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Interdisciplinary Online Ph.D. Seminar

“Mnemonic Encounters in Europe: New Directions and Dilemmas”

University of Warsaw

20 May 2022

The interdisciplinary Online Ph.D. Seminar “Mnemonic Encounters in Europe: New Directions and Dilemmas” is organized by the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies at the University of Warsaw (CFC) as a part of the Plurality of Memories in Europe in a Global Perspective project, a trailblazing initiative for European memory studies, a research based educational project supported by the EU; within the 4EU+ alliance.

In recent years, memory studies have become an essential and dynamically developing, interdisciplinary area in the Humanities and Social Sciences. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach in research and education, the Plurality of Memories in Europe in a Global Perspective project is focusing on the multicultural plurality of memories in Europe in general, with emphasis on mass violence, politics of memory, and memory wars in Central, East and Southeast Europe in particular. In this respect, we will be exploring multiple dimensions of local memories and put them in a dialog with national and transnational actions within and beyond Europe. The main goal is to work towards more inclusive public history and collective memory and to build a research and teaching network for interdisciplinary, institutionalized memory.

PROGRAM

Friday, 20th of May 2022

09:00-09.20 Introduction and Welcome

09:20-10:20 Session 1: Memory of the war

Moderator and discussant: Kateřina Králová, Charles University

1. Beata Kozielewicz-Kutrzepa, Historical memory and rationae temporis competence of the European Court of Human Rights, University of Warsaw
2. Emmanouil Peponas, “The cultural memory of the Northern Epirots during the Cold War period (1945 – 1989)”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

10:20-10:50 Coffee break

10:50-12:20 Session 2: The voice of the visual in memory

Moderator and discussant: Luba Jurgenson, Sorbonne University

1. Eugenia (Ievgeniia) Sarapina, “Spatialisation of Memory: Soviet Urbanism in Historic Urban Environment in Ukraine”, Sorbonne University
2. Rosa Cinelli, “Reconstructing the Missing Image. The paramnesia of digital memories”, University of Milan
3. Zofia Rohozińska, “Remembering Helena Krajewska, Forgetting her Paintings — how the approach toward a socialist realist artist shaped Poland’s 1989 transformation?”, University of Warsaw

12:20-13:20 Lunch Break

13:20-14:20 Session 3: Memory and literature

Moderator and discussant: Jessica Ortner, University of Copenhagen

1. Katarzyna Myśliwiec, “<<But there is another sort of travelling and another sort of reading…>> Frustration over the loss of cultural memory in two literary appropriations of Beowulf”, University of Warsaw
2. Gundė Daukšytė, “Transcultural dynamics in memory literature of Japanese- and Lithuanian-speaking prisoners-of-war and political prisoners in the Soviet Union”, Heidelberg University

14:20-14:30 Closing remarks

Scientific committee

prof. Kateřina Králová (Charles University)

dr Jiří Kocián (Charles University)

prof. Tanja Penter (Heidelberg University)

prof. Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg University)

prof. Thomas Schmitt (Heidelberg University)

prof. Élisabeth Angel-Perez (Sorbonne University)

prof. Luba Jurgenson (Sorbone University)

prof. Lene Sofie Bak (University of Copenhagen)

dr Jessica Ortner (University of Copenhagen)

dr Tea Sindbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen)

prof. Andrea Pinotti (University of Milan)

dr Giancarlo Grossi (University of Milan)

dr Elisabetta Modena (University of Milan)

prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)

dr Paweł Dobrosielski (University of Warsaw)

dr Nicolas Maslowski (University of Warsaw, Head of European Pluralities Program, Head of the Plurality of Memories Project)

Conference Organization: dr Aleksandra Wiktorowska (University of Warsaw: CFC) and Zofia Rohozińska (University of Warsaw)

Contact: phdseminar.thepastinthepresent@gmail.com