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9th Genealogies of Memory conference: Myths, Memories and Economies - summary
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Keynote lecture: Prof. Martin Schulze Wessel
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duration: 01:11:28
Prof. Martin Schulze Wessel delivering a keynote speech:
Universalist and Particularist Policy Legitimations in the Transformation Period
Chair: Rafał Rogulski (ENRS)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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Panel 6. Current Echoes of the Transformation
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duration: 01:44:09
Sabine Stach (German Historical Institute):
Guiding through Memory: A Case Study on (Post)Communism Tours
Bartłomiej Krzysztan (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences):
Capitalizing Socialism in Postcolonial Georgia. Post-socialist Economic Reality and Structure of Memory on Peripheral Flea Market
Mykola Makhortykh (Amsterdam School of Communication Research):
We Were Hungry, but we also Were Free: (Counter)Narratives of the Russia’s first post-Soviet Decade on Instagram
Chair and discussant: Bogdan Iacob (University of Exeter)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:44:09
Panel 5. Memory and Labour
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duration: 01:59:53
Till Hilmar (Yale University):
Drawing Moral Lessons from Economic Transformations: Economic Memory, Deservingness and Social Relations in post-1989 (East) Germany and the Czech Republic
Joanna Wawrzyniak (Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw), Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając (Kozminski University in Warsaw)
Nostalgia and Moral Economy in Post-socialist Industry: Poland
Mariusz Jastrząb (University of Warsaw)
How Did We Survive? Official Corporate Histories from the Period of Systemic Change
Chair and discussant: Florian Peters (Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:59:53
Keynote lecture: Prof. Adam Mrozowicki
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duration: 01:22:30
Prof. Adam Mrozowicki delivering a keynote lecture:
Coping with System Change: the ‘Grand History’ of Transformation and Biographical Experiences of Polish Workers
Chair: Dr Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:22:30
Discussion before and after the screening of the film Dług (Debt), dir. Krzysztof Krauze (1999)
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duration: 00:53:57
Commentators:
Dr Veronika Pehe (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Dr Mateusz Werner (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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Panel 4. Cultural Memory and Economy
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duration: 01:51:20
Dr Alex Condrache (University of Western Ontario):
That is how Billionaires Smoke: The Nouveau Riche of the Transition in Romanian Post-Communist Cinema
Olga Gontarska (Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences):
Cinema without an Audience: Experience of Transformation Depicted in Ukrainian films
Saygun Gökarıksel (Department of Sociology, Bogaziçi University):
“The Great Betrayal”: 1989 and the “Secrets” of Poland’s New Capitalism
Chair and discussant: dr Ksenia Robbe (Leiden University)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:51:20
Keynote lecture: Prof. Thomas Lindenberger
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duration: 01:28:59
Prof. Thomas Lindenberger (History Department and Hannah-Arendt-Institutefor Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden) giving a keynote speech entitled: "Transformation through Unification = Unification through Transformation? Regimes of Truth and the Discontent of Memories in the German Transformation Regime"
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:28:59
Panel 3. Memory and Agency
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duration: 01:48:29
Dr Veronika Pehe (Czech Academy of Sciences)
"Let's Start a Business": The Memory of Entrepreneurship and the Czech Student Generation of 1989
Dr Gazela Pudar Drasko (Institute of Phillosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade):
Post-Socialist Transformation in Serbia: Critical Perspective of Intellectuals
Dr Katarzyna Waniek (institute of Sociology, University of Łódź)
Biographical experiences of transformation in the cohort born 1980-1990. A case analysis
Chair and discussant: Dr Oldřich Tůma (Czech Academy of Sciences, ENRS)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:48:29
Panel 2. Social memory: contested or consensual?
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duration: 01:40:01
Dr Rigels Halili (Centre for East European Countries, University of Warsaw):
Post-communist Transformation, Social Memory and Blaming of the “Other” – the Case of Albania
Dr Jill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte):
Pluralism or Plutocracy? Popular Expectations and Perspectives of Economic Change in Post-socialist Romania
Andrzej Pabisiak (Institute of Sociology, Jagielonnian University):
Thirty Years After: The Collective Memory of Transition in Poland based on Research on Polish Sejm Transcripts
Chair and discussant: Saygun Gökarıksel
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
language: English
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duration: 01:40:01
Panel 1. Key Narratives
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duration: 01:45:20
Dr Florian Peters (Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin):
Shock Therapy Mythologies: Contested Memories of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan
Dr Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague):
Velvet Revolution, Economic Reforms, and Lustration: A Trilogy Imposed by Circumstances or by Political Rivalry? Essay in Counterfactual History
Wolf-Rüdiger Knoll ((Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin):
A “Bad Bank” of Transformation: The Role of the “Treuhandanstalt” in the Collective Memory of East Germans after Reunification
Chair and discussant: Prof. James Mark (University of Exeter)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
language: English
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duration: 01:45:20
Roundtable: From Socialist Internationalism to Capitalist Globalisation and Beyond
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duration: 01:45:22
Prof. James Mark (University of Exeter)
Dr Bogdan Iacob (University of Exeter)
Dr Tobias Rupprecht (University of Exeter)
Chair: Dr Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
language: English
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duration: 01:45:22
Keynote lecture: Prof. Johanna Bockman
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duration: 01:29:27
Prof. Johanna Bockman (George Mason University) giving her keynote lecture, entitled "The Other Washington Consensus: Remembering Socialism in Washington, DC".
Chair: Dr Veronika Pehe (Czech Academy of Sciences)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
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duration: 01:29:27
Myths, Memories and Economies conference: opening remarks
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duration: 00:14:17
Opening remarks by:
Dr Veronika Pehe (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Dr Joanna Wawrzyniak (Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
language: English
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duration: 00:14:17
Myths, Memories and Economies: welcome speeches
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duration: 00:09:30
Welcome speeches by:
Rafał Rogulski (Director of the ENRS)
Dr Małgorzata Pakier (Head of the ENRS Academic Section)
The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.
language: English
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duration: 00:09:30