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.
Chair: Piotr Juszkiewicz (Poland)
Ana Krsinic Lozica (Croatia), Jasenovac Concentration Camp on Film
Agnieszka Kiejziewicz (Poland), Bye Bye Innocence. War and Children’s Traumatic Memories in Japanese Film
Beja Margitházi (Hungary), Embodying Sense Memory: Animating the Analog/Photographic as Evidence of Traumatic Experience in EastEuropean Post-Cinema (Son of Saul, Regina, Warsaw Uprising)
Veronika Pehe (Czech Republic), From Socialism to Democracy on the Screen: Accommodating Images of the Socialist Past in the Post-1989 Czech Republic
Commentary: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (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.
Constantin Parvulescu giving his keynote lecture.
Chair: Piotr Juszkiewicz (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.
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.