Videos

Panellists:
- Filip Binder (Czech Academy of Sciences): “Castles of the 19th Century as Sites of Memory of the Aristocracy Based in the Czech Lands”
- Luděk Němec (University of Vienna): “The 'Pearl of South Bohemia': Hluboká Castle between Aristocratic Memory, Cultural Symbol, and Tourist Attraction”
- István Kollai (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship): “Genius Loci around Castles in Slovakia: Built Heritage of Feudal Past in the “Cultural Landscape” and in the ‘Social Mindscape’”

Discussant: Simon Donig (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw/Memory Studies Association)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Siarhei Marozau (Independent Researcher): "Aristocracy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Memory Policy of Belarus (1988–2023): Competition of Historical Narratives" (ZOOM)
- Tomasz Błaszczak (Vytautas Magnus University), Agnieszka Nowakowska (University of Warsaw): "Villains or Benefactors: Images of Nobility in Lithuanian and Polish Textbooks"
- Rafał Slaski (Zofia and Jan Włodek Foundation/Polish Gentry Association): "Educational Activities Restoring Knowledge about History and Achievements of Polish Landowners"

Discussant: Michał Łuczewski (University of Warsaw)
Moderation: Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

A round table discussion with discussants Tomasz Zarycki (University of Warsaw), Constantin Iordachi (Central European University) and Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková (Palacký University Olomouc).
Moderation by Anna Wylegała (Polish Academy of Sciences).

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Saara Tuovinen (University of Oulu): “Rare Birds, Military Heroes, and Influencers – Nobility at late 18th Century and early 19th Century Northern Finland”
- Silke Marburg (Independent Researcher): “'One Can Not Be Overlooked.' Forestal Investment and the Visibility of Aristocracy as a Memory Group After 1918”
- Róbert Szabó (Eötvös Loránd University): “Military Nation or Ultramilitarist Aristocrats? A Genealogical Analysis in The Horthy-Hungary” (ZOOM)
- Kseniya Liubaya (University of Warsaw): “Duchess Magdalena Radzivil: Construction of a Positive and Negative Image of the Aristocracy in the 20th and 21st Centuries” (ZOOM)

Discussant: Dina Guseinova (London School of Economics and Political Science) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Konrad Bielecki (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Mikołaj Getka-Kenig (Polish Academy od Sciences): "Aestheticizing the Class Enemy. The Musealization of Feudal Heritage in Post-War Poland and East Germany"
- Uladzimir Karalenak (Museum in Nieborów and Arkadia): "Dismantling the Aristocratic Legacy: The Cultural Heritage of the Radziwiłłs in the Political Landscape of the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union"
- Jakub Wiśniewski (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland): "The Totalitarianism against the Gentry Heritage. The Politics of the Communist Regime in Poland Towards Manors and Manor Complexes and its Comparison to the Third Polish Republic"
- Salvijus Kulevičius (Vilnius University): "Enemy of the Nation and Class or Cultural Heritage? The Fate of Manorial Legacy in Lithuania during the Soviet Era"

Discussant: Małgorzata Łukianow (University of Warsaw)
Moderation: Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Teresa Klimowicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University): "Unveiling Nobility in the Myth of the One-Day Jewish King of Poland"
- Katarzyna Kuligowska (Adam Mickiewicz University): "Linguistic View of Landowning Elites in Polish Proverbs and Sayings"
- Uladzimir Kananovich (Indepentend Researcher): "King Mindowe (Mindouh) in Navahrudak. An Aristocratic Social Memory in Contemporary Society"
- Péter Erdősi (Eötvös Loránd University): "From 'Neo-Baroque Society' to Baroque Heritage: Changing Perceptions of the Hungarian Aristocracy (20th and 21st Centuries)"

