historical or political convergences in the eld of memory work face sometimes high expectations of action but have, more profoundly, multiple opportunities to create di erent or counter narratives to politics. Against the backdrop of wide ranging and complex mnemonic entanglements, the interdisciplinary panel '(Trans)national memory wonderlands – Europe' will provide an open space for engaging along the construction of identity and belonging, trauma and con ict with and beyond the re-imagined nation state (and its crises). Drawing attention to various media/techniques, we will actively acknowledge the complexity of frictionized memory work and the challenges to 'do memory work' within and across both the imaginary and real borders of Europe's 'memory wonderlands'.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K5: Diasporic Memory
Room_5 Speakers Diwas Bisht, PhD Student, Loughborough University
Editha Mesina, Assistant Arts Professor, New York University
Kristine Sheets, PhD Candidate
Julia Giese, PhD Researcher, Loughborough University, London
Marilena Anastasopoulou, Research Associate/DPhil Student , University Of Oxford
Moderators Jocelyn Martin, Assistant Professor, Ateneo De Manila University
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K6: Five scenarios of placement: Towards new conceptualisations of place in memory or memory in place Room_6 Speakers Nicolás Villarroel, PhD Candidate, Centre For Heritage And Museum Studies, Australian National University
Rebecca Staats, PhD Candidate, University Of Gothenburg
Hannah Smyth, Researcher, University College London
Sjamme Van De Voort, PhD Candidate, Centre For Research On Cuba, University Of Nottingham
Moderators Sjamme Van De Voort, PhD Candidate, Centre For Research On Cuba, University Of Nottingham
Uniting ve early stage researchers from di erent geographical and disciplinary backgrounds around this central topic, the panel will address the analysis of memory from the respective backgrounds of the panelists, working towards an understanding of the common factor in our research: the place-making capacities of memory that become clear when analysing the convergences of mnemonic dynamics. Departing from Pierre Nora's notion that 'sites of memory' provide a maximum amount of meaning in a minimum number of signs, we examine how these signs converge to form the particular place. We diverge from Nora's notion of an opposition between memory, as a primordial form of organising knowledge of the past, and institutionalised knowledge production about the past. Contrary to Nora's focus on the place as a source of mnemonic discourse as an initial focus of study, we investigate how dynamics of memory, emerging from the writing of history, the organising of archeological databases, branding strategies or commemorations on social media, converge in space to make meaningful places.The diverse backgrounds of the panelists forces the discussion to step back from predisposed notions of memory bounded by traditional disciplinary divisions and provides the opportunity to move beyond the role of memory in the particular places and spaces, towards common frameworks of understanding.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K7: (Im)materiality of Memory. Part 1(2): Wood Matters: Elemental Memory and the Recollection of Violence in Post-Holocaust Poland Room_7 Speakers Jacek Malczynski, PhD, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Roma Sendyka, Prof., Jagiellonian University Kraków
Eunice Blavascunas, Prof. / Assistant Professor, Whitman College
Erica Lehrer, Professor, History & Sociology-Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
Magdalena Waligorska, Dr., Institute For Advanced Study Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin)
Moderators Aleksandra Janus, Researcher
Our two interlocking panels under the banner of the "(Im)materiality of Memory" examine the ways in which the materiality of objects and spaces belonging to Holocaust victims or linked to their life, death, or survival, impact process of collective memory in communities implicated in the genocide. Below is the abstract for panel 1 of 2: While substantial research exists on the topic of the material qualities of the Holocaust, the dominant approach to the tangible aspects of memory has been to treat post-Holocaust objects as cultural texts testifying to the war, seeing in them traces of a past lived reality. They are typically viewed (and often sacralized) as a pars pro toto, a kind of stand-in for the victims' lives. This human-centric strategy has given way more recently to new-materialist perspectives, where objects are taken as active agents in memorial processes, possessing independent testimonial faculties and exerting a variety of forces that condition the very possibilities processes, possessing independent testimonial faculties and exerting a variety of forces that condition the very possibilities for remembering. This panel takes such materialist thinking a step further, to inquire about the speci c mnemonic properties of the natural world, in the form of its material elements: rocks, soil, water, air, wood, etc. Can these elements be considered a kind of memorial environment apart, a ording, even conditioning memory in ways particular to the qualities of natural habitats? We focus on questions of the activity, endurance, intensity, and relationality of matter, and the particular potentialities it o ers as a conduit for transporting the past into the present. Wood - and its sourcing from forests - is a particularly loaded signi er in Holocaust memory (e.g. wood's