• “Memory in Conflict” Winter School (February 2020)
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        • 09-02-2020
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      • University of Warsaw

    In recent years, memory studies have become an essential and dynamically developing, interdisciplinary area in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our first Winter School contributes to the process of shaping the discipline. We would like to invite MA and Ph.D. students to take part in a series of lectures, workshops, and seminars from various disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, political sciences, cultural studies or performative arts, led by top scholars from University of Warsaw, Sorbonne University, Charles University of Prague, University of Heidelberg and University of Milan.

    The main subjects of the Winter School are both collective memory during the conflict and conflicted memories of mutual experiences. We are going to reflect on how to open a difficult debate on a painful memory of conflicts and collective traumas, such as forced migrations or genocides. We will include a critical approach to politics of shaping history through various media (like museums and monuments) and the ways of how memory is used as a tool for transmitting values and ideas in societies. The goal of this critical investigation is also to clash politics of history with subversive, grass-root initiatives and artistic performances focused on destabilization of oppressive narratives and historical denial.

    The ‘Memory in Conflict’ Winter School will launch the ‘Plurality of Memories in Europe in a Global Perspective’ project, which is a trailblazing initiative for European memory studies. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach in research and education, our 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 studies.

    More about the Plurality of Memories Project.

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    After “Memory in Conflict”
    Memory in Conflict Winter School brings together young researchers in memory studies