Videos

András Lénárt (Holocaust Memorial Centre, Budapest)
Photography of the Hungarian Labour Service
Video Presentation

10th Genealogies of Memory: Session 2
Translation and Travel of Holocaust Memory between Europe and Israel

Eliyana Adler (Pennsylvania State University)
Ecologies of Memory: Translating Memorial Books across Time and Place
Video Presentation

10th Genealogies of Memory: Session 6
Translation and Travel of Holocaust Memory between Europe and Israel

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.