Abstracts Archive

The interest in journalism in the Balkans, which began with the Crimean War, intensified the efforts to feature the tidings of that region in the printed and visual press. It escalated with the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, and peaked with the Balkan War and World War I. This study was intended to p...

Imperial archives are acknowledged curated and contested spaces. While a number of scholars have interrogated the role of memory and the archive, fewer interrogated the ability of one regional space to influence the archive and mnemonic production of another within the same archive. Politics in the ...

W.G. Sebald's enigmatic novel Austerlitz presents a survivor's narrative of the eponymous Jacque Austerlitz, a man whose search for his past and identity takes the reader on a journey that transcends time, space, and medium. As a young Jewish boy in 1939, Austerlitz was rescued from Naz...

As part of my PhD research, I am examining memory narratives of women who experienced the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the cultural representations of such narratives. In this paper, I seek to examine memory narratives that are presented in a documentary series entitled Mad, Bad and Dangerous&nb...

The paper explores convergences, relationships, and interactions between materialised forms of contested historical narratives and people, at the controversial Liberty square in Budapest. The square has been a site for the country's various regimes to set in stone their own narratives of Hungarian h...

The symbolic and emotive power of memorials is important for the structuring of post-violence societies and their political narratives in the international discourse on genocide and mass atrocity. At these sites and in discussions with various memory actors, the term 'authentic' is frequently used t...

In this paper, I will explore "the subtle entanglement of joy, hope and trauma" in the memories of the St. Louis survivors (Anderson and Ortner, 2018, p. 7). The ocean liner M.S. St. Louis left Nazi Germany in 1939 carrying over 900 Jewish refugees toward Cuba, only to be refused entry upon arrival....

When religion and politics merge, it would be difficult to fight for personal rights. Residential schools in Canada were founded to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian society. The Canadian federal government and the churches were responsible for Indigenous children at the residential ...

Canada is a federal state composed of 13 provinces and territories. Moreover, its population is diverse: first occupied by Aboriginals, its territory was colonized by France then by Great Britain. This historical process led to two main minority communities, English speakers in the province of Quebe...

Rumors thrive in authoritarian contexts. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an explosion of new rumors regarding sources of infection (e.g., travelers, migrants, and returning migrants), forms of treatment (e.g., hydroxychloroquine), access to care (e.g., being turned away, jumping the line), and t...

The memory of the 16 October 1943-roundup and deportation of more than one thousand Jews in Rome still provides an open wound among the Jewish families and is cause of distress in sensible Christian contexts, mainly the ones involved in the inter-religious dialogue.An original and emotional way to k...

Coined in France by historian Pierre Nora in the early 1980's, the concept of realm of memory (lieux de mémoire) became one of the most influential references in the growing field of memory studies. Thought as a conceptual framework able to renew French historiography and built on inquiries specif...

The paper is a case study illuminating the role of events in pushing forward a revisionist historical narrative that aims at legitimizing contemporary Bulgarian national populism. The event in mind, Lukov March, which started as a marginal commemoration of a pro-fascist interwar leader, has become a...

In November 2012, the Board of Education of Howard County, Maryland approved a proclamation that expressed "profound regret that the Howard County Public School System maintained segregated and unequal public schools both prior, and subsequent to" Brown v. Board of Education. The proclamation descri...

Memoria, arte y trasmisión intergeneracional. Prácticas artísticas con estudiantes en espacios de memoria en ArgentinaEste trabajo se propone reflexionar sobre el problema de la transmisión del traumático pasado reciente argentino a las nuevas generaciones y sobre ...

Spain's transition to democracy, broadly defined as the period between Franco's death in 1975 and the arrival of a Socialist government in 1982, has often been lauded as an example of good leadership and successful political development. For the better part of four decades, the changes that Spain un...

Regina Jose Galindo (Guatemala, 1974) since her initial performances – To see [Hasta ver] and Who can erase the trace? [¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?], in 2002 and 2003, respectively– has dedicated her performance to make visible the crimes perpetrated during internal war in her country and...

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...

My paper is based on the archive of photographs inherited from my grandfather, Sebastià Llop: positive slides depicting images of his family life between the 60's and the early 2000's in Catalonia that contain insight on the shifting ideas of family, collectivity and nation. My aim is to explore hi...

1989 in Poland marked a profound change of the importance of the parliament. After the peaceful revolution, the parliament became once again the main legislative institution in the political system. However, the perception of the politics of memory in public opinion has been long constituted around ...

The memory wave that has been impacting social sciences also resonates in the field of Kurdish studies. As my fellow scholars increasingly focus on the rights' movement and seek justice for Kurds, I aim to explore the relationality between the Turkish state violence against Kurds and the counter-res...

Histories are increasingly mediated in virtual reality, computer games, web-based digital environments and interactive museum exhibitions. Many of these new, highly immersive digital media obliterate the act of mediation and offer a personal, felt connection to the past. The omnipresence of affectiv...

Tragically, nearly 5000 Americans, a large majority of them African Americans, were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. These murders took place across the United States and not just in the states that traditionally make up the American South (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,...

Matter matters in the memory politics of post-conflict societies. Artefacts and affective personal objects reveal the tangible legacy of conflict, physically ground memory work and situate commemorations and actors. Pinning memories to a particular material object is a useful and long-known mnem...

Memorials are public sites, usually urban, that promote memory of a collectively shared past. While much research has focused how memorials have shifted in focus from tradition ways of representing heroes and victories to a 'counter memorial' form about victims and loss, little has been done to tran...

EUGENIJUS ŽMUIDAThe „Lost" and The „Born" Generations: two types of Memories on the WWI and a short comparison of Western and Eastern Great War literature The Great War was not only the first modern war (in terms of technology) in the history of mankind but also the War involving the greatest ...

My paper will present the outcomes of a recent empirical survey conducted with two generations in the present‑day Czech Republic. The first generation lived the majority of their lives under the Communist regime while the second generation was born after the fall of Communism. The analysis reveale...

Once a primarily Jewish trauma, the Holocaust is now a universal symbol that plays a significant role in contemporary politics and to questions concerning justice and human rights. However, each European country has its own relation to this genocide and in the post-war era Sweden has primarily ident...

The EU's 'Eastern enlargement' has not ended the historical exceptionality of Western Europe's wealth and power. EU member states might be part of the same union, still there is a general divide in the lived socioeconomic realities of people with a 'capitalist' and 'socialist' past. The fact that th...

This presentation adds to the still relatively small corpus of historical studies dealing with memory's workings within specific kinds of institutional or organized community, and explores a possible territory of 'convergence' between memory studies, organizational studies and military history. 'Mil...