ammability; forests as hiding places for both victims and partisan ghters; sites where perpetrators both carried out violence and tried to obscure their crimes; wood as a valuable resource and commodity). We thus begin our inquiry into elemental memory by articulating the multiple modalities of wood as an agent: entangled in human activities both mundane and extraordinary, and bearing these traces as the element is later used to create memory markers and enact commemorative practices, or may become unintentionally entangled in mnemonic processes as an ally or adversary. We ask how lignum impacts, conditions, and permits humans to remember, as a foray into the minimal, basic, elementary level on which we may apprehend mnemonic action. While our approach is rooted in ethnographic research, we challenge our own ndings by applying broader, more inclusive, non-humanocentric materialist perspectives to the mnemonic environments we observe.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K8: Intergenerational transmissions of past trauma
Room_8 Speakers Simona Mitroiu, Senior Researcher, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Of Iasi, Romania
Filip-Lucian Iorga, PhD, University Lecturer, University Of Bucharest
Emina Zoletic, Doctoral Candidate, Doctoral School Of Social Sciences, Center For Research On Social Memory, University Of Warsaw
Lena Voigtländer, PhD Candidate, University Of Bonn, Department For The Anthropology Of The Americas
Antonia Wimbush, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University Of Liverpool
Moderators Carmen Levick, Lecturer In Theatre, The University Of She eld
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K9: Memories for the Future? Negotiating Horizons of Hope in Politics out of History
Room_9 Speakers Henrietta Omo Eshalomi, M.A,, University Of Ibadan
Zoran Vuckovac, Doctoral Researcher, International Graduate Center For The Study Of Culture
Deniz Günce Demirhisar, Associate Researcher, IFEA (Istanbul) & CETOBAC/EHESS (Paris)
Felix Mutunga Ndaka, PhD/Postdoctoral Fellow, University Of The Witwatersrand
Stephen Temitope David, PhD
Katrin Antweiler, Doctoral Researcher, International Graduate Center For The Study Of Culture/ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Moderators Katrin Antweiler, Doctoral Researcher, International Graduate Center For The Study Of Culture/ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
"There is always an interplay between the history of a people i.e. the past, and their faith in themselves and hopes for their future" wrote resitance ghter and leader of the Black Consciousness movement Steve Biko shortly before he was murdered by the South African Apartheid regime. In this vein, our panel is mustered around the following hypothesis: Any memory of the past is strongly concerned with the future. It is dedicated to the future in the sense that it envisions certain ways of living, of treating other people, or more generally, of being in the world. The concept of Memory is furthermore underpinned by an implicit conception of time with its epistemic location in the philosophy and historiography of the global North. The dominant idea of time is thus far from neutral and neither are the future-bound approaches to memorialization. Thus, what makes up the core interest of the panel is to explore how practices of public and cultural memories, by turning to the past, simultaneously gesture towards the future. We focus on the convergence of di erent temporalities and spaces through memory and ask, who sets the horizons of hope and for whom and why? The leap to the future, which is at the core of this panel, is little considered in memory research, even though it appears to be inseparable from any revived memory. What is more, portrays of desirable futures, narrated through memory, are mostly treated as a 'natural' byproduct of any interpretations of history and therefore a less prominent subject of investigation. However, this panel seeks to challenge the choice of emphasis and analysis and instead gives prominence to memory's futurity-setting ability. Thus, what makes up the core interest of the envisioned discussion is to critically asses how practices of public and cultural memories, by turning to the past, indicate often normative horizons of hope. The turn to memory's futures, as the di erent speakers will show, sheds light onto less visible memories, some of the reasons for their marginalization and on di erent mnemonic frameworks more generally. In sum: in our age of globalized liberal democratic order, the "urgency of memory" that Jacques Derrida (2001) attested, provides legitimacy not only to a particular form of government in the present but also to prescribes certain visions for the future. We will elaborate to what extent negotiating visions for the future becomes a political project and how it should be addressed within memory studies. Are memories with a strong inclination towards the future more suited to foster convergences or do they risk to produce divergence because of competing horizons of hope? Organizers and presenters of this panel have already worked together on this subject and are therefore able to stimulate a fruitful discussion that brings together di erent disciplines within memory studies, gives voice to perspectives from the global south and is highly topical in these uncertain times of crisis.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K10: Memory on Stage and Screen
Room_10 Speakers Diwas Bisht, PhD Student, Loughborough University
Natasha Remoundou, Researcher/ Lecturer , National University Of Ireland, Galway/ Deree- The American College Of Greece
