East European Memory Studies Research Group

In collaboration with the Research Project,
Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
Supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme

Alternate Wednesdays, 17.00 - 19.00 during term time
CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT

Programme 2011-12

For further information click the individual event title.

Easter Term 2012

'Buttons from Kharkiv' and 'Putin Wins, the System Decays'
Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012
Oleksandr Zinchenko (Kharkiv) and Andrew Wilson (UCL)
CANCELLED -Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of Transnistria
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
CANCELLED- Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (Columbia University). NB Venue: Fac of English
The “Name Russia” Project as an Exercise in Contemporary Myth- and History Making
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Galina Rylkova (University of Florida)
'"Historiomor" or the Attractions of Amnesia' and 'Bruno Schulz and Danilo Kis: The Paleonthology of Memory'
Wednesday, 6 Jun 2012
Aleksander Fiut (Jagiellonain University, Krakow) and Pavel Polin.

Lent Term 2012

‘The Tandem’s Anti-Soviet Turn: New Memory Projects’ and 'Nationalising the “Common Victory” in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands: WWII'
Wednesday, 1 Feb 2012
Dr Julie Fedor (University of Cambridge) and Dr Tatiana Zhurzhenko (University of Vienna)
‘Re-Playing the Stalinist Past’ and ‘The Manezhka Affair and the First Steps of Russian Mnemonics’
Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012
Gernot Howanitz (University of Salzburg) and Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (University of Cambridge)
‘Memory and Forgetting in Minsk and Astana’ and 'Academic Metaphors and Interpretive Challenges of Soviet Post-War Literature and Memoirs’
Wednesday, 29 Feb 2012
Dr Nelly Bekus (University of Warsaw) and Dr Anna Krylova (Duke University)
'Memory and Postmemory in Polish Jewish Fiction' and 'Lydia Ginsburg on the Leningrad Blockade: Mechanisms of Forgetting and Repression’
Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012
Dr Katarzyna Zechenter (SSEES, UCL) and Prof Andrei Zorin (University of Oxford)
 

Michaelmas Term 2011

The Eternal Return of National Mystifications: the Voynich Manuscript, the Book of Vles and the Igor Tale
Wednesday, 12 Oct 2011
Professor George Grabowicz (Harvard University) NB: Different date and venue (Sidney Sussex College)
Memory, Forgetting and Silence
Wednesday, 19 Oct 2011
Tim Beasley-Murray (SSEES, UCL)
'Romania, Serbia, and Contemporary Memories of German Victims' and 'Negotiating the Holocaust'
Wednesday, 2 Nov 2011
James Koranyi (University of St Andrews) and Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent)
'Polish Martial Law of 1981 on Screen' and 'The Unfinished Revolution:The Contested Meaning of 1989 in Central-Eastern Europe'
Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011
Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancaster) and James Mark (University of Exeter)
Nationalizing the "Common Victory" in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2011
Tatiana Zhurzhenko (University of Vienna) and Georges Mink (Institute for Political and Social Studies, CNRS)
Memory Work and Civil Society-NGO
Monday, 5 Dec 2011
Workshop on NGO