Abstracts Archive

This paper will explore convergences between memory studies, the posthumanities, and film studies in the context of films that reference Polish Catholic violence towards Jewish people in provincial spaces, which I refer to as an 'aftermath cinema'. Within a number of scholarly fields, there have rec...

This talk will examine nostalgia's relation to the spatial imagination through a revealing case study – nostalgia for the British Mandate (1917-1948) in 21st century Israeli culture. Through an exploration of contemporary Israeli works of literature, theater and art that convey nostalgia f...

Part of a larger research project on the complex materializations of political, terrorist violence in Europe, this paper focuses on the specific theoretical-methodological questions that arise when trying to theorize affect-filled encounters with more-than-human memorials, while trying to create a t...

This paper analyzes family memory storytelling and its transmedia dimension, taking a cue from studies by H. Jenkins (2006) on the example of a specific case study. In 1897, Tomas Drozdzewicz (1868-1919) moved with his family from Stazsow, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, to Kamyšlov, near Ekaterinb...

This paper presents the results of a qualitative micro-study of a 3-minute spoken interaction between a research participant and a researcher. The talk in the interaction concerns the past of the contemporary Polish town of Oswiecim, internationally better known as Auschwitz. Borrowing methods and c...

In this paper, I examine the role of archives as spaces for democratizing memorial processes in societies affected by conflict. In Chantal Mouffe's vision for an agonistic democracy, dissent is institutionalized (2000). Thus, democracy becomes an ongoing conversation about how to cons...

While their potential as powerful memory media has only recently been addressed, digital games have already contributed to the digital memory sphere and are embedded within the meaningful movements of "travelling memories" (Erll 2011). In this paper, I approach digital games as procedural experienc...

This presentation explores how the perpetual traumas and continuous subjugations of the African diasporic subjects emerge in conjunction with their present-day intersectional oppressions. This past-present reality exposes the limits of traditional memory and trauma theories which oftentimes assume a...

Memory pertains to the past but is conditioned by the present. When presented in representational forms, memories of past events are inevitably affected and mediated by the existing symbolic order and cultural imagery, and therefore, are inseparable from cultural memories. Traumatic memory is no exc...

The research I am going to present in my paper aims to investigate the issue of women's participation in the development of modern culture and arts, examining photographs made by women living in Lviv in 1930s, both professionals and amateurs. There are several dimensions in which the research will b...

In the framework of the research project RePAST. Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future (H2020 grant no 769252), I am analyzing the role of contemporary artistic and cultural objects, events and practices working with the questions of memory, trauma, violence and troubling episodes from colle...

The concept of transformative justice has been gaining more attention in the academic literature. As opposed to transitional justice, largely limited by its predominant top-down approach, transformative justice offers a more bottom-up understanding of the needs of war-torn societies. Both have a spe...

En esta ponencia analizaré las prácticas y valores sociales que hicieron posible y legitimaron el terrorismo de estado durante la última dictadura argentina (1976-1983) a través de sus representaciones en la literatura y las artes visuales. Específicamente, examina...