Cecilia Sosa, Postdoctoral Researcher , Royal Holloway, University Of London
Bryce Lease, Dr/Head Of Department Of Drama, Theatre, Dance , Royal Holloway, University Of London
Chunhui Peng, Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
Elizabeth Osborne, Associate Professor, Florida State University
Moderators Chair TBA
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K11: Memory, place and resistance: Alternative practices in contested memory spaces
Room_11 Speakers Ekaterina Mizrokhi, PhD Candidate, University Of Cambridge
Kerry Whigham, Assistant Professor Of Genocide And Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University SUNY
Anita Bakshi, Assistant Professor Of Teaching, Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University
Michal Huss, PhD Candidate, University Of Cambridge
Ulrike Capdepon, Postdoc Rsearch Fellow, Project Coordinator, University Of Konstanz
Moderators Gruia Badescu, Research Fellow Zukunftskolleg & Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University Of Konstanz
This panel addresses the relationship of space, memory and resistance, by tracing alternative practices of making sense of places with a di cult or contested past. It brings together papers that highlight how di erent actors make sense of contested spaces and how landscapes and urban sites re ect through their materiality various embodiments of memory. Some are deceptive and submerged- shaping places of amnesia, others are meant to evoke, support and even trigger memory processes, including designated sites of memory. A focus is on practices of resistance: beyond institutions and top down processes as well as hegemonic memory practice, the main lens of the panel is how diverse actors, including residents, artists and architects, express alternative agencies, challenging established narratives. It includes papers that examine how deceptively tranquil landscapes and overlooked sites are made visible by non-hegemonic voices (Bakshi, Huss, Mizrokhi). Moreover, it looks how di erent actors transgress usual practice to suggest new engagements with place and memory (Badescu, Whigham, Huss). The papers re ect on the intersections of performativity and materiality, exploring various shared, embodied practices and everyday expressions of resistance and memory-work. The panel has a twofold contribution. First, it underlines the importance of not only addressing the spatial dimension of memory but also of situating memory- work and activism in relationship to materialities and landscapes. Second, it traces how place creates the possibilities of resistance and alternative agencies. The panel is intended as one stepping stone for the new MSA working group on memory and place.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K12: Places of the Dead and the Living: Acts of Ontological Convergence at War Cemeteries Room_12 Speakers Hector Abrahams, Principal Architect, Hector Abrahams Architects
Alexndra McCosker, PhD Candidate , Australian National University
Alison Starr, Doctoral Candidate, University Of Queensland
Darren Mitchell, Commemorations And Memorials Advisor, The University Of Sydney
Moderators Kate Ariotti, Research Fellow, University Of Newcastle
Burial sites embody the human species' commitment to the dead. Those once present in life are now absent, but their remains exert inexorable mnemonic appeal. This 'strange present absence of the dead' (Ruin 2018) permeates our ritual engagement at gravesites, hinting at how within human consciousness lies a recognition that the absent dead continue to speak. This ontological convergence across time is particularly evident at war cemeteries where both individual and collective acts of remembrance involve acknowledgement of the strange presence of the dead among the living. In engaging with these sites, and practices of private and public memory, researchers face a challenge. Something happens which calls not merely for observation and critical perspective, but for appreciation and response, a mutual respect that exhibits a 'sense of being in the world with others' (Murakami 2019). Appreciating the detail of institutional contexts, personal memories, the a ectual atmosphere, and ritual elements helps us to hear the language of the living and the dead. Responding to what happened with an 'other-centred' attention to detail requires listening and respecting, what philosopher Stanley Cavell terms a stance of acknowledgement (Cavell 1966, 1981). Such respect for graveside visitors, and for the attendees, participants and organisers of public commemoration, enables a more capacious knowledge of the intertwining of the remains of the dead and those who remain in the world of the living. The panel, presenting interdisciplinary contributions from history, architecture, commemoration studies, and heritage, will consider how what happens, is witnessed, and is experienced at war cemetery sites shape ourselves and our appreciation of the 'other' at individual, community, national and international levels. Traversing research and practice, as well as temporal and national boundaries, the papers will explore war commemoration issues relating to pilgrimages to burial sites in foreign lands, interment of former enemies alongside each other, and the interconnecting dimensions of proximate sites. Together, the contributors will illuminate the value and signi cance of a stance of acknowledgement in understanding how we remember, commemorate, and respect the war dead, how we can be responsive to the 'e ect of their being' (Eliot 1871).
