East European Memory Studies
Research Group 2010-11

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

Conveners

Dr Julie Fedor  (Dept of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Judith Ashley Brown  (Dept of Slavonic Studies, MML)


Programme 2010-11

For further information click the individual event title.

Easter Term 2011
Theme: Memory and Liberation

'The Heart of Poland' and 'Victory Day in History Politics’
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2011
Jacek Purchla (The Research Institute of European Heritage, Krakow) and Markku Kangaspuro (University of Helsinki)
‘Primal Scenes. Translating Experiences of “Algeria” into “French Theory”’ and 'The Virtual Museum of the Gulag–Integrating Material M'
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) and Josephine von Zitzewitz (University of Oxford)
‘Battles for Historical Memory on Ru.net/Ukr.net: Users’ Choices of Disputable Events’ and 'Making Sense of War in City Museums'
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Vera Zvereva (University of Bergen) and Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)
‘A Painful Memory’ and ‘Roma and Genocide: From Muted Memories to Politics of Identity’
Wednesday, 8 Jun 2011
Aleksander Fiut (Jagiellonain University, Krakow) and Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
 

Lent Term 2011
Theme: Memory and Resistance

A Theory of the Role of Memory in the Construction of History
Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011
Gabriel Motzkin (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
'Excavating Experience: Photographs and Difficult Histories' and 'Hannah Arendt and Jewish Memory: The Case of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction'
Wednesday, 2 Feb 2011
Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts London) and Natan Sznaider (Academic College of Tel-Aviv)
Politics of Memory: Reshaping Cultural and “Physical” Landscapes in Contemporary Ukraine
Wednesday, 16 Feb 2011
Svitlana Shlipchenko (Kyiv Mohyla Academy)
Premediation and the Interdisciplinary Study of Memory
Wednesday, 2 Mar 2011
Astrid Erll (Universitaet Wuppertal) and Andrew Hoskins (University of Nottingham)
Spacings of Memory: 'Benjamin’s Moscow' and 'The History of Destruction and the Possibility of Comedy in the Work of W G Sebald'
Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011
David Ferris (University of Colorado) and Stephanie Bird (UCL)

Michaelmas Term 2010
Theme: Memory and Guilt

'Counting Coup: Evolving Memories of August 1991' and 'Memory Theatres: Collective Recall and the Uses of Contemporary Cinema'
Wednesday, 6 Oct 2010
Harley Balzer (Georgetown University) and Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh)
Medicine in Gulag Memory: "Dramatological" Contests over the Bodies of Malingerers in Stalin's Forced Labour Camps
Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010
Dan Healey (Swansea/Cambridge)
'Divided Memory: Poland’s Double Postcoloniality' and 'The Material of Culture: Russian Imperial Artifacts Playing Soviet and Post-Soviet Roles'
Wednesday, 3 Nov 2010
Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau) and Julie Buckler (Harvard University, USA)
The Role of the Media in (Re)Shaping Historical Memory in Ukraine (tbc)
Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010
Volodymyr Kulyk (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)
'The great Famine of 1932-33 and the Holodomor' and 'Changing Memory Regimes in Eastern Europe'
Wednesday, 1 Dec 2010
Georgiy Kasianov (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences) and Meike Wulf (University of Maastricht)

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