Memory Work and Civil Society-NGO

Description

Workshop on NGOs and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe and Spain.

 

The Memory at War project, in co-operation with CRIC, will hold a day-long workshop on the role of NGOs in shaping cultural memory. The workshop brings together representatives of various NGOs from Poland, Russia, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, who will present the work of their various organisations, and offer reflections and discussion on their own specific problems, and the general problems of the interrelations between civil society movements and cultural memory. Participants will address questions such as how to represent difficult or contested pasts, how to negotiate political appropriation of their activities and the pasts with which they deal, and what are the best strategies for educating the public about the past. Organisations represented are the following: KARTA (Poland), Memorial Society (Russia), Kyiv Vasyl Stus Memorial Society (Ukraine), Lviv Centre for Urban History (Ukraine), Gernika Gogoratuz (Spain), London Jewish Museum (UK – to be confirmed).

 

Further information, please contact Dr Uilleam Blacker

Open to all.

Lunch is not provided, only tea and coffee during the breaks

 

 

Part of the East European Memory Studies Research Group