East European Memory Studies
Research Group 2009-10
Alternate Wednesdays in term, 17:00 - 19:00
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Programme 2009-10
Michaelmas Term 2009
Theme: Memory and Identity
Wednesday 21 October, 5.00pm
Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
Polish Memory
of Empires
Mark Bassin (University of Birmingham)
1980 remembers 1380: Russian Nationalism and the Battle over Kulikovo
Wednesday 4 November, 5.00pm
Olesya Khromeychuk (UCL-SSEES)
The Reconstruction of WWII Memory and its Contemporary Political Framing in Ukraine: The Case of the Waffen SS "Galicia"
Zbigniew Wojnowski (UCL-SSEES)
Soviet Patriots and the Cossacks: How Communist Party Officials Created a National Past for Ukraine
Wednesday 18 November, 5.00pm
Catherine Merridale (Queen Mary, UL)
The perpetrators:
Guilt and memory in Russia
Wednesday 2 December. 5.00pm
Michael David-Fox (University of Maryland)
Fellow- Travellers revisited
Harald Wydra (University of Cambridge)
Communist Myths and the Future That Failed
Lent Term 2010
Theme: Memory and Theory
Wednesday 27 January, 5.00pm
Polly Jones, UCL
Memory's
"fire-glow": Post-memory
and Stalinism in the post-thaw period
Nancy Adler, University of Amsterdam
The 'Bright Past', or Whose (Hi)story?
Russia's Rehabilitation of the Stalinist Past
Wednesday 10 February, 5.00pm
Ivan Peshkov, Memory of the Cultural Revolution in China among the Russian settlers in Siberia
Matilda Mroz, Cinema and Memorial Practices in Post-war Poland
Wednesday 24 February, 5.00pm
Chris Kaplonski, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU), Cambridge
Black and Yellow Memories: The Legacy of Lamas and Feudals in Post-Socialist Mongolia
Rosario Forlenza, Cambridge
Memory between East and West: Visions of Communism in Italy
Wednesday 10 March, 5.00pm
Piotr Kosicki, Department of History, Princeton University
Memory and Theory in Poland since 1989
Easter Term 2010
Theme: Memory of Theory
Wednesday 21 April, 17:00
Professor Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge, UK)
'Sailors' Memories and the Maritime Geography of the Cold War
Wednesday 5 May, 17:00
Professor Aleida Assman (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Resonance and Impact: Towards a Theory of Memory and Emotions
Wednesday 19 May, 17:00
Professor Barbara Misztal (University of Leicester, UK)
The Banalization and the Contestation of Memory in Post-Communist Poland
Wednesday 2 June, 17:00
Anindita Banerjee
Petro-Trauma: Coloniality, Globality, and the Dystopia of Russian Oil
and
Ivan Kurilla (Volgograd State University, Russia)
Constructing "Official" Memory in Russia: Textbooks, "History Wars", and Emerging
