Browse our videos! Here you can find recordings from our events, including the European Remembrance Symposia and Genealogies of Memory conferences, video summaries of our educational youth projects, as well as Hi-story lessons animations for teachers and pupils.
Turbo presentations at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. During the turbo presentations, participants showcase their organisation or project to the symposium’s audience. Each speaker has up to 90 seconds. The topics have to be connected with the general theme of the symposium.
The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI
Panel discussion on “Historical education: freedom and modern technologies” at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. A meeting of educators, teachers and experts to discuss strategies and good practice in teaching about the past. How is history education different today, given the variety of teaching formats available? What are the challenges and opportunities it faces? Should free access to different sources of historical knowledge and (educational) tools, such as artificial intelligence or social media, be restricted?
Panellists:
Emma Nardi, International Council of Museums, Rome
Wojciech Soczewica, Auschwitz Memorial
Bistra Stoimenova, The European Association of History Educators, Hague
Elias Stouraitis, Ionian University, Korfu online
Moderation: Michał Przeperski, Polish History Museum, Warsaw
The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI
Screening of the documentary “The Cold War Files” (2018) at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024.
Discussion of Rafał Rogulski with the author Andrzej Mietkowski.
The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI
Panel on “Participation in museums: shaping museum narratives” at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. Museum representatives talk of their own experiences. Audience engagement (interactivity, participation, expectations of the public) and its impact on museum narratives. The commercialisation of cultural institutions and museums.
Panellists:
Martin Klimza, Museum of Victims of Communism, Košice
Paolo Pezzino, National Museum of Resistance in Milan
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Malmö University
Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, Museum of Warsaw
Moderation: John Beauchamp, Free Range Productions, Warsaw
The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI
Summary and round table discussion on “Freedom and Remembrance in the intergenerational dialogue” at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 24 May 2024. How does the memory of freedom evolve? How is it understood and remembered by the generations that have lived through totalitarianisms? What are the similarities and the differences between successive generations when it comes to thinking about and cultivating freedom?
Panellists:
Łukasz Kamiński, National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław
Laura Kolbe, University of Helsinki
Martin Andreller, Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, Tallinn
Miloš Řezník, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Moderation: Hanna Liubakova, journalist, Belarus
The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI
Closing remarks at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 24 May 2024. The Symposium was closed by Laura Kolbe from the University of Helsinki; Heta Hedman the Secretary General of Historians without Borders in Finland; 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
On the first day of the 12th European Remembrance Symposium, we had the pleasure of celebrating Professor Jan Rydel, a long-time collaborator and friend of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
As a token of our appreciation for his work and dedication, he received the joint publication “In the Service of History and Politics: Bronowice - Cracow - Berlin - Warsaw - A Jubilee Book Dedicated to Prof. Jan Rydel on the 65th Anniversary of His Birth,” published by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in cooperation with the Scientific Society Societas Vistulana.
Reportaż “Czystka” Katarzyny Surmiak-Domańskiej to detektywistyczna próba odnalezienia przemilczanej przeszłości najbliższych członków rodziny, podczas której odkrywane są międzypokoleniowe traumy. Osobista historia autorki okazuje się jednak historią uniwersalną, opisującą rodzinne trudności (nie tylko) Kresowian.
W swojej nowej publikacji “Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości” Michał Bilewicz opisuje psychologię Polaków i Polek: nasze traumy, wierzenia i lęki, a zarazem pokazuje, że jako mieszkańcy Traumalandu nie jesteśmy odosobnieni w swoich przeżyciach. Ta książka to podręcznik pozwalający zrozumieć naszą przeszłość i dający wskazówki, jak się z nią uporać.
Publikacje Surmiak-Domańskiej i Bilewicza to punkt wyjścia do dyskusji o tym, co składa się na nas - Polki i Polaków. Jak pamiętamy i jak ta pamięć na nas wpływa? Co lepiej pozwala zrozumieć nasze modus operandi – reporterska wnikliwość czy psychologiczny sznyt?