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K13: Political con#ict and struggles for memory in South America
Room_13 Speakers Hannah Katalin Grimmer, PhD Candidate, Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna
Ricardo Velasco, Postdoctoral Fellow - Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative , The University Of Texas At Austin
Jenny Escobar, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute Of Genocide And Mass Atrocity Prevention-Binghamton University
Tatiana Fernandez-Maya, PhD Candidate, Faculty Of Law University Of New South Wales
Jimena Perry, Teaching Assistant Professor, East Carolina University
Moderators Alicia Salomone, Full Professor, Universidad De Chile
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K14: Race, Memory, and the Anthropocene. Part 2(2)
Room_14 Speakers Anna Crisp, PhD Student, King's College London
Clara De Massol, PhD Student, King's College London
Anna Reading, Professor, Kings College, University Of London
Richard Crownshaw , Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University Of London
Moderators Richard Crownshaw , Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University Of London
This panel, in two parts, contributes to the emergent eld of environmental memory studies, and is inspired by recent reconceptualizations of the Anthropocene, particularly those of Kathryn Yuso . While our new geological epoch is de ned by the primacy of the human species' geo-physical agency in altering the planet's chemistry, this de nition presupposes the Anthropos in the age of the human as a universal subject – an undi erentiated victim and/or perpetrator of planetary environmental transformation and its repercussions. This universalization subsumes the racial implications of geological thinking itself. For example, the continuities between the extractive practices, logics and semiotics of colonial settler societies and their postcolonial counterparts, up to the present day, have been masked by an insistence on isolating geological signatures of epochal change in the Earth's strata. To put that simply, the prevailing assumption is that geological thinking has always been ideologically neutral, that it has not been complicit in historical violence, and that its identi cation of epochal markers – the preponderance to identify the beginnings of the Anthropocene in the mid-twentieth century – is not potentially an act of forgetting other histories of this epoch. In reality, the geo-logics of the colonial extraction of resources from the lithosphere and biosphere (that is, from people, animals, plants, and what lies beneath the surface) has generated distinctions between what is deemed human and inhuman, what belongs to a particular place and what is extractable – in other words, what or who, because supposedly inhuman, can be uprooted along with the resources beneath their feet. Or, put another way, the categorization of the human/inhuman has determined who has been disposable, along with their environments that cannot be utilized, in the face of settler colonialism. These distinctions or con ations (that see people as an extractable resource or inert waste) went on to inform slavery, neo-colonialism, and continue to inform what, or rather who, can soak up industrial toxicity, who can act as a barrier to the extremes of a changing climate, and who continues to be subject to environmental racism. Working at the intersections of critical race studies, indigenous studies, the environmental humanities, and cultural memory studies, these related panels variously analyse landscapes and sites, literary texts and theoretical discourses assessing the limits and possibilities of their memorative capacities. The rst panel focuses on commemorative practices in the American South: critiquing hegemonic constructions of history that have marginalized black experiences and endangered African American life, and highlighting forms of community and environmental activism that aim to challenge institutionalized racism. The second panel explores how new conceptions of inhuman, indigeneous, decolonial, and critically humanist memory work might counter the limitations of geologic thinking and resists the universalizations inherent in the established imaginary of the Anthropos.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K15: Relational Memories
Room_15 Speakers Anna Reading, Professor, Kings College, University Of London
Ingo Zechner, Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute For Digital History, Vienna
Noga Stiassny, Postdoc Research Fellow, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
Lital Henig, PhD Candidate, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
Fabian Schmidt, PhD Researcher, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Potsdam
Irina Tcherneva, Fellow Researcher, CERCEC-EHESS, Paris
Moderators Tobias Ebbrecht Hartmann, Lecturer, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
Visual media play an important role in shaping our memories. When based on historical records (either implicitly or explicitly), visual depictions of the past may even become iconic images that tend to turn into placeholders for historical events. Yet memories are neither static nor delimited. Visual memories migrate into di erent registrations within popular culture; they are transformed, remediated, and used in a variety of contexts, circulated in lms, artworks, graphic novels, and exhibitions as well as on digital platforms. We de ne such forms of connected visual memories as relational memories. Our panel will rethink the role of visual materials in the formation and transformation of memory from a perspective that views relations as a fundamental principle that incorporates historical contexts, speci c events, and particular places. This expands to include forms of relations established through collections and archives, the montage, collage, and assemblage of visual materials in various media, the ways in which images establish their relations with other