MONDAY NOVEMBER 26th

10:45 am Welcome TBA ROOM 316

11:00 am JAN RYDEL, RAFAŁ ROGULSKI: European Network Remembrance & Solidarity

11:15 am JEFFREY OLICK, MAŁGORZATA PAKIER, JOANNA WAWRZYNIAK: Introduction to the Conference

12:00 KEYNOTE: CAROL GLUCK – Operations of Memory: East Europe/East Asia, CHAIR: JEFFREY OLICK

1:00 pm KEYNOTE: STEFAN TROEBST: The Limits and Divisions of European Memory, CHAIR: JAN RYDEL

2:15 pm Break

3:30 pm MAPPING MEMORY REGIONS
CHAIR: CAROL GLUCK
Philippe Perchoc: How many European memory regions? Mapping EU memories
Gregor Feindt, Rieke Schäfer: Mapping the semantics of “European Memory”
Joanna Wawrzyniak: Beyond East and West: Eastern Europe & African historical consciousness: a scholar biography (in Polish)
Małgorzata Wosińska: Established vs. emerging memory region: Reflections on genocide memory in Poland and Rwanda
Written presentation: Marco Siddi - Russia and the forging of memory and identity in Europe
DISCUSSANT: STEFAN TROEBST

3:30 pm MEMORIES OF EASTERN EUROPE: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
CHAIR: GERTRUD PICKHAN
Alexey Vasilyev: Repressed pain vs. reserved memory: specifics of nationalism studies in the Eastern Europe as reflection of traumatic historical experience
Marta Karkowska: Counter-memory, alternative memory, and violence in the Polish research on the social aspects of memory
Katarzyna Szalewska: Reception of ‘memory studies’ in Poland (in Polish)
Andrzej Szpociński: The three-dimensional conception of the social memory as a starting point for comparative studies
DISCUSSANT: JEFFREY OLICK

5:30 pm Coffee break

6:00 pm MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: THE IDEOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
CHIAR: MARCIN KULA
Maciej Górny: „The Hun at Work“. Atrocities and memory (in Polish)
Stephen Scala: Remembrance and rupture: memory as motor and mirror of the Socialist-Communist split in interwar Poland
Anna Zalewska: Diffused memory of the WWI gasscapes (1914 2014). How to use without abuse the results of archaeological studies for the design of memorial landscapes? (in Polish)
Seda Özdemir: Contemporary Armenian novelists in Turkey: The literary representation of Armenian collective memory
Written presentation: Catalin Turliuc - Games within frontiers: Memory and Citizenship in Interwar Romania
DISCUSSANT: DARIUSZ STOLA

6:00 pm SPATIAL FRAMES OF REMEMBRANCE: DISPLACEMENT AND MEMORY (1)
CHAIR: KATHARINE MCGREGOR
Irene Sywenky: History, trauma, and spatial imagination: A comparative perspective
Olesya Khromeychuk: The construction and re-construction of the ‘historical truth’ and memory of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division in Ukraine and the diaspora
Ekaterine Pirtskhalava: Muslim Meskhetians (Meskhetian Turks) from 1944 to nowadays
Judy Brown: Home away from home(land): local memory politics and ‘national’ activism among the Crimean Tatars of Sevastopol
Written presentations:
Anna Wylegała: The missing ‘Others’: comparative study of the memory of the ethnic violence in Poland and Ukraine
Joanna Cukras-Stelągowska, Jakub Stelągowski: German-Polish common religious heritage in social reflection
Victoria Dunaeva: Memory and Survival during the Socialist period. Case of Old Believers in Siberia (Russia) and in northeastern region of Poland – comparative analysis
DISCUSSANT: SŁAWOMIR KAPRALSKI

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27th

9:00 am MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES: OFFICIAL NARRATIVES
CHAIR: VALERIE ROSOUX
Adriana Decu: The aftermath of dissident reeducation: a comparative approach of Romania’s ‘Pitesti phenomenon’ and the Chinese labor camps
Éva Tulipán: ‘Counter-memory’. The official representation of the 1956 Hungarian revolution before 1989
Rachel Joyce: The solidification of conflict memory in Sri Lanka
Mustafa Menshawy: War of memories, memories of war in Mubarak’s downfall
DISCUSSANT: CAROL GLUCK