Wystąpili:
Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska, "Czystka"
Michał Bilewicz, "Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości"
Prowadzenie: Małgorzata Pakier
W osobistym reportażu “Wymyślone miasto Lwów” Ziemowit Szczerek opisuje miasto dobrze znane, ale zarazem tajemnicze, zmieniające się i wielowymiarowe. Trudna historia – i teraźniejszość – Lwowa jest punktem wyjścia do rozmowy o tożsamości miasta i tożsamości jego mieszkańców.
W nagradzanej pracy „Muzea-preteksty...” Łukasz Bukowiecki bada Warszawę i to, co mogło w niej być. Zabiera nas na spacer śladami nieistniejących muzeów i opowiada o przeszłości Warszawy z punktu widzenia budynków, które unaoczniają przeżycia miasta.
Szczerek i Bukowiecki skupiają się na miejscach na wpół legendarnych, (nie)istniejących i (nie)przekształconych w kontekście wielowarstwowego dziedzictwa: od dawnej historii polskiej czy rosyjskiej, przez II wojnę światową i komunizm, po czasy współczesne. Jak pamięć i niepamięć miasta jawią się w narracji reporterskiej, a jak opisują je narzędzia pojęciowe wypracowane przez studia kulturowe? Jak te dwa gatunki przenikają się nawzajem i dlaczego właśnie miasto to wdzięczny temat do takiego transdyscyplinarnego spotkania?
Wystąpili:
Ziemowit Szczerek, "Wymyślone miasto Lwów"
Dr. Łukasz Bukowiecki, "Muzea-preteksty. Niezrealizowane przedsięwzięcia muzealne wobec negatywnego dziedzictwa w Warszawie"
Prowadzenie: Małgorzata Pakier
Jak rozumieć zwrot ludowy w kontekście przemian polskiej pamięci? Jak wpływa na pamięć narracja reporterska, a jak robią to narzędzia pojęciowe wypracowane przez historię społeczną?
W głośnej książce „Chłopki” Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak sięga do źródeł z przeszłości, by opowiedzieć wielu współczesnym czytelniczkom i czytelnikom historię ich babek i prababek, ich codzienności, obawach i pragnieniu zmiany. W opowieści tej słychać echo debaty społecznej ważnej także z perspektywy dzisiejszej.
We wnikliwej pracy o ludności wiejskiej w PRL historyczka dr. hab. Ewelina Szpak bada reakcję społeczności wiejskiej na zmianę, krytycznie posługując się naukowym pojęciem mentalności. Interesują ją przy tym takie obszary życia, jak polityka, praca, czas wolny, sąsiedztwo, higiena, czy religijność.
Obie książki patrzą na dawny świat okiem niezwykle wrażliwym i otwierają inne perspektywy dla współczesnych tożsamości.
Wystąpili:
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak, "Chłopki"
dr. hab. Ewelina Szpak, "Mentalność ludności wiejskiej w PRL. Studium zmian"
Prowadzenie: Małgorzata Pakier
Sound in the Silence is an intercultural and international remembrance project for youth. At historically challenging locations students work with artists representing different artistic fields in order to understand how the past is connected to their questions in the present.
This film presents the 2022/2023 edition of the programme during the conference “What’s the Point of History… If We Never Learn?” that took place in Berlin on 16-17 October.
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Cultural Memory and Natural Disasters.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Roundtable discussion titled “Between Trauma, Memory and Forgetting - Nuclear, Environmental and Human-Induced Disasters in the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Discourses on Nuclear, Global and Environmental Crises.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “'Slow violence' and Memory of Industrial Catastrophes.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Hunger and Food Shortages - Collective Memory of Survival Strategies.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Narratives of Wartime Famines - Between Individual and Collective Memory.”
The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.
Panel titled “Remembering Holodomor.”