images, and the linking of visual records with other data in digital environments. More speci cally, each presentation will revisit from di erent perspectives the lm documents and other visual records created by the Allied Forces as they liberated concentration camps and other atrocity sites. Originally intended to assist audiences both near and far in relating to the documented crimes, the Allies' visual records have shaped our visual understanding of the Holocaust. However, not only that images of liberation have been transferred to other media, transformed, or recreated, only a few, often highly specialised archivists, curators, media producers, and scholars have so far had the chance to inspect these visual records, and then only in archives where the images are usually deprived of their production context and isolated from their afterlife. By way of contrast, our panel will present the EU-funded project "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Creation in the Digital Age (VHH)" (www.vhh- project.eu), of which we are all members. Together, we will use the so-called visual footage of liberation and its function to visualise the Holocaust as a challenging test case for the combination of digitised lm documents with other digitised assets from the history of the Holocaust (e.g. testimonies, historical text documents and photographs), and for the comprehensive annotation, mapping, and analysis of individual events and places, stories, formal and narrative patterns. Establishing new and sometimes unforeseen relations, with the aid of technological innovations, we will o er a closer inspection of, and intensi ed engagement with, the visual history of the Holocaust as a network of relational memories.
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K16: Religious institutions as mnemonic agents
Room_16 Speakers Alla Marchenko, Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School For Social Research (IFiS PAN)
Jakub Wysmułek, Dr, Institute Of Political Studies, Polish Academy Of Sciences
Ionut Biliuta, Researcher, Gheorghe Sincai Institute/Romanian Academy
Marcin Kościelniak, Assistant Professor With Post-doctoral Degree (PhD With Habilitation), Jagiellonian University
Martin Nord, PhD Candidate, Western University, Canada
Moderators Zuzanna Bogumił, Dr, Institute Of Archaeology And Ethnology Polish Academy Of Sciences
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K17: Rewriting the Past
Room_17 Speakers Erica Johnson, Professor Of English, Pace University
Arielle Stambler, Graduate Student, PhD Candidate, University Of California, Los Angeles
Valentina Bagozzi, PhD Candidate, La Sapienza University Of Rome
Francesco Costantini, PhD Candidate, Faculty Of Polish Studies Of The Jagiellonian University In Cracow
Silvia Tandeciarz, Professor, William & Mary
Moderators Chair TBA
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K18: Shaping Holocaust Rememberance (Culture and Education)
Room_18 Speakers Belarie Zatzman, Associate Professor, York University
Julia Traunspurger, Research Assistant, LMU Munich
Sina Meissgeier, Doctoral Candidate, University Of Arizona / Universität Leipzig
Thomas Van De Putte, Postdoc, University Of Trento
Moderators Roma Sendyka, Prof., Jagiellonian University Kraków
12:00 Noon - 02:00PM K19: The Legacy of Dissent in post-Cold War Europe. Panel 2(2): Post-Dissidents. Typologies, Canons, Lacunae Room_19 Speakers Tamas Scheibner, Assistant Professor / Senior Research Fellow, ELTE University Of Budapest / ELKH Research Center For The Humanities
Piotr Wciślik, Dr / Assistant Professor, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
Michal Kopecek, Senior Researcher, The Institute Of Contemporary History, Czech Academy Of Sciences
Agáta Šústová Drelová, Researcher, Institute Of History, Slovak Academy Of Sciences, Slovakia
Moderators Ferenc Laczó, Universitair Docent 1, Maastricht University
The proposed joints panels ambition a rst valuation of the various meanings and uses of communist-era dissent for the remaking of European political cultures after the Cold War. They intend to o er in-depth case studies by experts in various disciplines – history, political science, sociology – on how the biographical trajectories, agendas and social roles of 'post- dissidents' have impacted and been impacted by processes of remembrance over the past three decades. It analyzes how memories and narratives of Cold War-era cultural and political dissent in Eastern Europe have been shaped and reshaped since 1989, and how the institutional legacy and contemporary relevance of these recent histories of dissent have been created and contested. More speci cally, presentations will analyse attempts by various memory agents to construct coherent dissident biographies and derive moral, cultural and political capital from claims to 'dissident pasts.' Particular attention will be paid to how the transnational reputation and impact of leading 'post-dissidents' – including their ability to shape interpretations of the recent past and the present-day situation – has interacted with local-national political and cultural processes. The two panels will also explore the institutionalization of the 'dissident heritage' and the creation of 'legacies of dissent.' More particularly, contributors o er critical analyses of the ways political-ideological, ethnic, religious and gender-related factors have impacted what has been included in and excluded from such processes on the local-national and transnational-European levels. By providing an original account of post-89 trajectories, projects of institutionalization as well as public contestations, the panels ultimately aims to account for common patterns and notable divergences in the remembrance of dissent and the uses and functions of its legacy in contemporary European history. (These panels would draw on the research done by members of the COST Action NEP4DISSENT and, more speci cally, its working group four devoted to the exploration of the cultural memory of dissent.
