a conference at Cambridge

[Alexander Etkind]

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MEMORY AND THEORY IN EASTERN EUROPE

PROGRAMME

4-5 July 2011

Wine Room
King’s College
Cambridge


MONDAY 4 JULY

9:00am: Welcome and Panel 1: Europe’s Divided Memory

•	Emma Widdis (Cambridge), Opening remarks

•	Chair: John Barber (Cambridge)
•	Aleida Assmann (Konstanz), ‘Europe’s Divided Memory’
•	Jay Winter (Yale), ‘Human Rights and European Remembrance’
•	Natan Sznaider (Tel-Aviv), ‘Between Cosmopolitan and Ethnic:
Europe’s Jewish Memory’

10:45am: Coffee

11:00am: Panel 2: Memory, Identity and Violence

•	Chair: Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge)
•	Jan Assmann (Konstanz), ‘Memory, Identity and Violence’
•	Harald Wydra (Cambridge), ‘Generations of Memory’
•	Nancy Condee (Pittsburg), ‘City-Cemetery, or the New Enchantments of
Russian Landscape’

12:30pm: Lunch

2:00pm: Panel 3: Technologies of Memory

•	Chair: Sander Brouwer (Groningen)
•	Simon Franklin (Cambridge), ‘Technologies of Memory: the Early Centuries’
•	Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge), ‘Haunted Cities: The Urban Memory of
Vanished Others’
•	Ellen Rutten (Bergen), ‘How New Media Influence the East European Memory War’

3:30pm: Coffee

4:00pm: Panel 4: The Postcolonial Perspective

•	Chair: Simon Franklin (Cambridge)
•	Simon Lewis (Cambridge), ‘Memory in a Post-Soviet Dictatorship: Belarus’
•	Dirk Uffelmann (Passau), ‘Is There a Theory of Memory in
Postcolonial Studies?’

7:30pm Conference Dinner



TUESDAY 5 JULY

9:00am: Panel 5: Burying the Undead

•	Chair: Matilda Mroz (Cambridge)
•	Andrzej Nowak (Krakow), ‘Murder in the Graveyard: Memorial Clashes
over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars’
•	Julie Fedor (Cambridge), ‘Katyn as Theatre of Memory’
•	Harriett Murav (Urbana-Champaign), ‘Making Disaster (In)Visible:
World War II as Catastrophe and Triumph’

10:30am: Coffee

11:00am: Panel 6: Russifying the Soviet Legacy

•	Chair: Harald Wydra (Cambridge)
•	Ilya Kalinin (St Petersburg), ‘Nostalgic Modernisation: Politics of
History in Contemporary Russia’
•	Andriy Portnov (Kiev), ‘Nationalising Memory in Post-Soviet Space’
•	Mischa Gabowitsch (Berlin), ‘Whither Russian Memory Studies? A
Simple Philippic on a Desultory Field’

12:30pm: Lunch

2:00pm: Panel 7: The Unsettled Past

•	Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw)
•	Alexander Etkind (Cambridge), ‘Writing History after Prison: Three
Soviet Cases’
•	Polly Jones (SSEES-UCL), ‘Truth, Trauma, Teleology: Working through
the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union of the 1950s and 1960s’
•	Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge), ‘Heroes and Traitors: Accounting for
a Cold War Emergency on the High Seas’

3:30pm: Coffee

4:00pm: Round Table: The Future of the Past

•	Chair: Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)


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Alexander Etkind
Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History
Cambridge University
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, CB21ST
Principal Investigator, "Memory at War"
www.memoryatwar.org

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