Conference programme
Thursday, 09.10.2014
Venue: Regional Office on International Relations, Nankiera 17, 50-140 Wrocław, Poland
- 09:00 – 09:30 Registration of the participants
- 09:30 – 09:45 Welcome, Introduction (Rector of the Wrocław University, President/Board Member of the Academia Europaea, Iván Zoltán Dénes
- 09:45 – 10:15 Iván Zoltán Dénes, Competing Regimes of Memory. A Case Study
- 10:15 – 10:45 Dubravko Lovrenović, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the stage of three parallel and conflicting historical memories
- 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
- 11:15 – 11:45 Éva Kovács, Marketing the ‘fever of history’ in Hungary (1990-2014)
- 11:45 – 12:15 Tamás Sajó, Breslau – Bresloy – Wrocław (and a bit of Lwów). Three memories of one city
- 12:15 – 12:45 Antonio Pablo Bernat Vistarini, Memory of the Call: Past and Present of the xuetes of Palma de Mallorca
- 12:45 – 13:30 Discussion
- 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 15:30 Session 1, Memory-Buildings. Chair: Tamás Sajó
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- 14:30 – 14:50 Katalin Deme, Public encounters with WWII and the Holocaust in post-socialist East-Central Europe within the State and the civic Sector
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- 14:50 – 15:10 Łucja Piekarska-Duraj, „Make it wow!, make it interactive and don’t forget to include the human dimension”. Narrative strategies in museum exhibition management
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- 15:10 – 15:30 Stsiapan Stureika, Overcoming of Soviet regimes of memory in Belarusian local history museums: the case of Ašmiany
- 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00 – 17:00 Session 2, Symbolic Space and Time and Private History. Chair: Iván Zoltán Dénes
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- 16:00 – 16:20 Bogdan Trifunović, Memory and Narrative of “Old Serbia”
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- 16:20 – 16:40 Kinga Anna Gajda & Monika Eriksen, Building a future through the past: National identity formation in post-independent Kosovo
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- 16:40 – 17:00 Grace Pundyk, Invisible Words: the semaphore of skin
- 17:00 – 17:45 Discussion
Friday, 10.10.2014
Venue: Regional Office on International Relations, Nankiera 17, 50-140 Wrocław, Poland
- 09:30 – 10:00 Balázs Trencsényi, The Memory of Collective Traumas and the Collapse of Post-Transition Liberal Consensus Politics in East Central Europe
- 10:00 – 11:20 Session 3, Constructing Memory of Soviet Lithuania. Chair: Iván Zoltán Dénes
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- 10:00-10:20 Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Identity, Memory and Politics: The Role of Collective Memory in Polish Community of Southeastern Lithuania Identity Building
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- 10:20-10:40 Mingailė Jurkutė, Soviet manipulation of the memory of Lithuanian guerrilla war
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- 10:40-11:00 Gražina Sviderskytė, Politics, ideology, and traumatic memory behind the myth of two iconic Lithuanian heroes – the transatlantic Lithuanian-American pilots Darius and Girenas.
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- 10:00-11:20 Denise Thorpe, Lithuanian Vėlinės Cemeteries as Liminal Spaces of Memory
- 11:20 – 11:50 Coffee break
- 11:50 – 12:30 Session 4, From Competing Victimology to Attempting the Reconciliation. Chair: Éva Kovács
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- 11:50 – 12:10 Lars Breuer, Victimhood in vernacular memory in Germany and Poland
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- 12:10 – 12:30 Estelle Bunout, The impossible reconciliations? The (non) discussions on the eastern territories in Poland and Germany after WWII (1947-1972)
- 12:30 – 13:15 Discussion
- 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 15:30 Session 5, Discourse and Politics. Chair: Balázs Trencsényi
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- 14:30 – 14:50 Alina Hogea, The unstable boundaries of communism: discourse and politics in post-communist Romania
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- 14:50-15:10 Catalin Parfene, Football, Writing and Politics in the Memory of an Ethnic Hungarian in Romania
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- 15:10-15:30 Sarolta Deczki, Untold Stories: Secret Agents and Informers in Hungarian Society
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00-16:30 Lajos Pálfalvi, A Hungarian City in Viktor Horváth’s Turkish Novel
- 16:30-17:15 Discussion
- 17:15-17:30 Iván Zoltán Dénes: Conclusion
- 20:00 Dinner for participants of the Seminar