Videos

Panel 'Shadows of War: Conflict and Memory Regions'.

Speeches:

Daniel Wutti, Andreas Hudelist (Alps-Adria University Klagenfurt/Celovec): Remembering National Socialism & WW2 in Multicultural Regions. About how to Form the Cultural Memory 70 Years after in the Region of Carinthia/Kärnten/Koroška.

Azra Junuzovic (University of Sarajevo): The Interplay of Memory and Globalization with Remembrance Practices at Memorial Sites in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Discussant: Burkhard Olschowsky (University of Oldenburg)

Chair: Sławomir Kapralski (Pedagogical University of Krakow)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

Panel 'Memory and Technocracy: How Policies Construct Memory'.

Speeches:

Aline Sierp (Maastricht University): Fluid Boundaries –the European Union as Memory Region

Sarah Correia (London School of Economics and Political Science): 'Remembering Srebrenica' in the United Kingdom in the Context of the Government-sponsored Struggle against Radicalisation amongst British Muslims

Alina Thiemann (Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main) and Valentina Pricopie (Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy): Transnational Politics of Memory in a Troubled National Context. Media Commemoration of August 23 in Romania

Discussant: Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia)

Chair: Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper (University of Warsaw)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

Panel 'Narrative as Bridge: Texts and the Construction of Memory Regions Empire'.

Speeches:

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (University of Łódź): Somewhere in the East. The Commemorative Function of the TV-Miniseries Am grünen Strand der Spree (1960)

Elizabeth Johnstone (New York University): Memory Regions in Literature: Rwanda’s Write out of the Duty of Memory Initiative

Irena Šentevska (University of Arts in Belgrade): Remembering 1973: Eurovision Song Contest as a Shared Trans-national Memory

Discussant: Jens Boysen (German Historical Institute Warsaw)

Chair: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

Panel 'After Empire: Memory and Postcoloniality'.

Speeches:

Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University): Victimhood in the East European Memory Regime. Transmuting Memories from the Post-imperial to Postcolonial

Bartłomiej Krzysztan (University of Wrocław): Myth and Imagination in Memory and History Discourses in Armenia and Georgia. Rethink the Theory in Different Circumstances

Malkhaz Toria (Ilia State University): “Decolonization” of Collective Memory and Geo-political Repositioning as a Reason of Ethnic Conflicts in Post-Soviet Georgia

Discussant: Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)

Chair: Kate McGregor (University of Melbourne)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

Panel 'Memory on the Move: the Formation and Deformation of Memory Regions through Migration and Travel'.

Speeches:

Younes Saramifar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): The Echoes of Memory and Rewriting the Old Theory: Martyrdom and Regions of Memory

Brady Albrand (University of Southern Queensland): Embodying the Prosthetic: Constructing Race and Agency Amongst White South African Migrants in Regional Australia

Discussant: Marcin Wróbel (Jagiellonnian University)

Chair: Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

Keynote lecturer Ann Rigney, professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, giving her lecture called 'The Past is Another Story'.

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory II conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

Roundtable discussion held by: Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia), Kate McGregor (University of Melbourne), Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University), Aline Sierp (Maastricht University). Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory II conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

One of the central concerned topics was the assessment of the term ‘regions of memory’, as a variety of evidences show that the connotation of the term ‘region’ with a specifically geographically determined area is insufficient for the ‘hybridity’ these memory-regions can actually have.

Panel 'The Fragmentation of Trauma: Memories of Mass Violence Between the Global and Local'.

Speeches:
Sławomir Kapralski (Pedagogical University of Krakow): "The Holocaust: Commemorated but not Remembered? Post-colonial and Post-traumatic Perspectives on the Reception of the Holocaust Memory Discourse in Poland".

Kate McGregor (University of Melbourne): "Global Memoryscapes and The International People’s Tribunal for the 1965 Violence in Indonesia".

Angelika Mouzakiti (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi): "The Pogrom of Jews in Iaşi in June 1941: The Memorial Sites as Part of the Post-socialist Memory Discourse".

Discussant: Małgorzata Pakier (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews)

Chair: Jens Boysen (German Historical Institute Warsaw)

From 17 to 19 of March, the Regions of Memory conference was held at the University of Warsaw Library, resulting in three days of inspiring lectures and fruitful discussions between academics from all over the world.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity on 11-13 May. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk.Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

Discussion after the panel entitled "DIFFERENT WAYS TO REMEMBER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN EUROPE. HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE 20TH CENTURY WITHOUT EQUATING THEM" during the European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

Áron Máthé's comments in the panel entitled "DIFFERENT WAYS TO REMEMBER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN EUROPE. HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE 20TH CENTURY WITHOUT EQUATING THEM"during the European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

Habbo Knoch's comments in the panel entitled "DIFFERENT WAYS TO REMEMBER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN EUROPE. HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE 20TH CENTURY WITHOUT EQUATING THEM" during the European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

Zdzisław Krasnodębski's comments in the panel entitled "DIFFERENT WAYS TO REMEMBER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN EUROPE. HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE 20TH CENTURY WITHOUT EQUATING THEM"during the European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

‘Different Memories of Totalitarian Regimes in Europe: How to Speak about the Crimes of the Twentieth Century without Equalizing them’ by Richard Overy

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk.Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague

Tamás Stark's introduction to the panel entitled "DIFFERENT WAYS TO REMEMBER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN EUROPE. HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE CRIMES OF THE 20TH CENTURY WITHOUT EQUATING THEM" during the European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.

Discussion after the panel entitled "REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST UNDER DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY. DIFFERENT REGIONS, DIFFERENT MEMORIES?" during the European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna.

The 4th edition of European Remembrance Symposium in Vienna was organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Attended by over 200 representatives from 120 institutions dealing with the history of the 20th century, it was dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and all those who took part in it.

The goal of European Remembrance Symposium is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s idea of culture of remembrance. The meetings are open to all professionals dealing with 20th-century European history.

A series of European Remembrance symposiums was launched in September 2012 in Gdańsk. Subsequent editions took place in Berlin and Prague.