18-19 December 2019
Clare College, University of Cambridge.
Cambridge Polish Studies is pleased to be a co-organiser of the "New Perspectives in Memory Studies" workshop in cooperation with the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership Co-operation on “New Perspectives in East and South East European Studies” and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies.
18 December
Session 1
Chair: Hubertus Jahn
Nicky Kozicharov: Modernism in exile. Memory and repetition in Russian émigré painting
Darina Volf: Memory in comics in Eastern Europe
Eirini Diamandoulis: (Re)remembering Shostakovich. The shifting Western perspectives of the composer in the twenty-first century
Martin Schulze Wessel: Memory of World War II in Eastern Europe
Jon Roozenbeek: The memory of World War II in DNR and LNR media
Session 2
Chair: Emma Widdis
Anja Burghardt: Passing by layers of memory. Mariusz Wilk’s reportages on the Solovetsky Islands (1998)
Philipp Kohl: Phantom pain. Virtual body memory in Dmitry Prigov's prose
Riccardo Nicolosi: Historical materialism, contrafactuality and temporal anomalies. Vasilii Aksenov's ‘The Island of Crimea’ (1981)
Nick Evans: Kurganomaniia. Memory loss in the steppe
19 December
Session 3
Chair: Riccardo Nicolosi
Stanley Bill: Populism and memory in Poland
Chelsea Michta: Competing narratives of the Warsaw Rising of 1944 in the Communist era
Kai Willms: The Polish-Jewish memory conflicts in the American exile since 1939
Daria Mattingly: Savage Russians and cunning Jews. Cultural memory of the Holodomor's perpetrators
Horia Teodorescu: Oblivion and transfiguration. Fascism, culture and memory in post-war Romania
Session 4
Chair: Martin Schulze Wessel
Azamat Kumykov: Total recall. Edmund Spencer’s imaginary Circassia and the false memories it has spawned
Sarah Slye: Historical memory and making a common identity for Caucasian mountaineers after the February Revolution
Malika Zekhni: Curating the colonial memory. The Tsarist conquest of Central Asia as a museum exhibit
Tadek Wojtych: The creation of spatiality in Central European online museums