02:00PM - 04:00PM Convergence of History and Memory in Public Spaces Moderators Sub-plenary session Aline Sierp, Assistant Professor In European Studies, Maastricht University 1 Contestations over monuments, statues, memorials, names of streets, buildings, or other physical representations of historical legacies, whether in Asia, Africa, Europe or the Americas may be unique to a speci c incident or object, but they share several commonalities. In all cases, a convergence of di erent and oftentimes opposing perspectives sparks a protest. In all cases there are root causes linked to historical injustices that continue to promote harm in communities. Systemic racism is but one example. Evolving values within communities, growing awareness of an historical gure's 'chequered past', and manipulation of history and memory for partisan aims are all factors that can contribute to a contestations over physical representations of history and memory in divided societies. Decision-makers, policymakers, educators, and other stakeholders are increasingly confronted with the need to address these contestations in ways that reduce rather than escalate tensions among various groups. This panel will examine challenges and successful strategies for addressing contested histories in public spaces based on evidence-based research, comparative case studies, and rst-hand experiences at the policy, community and classroom level.
02:00PM - 04:00PM Memory Studies, Religion, and Postsecular Turn
Sub-plenary session Speakers 2 Kristina Stoeckl, Professor, University Of Innsbruck
Catherine Wanner, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
Agnieszka Halemba, Professor, Institute Of Ethnology And Archaeology , Polish Academy Of Scinces
Zuzanna Bogumił, Dr, Institute Of Archaeology And Ethnology Polish Academy Of Sciences
Yuliya Yurchuk, Assistant Professor, Department Of Historical, Philosophical And Religious Studies, Umeå University
Moderators Zuzanna Bogumił, Dr, Institute Of Archaeology And Ethnology Polish Academy Of Sciences
In this roundtable, the speakers will re ect on what the postsecular turn means and what it brings into the memory studies eld. The session will start with a short introduction made by Zuzanna Bogumił and Yuliya Yurchuk, the editors of the volume Memory and Religion in Postsecular Perspective (forthcoming in the Routledge ENRS's book series in 2021). In the introduction, they will present their main arguments on the necessity of the postsecular turn in memory studies. They will outline how they understand the postsecular turn in the memory studies and how the rethinking of memory studies through the theories of postsecularism can enrich our understanding of the ways we draw on, shape, and are shaped by the past. Then, the invited discussants – who are the experts in postsecularism and who are dealing with the questions of religion and memory in their own research – will present their ideas in response to the questions raised in the introduction. The discussion will be devoted to theoretical challenges and opportunities which the postsecular turn brings into the memory studies from the perspective of each of the disciplines presented by the speakers.
02:00PM - 04:00PM “Potential histories” in and beyond East-Central Europe Moderators Sub-plenary session Chair TBA 3
02:00PM - 04:00PM MSA Mentorship Program Moderators Sub-plenary session Chair TBA 4
04:00PM - 06:30PM MSA Book Award Moderators Plenary Session Stef Craps, Professor Of English Literature, Ghent University
Plenary session MSA Book Award Chair: Stef Craps
06:30PM - 07:00PM Closing plenary session Plenary Session
07:15PM - 09:00PM The Dybbuk (1937) $lm – discussion with Karolina Szymaniak The Dybbuk (1937) lm – discussion with Karolina Szymaniak Chair: Iwona Kurz Plenary Session
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