Event’s Category: Seminar
Memory, Monument, Anti-Monument: The Challenge of Virtual and Augmented Technologies
2022-06-28
– 2022-06-28
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
Prof. Andra Pinotti (University of Milan) will deliver a talk on "Memory, Monument, Anti-Monument: The Challenge of Virtual and Augmented Technologies".
Andrea Pinotti is a professor in Aesthetics in the department of Philosophy “PieroMartinetti”, State University ofMilanand President of the scientific council of the Fondation Maisondes Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. His research focuses on image theories and visual culture studies, virtual and augmented reality, memorialisation and monumentality, empathy theories, the morphological tradition from Goethe to the present day. He is currently directing anadvanced project funded by the ERC(European Research Council) and entitled An-Iconology. History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images (2019-24).
You will find more information on 4EU+ Pluralities of Memory project under this link:
https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../...
https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../...
Conspiracy mentality as an adaptation to historical trauma | Seminar with Michał Bilewicz
2024-12-10
– 2024-12-10
09:00
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- 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 with Michał Bilewicz, author of "Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości" and Zofia Wóycicka as a moderator, to discuss "Conspiracy mentality as an adaptation to historical trauma".
Abstract
Conspiracy beliefs are often viewed as a form of psychopathology, closely linked to anxiety, paranoia, and maladaptive traits. However, recent research has brought attention to adaptive and functional aspects of conspiracy theories. I would like to present a framework for understanding conspiracy mentality (a generalized tendency to believe conspiracy theories) as a paradoxical adaptation to historical trauma. There is vast evidence that three essential aspects of historical trauma (loss of personal and collective control, status devaluation, and victimhood) constitute the key antecedents of conspiracy beliefs. Although conspiracy theories might be adaptive in times of shared trauma (e.g., war, colonization), they become maladaptive in times of peace and prosperity. Examples from research performed in Poland, Greece and other traumatized societies will be presented as evidence for such destructive consequences of historical trauma.
Michał Bilewicz is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, where he established the Center for Research on Prejudice. Previously, he was a Fulbright scholar at the New School for Social Research (USA) and DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the University of Jena (Germany). In 2005-2019 he served as the Vice-President of Forum for Dialogue and since 2020 he has been chairing the Scholarly Advisory Board of this NGO focusing on raising awareness of the histories of Jews in Poland and inspiring new connections between contemporary Poland and the Jewish people. His research interests include psychological foundations of prejudice, post-genocide reconciliation, dehumanization, antisemitism, and collective moral emotions. For his research in political psychology he received the Nevitt Sanford Award of the International Society of Political Psychology. His works appeared in "Political Psychology", "Memory Studies", "Psychological Inquiry" and "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology", among other journals. Recently he published the book "Traumaland" that aims to analyze the traumatic sources of social, political and psychological specificity of Polish society.
Peripheral Shame: Affective City and the Nation on the Margins of Post-Colonial Georgia
2024-11-19
– 2024-11-19
09:30
– 12:00
- ONLINE
- English
We kindly invite you to a seminar with Tamta Khalvashi "Peripheral Shame: Affective City and the Nation on the Margins of Post-Colonial Georgia". The meeting will be chaired by Zuzanna Bogumił.
The seminar will take place online, 19 November at 9:30am CET.
Please register in order to participate: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/.../tJAofuCspz4pHdNazRZtsXGoVAD...Abstract
Based on the forthcoming book Peripheral Shame: Affective City and the Nation on the Margins of Post-Colonial Georgia, Tamta Khalvashi explores post-Soviet Georgia as a unique postcolonial space that gives rise to an affective condition of peripheral shame. By mixing family archives and autoethnographic reflections with traditional fieldwork material, she follows glimpses of this shame in various urban settings, from the monuments on the move to indebted houses or from unburied bodies of Soviet mass killings to awkward coexistence of different religious and ethnic groups in urban courtyards of Batumi on the western edge of Georgia. Khalvashi offers a new way of conceiving shame, not just as a feeling of stratified geopolitical, social, or personal relations but as an impulse to straddle with or repair ongoing peripheral frictions. She thus approaches shame as a productive feeling that gives rise to inconvenient coexistence, which is the only way to live and survive on the margins of the postcolonial world.
