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Robert Hariman giving his keynote lecture.

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Ernst van Alphen giving his keynote lecture.

Chair: Jan Rydel (Poland)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Tadeusz J. Żuchowski: Introductory Remarks. Between Monument and Memorial

Chair: Jagoda Hernik Spalińska (Poland)

Burcin Cakir (Scotland), Diplomacy and Dead: Construction of Gallipoli War Memorials and State Agency

Olga Barbasiewicz (Poland), Hidden Memory and Memorials. Remembering Korean Victims in Hiroshima

Ksenia Surikova (Russia), Images of Memory: Monuments and Memorials of Second World War in Russia and Belarus

Yaroslav Pasko (Ukraine), Monuments as a Factor of Historical Memory and Identity Threat: Don17:30bas and Ukraine

Written Presentation: Alicja Melzacka (Poland), Contemporary Art as a New Counter-Monument

Commentary: Tadeusz J. Żuchowski (Poland)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Chair: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Poland)

Anastasia Pavlovskaya (Russia), ‘How Should a Monument to Pushkin Look Like?’: The Pushkin Monument in Leningrad Discussion (1936-1937) and the Stalinist Memorial Culture

Olli Kleemola (Finland), Building the Finnish National Mythos: Photographs from the Russo-Finnish Winter War 1939–1940

Michał Haake (Poland), Picture and History. Exhibitions of Art as a Tool of Validation of Communist Authority in Poland

Maria Khorolskaya (Russia), The Everyday in the GDR in Individual, Cultural and Political Memory

Commentary: Zuzanna Bogumił (Poland)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Wojciech Suchocki giving his keynote lecture.

Chair: Csaba György Kiss (Hungary)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Poland)

Vitalii Ogiienko (Ukraine), Image of the Starving Little Girl: From Initial Traumatic Holodomor Experience to Media Icon

Andrei Nacu (Romania), The Relation between the Family Album and the Re-evaluation of Romania’s Communist Past

Filip Lipiński (Poland), Stratified Image. Medium, Construction and Memory in Frank Stella’s Polish Villages

Florin Abraham (Romania), Histor(iograph)y and Memory in ‘PostTruth Era’. Towards a European Public Sphere? Some Theoretical Considerations

Written Presentation: Tomasz Szerszeń (Poland), Memory, Photography, History. Post-Soviet Auto-photo-biographies

Commentary: Luiza Nader (Poland)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Welcome speeches by:
Rafał Rogulski, Director of the Institute of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

Juliusz Szymczak-Gałkowski, Director of the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Joanna Wawrzyniak, Initiator of the Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe programme

Opening remarks: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Conference convener)

Mieke Bal giving her keynote lecture.

Chair: Anna Kutaj-Markowska (Poland)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

Chair: Ewa Kociszewska (Poland)

Tatiana Tereshchenko (Russia), Greek Vase Painting: Polysemantic Rethinking of History in the Images of the Others

Justyna Balisz-Schmelz (Poland), Pictures for the Fathers. Baselitz’s Heldenbilder as Counterimages of the Socialist and Fascist Body

Dorota Kownacka (Poland), Against Illusion. Abstraction towards the Reality. Kuno Raeber’s Material Turn. Karl Rössing’s Wood- and Linocut and the War Experience Aspect

Roma Sendyka (Poland), ‘Hobbled Images’ as Memorial Documents for Underrepresented Events. Regaining Past through Reading the Affective and Recognizing the Precursory

Commentary: Katja Bernhardt (Germany)

The seventh conference Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe took place on 6-8 December in Warsaw. During the three-day event, over 180 scholars from 70 institutions and 19 countries discussed the relationships between image, history and memory and the various roles of images concerning memory.

On 23 August, on the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes is observed. It was on that day in 1939 that an agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union opened a road towards the tragedy of the second world war and its consequences: concentration camps, gulags, Holocaust, crematoria, labour camps, and many years of the cold war and further criminal regimes.

Verőfényes augusztusi délután. Egy idős férfi, miközben játékba merülő dédunokáját figyeli a parkban, 1939 nyarára emlékezik… Így kezdődik az a 30 másodperces, oktatási célú film, amelyet az Emlékezet és Szolidaritás Európai Hálózata készített a Totalitárius Diktatúrák Áldozatainak

Ein sonniger Nachmittag im August. Ein älterer Herr, der seinem Urenkel beim Spielen im Park zusieht, erinnert sich an den Sommer 1939… So beginnt ein 30-Sekunden langer Film, der durch das Europäische Netzwerk Erinnerung und Solidarität zum Europäischen Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer von totalitären Diktaturen vorbereitet wurde.

Pogodne sierpniowe popołudnie. Starszy pan, obserwując w parku zabawę swojego prawnuka, wspomina lato 1939 roku… Tak zaczyna się 30-sekundowy film edukacyjny przygotowany przez Europejską Sieć Pamięć i Solidarność z okazji Europejskiego Dnia Pamięci Ofiar Reżimów

Klidné srpnové odpoledne. Starší pán sedí v parku a dívá se, jak si jeho pravnouče hraje. Připomíná si léto roku 1939… Tak začíná 30-ti vteřinový vzdělávací film, který připravila Evropská síť Paměť a solidarita u příležitosti Evropského dne památky obětí totalitních režimů.

Je príjemné augustové popoludnie. Starší pán, pozorujúc v parku zabávanie sa svojho pravnuka, spomína na leto roku 1939... Tak sa začína 30-sekundový vzdelávací film, pripravený Európskou sieťou Pamäť a Solidarita pri príležitosti Európskeho dňa spomienky na obete totalitných režimov.

Collective work by the study visit participants: Heidi Johanna Gritsh, Goda Milasiute, Anna-Katharina Wiesinger, Jana Maria Weiss and Jeta Rexha. The group was leaded by Karolina Dziełak.

Collective work by the study visit participants: Ljumi Bekjiri, Piotr Brzeski, Sara Gavran, Krystof Nerold, Florentina Qorri, Agnieszka Szajewska. The group was leaded by Małgorzata Czyżewska, and guided by Pjerin Mirdita from Site of Witness and Memory in Shkoder, Albania, and representatives of Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Montenegro.

Collective work by the study visit participants: Eduardo Granados Reguilón, Joanna Lickiewicz, Claudia Freixes Martínez, Anne-Florence Neveu and Laia Gallego Vila. The group was leaded by Zhanna Vrublevska and David González Vázquez from MUME - The Exile Memorial Museum.