9:00 am SPATIAL FRAMES OF REMEMBRANCE: DISPLACEMENT AND MEMORY (2)
CHAIR: TBA
Ewa Nowicka: Civil war and evacuation in the biographical memory of Greek repatriates from Poland (in Polish)
Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper: Diaspora in the homeland? Memories of resettlements from the former Kresy of the Second Polish Republic in contemporary Poland (in Polish)
Kamila Dąbrowska: Not-experienced extermination and experienced expulsion. The post-memory of the Holocaust, the memory of exclusion and the process of creating identities in Polish memory places among post-war Jewish emigrants.
Claudia Draganoiu: The long way to Ithaca: the exiles are coming Home
Written presentations:
Mariusz Kałczewiak: Jewish experience of violence in dictatorial Argentina
Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek: “Distant Sibirans” Polish scientific discourse about the Kazakhstani Pole’s biographical narratives
DISCUSSANT: SŁAWOMIR ŁODZIŃSKI

11:00 am Coffee break

11:30 am KEYNOTE: ELIZABETH JELIN – Memories of State Repression: the Past in the Present in Latin America; CHAIR: BURKHARD OLSCHOWSKY

12:30 pm MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES: COUNTER-MEMORIES
CHAIR: ELIZABETH JELIN
Yana Yancheva: Remembering agricultural collectivization in Bulgaria. A comparative analysis of different viewpoints
Shaban Darakch: Hidden stories of Bulgarian Mohammedans
Sławomir Kapralski: Memories of East European Roma. Between encapsulation, homogenization, and proliferation of memory-scapes
Written presentation:
Waldemar Urbanik: Memory of martial law. Guards and prisoners of oblivion (in Polish)
DISCUSSANT: DIRK MOSES

12:30 pm SPATIAL FRAMES OF REMEMBRANCE: REGION AS A FIGURE OF MEMORY
CHAIR: TBA
Csaba G. Kiss: Gömör/Gemem: region in the Slovak-Hungarian borderlands (in Polish)
Olimpia Dragouni: „Famous Macedonia” – the commemoration of the region in 20th century Greece
Oleksii Polegkyi: Historical narrative discourse of WWII in Ukraine in the context of “Russian world”
Piotr Chmiel: An Italian foreground of the "new" Europe. Some remarks of Clausio Magris and Paolo Rumiz on the Eastern part of the continent and its historical legacy of the 20th century (in Polish)
DISCUSSANT PIOTR KWIATKOWSKI

2:30 pm Break

3:30 pm MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: TRANSITIONS: THE CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET
CHAIR TADEUSZ SZAWIEL
Berta Jozsef: Between violence and remembrance – negative memory in post-colonial and post-authoritarian societies: Indonesia´s example
Uladzislau Belavusau: Law or politics of memory in Central and Eastern Europe?
Florentina Dobre: Remembering communist persecutions: A comparative study of Romanian and Bulgarian politics of memory
Matthias I. Köhler: Lost in Transition. “Post-Authoritarian” identity and the memory of “authoritarian” violence
Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Adam Czarnota: Law between Mnemosyne and Lethe. Collective memories and constitutional identities in Central-Eastern Europe
Written presentation:
Alina Hogea: Futures of the past: memory and identity in post-communist Romania
DISCUSSANT: TOMASZ ZARYCKI

3:30 SPATIAL FRAMES OF REMEMBRANCE: CITY AS A MEMORY SCENE
CHAIR: MARIA LEWICKA
Piotr T. Kwiatkowski: The bombardment of a defenseless town. A study of memory and forgetting
Krystyna E. Siellawa-Kolbowska: War after war. The WWII memorials as memory sites – the case of Warsaw
Ana Aceska: War memories and urban planning in the post-war divided city: the case of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Jenny Wüstenberg: Civil society activists and clashing memories in post-wall Berlin
Katarzyna Sztop-Rutkowska, Maciej Białous: The processes of collective memory in culturally diverse cities on the example of Bialystok and Lublin
Written presentation:
Marcin Napiórkowski: The Warsaw Rising of the Death. Mourning and Melancholia in Post-War Warsaw
DISCUSSANT: MAGDALENA SARYUSZ-WOLSKA

5:45 pm Coffee break

6:15 pm KEYNOTE: GYANENDRA PANDEY – Realms of Memory – ‘archived’ and ‘un-archived’; CHAIR: SŁAWOMIR KAPRALSKI

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th
8:30 MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: AMBIGOUS AFTERMATHS
CHAIR: BURKHARD OLSCHOWSKY
Karine Ramondy: The Democratic Republic of Congo, lands of violence: “afterschocks” of Patrice Lumumba’s murder
Dragoş Petrescu: Bloody events and contradictory truths: The revolutions of 1989 and the “Rashomon Effect”
Lucia Popa: Post-communist artistic memorialization: the portraits of Ceauşescu
Nadiya Trach: Chornobyl as a concept in Ukrainian collective memory
DISCUSSANT: VALERIE ROSOUX