Based on the forthcoming book Peripheral Shame: Affective City and the Nation on the Margins of Post-Colonial Georgia, Tamta Khalvashi explores post-Soviet Georgia as a unique postcolonial space that gives rise to an affective condition of peripheral shame. By mixing family archives and autoethnographic reflections with traditional fieldwork material, she follows glimpses of this shame in various urban settings, from the monuments on the move to indebted houses or from unburied bodies of Soviet mass killings to awkward coexistence of different religious and ethnic groups in urban courtyards of Batumi on the western edge of Georgia. Khalvashi offers a new way of conceiving shame, not just as a feeling of stratified geopolitical, social, or personal relations but as an impulse to straddle with or repair ongoing peripheral frictions. She thus approaches shame as a productive feeling that gives rise to inconvenient coexistence, which is the only way to live and survive on the margins of the postcolonial world.
Bio
Tamta Khalvashi is a professor of Anthropology and the Head of the PhD Program of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology from Copenhagen University (2015). She has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the Fulbright Program at New York University, Department of Anthropology (2016-2017) and Cornell University, the Society for the Humanities (2022-23). Her research interests overlap experimental anthropology, the interdisciplinary field of affect theory, and cultural anthropology, focusing on postsocialist transformations, peripheral histories, marginal social identities, space, and materiality. Her article Horizons of Medea: Economies and Cosmologies of Dispossession in Georgia (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, 2018) has been awarded Honorary Mention from Soyuz (Postsocialist Cultural Studies Research Network of the American Anthropological Association) in the Article Price Annual Competition (2018). Currently, Khalvashi is finalising her book Peripheral Shame. She is the author of A Sea of Transience: Politics, Poetics and Aesthetics Along the Black Sea Coast (with Martin Demant Frederiksen) (Berghahn 2023).
Tamta Khalvashi is a professor of Anthropology and the Head of the PhD Program of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology from Copenhagen University (2015). She has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the Fulbright Program at New York University, Department of Anthropology (2016-2017) and Cornell University, the Society for the Humanities (2022-23). Her research interests overlap experimental anthropology, the interdisciplinary field of affect theory, and cultural anthropology, focusing on postsocialist transformations, peripheral histories, marginal social identities, space, and materiality. Her article Horizons of Medea: Economies and Cosmologies of Dispossession in Georgia (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, 2018) has been awarded Honorary Mention from Soyuz (Postsocialist Cultural Studies Research Network of the American Anthropological Association) in the Article Price Annual Competition (2018). Currently, Khalvashi is finalising her book Peripheral Shame. She is the author of A Sea of Transience: Politics, Poetics and Aesthetics Along the Black Sea Coast (with Martin Demant Frederiksen) (Berghahn 2023).
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.
Polska i Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia w perspektywie postkolonialnej
2022-05-10
– 2022-05-10
12:00
– 14:00
- Polish (polski)
Dyskusja z serii „Postkolonialne perspektywy – postzależnościowe uwikłania”
Hanna Gosk, Wydział Polonistyki UW
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Wydział Socjologii UW
Tomasz Zarycki, Instytut Studiów Społecznych UW
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Wydział Socjologii UW
Tomasz Zarycki, Instytut Studiów Społecznych UW
Prowadzenie: Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Wydział Socjologii UW
Rejestracja na spotkanie:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0qceyvpjwtHNBemYLUDou0CWOd6...
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0qceyvpjwtHNBemYLUDou0CWOd6...
