16 – 18 Oct 2018, Warsaw
Memory and Religion: Central and Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective
Genealogies of Memory
Following a series of events within the Genealogies of Memory framework, the 2018 conference "Memory and Religion: Central and Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective" will consider the ways in which the public debate, written narratives and visual representations of the 20th-century past refer to religion. It will also seek out points of comparison and contact between Central and Eastern Europe with other regions of Europe and the rest of the world. Scholars of various disciplines dealing with memory and religion are invited to submit their paper proposals.
Attendance is free, but prior registration is required.
Venue: Warsaw University Library, ul. Dobra 56/66
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Programme
Genealogies 2018
16/10/2018 Tuesday
10:00
Opening Speech
Warsaw University Library
Rafał Rogulski (ENRS)
Prof. Jan Rydel (ENRS)
Dr Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS)
Dr Zuzanna Bogumił (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw)
Dr Yuliya Yurchuk (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Prof. Jan Rydel (ENRS)
Dr Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS)
Dr Zuzanna Bogumił (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw)
Dr Yuliya Yurchuk (Södertörn University, Sweden)
10:30
Key-note speech, Prof. Aleksander Agadjanian
11:30
Coffee break
12:00
Religious Dimensions of Centenaries Commemorations
Dr Sofia Tchouikina (Institut des Sciences Sociales du
Politique, Paris):
How the Presence of Religion is Shaping Commemoration? The Centenary of the First World War in Russia in 2014
Dr Tatiana Voronina (University of Zurich):
A Time of Persecution or a Time of Glory? The Russian Orthodox Church’s Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 1917 Revolutions
Chair: Prof. Marcin Napiórkowski (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw)
Commentator: Prof. Piotr Kwiatkowski (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw)
How the Presence of Religion is Shaping Commemoration? The Centenary of the First World War in Russia in 2014
Dr Tatiana Voronina (University of Zurich):
A Time of Persecution or a Time of Glory? The Russian Orthodox Church’s Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the 1917 Revolutions
Chair: Prof. Marcin Napiórkowski (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw)
Commentator: Prof. Piotr Kwiatkowski (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw)
13:30
Lunch
14:30
New Martyrs and Politics of Memory
Prof. George Enache (Dunarea de Jos University of Galați):
Rival Narratives, Competing Memoirs and the Issue of Canonization of the Martyrs of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Communist Period
Dr Katarzyna Korzeniewska (Polish Institute of International Affairs):
Lithuanian Sanctity between Military Heroism and Martyrdom. Transformation of Visions of “National Saints” in Lithuania (1980-2017)
Prof. Olga Khristoforova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow):
The Mouse, the Snake, and the Devil’s Collar: Soviet Symbols in Old Believers’ Memory
Dr Momchil Metodiev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”):
Canonisation of the Martyrs of the Orthodox Churches and the Communist State Security Archives
Chair: Dr Marta Łukaszewicz (University of Warsaw)
Commentator: Dr Agata Šústová Drelová (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Rival Narratives, Competing Memoirs and the Issue of Canonization of the Martyrs of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Communist Period
Dr Katarzyna Korzeniewska (Polish Institute of International Affairs):
Lithuanian Sanctity between Military Heroism and Martyrdom. Transformation of Visions of “National Saints” in Lithuania (1980-2017)
Prof. Olga Khristoforova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow):
The Mouse, the Snake, and the Devil’s Collar: Soviet Symbols in Old Believers’ Memory
Dr Momchil Metodiev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”):
Canonisation of the Martyrs of the Orthodox Churches and the Communist State Security Archives
Chair: Dr Marta Łukaszewicz (University of Warsaw)
