The conference took place on Nov. 23-25, 2011 in the Univeristy of Warsaw Library. You can find the whole documentation of this conference on this website.
Video recording (in English and in Polish)
Program: in English and in Polish
Conference Genealogies of Memory 2012
During the first Genealogies of Memory conference we could see the need amongst researchers – sociologists, historians, anthropologists and others – to redefine existing terms, debate the Eastern and Central Europe’s particularities and present results of their work. We would like to continue Genealogies of Memory project in order not to waste the potential engendered [...]
Genealogies of Memory – Theories and Methods.
European representations of the last century have been largely shaped by a Western perspective. This also applies to the realm of academic study of social memory. The purpose of this conference was to reflect on the methodology and the state of memory research in Central and Eastern Europe. This region entered the twentieth century with [...]
Documentation of the conference “Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe. Theories and Methods”
February 22nd, 2012 
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Conference The Politics of Memory
February 22nd, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Date: September 6th – 9th, 2012
Place: University of Zadar, Croatia
Daedline for application: June 1st 2012
Language: English
Keynote speakers:
- Laura Mulvey (Department of History of Art and Screen Media, University of London)
- Lauren Berlant (Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
How does remembrance shape our links to the past? What is the link between past and present? How are narratives of past constituted, maintained or dissipated? How is memory performed? How various discourses of the past inscribe social relations and subjectivities? How are our innermost emotions, desires and fantasies articulated with a discursive space of memory in the present? What is the link between communication technologies and the ways past is represented? How are we to understand various technologies of memory?
Today, more than ever, questions such as these raise a more general concern about the politics of memory. Once, the past was seen as a stable and known, it was used as a tool to construct collective identities, nation states, to give us a feeling of belonging and common origin, to create what was seen as “our heritage”. But today the concept of the “ours”, with all of its categories, calls into question the notion of heritage. There has been growing awareness among scholars that the way the past is remembered is always articulated along specific social axes of differentiation such as class, gender, ethnic background etc. Each of these axes is invested with particular meanings, which can differ according to the different discursive formations that are used as an interpretative framework. All of these constitute the politics of memory that is performed in everyday cultural, political and economic practices?
CFP: Cold War Culture. The Global Conflict and its Legacies in Germany since 1945
February 21st, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Organizers: Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), in cooperation with Cambridge University and the project „Germany and the World in the Age of Globalization“
Date: 20.09.2012-21.09.2012, Freiburg
Deadline: 01.04.2012
Language: English/German
Historians of the Cold War have, for a very long time, focused on the relations between the two superpowers, the ebbs and flows of crises and relaxation of tensions, and, more generally speaking, the diplomatic history of the global confrontation. In recent years, however, there has been a significant diversification of perspectives: historical studies have further explored the broader societal history of the Cold War as a condition that affected a multitude of societies around the globe in virtually all areas. Most prominently amongst these societies were both the Federal Republic and the GDR.
Between Ideology and Social Engineering. The issue of National Minorities in politics of the Communist Regime
February 20th, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Deadline: 29th February 2012
Language: English/Polish (translation provided)
Date: 27-28 September 2012, Szczecin (Poland)
As a part of the central research program „The Security Apparatus versus National Minorities”, The Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrance organize international conference entitled „Between Ideology and Social Engineering. The issue of National Minorities in politics of the Communist Regime (Polish and Central European experience)”.
The aim of the conference is to reflect on the proposed topic in an interdisciplinary way. We would like to invite specialists in various fields, such as historians, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, political scientists.
Journal Laboratorium Announces Competition for Young Scholars
February 20th, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Deadline: 1st March 2012
Language: English/Russian
Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research invites submissions of research papers by young authors—students working towards doctoral degrees and those who have received Ph.D.s no earlier than five years ago—doing research in social sciences: sociology, anthropology, ethnography, social history and related disciplines. The contest is open to original papers in either Russian or English, not previously published or currently under consideration at any other journal, which are based on the results of empirical qualitative studies. The objective of the competition is to help publicize results of recent research projects, contribute to new ways to analyze social processes, and find innovative uses of qualitative research methods.
A conference honoring Professor Vera L. Zolberg’s Career
February 17th, 2012 agnieszka.nosowska 28 April 2012: New York
CfP deadline: 10 March 2012
As Pierre Bourdieu once quipped: “Sociology and art make an odd couple.” The same may be said with respect to the juxtaposition of the arts and memory. As a sociologist of culture, Vera Zolberg has made these juxtapositions less strange. With this conference we examine the arts and the social construction of memory, in particular their appearance in public forms – performance sites, museums, monuments, memorials.
The arts of the 21st century are increasingly haptic as well as optic; tactile as well as visual, so that the spectacular and the performative play overlapping roles. In this context, how do we as social scientists, cultural critics, and humanists think about the arts, aesthetic institutions, and the artist as cultural producer and social actor? As we know, “curatorship” of collective memory is the result of dynamic processes of negotiation and contestation. Historians reveal that whereas much is expressed, a great deal is omitted – perhaps deliberately silenced. Sociologists ask how memory institutions make the past present, how sites of memory reflect and reaffirm “imagined communities” and how the visual, tactile, textual and synesthetic contribute to our experience of spaces of memory.
Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in heritage processes – PhD course
February 16th, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Invitation to doctoral / third cycle course
Date: 4-9 June 2012, Gothenburg
CfP deadline: 29 February 2012
Language: English
This doctoral / third cycle course is open to doctoral students within the broad field of heritage studies and will be held in conjunction with an international conference hosted by University of Gothenburg, Inaugural Conference for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg, June 5-8, 2012. The main core of the course will be a session during this conference, in which doctoral students present papers. Papers, based on the students’ own research projects, will focus on the theme of the course and relate to the course literature.
Seminar for postdoctoral students of German-Jewish and Central-European Jewish History
February 15th, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Organizers: Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland
Date: 09.07.2012-13.07.2012, Berlin
Deadline: 15.03.2012
Language of seminar: English
The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland invite applications for a seminar for postdoctoral students of German-Jewish and Central-European Jewish History. The first part of this workshop will take place in Berlin from 9-13 July 2012, the second part in Jerusalem from 3-8 February 2013.
English video recordings
February 14th, 2012 agnieszka.nosowska We are glad to inform you that the video recordings form the conference “Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe. Theories and Methods” are now available in two language versions, English and Polish. Please visit the section “video recordings” to watch the full coverage of the conference.
Constructing the “Soviet”? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities
February 14th, 2012 hanna.gospodarczyk Organizer: European University at St Petersburg
Date: 20.04.2012-21.04.2012
Conference language: Russian
Deadline for applications: 01.02.2012
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union a generation of historians has grown up for whom the USSR is not so much personal memory but rather an object of study. Our annual conference provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research on various aspects concerning the phenomenon of the “Soviet” alongside with comments by well-known academics: anthropologists, historians and sociologists. Previous conferences were supported by the French-Russian Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences and by the German Historical Institute in Moscow (DHI). Ten best papers of 2011 were published by DHI as a book.
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