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A round table discussion with discussants Tomasz Zarycki (University of Warsaw), Constantin Iordachi (Central European University) and Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková (Palacký University Olomouc).
Moderation by Anna Wylegała (Polish Academy of Sciences).

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Saara Tuovinen (University of Oulu): “Rare Birds, Military Heroes, and Influencers – Nobility at late 18th Century and early 19th Century Northern Finland”
- Silke Marburg (Independent Researcher): “'One Can Not Be Overlooked.' Forestal Investment and the Visibility of Aristocracy as a Memory Group After 1918”
- Róbert Szabó (Eötvös Loránd University): “Military Nation or Ultramilitarist Aristocrats? A Genealogical Analysis in The Horthy-Hungary” (ZOOM)
- Kseniya Liubaya (University of Warsaw): “Duchess Magdalena Radzivil: Construction of a Positive and Negative Image of the Aristocracy in the 20th and 21st Centuries” (ZOOM)

Discussant: Dina Guseinova (London School of Economics and Political Science) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Konrad Bielecki (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Mikołaj Getka-Kenig (Polish Academy od Sciences): "Aestheticizing the Class Enemy. The Musealization of Feudal Heritage in Post-War Poland and East Germany"
- Uladzimir Karalenak (Museum in Nieborów and Arkadia): "Dismantling the Aristocratic Legacy: The Cultural Heritage of the Radziwiłłs in the Political Landscape of the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union"
- Jakub Wiśniewski (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland): "The Totalitarianism against the Gentry Heritage. The Politics of the Communist Regime in Poland Towards Manors and Manor Complexes and its Comparison to the Third Polish Republic"
- Salvijus Kulevičius (Vilnius University): "Enemy of the Nation and Class or Cultural Heritage? The Fate of Manorial Legacy in Lithuania during the Soviet Era"

Discussant: Małgorzata Łukianow (University of Warsaw)
Moderation: Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Teresa Klimowicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University): "Unveiling Nobility in the Myth of the One-Day Jewish King of Poland"
- Katarzyna Kuligowska (Adam Mickiewicz University): "Linguistic View of Landowning Elites in Polish Proverbs and Sayings"
- Uladzimir Kananovich (Indepentend Researcher): "King Mindowe (Mindouh) in Navahrudak. An Aristocratic Social Memory in Contemporary Society"
- Péter Erdősi (Eötvös Loránd University): "From 'Neo-Baroque Society' to Baroque Heritage: Changing Perceptions of the Hungarian Aristocracy (20th and 21st Centuries)"

Discussant: Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Moderation: Gábor Danyi (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Cezary Lusiński (Polish Academy of Sciences): "How the Owners of Palaces are Perceived by Local Communities in the Western Part of Poland?"
- Justyna Szklarczyk (University of Warsaw): "Palace Possibilities and Potentiality of Dwelling. The History of State Farms in Socialist Poland" (ZOOM)
- Elena Gibson (University of Leeds): "Re-Imagining the Big-House - Local Community Relationship: The Case of Wentworth Woodhouse" (ZOOM)
- Yehoshua Ecker (University of Florida): "Remembering the Feudal Order in Newer Times: The Jewish Turn in Eastern Galician Landed Estates" (ZOOM)

Discussant: Marta Kurkowska-Budzan (Jagiellonian University)
Moderation: Monika Haber (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Maciej Radziwiłł (Foundation Trzy Trąby): "Polish Aristocracy after WWII. Does it still exist?"
- Ling Li (Erfurt University): "Power Continuities of Kinship Dynamics in Modern Urbanization: Comparative Perspectives from China and Europe"
- Attila Kálmán (Sapientia University): "Surviving Strategies of the Transylvanian Aristocracy during the Communist Period (1949 – 1989)"

Discussant: Sofia Tchouikina (University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis/Research Centre CRESPPA)
Moderation: Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Jan Wasiewicz (Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan): "'We’ve Forgotten Nothing…', Peasant Memory of Serfdom and Enforced Labour in Debates over Land Reform in the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939)" (ZOOM)
- Mateusz Wyżga (University of the National Education Commission): "Oblivion. Social Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Present Day"
- Naum Trajanovski (University of Warsaw): "Remembering Serfdom at the Turn of the Century Balkans: Dime Bojanovski-Dize and the Pioneering Research of Chifliks in Socialist Macedonia of the 1950s" (ZOOM)

Discussant: Michał Rauszer (University of Warsaw)
Moderation: Ewelina Szpak (Polish Academy of Sciences/ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Łukasz Lubicz-Łapiński (The Polish Nobility Association): “Representation of the Nobility in Modern Day Poland”
- Rafał Smoczyński (Polish Academy of Sciences): “The Reorganization of Polish Nobility: Post-WWII Strategies for Collective Identity Building” (ZOOM)
- Sokol Lleshi (University of New York Tirana): “Restorative Memory, and Temporalities of past Social Formation in the Absence of Historical Justice: Representation of Landowning Elites in Post-Communist Albania”
- Gergely Fejérdy (Péter Pazmany Catholic University/Otto von Habsburg Foundation): “Otto von Habsburg and Hungarian Noble Networks” (ZOOM)

Discussant: Éva Sztáray Kézdy (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Panellists:
- Maciej Rydel (Polish Gentry Association): "Status of Material, Cultural, and Heritage of the Gentry in Poland: Manors, Palaces and Parks"
- Anna Damięcka-Wójcik (University of Warsaw): "Lehndorff Palace in Sztynort: From 'Non-Place' to 'Post-Place'"
- Ewa Manikowska (Polish Academy of Sciences): "Collecting: A Distorted Tradition"

Discussant: Paul Zalewski (Europa-Universität Viadrina) (ZOOM)
Moderation: Konrad Bielecki (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Keynote: Longina Jakubowska (Utrecht University)
Moderation: Jan Rydel (ENRS)

The 14th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory' with the theme Gentry, Nobility and Aristocracy: the Post-Feudal Perspectives.'
The conference examined the memory and legacy of Europe’s landowning elites—gentry, nobility, and aristocracy—and their role in shaping the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe. Through comparative discussions, leading academics will delve into how the post-feudal dissolution of these elites continues to influence social structures, material heritage, and memory in various European regions.

