Wednesday November 23

11:30 am

Welcome
Rafal Rogulski, Jan Rydel: European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

Małgorzata Pakier, Joanna Wawrzyniak: Introduction to the conference

12:30 pm History and memory in Central and Eastern Europe: How special?
Chair : Jeffrey Olick

Harald Wydra: Dynamics of memory in East and West: Elements of a comparative framework

Sławomir Kapralski: Ain`t nothing special

Andrzej Nowak: Constructed memories as elements of a political correctness

1:30 pm Coffee break

2:00 pm
History and memory in Central and Eastern Europe: How special? Cont.

Joanna B. Michlic: The trajectories of bringing the dark to light: Memory of the Holocaust in post-Communist Europe

Dariusz Stola: On the peculiarities of memory of the 20th century in Poland: A delayed coming to terms with troubled pasts

Matthias Weber: ‘The Germans’: an East-European lieu de mémoire. Asymmetry of memories in Germany and Poland – in German

3:30 pm Break

4:30 pm Parallel sessions

Lieux de mémoire (1)
Chair : Burkhard Olschowsky

Maciej Górny, Kornelia Kończal: Polish-German realms of memory. The theory and practice of an interdisciplinary project
– in Polish

Filip Pazderski: Local ‘realms of memory’ in the borderland areas in Central and Eastern Europe as indicators of processes of regional collective remembering

Anna Zalewska: Bullets, buttons, stones and bones as the carriers of memory – the Olszynka Grochowska case

Marcin Napiórkowski: The Warsaw Uprising as a ‘generator of sense’

Commentator: Włodzimierz Borodziej

Lieux de mémoire (2)
Chair : Wulf Kansteiner

Jacek Chrobaczyński, Piotr Trojański: Auschwitz and Katyń: The lenses of memory

Lidia Jurek: Drawing up the boundaries of the endless empty steppe – the recuperation of memory of the Gulag in Eastern Europe

James Mark: Where can the collapse of communism be celebrated? The problems of commemorating 1989 in Central-Eastern Europe

Commentator: Piotr Kwiatkowski

6:30 pm Coffee break

7:00 pm Keynote: Aleida Assmann: The transformative power of memory
Chair: Jan Rydel

Thursday November 24

9:00 am Parallel sessions

Theories and concepts (1): Traditions
Chair : Andrzej Szpociński

Alexey Vasilyev: Russian memory studies in the context of actual world trends

Elżbieta Tarkowska: Collective memory, social time and culture: The Polish tradition in memory studies

Jarosław Kilias: Is there any sociological tradition of social memory research? The Polish and the Czech cases

Georgiy Kasianov, Karolina Wigura: Between nation-building and westernization. Studies of cultures of remembrance in Contemporary Central Eastern Europe

Commentator: Barbara Szacka

Dynamics of memory (1): Biographies
Chair : Alexander von Plato

Kaja Kaźmierska: Biographical and collective memory – mutual influences in the Central and Eastern European context

Machteld Venken, Jarosław Pałka: Similar or different? Polish soldiers' war memories in Poland and Belgium

Martina Staats: Memories of Bergen-Belsen

Michał Kierzkowski: Divided European memory: A perspective of women's memory of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia

Commentator: Lutz Niethammer

11.00 am Coffee break

11.30 am Parallel sessions

Theories and concepts (2): Proposals
Chair: Gertrud Pickhan

Gregor Feindt, Félix Krawatzek: Entangled memories: A new conceptual approach to memory in Eastern Europe

Marta Bucholc: On the potential of Norbert Elias’s approach in social memory research in Central and Eastern Europe

Amelia Korzeniewska, Bartosz Korzeniewski: Transformation of memory. Theoretical modeling and the practice of empirical research - in Polish

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska: Modi memorandi. An interdisciplinary lexicon of collective memory terms

Commentator: Jeffrey Olick

Dynamics of memory (2): Generations
Chair: Harald Wydra

Lutz Niethammer: Eastern roots of postmodern ethics? The generation of Zygmunt Bauman and Agnes Heller

Wulf Kansteiner: Historicizing memory studies: Holocaust interpretation and the concept of political generation

Katarzyna Waniek: Third generation Poles and the witness generation of Germans in conversation about World War II

Aleksandra Rychlicka: Who owns the past? The literature of the post-1989 generation and its struggle with memory

Commentator: Kaja Kaźmierska

1:30 pm Break

3 pm Parallel sessions

Media of remembrance (1): Space/Place
Chair: Andrzej Nowak

Máté Zombory: Memory as spatial localization

Agnieszka Kudelka: Monuments and memory constructs in L'viv between 1867 and 1939 - in German

Katja Grupp: Kaliningrad minus Königsberg, culture minus memory: A ‘foreign’ city in German and Russian perspective.
- in German

