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MSA Conference Warsaw 2021 Print 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 Je!rey 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
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