- About
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About
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
The Research Group in East European Memory Studies is a transdisciplinary forum concerned with the dynamic interplay between memory, culture, and politics in today’s Eastern Europe. We seek to understand the peculiar regimes of memory and forgetting established by the socialist states of the former Soviet block and the secularist state in Turkey. We also want to situate these intertwined pasts and presents in the new European order.
We aim to employ an array of approaches, partially borrowed and partially invented, in a series of dialogues between scholars and practitioners in history, literature, political science, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. We plan to address such questions as:
– How has the state used various practices of memory – recalling not only past glory and achievement but also deportations, political repression, and genocide – to promote independent nationhood?
– How do the memories of Nazi rule and Communist rule shape international relations in Europe?
– How do museums, monuments, literature, film, digital media, and the unsignified ghosts of the past bear witness to the historical trauma?
– What is the contribution of East European memories to identity formation in a united and uniting Europe?
In the past years our series of discussions were organised according to five broad thematic areas:
Memory and Identity (Michaelmas 2009)
Memory and Theory (Lent and Easter 2010)
Memory and Guilt (Michaelmas 2010)
Memory and Resistance (Lent 2011)
Memory and Liberation (Easter 2011)
Conveners
Conveners
2012-13
Tom Rowley (Department of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Simon Lewis (Department of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Dr Alexander Etkind (Department of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Dr Rory Finnin (Department of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Dr Harald Wydra (POLIS, FPPSIS)
2011-12
Dr Uilleam Blacker (Department of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Tanya Zaharchenko (Department of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Camil Roman (POLIS, FPPSIS)
2010-11
Dr Julie Fedor (Dept of Slavonic Studies, MML)
Judith Ashley Brown (Dept of Slavonic Studies, MML)
2009-10
Ziya Meral (PhD Student, Politics and International Studies)
Morag McIvor (PhD Student, Slavonic Studies)
Boran Shin (PhD Student, Slavonic Studies)
Dr Sergei Tyulenev (Slavonic Studies)
Faculty Advisers
Dr Alexander Etkind (Slavonic Studies)
Rory Finnin (Slavonic Studies)
Dr Harald Wydra (Politics and International Studies)
Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Department of Social Anthropology)
Past events
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East European Memory Studies Research Group 21 Oct 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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East European Memory Studies Research Group 4 Nov 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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East European Memory Studies Research Group 18 Nov 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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East European Memory Studies Research Group 2 Dec 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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‘Post-memory and Stalinism in the post-thaw period’ & ‘Russia’s Rehabilitation of the Stalinist Past’ 27 Jan 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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East European Memory Research Group 10 Feb 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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Black and Yellow Memories: The Legacy of Lamas and Feudals in Post-Socialist Mongolia 24 Feb 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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Memory and Theory in Poland since 1989 10 Mar 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH 17 Mill Lane |
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Professor Caroline Humphrey: ‘Sailors’ Memories and the Maritime Geography of the Cold War 21 Apr 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge |
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Resonance and Impact: Towards a Theory of Memory and Emotions 5 May 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge |
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The Banalization and the Contestation of Memory in Post-Communist Poland 19 May 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge |
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‘Petro-Trauma’ and ‘Constructing “Official” Memory in Russia’ 2 Jun 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge |
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‘Counting Coup: Evolving Memories of August 1991’ and ‘Memory Theatres: Collective Recall and the Uses of Contemporary Cinema’ 6 Oct 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Harley Balzer (Georgetown University) and Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh) |
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Medicine in Gulag Memory: “Dramatological” Contests over the Bodies of Malingerers in Stalin’s Forced Labour Camps 20 Oct 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Dan Healey (Swansea/Cambridge) |
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‘Divided Memory: Poland’s Double Postcoloniality’ and ‘The Material of Culture: Russian Imperial Artifacts Playing Soviet and Post-Soviet Roles’ 3 Nov 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau) and Julie Buckler (Harvard University, USA) |
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The Role of the Media in (Re)Shaping Historical Memory in Ukraine (tbc) 17 Nov 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Volodymyr Kulyk (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences) |
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‘The great Famine of 1932-33 and the Holodomor’ and ‘Changing Memory Regimes in Eastern Europe’ 1 Dec 2010 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Georgiy Kasianov (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences) and Meike Wulf (University of Maastricht) |
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A Theory of the Role of Memory in the Construction of History 19 Jan 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Gabriel Motzkin (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) |
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‘Excavating Experience: Photographs and Difficult Histories’ and ‘Hannah Arendt and Jewish Memory: The Case of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction’ 2 Feb 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts London) and Natan Sznaider (Academic College of Tel-Aviv) |
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Politics of Memory: Reshaping Cultural and “Physical” Landscapes in Contemporary Ukraine 16 Feb 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Svitlana Shlipchenko (Kyiv Mohyla Academy) |
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Premediation and the Interdisciplinary Study of Memory 2 Mar 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Astrid Erll (Universitaet Wuppertal) and Andrew Hoskins (University of Nottingham) |
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Spacings of Memory: ‘Benjamin’s Moscow’ and ‘The History of Destruction and the Possibility of Comedy in the Work of W G Sebald’ 16 Mar 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge David Ferris (University of Colorado) and Stephanie Bird (UCL) |
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‘The Heart of Poland’ and ‘Victory Day in History Politics’ 27 Apr 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 14 Mill Lane, Cambridge Jacek Purchla (The Research Institute of European Heritage, Krakow) and Markku Kangaspuro (University of Helsinki) |
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‘Primal Scenes. Translating Experiences of “Algeria” into “French Theory”’ and ‘The Virtual Museum of the Gulag–Integrating Material M’ 11 May 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) and Josephine von Zitzewitz (University of Oxford) |