Militarna napaść Federacji Rosyjskiej na Ukrainę 24 lutego 2022, poprzedzona rewizjonistycznym wykładem historycznym Władimira Putina na temat historii Ukrainy oraz przedstawieniem pożądanego przez Rosję porządku geopolitycznego w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, a następnie reakcje UE i NATO na wywołaną przez Rosję wojnę, w sposób wyrazisty pokazały trwałość zależnościowej sytuacji mieszkańców regionu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Włączanie interpretacji historii Polski i całego regionu w nurt studiów postkolonialnych ma już swoją długoletnią tradycję, lecz ciągle aktualne
pozostaje pytanie o to, co badania nad kolonializmem i perspektywa post-kolonialna (de-kolonialna) mogą wnieść do rozumienia przeszłości i aktualnej sytuacji państw i społeczeństw regionu (w różnych wymiarach – od ekonomicznego, przez polityczny, po kulturowy).
pozostaje pytanie o to, co badania nad kolonializmem i perspektywa post-kolonialna (de-kolonialna) mogą wnieść do rozumienia przeszłości i aktualnej sytuacji państw i społeczeństw regionu (w różnych wymiarach – od ekonomicznego, przez polityczny, po kulturowy).
W kontekście ostatnich wydarzeń, ale także biorąc pod uwagę toczące się od lat dyskusje nad interpretacją historii Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej i – szczególnie – Polski, w perspektywie badań nad imperializmem/post-imperializmem czy neo-imperializmem chcemy postawić pytanie o użyteczność stosowania postkolonialnej, postzależnościowej, postimperialnej perspektywy do opisu społecznej, kulturowej i politycznej kondycji regionu, a w szczególności:
1. Jakie zalety i wady ma przyjęcie perspektywy post-kolonialnej lub post-zależnościowej do
interpretacji dziejów Polski i jej aktualnej sytuacji? Na czym polegają różnice między tymi perspektywami? Jak włączają przypadek Polski w porównawcze analizy dotyczące sytuacji współczesnego zglobalizowanego świata?
interpretacji dziejów Polski i jej aktualnej sytuacji? Na czym polegają różnice między tymi perspektywami? Jak włączają przypadek Polski w porównawcze analizy dotyczące sytuacji współczesnego zglobalizowanego świata?
2. Jaki charakter ma kolonializm rosyjski? Czy możemy mówić o szczególnych cechach kolonializmu rosyjskiego, które wyróżniały Rosję na tle innych imperiów kolonialnych? Jaka jest zależności między carskim kolonializmem, sowieckim imperializmem i współczesną polityką rosyjską?
3. Jak myślenie o Polsce w kategoriach post-kolonialnych/post-zależnościowych wpływa na naszą interpretację współczesnej sytuacji państw regionu, w tym szczególnie Ukrainy?
Seria dyskusji „Postkolonialne perspektywy – postzależnościowe uwikłania” odbywa się w ramach grantów badawczych:
„Pamięć o represjach sowieckich na post-wielokulturowym rosyjskim Dalekim Wschodzie”, „Pamięć społeczna a postimperialne dziedzictwo rosyjskie we współczesnej Polsce” oraz „Decolonial Museology Recentered: Thinking Theory and Practice Through East-Central Europe”.
„Pamięć o represjach sowieckich na post-wielokulturowym rosyjskim Dalekim Wschodzie”, „Pamięć społeczna a postimperialne dziedzictwo rosyjskie we współczesnej Polsce” oraz „Decolonial Museology Recentered: Thinking Theory and Practice Through East-Central Europe”.
“Holocaust Trajectories: Jewish Survivors and their Memories on Greece in 1941–1946” Seminar
2022-04-26
– 2022-04-26
09:30
– 11:30
- ONLINE
- English
Prof. Kateřina Králová (Charles University Prague) will deliver a talk on "Holocaust Trajectories: Jewish Survivors and their Memories on Greece in 1941–1946" as a part of 4EU+ International Seminar Series "European Memory Studies: New Research Directions".
Registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZMsc...
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Kateřina Králová is Associate Professor of Contemporary History, Institute of International Studies, Charles University (CUNI).
As a historian, her work focuses on reconciliation with the Nazi past, the Holocaust, the Greek Civil War, conflict-related migration, and post-war reconstruction. K. Králová, an alumna of Phillips University Marburg, has been awarded major international fellowships, including the Alexander von Humboldt, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, a USHMM fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University. She authored the book Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung on Greek-German relations since the 1940s (Böhlau, 2016; BpB 2017) as well as numerous articles and volumes in Czech, English, German, and Greek.
As a historian, her work focuses on reconciliation with the Nazi past, the Holocaust, the Greek Civil War, conflict-related migration, and post-war reconstruction. K. Králová, an alumna of Phillips University Marburg, has been awarded major international fellowships, including the Alexander von Humboldt, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, a USHMM fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University. She authored the book Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung on Greek-German relations since the 1940s (Böhlau, 2016; BpB 2017) as well as numerous articles and volumes in Czech, English, German, and Greek.
You will find more information on 4EU+ Pluralities of Memory project under this link:
https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../...
https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../...
“Mnemonic migration – transnational circulation and public reception of Bosnian War-time memories” Seminar
2022-03-22
– 2022-03-22
09:30
– 11:30
- English
Prof. Jessica Ortner and Prof. Tea Sindbæk Andersen, (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a talk on "Mnemonic migration – transnational circulation and public reception of Bosnian War-time memories" as a part of 4EU+ International Seminar Series "European Memory Studies: New Research Directions".
Jessica Ortner is Associate Professor at the department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Ortner’s research focuses on German and European memory politics, Eastern European and Bosnian migrant literature and German-Jewish literature. Publications include the monograph Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature (in print), and, together with Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Memory Studies – Special Issue. Memory of Joy (2019).
Tea Sindbæk Andersen is Associate Professor of East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Sindbæk Andersen’s research focuses on cultural memory, uses of history, identity politics and popular culture in the Yugoslav area. She is the author of Usable History? Representations of Yugoslavia’s difficult past from 1945 to 2002 (Aarhus UP 2012) and, with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, co-editor of The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception (Brill 2018).
The seminar is organized by Center for Research on Social Memory (CRSM), Faculty of Sociology, and the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies (CFC) of the University of Warsaw, and conveyed by Dr Nicolas Maslowski (CFC) and Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (CRSM).
You will find more information on 4EU+ Pluralities of Memory project under this link: https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../...
The Landscapes of Mass Violence | Seminar with Prof. Luba Jurgenson
2022-02-22
– 2022-02-22
09:30
– 11:30
- ONLINE
- English
Prof. Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University) will deliver a talk on "The Landscapes of Violence" as a part of 4EU+ International Seminar Series "European Memory Studies: New Research Directions".
Luba Jurgenson, professor in the department of Slavic Studies at Sorbonne University, director of the Center for Research on Eastern, Balcanic and Central Europe. Her research focuses on the representations of mass violence in Central and Eastern Europe, especially textual and visual representations of the Gulag and of the Holocaust, landscapes of memory.
Published recently: Landscapes of/by Memory (with Philippe Mesnard, exhibition catalogue, 2020), Lo specchio del Gulag in Francia e in Italia (with Claudia Pieralli, Pisa University Press 2019)
Published recently: Landscapes of/by Memory (with Philippe Mesnard, exhibition catalogue, 2020), Lo specchio del Gulag in Francia e in Italia (with Claudia Pieralli, Pisa University Press 2019)
The seminar is organized by Center for Research on Social Memory (CRSM), Faculty of Sociology, and the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies (CFC) of the University of Warsaw, and conveyed by Dr Nicolas Maslowski (CFC) and Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (CRSM).
You will find more information on 4EU+ Pluralities of Memory project under this link: https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../