Commentator: Dr Agata Šústová Drelová (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
Round table discussion
Pastor Thomas Jeutner (Evangelical Reconciliation Parish/
Chapel of Reconciliation, Berlin)
Archpriest Kirill Kaleda (Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, Butovo)
Priest Prof. Piotr Mazurkiewicz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Sufi Andrzej Saramowicz (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī Sufi Polish Foundation)
Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis (Shavei Israel in Katowice)
Archpriest Kirill Kaleda (Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, Butovo)
Priest Prof. Piotr Mazurkiewicz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Sufi Andrzej Saramowicz (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī Sufi Polish Foundation)
Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis (Shavei Israel in Katowice)
17/10/2018 Wednesday
10:00
Key-note speech, Prof. Geneviève Zubrzycki
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Secular vs Sacred: The Uses of Religious Language in Secular Memory Projects
Prof. Rasa Balockaite (Vytautas Magnus University,
Kaunas):
Non theistic Catholicism: telling national sufferings through Catholic discourse
Prof. Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper (University of Warsaw):
Martyrdom in the Local Communities Interplay between Religious and Secular Language in the Memorial Projects in Contemporary Poland
Dr Brendan Humphreys (University of Helsinki): Statues and Shadows:
Personality Cults in the sacred/profane dichotomy
Dr Ekaterina V. Klimenko (The Maria Grzegorzewska University & Polish Academy of Sciences):
Building Nation, Producing Legitimacy: Church, State and Memory of the Revolution in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Prof. Agnieszka Halemba (University of Warsaw)
Commentator: Prof. Andrzej Szpociński (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Non theistic Catholicism: telling national sufferings through Catholic discourse
Prof. Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper (University of Warsaw):
Martyrdom in the Local Communities Interplay between Religious and Secular Language in the Memorial Projects in Contemporary Poland
Dr Brendan Humphreys (University of Helsinki): Statues and Shadows:
Personality Cults in the sacred/profane dichotomy
Dr Ekaterina V. Klimenko (The Maria Grzegorzewska University & Polish Academy of Sciences):
Building Nation, Producing Legitimacy: Church, State and Memory of the Revolution in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Prof. Agnieszka Halemba (University of Warsaw)
Commentator: Prof. Andrzej Szpociński (Polish Academy of Sciences)
13:30
Lunch
14:30
The Sacred in Post-Conflict Memories
Dr Elmira Muratova (Crimean Federal University,
Simferopol):
Memory and Religion: The Case of the Crimean Tatars
Prof. Lap Yan Kung (Chinese University of Hong Kong):
Rest in Peace: Religious Rituals, Memory and Tiananmen Square Incident
Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, Seoul):
Martyrdom in Strange Juxtaposition: Saint Maksymilian Kolbe and the Catholic Sublimation of the A-Bomb Victims in Nagasaki
Dr Julianne Funk (University of Zurich) & Dr Ioannis Armakolas (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki):
Remembering Srebrenica: the Sanctification of a Massacre and Implications for Cycles of Violence and Transformation
Chair: Dr Elina Kahla (University of Helsinki)
Commentator: Dr Stella Rock (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Memory and Religion: The Case of the Crimean Tatars
Prof. Lap Yan Kung (Chinese University of Hong Kong):
Rest in Peace: Religious Rituals, Memory and Tiananmen Square Incident
Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, Seoul):
Martyrdom in Strange Juxtaposition: Saint Maksymilian Kolbe and the Catholic Sublimation of the A-Bomb Victims in Nagasaki
Dr Julianne Funk (University of Zurich) & Dr Ioannis Armakolas (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki):
Remembering Srebrenica: the Sanctification of a Massacre and Implications for Cycles of Violence and Transformation
Chair: Dr Elina Kahla (University of Helsinki)
Commentator: Dr Stella Rock (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
Film screenings
Dr Magdalena Lubańska (University of Warsaw):
