Browse our videos! Here you can find recordings from our events, including the European Remembrance Symposia and Genealogies of Memory conferences, video summaries of our educational youth projects, as well as Hi-story lessons animations for teachers and pupils.
Geneviève Zubrzycki giving her keynote lecture.
The aim of the 8th conference within the Genealogies of Memory framework was to highlight the intricate links between religion and memory. The latest reflections and research findings were showcased by scholars from over 20 countries. The conference took place in Warsaw between 16 and 18 October 2018.
The aim of the 8th conference within the Genealogies of Memory framework was to highlight the intricate links between religion and memory. The latest reflections and research findings were showcased by scholars from over 20 countries. The conference took place in Warsaw between 16 and 18 October 2018.
Pastor Thomas Jeutner (Evangelical Reconciliation Parish/ Chapel of Reconciliation, Berlin)
Archpriest Kirill Kaleda (Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, Butovo)
Priest Prof. Piotr Mazurkiewicz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Sufi Andrzej Saramowicz (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī Sufi Polish Foundation)
Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis (Shavei Israel in Katowice)
Please note that one of the presentations is in Russian.
Moderators: Dr Zuzanna Bogumił & Dr Yuliya Yurchuk
The aim of the 8th conference within the Genealogies of Memory framework was to highlight the intricate links between religion and memory. The latest reflections and research findings were showcased by scholars from over 20 countries. The conference took place in Warsaw between 16 and 18 October 2018.
Chair: Dr Marta Łukaszewicz (University of Warsaw)
Prof. George Enache (Dunarea de Jos University of Galați): Rival Narratives, Competing Memoirs and the Issue of Canonization of the Martyrs of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Communist Period
Dr Katarzyna Korzeniewska (Polish Institute of International Affairs): Lithuanian Sanctity between Military Heroism and Martyrdom. Transformation of Visions of “National Saints” in Lithuania (1980-2017)
Prof. Olga Khristoforova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow): The Mouse, the Snake, and the Devil’s Collar: Soviet Symbols in Old Believers’ Memory
Dr Momchil Metodiev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”): Canonisation of the Martyrs of the Orthodox Churches and the Communist State Security Archives
Aleksander Agadjanian giving his keynote lecture.
The aim of the 8th conference within the Genealogies of Memory framework was to highlight the intricate links between religion and memory. The latest reflections and research findings were showcased by scholars from over 20 countries. The conference took place in Warsaw between 16 and 18 October 2018.
The aim of the 8th conference within the Genealogies of Memory framework was to highlight the intricate links between religion and memory. The latest reflections and research findings were showcased by scholars from over 20 countries. The conference took place in Warsaw between 16 and 18 October 2018.
Chair: Prof. Marcin Napiórkowski (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw)
Dr Sofia Tchouikina (Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Paris): How the Presence of Religion is Shaping Commemoration? The Centenary of the First World War in Russia in 2014
Dr Tatiana Voronina (University of Zurich): A Time of Persecution or a Time of Glory? The Russian Orthodox Church’s Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 1917 Revolutions
Commentator: Prof. Piotr Kwiatkowski (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw)
The aim of the 8th conference within the Genealogies of Memory framework was to highlight the intricate links between religion and memory. The latest reflections and research findings were showcased by scholars from over 20 countries. The conference took place in Warsaw between 16 and 18 October 2018.
Welcome speeches by: Prof. Jan Rydel (ENRS), Dr Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS), Dr Zuzanna Bogumił (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw) and Dr Yuliya Yurchuk (Södertörn University, Sweden).
Chair: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Poland)
Ana Krsinic Lozica (Croatia), Jasenovac Concentration Camp on Film
Agnieszka Kiejziewicz (Poland), Bye Bye Innocence. War and Children’s Traumatic Memories in Japanese Film
Beja Margitházi (Hungary), Embodying Sense Memory: Animating the Analog/Photographic as Evidence of Traumatic Experience in EastEuropean Post-Cinema (Son of Saul, Regina, Warsaw Uprising)
Veronika Pehe (Czech Republic), From Socialism to Democracy on the Screen: Accommodating Images of the Socialist Past in the Post-1989 Czech Republic
Commentary: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Constantin Parvulescu giving his keynote lecture.
Chair: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Robert Hariman giving his keynote lecture.
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Ernst van Alphen giving his keynote lecture.
Chair: Jan Rydel (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Tadeusz J. Żuchowski: Introductory Remarks. Between Monument and Memorial
Chair: Jagoda Hernik Spalińska (Poland)
Burcin Cakir (Scotland), Diplomacy and Dead: Construction of Gallipoli War Memorials and State Agency
Olga Barbasiewicz (Poland), Hidden Memory and Memorials. Remembering Korean Victims in Hiroshima
Ksenia Surikova (Russia), Images of Memory: Monuments and Memorials of Second World War in Russia and Belarus
Yaroslav Pasko (Ukraine), Monuments as a Factor of Historical Memory and Identity Threat: Don17:30bas and Ukraine
Written Presentation: Alicja Melzacka (Poland), Contemporary Art as a New Counter-Monument
Commentary: Tadeusz J. Żuchowski (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Chair: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Poland)
Anastasia Pavlovskaya (Russia), ‘How Should a Monument to Pushkin Look Like?’: The Pushkin Monument in Leningrad Discussion (1936-1937) and the Stalinist Memorial Culture
Olli Kleemola (Finland), Building the Finnish National Mythos: Photographs from the Russo-Finnish Winter War 1939–1940
Michał Haake (Poland), Picture and History. Exhibitions of Art as a Tool of Validation of Communist Authority in Poland
Maria Khorolskaya (Russia), The Everyday in the GDR in Individual, Cultural and Political Memory
Commentary: Zuzanna Bogumił (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Wojciech Suchocki giving his keynote lecture.
Chair: Csaba György Kiss (Hungary)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Poland)
Vitalii Ogiienko (Ukraine), Image of the Starving Little Girl: From Initial Traumatic Holodomor Experience to Media Icon
Andrei Nacu (Romania), The Relation between the Family Album and the Re-evaluation of Romania’s Communist Past
Filip Lipiński (Poland), Stratified Image. Medium, Construction and Memory in Frank Stella’s Polish Villages
Florin Abraham (Romania), Histor(iograph)y and Memory in ‘PostTruth Era’. Towards a European Public Sphere? Some Theoretical Considerations
Written Presentation: Tomasz Szerszeń (Poland), Memory, Photography, History. Post-Soviet Auto-photo-biographies
Commentary: Luiza Nader (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.
Welcome speeches by:
Rafał Rogulski, Director of the Institute of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
Juliusz Szymczak-Gałkowski, Director of the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Initiator of the Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe programme
Opening remarks: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Conference convener)
Mieke Bal giving her keynote lecture.
Chair: Anna Kutaj-Markowska (Poland)
The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.