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‘Battles for Historical Memory on Ru.net/Ukr.net: Users’ Choices of Disputable Events’ and ‘Making Sense of War in City Museums’ 25 May 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Vera Zvereva (University of Bergen) and Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw) |
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‘A Painful Memory’ and ‘Roma and Genocide: From Muted Memories to Politics of Identity’ 8 Jun 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Aleksander Fiut (Jagiellonain University, Krakow) and Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities) |
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The Eternal Return of National Mystifications: the Voynich Manuscript, the Book of Vles and the Igor Tale 12 Oct 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Sidney Sussex College, William Mong Hall Professor George Grabowicz (Harvard University) NB: Different date and venue (Sidney Sussex College) |
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Memory, Forgetting and Silence 19 Oct 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Tim Beasley-Murray (SSEES, UCL) |
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‘Romania, Serbia, and Contemporary Memories of German Victims’ and ‘Negotiating the Holocaust’ 2 Nov 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH James Koranyi (University of St Andrews) and Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent) |
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‘Polish Martial Law of 1981 on Screen’ and ‘The Unfinished Revolution:The Contested Meaning of 1989 in Central-Eastern Europe’ 16 Nov 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancaster) and James Mark (University of Exeter) |
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Nationalizing the “Common Victory” in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands 30 Nov 2011 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Tatiana Zhurzhenko (University of Vienna) and Georges Mink (Institute for Political and Social Studies, CNRS) |
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Memory Work and Civil Society-NGO 5 Dec 2011 9:30am - 6:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Workshop on NGO |
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How Many Ukraines? Understanding Regionalism and the Politics of National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine 18 Jan 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Peter Rodgers (University of Sheffield) |
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‘The Tandem’s Anti-Soviet Turn: New Memory Projects’ and ‘Nationalising the “Common Victory” in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands: WWII’ 1 Feb 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Julie Fedor (University of Cambridge) and Dr Tatiana Zhurzhenko (University of Vienna) |
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‘Re-Playing the Stalinist Past’ and ‘The Manezhka Affair and the First Steps of Russian Mnemonics’ 15 Feb 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Gernot Howanitz (University of Salzburg) and Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (University of Cambridge) |
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‘Memory and Forgetting in Minsk and Astana’ and ‘Academic Metaphors and Interpretive Challenges of Soviet Post-War Literature and Memoirs’ 29 Feb 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Nelly Bekus (University of Warsaw) and Dr Anna Krylova (Duke University) |
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‘Memory and Postmemory in Polish Jewish Fiction’ and ‘Lydia Ginsburg on the Leningrad Blockade: Mechanisms of Forgetting and Repression’ 14 Mar 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Katarzyna Zechenter (SSEES, UCL) and Prof Andrei Zorin (University of Oxford) |
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‘Buttons from Kharkiv’ and ‘Putin Wins, the System Decays’ 25 Apr 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Oleksandr Zinchenko (Kharkiv) and Andrew Wilson (UCL) |
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CANCELLED -Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of Transnistria 9 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Faculty of English, GR06/07 CANCELLED- Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (Columbia University). NB Venue: Fac of English |
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The “Name Russia” Project as an Exercise in Contemporary Myth- and History Making 23 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Galina Rylkova (University of Florida) |
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‘Historiomor’ or the Attractions of Amnesia: WWII through the Prism of Soviet Ideology 6 Jun 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Pavel Polin (University of Freiburg) |
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The Picaro and the Nomad: Shklovskii and Khlebnikov Respond to their Military Engagements in Persia (1917, 1921) 3 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Katerina Clark (Yale University) |
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What Can We Learn from Eyewitness Accounts? Case Studies of the Narratives of Gulag Survivors 17 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Nanci Adler (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam) |
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Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework – On the Road to Hell: Sovereignty Reconfigured 31 Oct 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, * Mill Lane Lecture Room Amir Weiner (Stanford University). In conjunction with the Lees Knowles Lecture Series, Trinity College, Cambridge. NB Venue: *Mill Lane Lecture Room, 5.15pm |
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Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework – Fighting Total War: A View from the Ground 14 Nov 2012 5:15pm - 7:00pm, * Mill Lane Lecture Room Amir Weiner (Stanford University). In conjunction with the Lees Knowles Lecture Series, Trinity College, Cambridge. NB Venue: *Mill Lane Lecture room, 5.15pm |
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Miraculous Icons in Stalin’s Russia 28 Nov 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Stephen Anthony Smith (Oxford) |
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East European (no session today) 16 Jan 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor |
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The Stigmatization of Dedicated Polish Women Rescuers During the Second World War and its Aftermath: History and Memory 30 Jan 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Joanna Michlic (Brandies University) |
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Writing as Translation: Finding Jewish Voices in the Polish Language 13 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Piotr Pazinski (writer, editor) |
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Reality of Madness: Russian Memory and Russian Life 27 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Vladimir Sharov (Russian Poet and Novelist) |
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‘World Literature’ in the Soviet Union: History and Stories 13 Mar 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground Floor Galin Tihanov (University of London). |
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Reconceptualizing ‘Memorial Landscape’ 24 Apr 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground Floor Zuzanna Dziuban (University of Konstanz): |
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Socialist Women on the Gallows. Gender and Capital Punishment in Late Socialism 8 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground Floor Pavel Kolar (European University Institute). |
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Unorthodox Memories: Baptist Accounts of the Soviet Past 22 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground Floor Miriam Dobson (Sheffield University) |
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Holocaust Anxiety in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint 5 Jun 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground Floor Brett Ashley Kaplan (University of Illinois) |