Discussant: Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Moderation: Gábor Danyi (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Cezary Lusiński (Polish Academy of Sciences): "How the Owners of Palaces are Perceived by Local Communities in the Western Part of Poland?"
- Justyna Szklarczyk (University of Warsaw): "Palace Possibilities and Potentiality of Dwelling. The History of State Farms in Socialist Poland" (ZOOM)
- Elena Gibson (University of Leeds): "Re-Imagining the Big-House - Local Community Relationship: The Case of Wentworth Woodhouse" (ZOOM)
- Yehoshua Ecker (University of Florida): "Remembering the Feudal Order in Newer Times: The Jewish Turn in Eastern Galician Landed Estates" (ZOOM)

Discussant: Marta Kurkowska-Budzan (Jagiellonian University)
Moderation: Monika Haber (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Maciej Radziwiłł (Foundation Trzy Trąby): "Polish Aristocracy after WWII. Does it still exist?"
- Ling Li (Erfurt University): "Power Continuities of Kinship Dynamics in Modern Urbanization: Comparative Perspectives from China and Europe"
- Attila Kálmán (Sapientia University): "Surviving Strategies of the Transylvanian Aristocracy during the Communist Period (1949 – 1989)"

Discussant: Sofia Tchouikina (University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis/Research Centre CRESPPA)
Moderation: Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Jan Wasiewicz (Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan): "'We’ve Forgotten Nothing…', Peasant Memory of Serfdom and Enforced Labour in Debates over Land Reform in the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939)" (ZOOM)
- Mateusz Wyżga (University of the National Education Commission): "Oblivion. Social Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Present Day"
- Naum Trajanovski (University of Warsaw): "Remembering Serfdom at the Turn of the Century Balkans: Dime Bojanovski-Dize and the Pioneering Research of Chifliks in Socialist Macedonia of the 1950s" (ZOOM)

Discussant: Michał Rauszer (University of Warsaw)
Moderation: Ewelina Szpak (Polish Academy of Sciences/ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Łukasz Lubicz-Łapiński (The Polish Nobility Association): “Representation of the Nobility in Modern Day Poland”
- Rafał Smoczyński (Polish Academy of Sciences): “The Reorganization of Polish Nobility: Post-WWII Strategies for Collective Identity Building” (ZOOM)
- Sokol Lleshi (University of New York Tirana): “Restorative Memory, and Temporalities of past Social Formation in the Absence of Historical Justice: Representation of Landowning Elites in Post-Communist Albania”
- Gergely Fejérdy (Péter Pazmany Catholic University/Otto von Habsburg Foundation): “Otto von Habsburg and Hungarian Noble Networks” (ZOOM)

Discussant: Éva Sztáray Kézdy (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Maciej Rydel (Polish Gentry Association): "Status of Material, Cultural, and Heritage of the Gentry in Poland: Manors, Palaces and Parks"
- Anna Damięcka-Wójcik (University of Warsaw): "Lehndorff Palace in Sztynort: From 'Non-Place' to 'Post-Place'"
- Ewa Manikowska (Polish Academy of Sciences): "Collecting: A Distorted Tradition"

Discussant: Paul Zalewski (Europa-Universität Viadrina) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Konrad Bielecki (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Keynote: Longina Jakubowska (Utrecht University)
Moderation: Jan Rydel (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'

For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.

The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.

The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Panel titled “Cultural Memory and Natural Disasters.”

The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'

For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.

The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.

The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Roundtable discussion titled “Between Trauma, Memory and Forgetting - Nuclear, Environmental and Human-Induced Disasters in the 20th and 21st Centuries.”

The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'

For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.

The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.

The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Panel titled “Discourses on Nuclear, Global and Environmental Crises.”

The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'

For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.

The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.

The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Panel titled “'Slow violence' and Memory of Industrial Catastrophes.”

The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'

For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.

The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.

The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Panel titled “Hunger and Food Shortages - Collective Memory of Survival Strategies.”

The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'

For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.

The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.

The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Panel titled “Narratives of Wartime Famines - Between Individual and Collective Memory.”