About Genealogies of Memory 2014
Collective vs Collected Memories. 1989-1991 from an oral history perspective
6-8 November 2014, Warsaw
Fourth conference from the “Genealogies of Memory” series entitled “Collective vs Collected Memories. 1989-91 from an Oral History Perspective” took place in Warsaw from 6 to 8 November 2014. The conference aimed at discussing how the collapse of state socialism has been commemorated, remembered, or forgotten in Eastern Europe and beyond.
The event was opened by key note speeches by our distinguished guests: Michael Bernhard, Jan Kubik and James V. Wertsch.
Programme
Conference / Warsaw 2014
6/11/2014 Thursday
12:00
Welcome address
12:15
Introduction
Franka Maubach
Joanna Wawrzyniak
13:15
Keynote speech by James Wertsch: Mnemonic Communities and Habits
14:30
Coffe break
15:30
Keynote speech by Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration
17:00
Coffe break
17:30
Horizons of Expectation and Spaces of Experience: Between Accident, Hope and Trauma
Making Sense of the Unexpected: How the Reshaping of the Polish Power Apparatus in 1989 is Being Remembered
Tomasz Stryjek:
What Does 1991 Mean for Ukrainians?
Rauf R. Garagozov:
Collapse of the Soviet Union as Cultural Trauma and Russian Collective Memory
Chair: Gertrud Pickhan
Commentator: Padraic Kenney
7/11/2014 Friday
9:00
Individual and Collective Memories Entangled
Shifts in East Germans Spatial Imaginaries
Ina Alber:
Narrating the “Transition to Democracy“: on the Interdependency of Discourses and Biographies
Natalia Cojocaru:
1989-91 in Moldova: Memory, Discourse and Representation
Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Commentator: Kaja Kaźmierska
11:00
Coffe break
11:30
Generational Experiences and Memories
The Last Yugoslav Generation: Making Sense of Post-Socialism and the End of Yugoslavia
Deanna Wooley:
“We Were the Generation of Unspoken Assumptions”: Generational Identity and the “Velvet Revolution”
Chair: Burkhard Olschowsky
Commentator: Lars Breuer
13:30
Coffe break
14:30
Oral History in Post-war Humanities West and East: International Travelogue
Lutz Niethammer interviewed by Piotr Filipkowski and Franka Maubach
16:00
Coffe break
16:30
Oral History Today and Tomorrow
Discussion:
Lutz Niethammer
Miroslav Vaněk
Dorothee Wierling
Piotr Filipkowski
8/11/2014 Saturday
9:00
Parallel session. Recalling and Constructing Key Historical Events
“Here, Everything Tumbled Down Much Earlier”: Colliding Memories of the Soviet Collapse and the Armenian Earthquake
Andrea Brait:
About the Interpretation of 1989 as an Epoch Year in Austria
Valentina Nedelcheva:
The “Sudden Death” Syndrome: Reminiscence of the Bulgarian 10th of November 1989
Constantin Schmidt:
The Transnational Remembrance of the Paneuropean Picknick
Chair: Burkhard Olschowsky
Commentators: Dobrochna Kałwa and Jan Kubik
9:00
Parallel session. Master Narratives in the Making
Nachträglichkeit: Belatedness and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Barbara Gawęda:
Anti‐Feminism of Transformation: a Narrative about Sidelining Women’s Issues
Jens Boysen:
Forcing the Reds out of the National Remembrance
Sylvia Balgarinov:
Whose History Should we Teach to our Children?
Alina Thiemann:
The Romanian Revolution: from Heroic Moment to Tragedy and then to Farce
Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Commentators: Marcin Napiórkowski and Jeffrey K. Olick
9:00
Parallel session. The Agents and Impact of Economic Change
Horizons of Transition: Economic Experts and the Making of the “Long Year 1989”
Agnès Arp:
A Second Nationalization of the Private Entrepreneurs from the GDR, 1989-90?
Kamil Lipiński:
Sailing to the “Islands of Normal”: 1989-91 in the Eyes of Polish Business Elite
Karolina Mikołajewska:
Remembering Privatization in the Polish Food Industry
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
Commentators: Maciej Gdula and Joachim von Puttkamer
9:00
Parallel session. Religion, Ethnicity and Memory
Sifting and Shifting Memory: Lithuanian Vėlinės Practices as the Performance and Construction of Memory
Vera Klyueva, Roman Poplavsky:
A Time to Sow: Last Soviet Years in the Memories of Contemporary Believers
Dagmara Dudek:
Church and the Political Change of 1989. The Making of Memory in Germany
Toria Malkhaz:
Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict in the Recollections of Internally Displaced Historians
Mimoza Telaku:
Collective Narrative of the Interethnic Conflict in Kosovo
László Szabolcs:
The Hopeful December and the Black March: Documentary Films as Collective Memory Projects in Romania
Chair: Małgorzata Pakier
Commentators: Lutz Niethammer and James Wertsch
9:00
Parallel session. Experiences, Discourses and Biographies
Experience and Memory of Polish Solidarity Movement
Kirsti Jõesalu, Raili Nugin:
Mediated Experiences of “ Freedom” in Museums and Biographies
Joakim Glaser:
Football Clubs and Identity Change in Eastern Germany
Cătălin Parfene:
Football, Writing and Politics in the Memory of an Ethnic Hungarian in Romania
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
Commentators: Olena Ivanova and Miroslav Vaněk
9:00
Parallel session. Group and Generational Memories
The 1989 Dilemma: “To Stay Abroad or to Return to Poland?”
Elena Bogomyagkova:
Russian Students Remembering 1993
Kaja Kaźmierska:
Experience of the Process of Transformation in Poland in Generational Perspective
Jolanta Steciuk:
Voices of the 1970–75 Generation in Poland
Grażyna Kubica-Heller, Agnieszka Król:
Trajectories of Polish Transformation: Biographical Narratives of 1989’ Generation
Manuela B. Rajevic:
Politics Of Memory in Latin American Post Dictatorship Societies: The Re-Emergence of Resistance Discourses in New Generations
Chair: Franka Maubach
Commentators: Alexander von Plato and Ljubica Spasovska
12:00
Coffe break
13:00
1989-1991 in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
1989 as a Lieu de Mémoire in Poland and Germany
Lars Breuer, Anna Delius:
Ordinary Europeans’ View on 1989
Aline Sierp:
Bridging the Gap: Framing Memory Debate in the EU
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
Commentator: Michael Bernhard
15:00
Coffe break
15:30
Final discussion
Workshops results summaries
General comments by Jeffrey K. Olick
Free discussion