Genealogies of Memory 2019: programme

Edition

Genealogies of Memory 2019: Myths, Memories and Economies

28 – 30 Oct 2019, Warsaw

Myths, Memories and Economies: Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparison

Genealogies of Memory

Following a series of events within the Genealogies of Memory framework, the 2019 conference "Myths, Memories and Economies: Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparison" will aim to explore the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic post-'89 transformations, as well as their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure.

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Programme

Genealogies 2019

28/10/2019 Monday

8:30
Registration

9:15
Introduction

Rafał Rogulski – director of the ENRS
Małgorzata Pakier – head of the Academic Department at the ENRS

9:40
Opening remarks

Veronika Pehe, Joanna Wawrzyniak – conference convenors

10:00
Key-note speech, Johanna Bockman

The Other Washington Consensus: Remembering Socialism in Washington, DC

Chair: Veronika Pehe

11:30
Coffee break

12:00
Roundtable: From Socialist Internationalism to Capitalist Globalisation and Beyond

James Mark
Bogdan Iacob
Tobias Rupprecht

Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak

13:30
Lunch

14:30
Panel 1. Key Narratives

Florian Peters:
Shock Therapy Mythologies: Contested Memories of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan
Muriel Blaive:
Velvet Revolution, Economic Reforms, and Lustration: A Trilogy Imposed by Circumstances or by Political Rivalry? Essay in Counterfactual History
Wolf-Rüdiger Knoll:
A “Bad Bank” of Transformation: The Role of the “Treuhandanstalt” in the Collective Memory of East Germans after Reunification

Chair and discussant: James Mark

16:15
Coffee break

16:45
Panel 2. Social memory: contested or consensual?

Rigels Halili:
Post-communist Transformation, Social Memory and Blaming of the “Other” – the Case of Albania
Jill Massino:
Pluralism or Plutocracy? Popular Expectations and Perspectives of Economic Change in Post-socialist Romania
Andrzej Pabisiak:
Thirty Years After: The Collective Memory of Transition in Poland based on Research on Polish Sejm Transcripts

Chair and discussant: Saygun Gökarıksel

18:30
Dinner

29/10/2019 Tuesday

9:30
Panel 3. Memory and Agency

Veronika Pehe:
"Let's Start a Business": The Memory of Entrepreneurship and the Czech Student Generation of 1989
Gazela Pudar Drasko:
Post-Socialist Transformation in Serbia: Critical Perspective of Intellectuals
Katarzyna Waniek:
Biographical experiences of transformation in the cohort born 1980-1990. A case analysis

Chair and discussant: Oldřich Tůma

11:15
Coffee break

11:45
Key-note speech, Thomas Lindenberger

Transformation through Unification = Unification through Transformation? Regimes of Truth and the Discontent of Memories in the German Transformation Regime
Chair: Muriel Blaive

13:15
Lunch

14:15
Panel 4. Cultural Memory and Economy

Alex Condrache:
That is how Billionaires Smoke: The Nouveau Riche of the Transition in Romanian Post-Communist Cinema
Olga Gontarska:
Cinema without an Audience: Experience of Transformation Depicted in Ukrainian films
Saygun Gökarıksel:
“The Great Betrayal”: 1989 and the “Secrets” of Poland’s New Capitalism

Chair and discussant: Ksenia Robbe

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Film screening and discussion: Dług (Debt), dir. Krzysztof Krauze (1999)

In Polish with English subtitles
Commentators: Veronika Pehe, Mateusz Werner

30/10/2019 Wednesday

9:30
Key-note speech, Adam Mrozowicki

Coping with System Change: the ‘Grand History’ of Transformation and Biographical Experiences of Polish Workers

Chair: Małgorzata Pakier

11:00
Coffe break

11:30
Panel 5. Memory and Labour

Till Hilmar:
Drawing Moral Lessons from Economic Transformations: Economic Memory, Deservingness and Social Relations in post-1989 (East) Germany and the Czech Republic
Joanna Wawrzyniak,Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając:
Nostalgia and Moral Economy in Post-socialist Industry: Poland
Mariusz Jastrząb:
How Did We Survive? Official Corporate Histories from the Period of Systemic Change

Chair and discussant: Florian Peters

13:15
Lunch

14:15
Key-note speech, Martin Schulze Wessel

Universalist and Particularist Policy Legitimations in the Transformation Period

Chair: Rafał Rogulski

15:45
Coffee break

16:15
Panel 6. Current Echoes of the Transformation

Sabine Stach:
Guiding through Memory: A Case Study on (Post)Communism Tours
Bartłomiej Krzysztan:
Capitalizing Socialism in Postcolonial Georgia. Post-socialist Economic Reality and Structure of Memory on Peripheral Flea Market
Mykola Makhortykh:
We Were Hungry, but we also Were Free: (Counter)Narratives of the Russia’s first post-Soviet Decade on Instagram

Chair and discussant: Bogdan Iacob