„Not to Judge!”: Religion, Suffering and Inconvenient Past in the Post-Secular Perspective
Dr Pawas Bisht (Keele University, UK) & Dr Alena Pfoser (Loughborough University, UK):
Islands of Memory: Memory and Religion in Russia’s Far North
Commentator/ moderator: Dr Matilda Mroz (University of Sussex)
„Not to Judge!”: Religion, Suffering and Inconvenient Past in the Post-Secular Perspective
Dr Pawas Bisht (Keele University, UK) & Dr Alena Pfoser (Loughborough University, UK):
Islands of Memory: Memory and Religion in Russia’s Far North
Commentator/ moderator: Dr Matilda Mroz (University of Sussex)
18/10/2018 Thursday
10:00
Key-note speech, Prof. Irena Borowik
11:00
Coffe break
11:30
Transitional Justice, Memory Laws and Wars
Dr Patryk Wawrzyński (Nicolaus Copernicus University,
Toruń):
The Rainbow People of God: a South African Lesson of Ubuntu. Hoping on Relationships between Religion and Remembrance
Dr Nadia Zasanska (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv):
Religious Echoes of Donbas Conflict: Contrasts Between the Rhetoric of Christian, Muslim and Jewish Communities in Ukraine
Tomasz Wiśniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań):
Postsecular Struggles for Epistemic Justice
Chair: Dr Simon Lewis (University of Potsdam)
Commentator: Dr Oksana Myshlovska (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
The Rainbow People of God: a South African Lesson of Ubuntu. Hoping on Relationships between Religion and Remembrance
Dr Nadia Zasanska (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv):
Religious Echoes of Donbas Conflict: Contrasts Between the Rhetoric of Christian, Muslim and Jewish Communities in Ukraine
Tomasz Wiśniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań):
Postsecular Struggles for Epistemic Justice
Chair: Dr Simon Lewis (University of Potsdam)
Commentator: Dr Oksana Myshlovska (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
13:30
Lunch
14:30
Vernacular Memory Practices
Dr Karina Jarzyńska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
Post-secular Prayers, Gravestones and Rituals. Utilizing Religion at Unmemorialized Genocide Sites
Naum Trajanovski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg):
Panikhida, liturgy and a parastos: Servicing the local memory of a contested historical event in contemporary Republic of Macedonia
Vera Herold (The Lisbon Consortium – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon):
The Protestant Lissaboner Deutsche between Wars. A Palimpsestuous Reading of a Pacifist War Memorial in Bellicose Times
Dr Alla Marchenko (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw):
Memory and Politics in the Soviet Union: Case of the Hasidic Pilgrimage in Uman
Chair: Dr Julia Buyskykh (Centre for Applied Anthropology, Kyiv)
Commentator: Dr Maciej Krzywosz (University of Białystok)
Post-secular Prayers, Gravestones and Rituals. Utilizing Religion at Unmemorialized Genocide Sites
Naum Trajanovski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg):
Panikhida, liturgy and a parastos: Servicing the local memory of a contested historical event in contemporary Republic of Macedonia
Vera Herold (The Lisbon Consortium – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon):
The Protestant Lissaboner Deutsche between Wars. A Palimpsestuous Reading of a Pacifist War Memorial in Bellicose Times
Dr Alla Marchenko (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw):
Memory and Politics in the Soviet Union: Case of the Hasidic Pilgrimage in Uman
Chair: Dr Julia Buyskykh (Centre for Applied Anthropology, Kyiv)
Commentator: Dr Maciej Krzywosz (University of Białystok)
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
Final discussion
Dr Michał Łuczewski (Centre for the Thought of John Paul II,
Warsaw)
Prof. Paweł Śpiewak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)
Prof. Grace Davie (University of Exeter)
Prof. Kathy Rousselet (Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris)
Moderators: Dr Zuzanna Bogumił & Dr Yuliya Yurchuk
Prof. Paweł Śpiewak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)
Prof. Grace Davie (University of Exeter)
Prof. Kathy Rousselet (Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris)
Moderators: Dr Zuzanna Bogumił & Dr Yuliya Yurchuk
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