MEMORY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: PAST TRAUMAS, PRESENT CHALLENGES, FUTURE HORIZONS
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY
10-12 June 2021
Online/Zoom
The Conference Programme
10 June, THURSDAY
ALL TIMES CET (PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC) Memory of the Second World War
ZOOM LINK: https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/98103520133?pwd=amtOakVNcDRjVDRuVmVIZjNudjNtdz09
Access code: 736661 ______
9:30 - 10:00 Opening remarks
Dr. Alena Marková, Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Dr. Stanislav Tumis, Department of Department of East European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
10:00 - 11:30 Panel 1.
Chair: Daria Chuprasova
● Piotr Eckhardt, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland: “The De-Germanification and Decommunization of Public Space in Lower Silesia. Political Narratives and Legal Regulations” ● Filip Cyuńczyk, SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poland: “The Legal Formation of the Local Commemoration” ● Marta Cyuńczyk, Dorota Kucharczyk, Gdansk University, Poland: “The changes in Gdansk's city structure after World War II as examples of the transformation of memory in public places” ● Evgeniia Becheriakova, Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia: “The memory culture of the Second World War in Germany after 1990”
11:30 - 11:45 Break time
11:45 - 13:15 Panel 2.
Chair: Maryna Laurynovich
● Peter Buchmüller, Central European University, Austria: “Commemorating Victims of World War II during the Communist Takeover in Hungary – A Case Study of the Budapest Bar Association” ● Hlazko Nastassia, Belarusian State University, Belarus: “"Death No More": The Glorification of War and Commemoration of the Dead in Soviet Belarus” ● Kererush Volha Iharauna, National Institute for Higher Education, Belarus: “Visualizing the memory about World War II in Romania in the post-socialist period” ● Chiara Antico, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal: “The Power of Sounds: Commemorating the Women’s Orchestra of Birkenau through Music”
13:15 - 13:30 Break time
13:30 - 15:00 Panel 3.
Chair: Mariia Kuznetcova
● Iuliia Iashchenko, Perm State University, Russia: “Between Collective Trauma and the Politics of Memory: the identity of Russian Germans in Russia” ● Merve Sarihan, King's College London, UK: “Trauma, Silence, and Memory: A Comparative Study of Waiting for Godot and Shoah” ● Marissa Schoedel, Vanderbilt University, USA: “Eva Mozes Kor and Radical Forgiveness as Self-healing”
11 June, FRIDAY
ALL TIMES CET (PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC) National History & Memory
ZOOM LINK: https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/98005819098?pwd=bFFCeTBPK0VoUTEvSG1oYlh5WXB6UT09
Access code: 763354 ______10:00 - 11:30 Panel 1.
Chair: Mariia Kuznetcova
● Gilyan Basangova, HSE University, Russia: “The Practices of Commemoration of the Deportation of Kalmyk People to Siberia in 1943” ● Ramil Zamanov, Charles University, Czech Republic: “Militarized masculinities: analysis of hegemonic Azerbaijani masculinities during the II Nagorno Karabakh war” ● Nickolay Shpilkov, HSE University, Russia: “Belarus from 1917 to the beginning of the XXI century in Belarusian school textbooks of 2006-2019 years of publication: constructing national history” ● Narine V. Arutiunian, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia: “"To live is to labor": individual memory of labor life in USSR in women's autobiographies”
11:30 - 11:45 Break time
11:45 - 13:15 Panel 2.
Chair: Daria Chuprasova
● Luca Thoma, University of Basel, Switzerland: “To cry with the victims or to be silent with the hangman": Politics of history at sites of remembrance of the Shoa in Białystok, Bydgoszcz and Łódź” ● Alicja Bemben, University of Silesia, Poland: “Traumatic Experience as a Driving Force in Historiography” ● Pavel Pešek, Charles University, Czech Republic: “Czech propaganda in pictures: Political satire of the Rudé Právo newspapers in the election year of 1946” ● Marek Kettner, Charles University, Czech Republic: “Where Hides the World as a Whole: W. Benjamin’s Theory of Memory” ● Ines Skibinski, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany: "Polish decommunization-The dealing with the unloved past"
13:15 - 13:30 Break time
13:30 - 15:15 Panel 3.
Chair: Radomyr Mokryk
● Katalin Vera Benedek, Freie Universität, Germany: “Quantity beyond quality. The Hungarian statue craze under the Fidesz-regime (2010-2021)” ● Igor Zavorotchenko, Charles University, Czech Republic: “The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968: Interpreting the historical myth of "good" Russians and "evil" Germans” ● Nikita Shishov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia: “Interpretation of events in national history in the rhetoric of the leading right-wing parties in Hungary and Slovakia (on the example of the movement "For a Better Hungary" and "Kotlebists - People's Party Our Slovakia")” ● Irina Šulc, Charles University, Czech Republic: “The Victory Day as "the Russian civic Easter" (on the example of the Russian community in Prague)” ● Hera Shokohi, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany: "The myth of unity and the metanarrative of suffering. Memorialization of Stalinism in post-soviet Kazakhstan"
12 June, SATURDAY
ALL TIMES CET (PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC) Memory Space
ZOOM LINK: https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/97047768868?pwd=Y1RmaFcyWmp3M3lpajNMckJSbzMzUT09
Access code: 201674 ______
10:00 - 11:30 Panel 1.
Chair: Daria Chuprasova
● Karolina Kehl, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland: “Problematic Legacy of Communism” ● Mariia Kuznetcova, Charles University, Czech Republic: “The transformation of historical politics in urban spaces of post-socialist Russia (evidence from Stalin's monuments)” ● Olga Kotunova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia: “Reflexive dialogue instead of fall: Why monuments should become the subject of discourse ethics” ● Adrianna Krzywik, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland: “Practices of restoring memory, or perhaps constructing memory? The significance of commemorative murals for their initiators and creators”
11:30 - 11:45 Break time
11:45 - 13:30 Panel 2.
Chair: Andrey Golikov
● Greta Raluca Dadalau, Alumna of the Free University Berlin, Germany: “Post-communist remembrance in Romania. A comparative study of two contemporary novels” ● Lena Franziska Schraml, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany: “Between remembering and forgetting: Monika Sznajderman’s Falszerze pieprzu” ● Veselina Dzhumbeva, Queen Mary University of London, UK: “Memories of Russia: Ekaterina Bakunina’s account of the homeland” ● Karolína Bukovská, Free University of Berlin, Germany: “Ernst Thälmann and Julius Fučík in Stone: Disappearing and Reappearing of Communist Martyrs” ● Jana Koliášová, Charles University, Czech Republic: “Places of (Belarusian) Memory in the Works by Ales Adamovich”
13:30 - 13:45 Break time
13:45 - 15:30 Panel 3.
Chair: Mariia Kuznetcova
● Charlotte Adèle Murphy, University of Freiburg, Germany: “Instagram Stories and Historical Re-enactment in Social Media Memory: Eva Stories and Ich bin Sophie Scholl” ● Paula Maciejewski, University of Bremen, Germany: “Memory within fiction?” ● Veronique Labonte, Université Laval, Canada: “The role of media in collective memory (re)construction in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between polarization, reconciliation, resistance and avoidance: framing post-conflict memorial policies” ● Alejandro Perez-Reyes, Georgetown University, USA: “A Monumental Reinterpretation: Deciphering the Meanings of Rzeszów’s Monument to the Revolutionary Act”