Johann “Rukeli” Trollmann (1907-1944) was a German Sinti boxer. He won the German light heavyweight title, only to have it stripped by the Nazis due to his heritage and "un-German" style. He endured forced sterilization, forced labour, and eventually died in a concentration camp, reportedly beaten to death by a kapo he had once defeated in a boxing match.

As every year on 23 August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, the ENRS recalls those persecuted in the name of totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies.

Elina Machálkova (1926 – 2017) was born into a Czech Roma family, faced persecution under Nazi occupation. She was forced to leave school and work in a factory, she narrowly escaped deportation. After the war, she co-founded the first museum in Europe focusing on the history and culture of the Roma and published a book on her family's history, dedicated to preserving Roma culture and history.

As every year on 23 August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, the ENRS recalls those persecuted in the name of totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies.

Video reportage of the 12th European Remembrance Symposium.
The event took place in Warsaw, Poland from 21 to the 24 May 2024.

What does freedom mean today and what did it mean throughout the historical period discussed above? How did both the struggle for freedom and its celebration become enshrined in the region’s cultural and historical memory? How has freedom been commemorated in museum narratives and how is it commemorated today?
These questions are among the key ones running through the 12th European Remembrance Symposium.

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

W reportażu „Miasto dzieci świata” Beata Chomątowska dekonstruuje idylliczny obraz sanatorium w Rabce-Zdroju. Sięgając do przeszłości uzdrowiska i świadectw uczestników turnusów, dziennikarka odkrywa skrywane traumy, z którymi od dziesięcioleci za murami sanatorium mierzyły się dzieci.

W pracy „Polio w Polsce 1945–1989” Marcin Stasiak podejmuje temat niepełnosprawności wywołanej przez epidemię polio, która dotknęła głównie dzieci w latach 50-tych. Już od najmłodszych lat chorzy byli konfrontowani ze strachem, jaki wywoływała ich niesprawność, a także z długim i męczącym procesem wątpliwej rehabilitacji.

Chomątowska i Stasiak zastanawiają się nad codziennością dzieci chorych i tym, jak choroba – i „leczenie” – wpłynęły na kształt ich życia. Oboje podchodzą do tematu z perspektywy biografii konkretnych osób i oddają głos tym, którym był on wcześniej odebrany.

Jak z osobistymi przeżyciami radzi sobie narracja reporterka, a jak opisują je narzędzia pojęciowe wypracowane przez historię społeczną? Co przeszłość ma do powiedzenia o dzieciach i chorobie, i dlaczego warto porozmawiać na ten temat z różnych perspektyw?

Wystąpili:

Beata Chomątowska autorka publikacji „Miasto dzieci świata”

Marcin Stasiak autor publikacji „Polio w Polsce 1945–1989. Studium z historii niepełnosprawności"

Prowadzenie: Małgorzata Pakier

Welcome speeches of the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 21 May 2024.

The Symposium was opened by Hanna Wróblewska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage; Robert Kostro, Director of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw and Rafał Rogulski, Director of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Debate on ”Freedom as a current challenge for public history and civic education” from the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 21 May 2024. How do contemporary conflicts shape our understanding of history? How can we navigate the complexities of freedom in public discourse? What new policy priorities can we implement to foster more informed civic education on the challenges of freedom in European and global societies?

Panellists:

Maria Luz Martínez Seijo, Congress of Deputies of Spain, Madrid

Georgiy Kasianov, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Barbara Walshe, Dialogue and Restorative Justice Faciliator, Expertise Support at the ENRS

Moderation: Rafał Rogulski, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Opening Panel “Grand narratives and conceptualisations of freedom” from the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. How is freedom understood in national narratives of the past? How does it go beyond these frameworks and how are narratives of civil rights and liberties, minority rights, freedom of speech or freedom of religion told and conceptualised?

Panellists:

Simina Badica, House of European History, Brussels

Barbara Glück, Mauthausen Memorial

Robert Kostro, Polish History Museum, Warsaw

Audrey Whitty, National Library of Ireland, Dublin

Moderation: Dorottya Baczoni, House of Terror Museum, Budapest

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Case Studies on “Symbols of regained/lost freedom” presented at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. How is the memory of freedom commemorated in material public space? A showcase of projects by members of institutions, historians, memory researchers and cultural scientists.

Panellists:

Maria Axinte, Pitesti Prison Memorial Foundation, Pitesti

Anna Bernhardt, Kultura Paryska, Maisons-Laffitte

Vjeran Pavlaković, University of Rijeka

Ihor Poshyvailo, Maidan Museum, Kyiv

Florian Traussnig, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Graz

Aleksandra Kumala, FestivALT, Kraków

Lead by Magdalena Żelazowska, ENRS, Warsaw

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI