Event’s Category: Seminar
From Brazil to Russia: Capoeira, a Tool for Decolonization?
2024-12-17
– 2024-12-17
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
We kindly invite you to a seminar with Sergio González Varela "From Brazil to Russia: Capoeira, a Tool for Decolonization?". The meeting will be chaired by Zuzanna Bogumił.
The seminar will take place online, 17 December at 9:30am CET.
Please register in order to participate: https://shorturl.at/BggaeAbstract
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines ritual, play, music, and fighting elements. Created by slaves in the Northeast of Brazil, arguably in the seventeenth century, capoeira has been historically associated with the power of the weak. It has been used as a martial art to fight colonial oppression. During the twentieth century, it became a codified ritual that politically worked closely with the Black Marxist movement in Salvador, fighting for the recognition of the African heritage in Brazil. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, capoeira has expanded globally. However, its spirit for liberation from dominant ideologies continues to captivate practitioners in Brazil and abroad. In this presentation, I describe how practitioners have used capoeira in Russia and how this country's practitioners have interpreted this art's rebellious spirit in a post-Soviet context. Finally, I contrast the subversive configuration of capoeira with the efforts made by dominant state powers to use martial arts in general as a political tool to show strength, authority, and subjugation of others.
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines ritual, play, music, and fighting elements. Created by slaves in the Northeast of Brazil, arguably in the seventeenth century, capoeira has been historically associated with the power of the weak. It has been used as a martial art to fight colonial oppression. During the twentieth century, it became a codified ritual that politically worked closely with the Black Marxist movement in Salvador, fighting for the recognition of the African heritage in Brazil. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, capoeira has expanded globally. However, its spirit for liberation from dominant ideologies continues to captivate practitioners in Brazil and abroad. In this presentation, I describe how practitioners have used capoeira in Russia and how this country's practitioners have interpreted this art's rebellious spirit in a post-Soviet context. Finally, I contrast the subversive configuration of capoeira with the efforts made by dominant state powers to use martial arts in general as a political tool to show strength, authority, and subjugation of others.
Sergio González Varela - Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw, Poland. He worked previously at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, from 2010 to 2022. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of London (University College London). He was awarded the Fulbright distinction as a visiting professor in 2016 and is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. His research topics deal with the anthropology of ritual, religion, performance, tourism, and globalization. He is the author of the books, El arte de engañar: ensayos de antropología social (2022), Capoeira, Mobility and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World (2019), Entre dos mundos: la antropología radical de Paul Stoller (2018) and Power in Practice: The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira (2017).
About the seminar series:
Series „Postcolonial perspectives–postdependance entanglements” is organized in frames of two research projects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland “Remembering Soviet repressions in the post-multiple colonial RussianFar East”,no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and SocialMemory and the Post-ImperialRussianHeritage in Poland no. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.
Series „Postcolonial perspectives–postdependance entanglements” is organized in frames of two research projects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland “Remembering Soviet repressions in the post-multiple colonial RussianFar East”,no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and SocialMemory and the Post-ImperialRussianHeritage in Poland no. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.
The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
2024-11-12
– 2024-11-12
09:30
– 11:00
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- English
It is our pleasure to invite you to another seminar in the Center for Research on Social Memory Seminar series. This time we will meet to discuss the newly published "The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory" (Wayne State University Press 2024) with Sarah Gensburger, Ido de Haan, Naum Trajanovski, and Zofia Wóycicka.
The seminar will take place online, 12 November at 9:30am CET. Please register in order to participate: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJEocuutqzMuE9akT5zipuZeXdN...In the last two decades, the topic of help given Jews during the World War II has experienced an extraordinary boom in Europe and beyond. Stories of the rescuers have been adapted into books, films, public commemorations, and museums. Yet, emphasis on the uplifting narratives often obscures the history of violence and complicity with Nazi policies of persecution and mass murder. This roundtable will discuss the (mis)uses of the Righteous, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. Starting point for the discussion is the edited volume The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory (Wayne State University Press, 2024). Participants of the debate will be Sarah Gensburger, Ido de Haan, Naum Trajanovski and Zofia Wóycicka.
How to Create a Bystander? The 1965 Polish Scouts’ Reconnaissance and Vernacular Memory of the Holocaust
2024-10-15
– 2024-10-15
09:30
– 11:00
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- English
With the beginning of another academic year, it is our pleasure to invite you to another year of the Center for Research on Social Memory Seminar series. We begin with a seminar with Janek Gryta on How to Create a Bystander? The 1965 Polish Scouts’ Reconnaissance and Vernacular Memory of the Holocaust. The meeting will be moderated by Joanna Wawrzyniak.
The seminar will take place online, 15 October at 9:30am CET. Please register in order to participate:https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJUkd...
Janek Gryta is a Lecturer in Holocaust History at the University of Southampton. He is a cultural and social historian with particular interests in the Holocaust commemorations in Eastern Europe, nation-building, and the history of social consensus under Communism.
Abstract
Poles tend to believe that, when it comes to the Holocaust, they were bystanders only. For decades, scholarship supported this notion. In a similar vein, there is an assumption in research that Polish bystanders did not pass on any knowledge about the Holocaust, certainly not under state Socialism. This article addresses both of those ideas, revealing that detailed knowledge about the Holocaust not only existed but was passed on from the generation of witnesses to the first postwar generation. Moreover, it demonstrates how, in the process of this transmission of knowledge, the position of a bystander was developed.
This paper spotlights the Alert of Victory, a 1965 reconnaissance organised by the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. During the Alert, young people identified sites of fighting and suffering, and interviewed local witnesses about Nazi crimes.
Focusing on reports from this reconnaissance in south-eastern Poland, this paper comments on the shape of the vernacular, communicative memory of the Holocaust as it existed in the mid-1960s. It establishes that details of mass killings in the spring and summer of 1942 were widely known and communicated, as was some information about the camp system. It suggests that some knowledge about Polish co-participation in the killings, the denunciation of Jewish Poles and the looting of their property was suggested to the scouts. Finally, this paper establishes how the explosive potential of such knowledge was dismantled in the space of testimony. Through maintaining Jews in the position of the national Other, and strategic use of passive voice and omission, a palatable version of the war past was devised and the figure of a passive, blameless bystander was called to into being
Poles tend to believe that, when it comes to the Holocaust, they were bystanders only. For decades, scholarship supported this notion. In a similar vein, there is an assumption in research that Polish bystanders did not pass on any knowledge about the Holocaust, certainly not under state Socialism. This article addresses both of those ideas, revealing that detailed knowledge about the Holocaust not only existed but was passed on from the generation of witnesses to the first postwar generation. Moreover, it demonstrates how, in the process of this transmission of knowledge, the position of a bystander was developed.
This paper spotlights the Alert of Victory, a 1965 reconnaissance organised by the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. During the Alert, young people identified sites of fighting and suffering, and interviewed local witnesses about Nazi crimes.
Focusing on reports from this reconnaissance in south-eastern Poland, this paper comments on the shape of the vernacular, communicative memory of the Holocaust as it existed in the mid-1960s. It establishes that details of mass killings in the spring and summer of 1942 were widely known and communicated, as was some information about the camp system. It suggests that some knowledge about Polish co-participation in the killings, the denunciation of Jewish Poles and the looting of their property was suggested to the scouts. Finally, this paper establishes how the explosive potential of such knowledge was dismantled in the space of testimony. Through maintaining Jews in the position of the national Other, and strategic use of passive voice and omission, a palatable version of the war past was devised and the figure of a passive, blameless bystander was called to into being
Political and Cultural Mythologies of Post-Soviet Sovereignty
2024-05-21
– 2024-05-21
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
Join us for open seminar of the POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES - POSTDEPENDENCE ENTANGLEMENTS series!
To this day, the following explanatory scheme has become widespread in public discussions of the collapse of the Soviet Union: the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 was the disintegration of an empire, but Russia remained an empire in many ways and therefore retained its aggressive essence. This scheme seems to me too reductionist. It is based on a simplistically conceptualized postcolonial theory, which assumes that the collapse of a colonial empire occurs because of an enslaved nation's struggle for freedom. The collapse of the Soviet Union was not like this. The new states on the ruins of the USSR emerged not as a result of the struggle of enslaved peoples, but as a result of the crisis of central power. We could now discuss in what ways the new political elites of the former “union republics” -- and especially Russia -- reproduced the Soviet notion of sovereignty, and what new elements were included in this notion. In my paper, I hope to discuss the cultural and political mythologies of sovereignty that have proliferated in the public rhetoric and Russian language literature of the “perestroika” period and in Russia in the 1990s.
Ilya Kukulin is a literary critic, cultural historian, and cultural sociologist. Currently, he is a research fellow at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture. He authored a book Machines of the Noisy Time: How the Soviet Montage Became an Aesthetic Method of the Unofficial Culture (Moscow, 2015) and co-authored a monograph A Guerilla Logos: The Project of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov (Moscow, 2022, with Mark Lipovetsky); in 2019, he also published a volume of selected articles and essays The Breakthrough to an Impossible Connection.
Series „Postcolonial perspectives–postdependance entanglements” is organized inframes of two researchprojects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and no. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.
Labyrinth of Postcoloniality
2024-04-23
– 2024-04-23
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
We kindly invite you to a book seminar with Alima Bissenova during which we will discussed a book authored by her: Labyrinth of Postcoloniality. The meeting will be moderated by Zuzanna Bogumił.
The seminar will take place online, 23 April at 9:30am CET. Please register in order to participate: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJYpdeispzkrHtIWRp8GfF5Mcza...Author's bio:
Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology, anthropology of Islam, postcolonial studies, and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion, State, and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, AB Imperio, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Sotsiologiya Vlasti.
Alima Bissenova is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Nazarbayev University. She specializes in urban anthropology, anthropology of Islam, postcolonial studies, and intellectual history. She has published her work in English and Russian in the journals Religion, State, and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, AB Imperio, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Sotsiologiya Vlasti.
About the book:
This collection is an attempt to form a new post-colonial agenda, in which we, seven Kazakhstani authors, are trying to rethink and theorize our current state from the position of our own locality and develop a “local” point of view on the most pressing issues of “our post-coloniality” - a point of view that would be pronouncedly local but, at the same time, global – connected with the universal post-colonial experience. We believe that the concept of “place” is very important for describing the states of coloniality and postcoloniality, as well as for describing the knowledge that we produce in this collection, knowledge that is socially and locally “situated”, to use Donna Haraway’s term . The connection with the place, on the one hand, shapes our position, and on the other hand, leaves its own unique imprint on the situation of post-coloniality that we describe. On the one hand, living in Kazakhstan, we, as citizens of a new state that was born after the collapse of the Soviet Union, are already in some way “post-colonial” - it would seem that we can articulate our own agenda for ourselves, we are given the freedom to represent ourselves at the international arena. However, on the other hand, we are very dependent on global markets, on regional military blocs and, no less important, we continue to be under pressure from the ideological structures and hierarchies of colonialism, both from the former metropole and from new metropolitan centers in Europe and North America. If we add to this economic (but not yet ideological) pressure from China, then we can say that because we are in such an inter-imperial post-colonial zone our subjectivity is limited. Perhaps it is precisely because of this limitation that the desire to “declare oneself” and formulate one’s own separate position is felt very strongly - we are just learning to “live for ourselves” and “understand ourselves” from the point of view of our own place and our own interests. We have long been the object of external modernization and industrialization projects, "learning" from advanced countries, gaining experience, including post-colonial experience. As the heroine of Aliya Kadyrova asks, sitting at one of the conferences on post-coloniality in Central Asia in Moscow: “How long can you talk about post-coloniality when you can live it here right now?” (Chapter V). Without exception, all of the authors of the collection really "live through" their own post-coloniality, while simultaneously reflecting on it. All seven authors of this collection have good research on this aspect of our culture, and it is time to present them to the interested reader - to contribute to the discussion about “our post-coloniality” and, perhaps, to find a way out of its labyrinths.
This collection is an attempt to form a new post-colonial agenda, in which we, seven Kazakhstani authors, are trying to rethink and theorize our current state from the position of our own locality and develop a “local” point of view on the most pressing issues of “our post-coloniality” - a point of view that would be pronouncedly local but, at the same time, global – connected with the universal post-colonial experience. We believe that the concept of “place” is very important for describing the states of coloniality and postcoloniality, as well as for describing the knowledge that we produce in this collection, knowledge that is socially and locally “situated”, to use Donna Haraway’s term . The connection with the place, on the one hand, shapes our position, and on the other hand, leaves its own unique imprint on the situation of post-coloniality that we describe. On the one hand, living in Kazakhstan, we, as citizens of a new state that was born after the collapse of the Soviet Union, are already in some way “post-colonial” - it would seem that we can articulate our own agenda for ourselves, we are given the freedom to represent ourselves at the international arena. However, on the other hand, we are very dependent on global markets, on regional military blocs and, no less important, we continue to be under pressure from the ideological structures and hierarchies of colonialism, both from the former metropole and from new metropolitan centers in Europe and North America. If we add to this economic (but not yet ideological) pressure from China, then we can say that because we are in such an inter-imperial post-colonial zone our subjectivity is limited. Perhaps it is precisely because of this limitation that the desire to “declare oneself” and formulate one’s own separate position is felt very strongly - we are just learning to “live for ourselves” and “understand ourselves” from the point of view of our own place and our own interests. We have long been the object of external modernization and industrialization projects, "learning" from advanced countries, gaining experience, including post-colonial experience. As the heroine of Aliya Kadyrova asks, sitting at one of the conferences on post-coloniality in Central Asia in Moscow: “How long can you talk about post-coloniality when you can live it here right now?” (Chapter V). Without exception, all of the authors of the collection really "live through" their own post-coloniality, while simultaneously reflecting on it. All seven authors of this collection have good research on this aspect of our culture, and it is time to present them to the interested reader - to contribute to the discussion about “our post-coloniality” and, perhaps, to find a way out of its labyrinths.
About the seminar series:
Series „Postcolonial perspectives–postdependance entanglements” is organized inframes of two researchprojects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland “Remembering Soviet repressions inthe post-multiple colonial RussianFar East”,no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and SocialMemory and the Post-ImperialRussianHeritage inPolandno. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.
Series „Postcolonial perspectives–postdependance entanglements” is organized inframes of two researchprojects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland “Remembering Soviet repressions inthe post-multiple colonial RussianFar East”,no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and SocialMemory and the Post-ImperialRussianHeritage inPolandno. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.
European queer memorials
2024-03-19
– 2024-03-19
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
It is our pleasure to invite you to a seminar with Katarzyna Wojnicka (University of Gothenburg) on the topic of European queer memorials. The meeting will be moderated by Joanna Wawrzyniak.
Please register in order to participate:https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJwrdu6pqjIoE9KmtEF9h8cCHnC...
The main aim of my study is to investigate the unique, European character of queer memorials understood as “(…) heritage sites that honor gender and sexual minorities, [which] represent communities that have often been excised in dominant public narratives” (Orangias et al. 2018: 705–706) that are located in 20 European cities. European queer memorials started to be incorporated into the public spaces of Western European cities in the 1980s and play an important role in memorizing LGBTQIA+ citizens. The project is based on the findings from an ethnographic research project “European queer memorials: from Homomonument to the HBTQ+ monument in Göteborg” funded by Adlerbertska Foundation (2023). Methodologically, it is a multiple case study (Yin 2018) where several qualitative research methods such as a) mapping of existing queer memorials in Europe, b) ethnographic observations on-site combined with informal interviews; c) production and analysis of visual materials (photos of selected monuments). To shed light on the nature of contemporary queer memorials in Europe intersectional approach (Crenshaw 1998, Hill Collins & Bilge 2016) will be utilized. This perspective allows sensitizing the research to the sexuality, gender, citizenship, and social class perspectives. In this case, it will be applied in the analysis of the investigated phenomena to capture the development of ideas regarding who and how is supposed to be memorized and represented in European queer memorials.
Katarzyna Wojnicka is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her main fields of research are critical men and masculinities scholarship, migration, and social movements studies. She is one of the editors-in-chief of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. Previously she had worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg, the University of Leeds, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her work has been published, among others, in Men and Masculinities, the International Journal of Qualitative Methodology, Social Movement Studies, Qualitative Research, and the Gender, Work and Organization. Currently, she is involved in research projects on fathers’ activism in Europe, single migrant men, transnational abortion activism and European queer memorials.
Territorial and humanitarian emergencies regarding Armenia and Armenians as covered by the American press
2024-03-12
– 2024-03-12
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
It is our pleasure to invite you to a seminar with Ara Ketibian on the topic: Territorial and humanitarian emergencies regarding Armenia and Armenians as covered by the American press. The archive by Ara Ketibian. The commentator will be Edita Gzoyan, and the moderator Tomasz Rawski.
The seminar will take place online, 12 March at 9:30am CET. Please register here in order to participate:https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJckfuuvqD8vHdeFM-PXLy...
Ara Ketibian graduated from the Mekhitarist Congregation College in Venice, specializing
in Armenian studies. Worked as a member of the editorial team of Ararat daily newspaper, one of the major Armenian-language newspapers in Beirut, Lebanon. Teacher of Armenian Language and History at Melkonian Educational Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus). Retired from accountancy practice in 2011 and combined knowledge of journalism and investigative work to research American newspaper archives.
in Armenian studies. Worked as a member of the editorial team of Ararat daily newspaper, one of the major Armenian-language newspapers in Beirut, Lebanon. Teacher of Armenian Language and History at Melkonian Educational Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus). Retired from accountancy practice in 2011 and combined knowledge of journalism and investigative work to research American newspaper archives.
Dr. Edita Gzoyan (PhD in History, LLM) is the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation. She is also a leading researcher at the Department of Department of the Study of the Oppression of the Armenians of Artsakh, Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation. Her main fields of research are legal and historical aspects of the Armenian Genocide and the Artsakh issue, the history of the First Armenian Republic and Scientometrics. Dr. Gzoyan has published dozens of articles in national and international journals and authored and co-authored three books. Among her latest articles are “From War Crimes to Crimes against Humanity and Genocide: Turkish Responsibility after World War I” Genocide Studies International 15, no. 2 (2023): 79-98 and Edita G. Gzoyan, "Forcibly Transferred and Assimilated: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Armenian Genocide"; in Childhood during War and Genocide: Agency, Survival, and Representation, ed. by Joanna Beata Michlic, Yuliya von Saal, and Anna Ullrich, European Holocaust Studies 5 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2024), 31-51. She is an assistant editor of Ts’eghaspanagitakan Handes and International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies.
(Re)interpreting Harbin’s Russian colonial heritage: changing China, changing perceptions
2024-02-20
– 2024-02-20
09:30
– 11:00
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- English
We kindly invite you to a seminar with Wenzhuo Zhang on the topic: (Re)interpreting Harbin’s Russian colonial heritage: changing China, changing perceptions. The meeting will be moderated by Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper.
The seminar will take place online, 20 February at 9:30am CET. Please register in order to participate:https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJErcOirqTsjEtE7zhYfgx2bA...
Dr Wenzhuo Zhang recently received her PhD from the Australian National University and is now a sessional academic at the University of Melbourne. Her research lies at the intersection between urban studies and heritage studies with special interests in urban memory and urban heritage (especially colonial heritage and industrial heritage).
Current affiliations:
School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne;
Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne.
Current affiliations:
School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne;
Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne.
Series „Postcolonial perspectives–postdependance entanglements” is organized inframes of two researchprojects sponsored by the National Science Centre, Poland “Remembering Soviet repressions inthe post-multiple colonial RussianFar East”,no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809 and SocialMemory and the Post-ImperialRussianHeritage inPolandno. 2021/41/B/HS3/00852.
Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums. Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia
2023-12-12
– 2023-12-12
09:30
– 11:00
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We kindly invite you to a seminar with Nataša Jagdhuhn during which we will be discussing her book "Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums. Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia". The meeting will be moderated by Naum Trajanovski.
The seminar will take place online, 12 December at 9:30am CET.This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. It argues that in all three countries, a reluctance to confront undesirable parts of their national histories is the root cause explaining why the state-funded Second World War memorial museums remain stuck in the postsocialist transition. In most cases, Second World War museums, exhibitions, and displays conceived in the Yugoslav period have been left unchanged. However, there are also examples where new sections were added to the old ones and there are a small number of completely reconceptualized permanent exhibitions. The transitional position of the Second World War museums has made it possible to view these institutions as historical formations in their own right. The book will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of heritage and museums studies, memory studies, and cultural history of Southeast-Europe.
Bio:
Nataša Jagdhuhn is a Museologist whose research focuses on memory constructs in the successor states of Yugoslavia, museum transformation in the post-socialist countries of Europe, the history of museology from a Global South perspective, and current debates on decolonizing heritage worldwide.
Nataša Jagdhuhn is a Museologist whose research focuses on memory constructs in the successor states of Yugoslavia, museum transformation in the post-socialist countries of Europe, the history of museology from a Global South perspective, and current debates on decolonizing heritage worldwide.
Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories
2023-12-05
– 2023-12-05
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
We kindly invite you to a seminar with Orli Fridman (Singidunum University) on "Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories" moderated by Joanna Wawrzyniak.
The seminar will take place online, 5 December at 9:30am CET.Abstract:
In her talk Orli Fridman will feature her book Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories published with Amsterdam University Press (2022). The book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region as a region of memory and tracing the alternative calendars and alternative commemorative practices of memory activists as they have evolved over a period of more than two decades. By presenting in-depth accounts of memory activism practices, on-site and online, the book analyses this evolution in the context of generational belonging and introduces frameworks for the study of #hashtag #memoryactivism, alternative commemorations and commemorative solidarity.
In her talk Orli Fridman will feature her book Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories published with Amsterdam University Press (2022). The book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region as a region of memory and tracing the alternative calendars and alternative commemorative practices of memory activists as they have evolved over a period of more than two decades. By presenting in-depth accounts of memory activism practices, on-site and online, the book analyses this evolution in the context of generational belonging and introduces frameworks for the study of #hashtag #memoryactivism, alternative commemorations and commemorative solidarity.
Bio:
Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade based Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK). She also is the academic director of the School for International Training (SIT) learning center in Belgrade, Serbia.
Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade based Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK). She also is the academic director of the School for International Training (SIT) learning center in Belgrade, Serbia.
Her interdisciplinary research focuses on critical peace and conflict studies, memory politics and memory activism. In the past 2 decades she has been studying processes of conflict transformation in the post-Yugoslav space, and memory activism that has emerged from the study of anti-war activism during the wars of the 1990s in Serbia. She also has published extensively about Kosovo-Serbia relations, from the perspective of everyday peace and peace formation from below.
Her new co-edited book (with Sarah Gensburger) will be with Palgrave by the end of this year and is titled The Covid-19 Pandemic and Memory. Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis.
Among her current new research projects is a comparative study of alternative commemorative events, which includes new empirical evidence from The Israeli-Palestinian joint Memorial Day Ceremony.