Abstracts Archive

This paper is part of my Master's Thesis under the same title submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts; Nationalism Studies Program; Central European University; Budapest 2020The paper looks at the state policy towards Stalin and his legacy on the exampl...

Confronting the Memory of War: A call from transitional institutionsThis paper is a historical glance at activities and happenings of a post conflict country Sierra Leone. It examined what matter more before, during and after the eleven years of bloody war in Sierra Leone. Confronting the memory of ...

Digitisation of museum collections promises to transgress geography and physical space by dismantling institutional and even national boundaries and opening-up a possibility to achieve a truly data based overview of composition of national and transnational cultural memory. National mass digitisatio...

This present paper aims to discuss and make a comparative analysis between the visual content shared on Instagram of two ethnographic and imperial museums: the Humboldt Forum, in Berlin, and the Rio de Janeiro's National Museum. While the National Museum exists nowadays as an archive of remains, sin...

The aim is to research the cultural strategy towards social memory in Lviv in the process of settling accounts with the Nazi and Stalinist heritage. Activists and employees of the Terror Museum create contemporary projects to confront the recipient with the problem of settling the history of the Hol...

Different authors coincide in affirming that, in transitional contexts, the construction of collective memory should not be oriented to establishing a common, unified or, official account of past events but rather to composing a plural account in which different narratives could have a place. Howeve...

The city council of Barcelona has in place since 2015 a program of memory actions to address both local memories as well as historical events including those related to pending past issues such as the remembrance of the victims of the Spanish civil war. Our contribution focuses on three case studie...

This paper will offer critical reflections on 'The Impossible Scene', a performance intervention in the ESMA Memory Site Museum in Buenos Aires in November 2019. This example of practice-as-research was an output of the AHRC funded project 'Staging Difficult Pasts: Of Narratives, Objects and Public ...

In my presentation I would like to take a closer look on current narrations delivered by the Polish historical museums (the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk and the Warsaw Uprising Museum) and examine how their inclusiveness or exclusiveness of storytelling changes the visitor's perspective...

My paper is about the phenomenon of historical memory of Joseph Stalin in the museums. The museum as an institution has a very important role in maintaining memory in the society. According to Marcin Kula's theory, the museum is a "carrier of memory". After the collapse of the Soviet Union, 15 ne...

Like many other Asian American women writers, Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiographical works have been constantly renegotiating with cultural memories by blurring the boundaries of genres, blending the personal with a collective history, interfusing life stories with legend and myth, and mixing t...

In the past decade, several museums focusing on migration have opened around Europe. What they all have in common is the goal to increase awareness on the role of migrations for the respective country or city where they are based. They advocate for understanding emigration, and/or, immigration as cr...

This paper examines the role of brick and mortar museum spaces in shaping public memory of conflict through two case studies: Beit Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon, and the Partition Museum in Amritsar, India. Both museums commenced operations in 2017, and have since charted diverging trajectories as ins...

The question of how to write the history of the CEE Jewry after 1989/91 remains crucial for all the so-called 'bloodlands'. The problem of how – as a majority – to address the past and tell the story of the exterminated diaspora is part of that question. I intend to examine ...

The contribution focuses on two regional Mexican museums, which are dedicated to the regional history of indigenous societies: el museo yaqui/Yaqui museum in Sonora and the Museo de la guerra de castas/Museum of the Caste War in Quintana Roo. Both museums have been founded within a national "cultura...

Participatory and socially inclusive initiatives in cultural heritage have created a new 'hybrid collective'. The GLAM sector witnesses joining forces for digital transformation on which many memory institutions have already embarked in order to cope with the ever-changing landscape of the new media...

Within memory studies it is not uncommon to refer to a wide array of practices as well as research techniques as 'memory work'. The term highlights an element of process in collective memory (Fischer 2015) and is considered a "qualitative, interpretivist research approach focused on memories, which ...

In the 21st century, Germany has achieved a special status in popular and scholarly discussions of national memory, seemingly having incorporated its Nazi past successfully into a national democratic narrative. This self-critical engagement with the legacy of German crimes has also been adopted by m...

The following paper represents the results of several years´ research focused on the topic of politically and ideologically motivated transformations of mass media images of two Spanish personalities - Federico García Lorca and José Ortega y Gasset - in the Czechoslovak cultural environment durin...

It seems to be a classical assumption that memory is not as much about the past than about our way to recall and use it in the present (Halbwachs, 1925). Numerous contributions study this relation from the present to the past. What some authors call an "ethics of never again" (Baer & Sznaider, 2016)...

Imperialism, with its emphasis on 'heroes', conquest and colonialism has been subject to intense criticism in recent years. This paper utilises Laura Basu's 'memory dispositif' construction to explore how the expression of the memory of an 'imperial hero' can change over time and space so that it ha...

Memory constitutes an important part of how we view international partnerships. Past victories, defeats and joint endeavours contribute to a feeling of allegiance and friendship. Moreover, historical memory plays a role for the legitimation of international politics "because historical references ...

This paper examines the (historical) narrative in German newspapers that ultimately shapes the Germans' image of the nation. Starting from the assumption that a nation is an "imagined political community" (Anderson, 1991), which is based on shared knowledge of traditions and historic identities, the...