Judy Brown: Walking memory through city space in Sevastopol, Crimea

Commentator: Sławomir Kapralski

Media of remembrance (2): Museum and Film
Chair:tba

Simina Bădică: Regimes of memory in Communist and Post-Communist Romanian museums

Monika Heinemann: The historical museum as a medium of remembrance – A case study on the memory of the Second World War in Poland after 1989

Gintare Malinauskaite: Cinematic memory of the Lithuanian double occupation: The development of partisan and Holocaust cinema and its interrelation

Małgorzata Pakier: German and Polish Holocaust cinema: The national factories of the European dream

Commentator: Nicoletta Diasio

5 pm Coffee break

5:30 pm Parallel sessions

(New) media of remembrance (3)
Chair: Elżbieta Tarkowska

Gertrud Pickhan: History turns digital – in German

Alexander von Plato: Media and memory: The presentation and ‘use’ of witnesses in sound and image

Marcin Wilkowski: Facebook as a sphere of commemoration: A critical view

Commentator: Piotr Toczyski

Dynamics of memory (3): Borderlands
Chair : Joanna Kurczewska

Tatiana Zhurzhenko: Politics of memory and national identity in the post-Soviet borderlands: Ukraine/Russia and Ukraine/ Poland

Tanya Zaharchenko: How memory becomes identity: The curious case of East Ukraine

Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper: Anthropology of social memory of Kresy: territorial identity seen through the categories of tradition and politics of memory

Jan Kajfosz: Contemporary social memories and the theory of magic. How do we construct ‘our’ past and how do we instrumentalize it? – in Polish

Commentator: Ewa Nowicka

Friday November 25

9:00 am Parallel sessions

Media of remembrance (4): Literature
Chair: Joanna B. Michlic

Heinrich Olschowsky: Literature as a means of cultural memory on the specificity of the East-European region - in German

Stanisław Obirek: Religious memory versus cultural memory in the works of Stanisław Vincenz – in Polish

Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj: Memory of loss: Danilo Kiš and Aleksander Jurewicz. A comparative perspective

Anna Zeidler- Janiszewska: Mimesis as a form of memory in Holocaust literature and art - in Polish

Commentator: Jacek Leociak – in Polish

Dynamics of memory (4): Silence and articulation
Chair: Tadeusz Szawiel

Simon M. Lewis: The legacy of catastrophe: approaches and methods on the example of Belarus

Uilleam Blacker: Unknowable and unspeakable? Traumatic memory and cultural representations of the Katyń massacre

Krisztina Németh: Facts and narratives, contradictions and traumas: Can past lifeworlds be reconstructed?

Anna Lujza Szász: Art, oblivion and memory: The case of Hungarian Roma

Commentator: Maciej Bugajewski

11:00 am Coffee break

11:30 am Parallel sessions

Media of remembrance (5):
The various roles of historians
Chair: Cristina Petrescu

Larysa Buryak: Memory studies in Ukrainian historiography: Tendencies and perspectives

Michał Łuczewski, Tomasz Zarycki: Scholarly debates and moral ontologies in Poland and Russia

Agnieszka Nowakowska: Teaching Polish-Lithuanian history

Izabela Skórzyńska: Historian amidst the past as performance: an observer or a perfomer?

Commentator: Wulf Kansteiner

Dynamics of memory (5):
Private/vernacular – public/official
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak

Karen Auerbach: Memory, identity and the writing of history: a case study of Jewish life in Poland after the Holocaust

Nicoletta Diasio: Remembrance as embodiment in Polish contemporary memories

Piotr Kwiatkowski: World War II in the memory of today’s Polish society

Commentator: Olga Shevchenko

1:30 pm Break

3:00 pm Parallel sessions

Media of remembrance (6):
History in the public domain
Chair :Karen Auerbach

Marcin Jarząbek: What kind of memory orders you to demolish a historical exhibition? – a case study of the Silesian Uprisings’ history-memory quid-pro-quo

Florian Peters: 'Memory' vs. 'History'? Discourses on World War II in Late Socialist Poland

Gábor Gyáni: History in public use in today’s Hungary

Cristina Petrescu, Dragos Petrescu: Cultural memory in the making: Communism remembered in post-1989 Romania

Commentator: Georgiy Kasianov

Dynamics of memory (6):
Struggles for power and legitimacy
Chair : James Mark

Dalia Agata Báthory: Memory traps: Uses and abuses of collective memory in politics

Stanisław Tyszka: Legal means of remembrance. Property restitution in Czech and Polish public debates after 1989

Zuzanna Bogumił: Politics and religion. New martyrs and the interpretations of the Soviet past

Robert Wyszyński: Young nations imagining the past. The indigeneous societies of the former Soviet Union – in Polish

Commentator: Marek Cichocki

5 pm Coffee break

5.30 pm Final discussion: What memory for what past – what theory for what memory?
Introduction: Jeffrey Olick
Chair: Sławomir Kapralski