8:30 SPATIAL FRAMES OF REMEMBRANCE: REFRAMING THE NATIONAL
CHAIR: MAŁGORZATA PAKIER
Gal Hermoni, Udi Lebel: Penetrating the 'Remembrance Day' Playlist: music and the localization of memory
Agnieszka Topolska: “Musik macht frei”: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Mayhill C. Fowler: A social history of post-Soviet Arts: theater and trauma in Poland and Ukraine
Stephenie Young: The forensics of memorialization in post-war Balkan photography
Written presentation:
Olga Barbasiewicz: Monuments, places of remembrance and foreign policy making. The case of Japan and United States. Japanese perspective.
DISCUSSANT: KATHARINE MCGREGOR

10:30 am Coffee break

11:00 am KEYNOTE: DIRK MOSES Terrorized Histories and Cosmopolitan Futures: Decolonizing Memories in Global Context; CHAIR: ELŻBIETA HAŁAS

12:00 MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: JUSTICE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, COMPENSATION (1)
CHAIR: JEFFREY OLICK
Katharine McGregor: The struggle over memories of the 1965-68 mass violence in Indonesia
Valerie Rosoux: Memory versus reconciliation. The limits of a fairy-tale
Luis Tsukayama Cisneros: How do memory, ideology and national identity discourse relate? Reactions to the Peruvian Truth Commission
Maria Mälksoo: Criminalizing Communism: Transnational Mnemopolitics in Europe
Written presentations:
Marcin Komosa: Institutionalized memory, institutionalized truth
Sokol Lleshi: We are not like them: continuous modernity in East Central Europe's institutional memory production after the fall of communism
DISCUSSANT: MARIE-CLAIRE LAVABRE

12:00 FRAMING THE FUTURE: EDUCATION
CHAIR: DIRK MOSES
Zlatko Bukač: Violence, war and endorphins: children popular culture during civil war in Croatia
Tamara Pavasovic Trost: Rewriting history in Southeast Europe: A processual analysis of remembering and forgetting
Borislava Manojlovic: Dealing with contentious past: memory and education in post-conflict Croatia
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs: National histories and identities in education about the Holocaust in post-1989 Poland and the wider world
DISCUSSANT: NOBUYA HASHIMOTO

12:00 FRAMING THE FUTURE: ORAL TESTIMONIES (in History Meeting House)
Panel Organized by History Meeting House
With Contribution by Alina Bothe: Virtual Memories of Jewish Resistance against the Destruction

2:00 pm Break

3:00 pm MEMORY IN THE HISTORICAL SPACE OF VIOLENCE: JUSTICE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, COMPENSATION (2)
CHAIR: ANNA HOROLETS
Stephanie Benzaquen: The memory of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia
Gyunghee Park: Politicized Traumas: the Transformation of ‘Comfort Women’ Memory as a Memory of Injustice
Piotr Filipkowski: German compensation payments and differentiated memories of the World War II
Stanisława Trebunia-Staszel: Memory of the Germans anthropological and racial research among Polish Highlanders during WWII (in Polish)
Written presentation:
Joanna Szymoniczek: German cemeteries of World War II in Eastern and Central Europe
DISCUSSANT: MACIEJ BUGAJEWSKI

3:00 pm FRAMING THE FUTURE: ART & PUBLIC SPHERE
CHAIR: MARIE-CLAIRE LAVABRE
Katarzyna Bojarska: When Absence Becomes Loss and Other Fables. Artistic and literary solutions for confronting and shaping collective memory
Agnieszka Kłos: Fading memory of Birkenau, hidden in nature and objects (in Polish)
Uilleam Blacker: Remembering Jews and the Holocaust in contemporary Warsaw from Polish and Israeli perspectives: the work of Joanna Rajkowska and Yael Bartana
Bozhin Traykov: Alyosha vs. Superman: Remembering the past through the ideological lenses of the present
DISCUSSANT: ANDA ROTTENBERG

3:00 pm THE FUTURE OF MEMORY PROJECTS (in History Meeting House)
CHAIR: TBA
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Joanna Kalicka: Modi Memorandi
Bartosz Korzeniewski: Polskie miejsca pamięci
Michał Łuczewski, Tomasz Maślanka: Politics of history in Poland, Germany and Russia
Izabela Skórzyńska, Anna Wachowiak: Wizualne reprezentacje polsko-niemieckiej przeszłości w kontekście otwartej/zamkniętej polityki regionalnej
DISCUSSANT: CSABA G. KISS

5:00 pm Coffee break

5:30 pm FINAL PLENARY SESSION