Abstracts Archive

In this paper, I will explore the potential perils of adopting the Holocaust as a paradigmatic focal point within global memory studies and education, exploring specifically the implications of this approach within the politically and historically charged arena of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. R...

In the winter of 2018, millions of women filled the streets of Argentine cities to demand the legalization of abortion. For the first time, a bill constructed by activists over the course of almost four decades was to be heard in the chambers of the National Congress. The Senate rejected the law aft...

In Italy there is a new interesting wave in historical museums, in particular about XXth Century.In the last few years, some new museums have been inaugurated, as M9 in Mestre-Venice; some others have been rearranged, as Museo del Risorgimento in Turin or Museo della guerra in Rovereto; and some oth...

In his essay, "The Hour of Poetry," John Berger states that the labor of poetry is "to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart." He goes on to clarify that "Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reasse...

My paper explores two emblematic Abbey productions of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulisstaged for the National Theatre of Ireland, Katie Mitchell's acclaimedIphigenia at Aulis(2001) and Marina Carr's loose adaptation Ariel (2002).Iphigeneia's new millennial re-workings were staged i...

In 2010, in a popular neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, followers of the Colombian guerrilla Manuel Marulanda Vélez, aka Tirofijo, build a square and raised a statue honoring the leader of the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia-People's Army, FARC-EP, causing great distress among Co...

Despite the so-called 'turn toward the figure of the perpetrator in recent historical fiction' (Crownshaw 2011), contemporary trauma theory has paid little attention to the representation of perpetrator trauma in both literature and film. The discomfort of recognizing perpetrator trauma and the incl...

In August 2014 President Vladimir Putin inaugurated a monument, erected on the Poklonnaya Gora Hill in Moscow and dedicated to Russian soldiers who fell during the First World War. Putin loudly declared that their victory was stolen from his country. According to his words, "it was stolen by those w...

In 2015, one of the most important educational reforms of Putin's day in the field of historical science in the Russian high school was implemented. In the area of Russian foreign policy, this reform was preceded by the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas, while in domestic politics, this...

My presentation sets out to explore the street as a vehicle of remembering and forgetting, based on the example of site of the former Warsaw ghetto, which Jacek Leociak's aptly calls "miejsce-po-getcie" (2001). Rather than study official commemorative practices, I will refer to The Polin Museum's cu...

In his acclaimed book "How Fascism Works", Jason Stanley presents eight different aspects of fascist politics; one of them is sexual anxiety (cf. Stanley 2018: xxxi), in which the male-centered gender hierarchy is threatened by womanhood and gender equity. Stanley further explains how totalitarian l...

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the memory of a "Polish woman" – in Hebrew: "ha-Polaniya" - in the collective memory of Israeli travelers with Polish origins, who recently started to visit Poland for a leisure tourism. By using the conception of a dynamic memory (Rigney 2008) and travellin...

Within  debates surrounding 'Levi's Paradox' – the idea that through their survival, survivors are not necessarily the 'complete witnesses' of the Holocaust  – the Muselmann is frequently posited as a figure able reconcile this conundrum. Within testimonial ...