tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51663711166770145582024-03-23T10:13:34.964+00:00Memory at War: BlogR E Finninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277988227419632977noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-43466152386937132132013-07-05T13:20:00.002+01:002013-07-05T13:20:55.189+01:00Remembering the Ghetto Uprising<!--StartFragment-->
The
commemorations of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April and May this year
represented a major, multifaceted memory event for Poland. The commemorations
were far more than the repetition of rituals according to a set tradition.
Warsaw has, of course, commemorated the uprising many times, in many different
forms, but this year’s events, in their scale and diversity, and inUilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-21849652905417830772013-04-16T17:46:00.003+01:002013-04-18T12:38:47.461+01:00The Holocaust in L'viv and 'European Memory'. The two levels of Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness
Agnieszka Holland’s choice of L'viv as the setting for In Darkness (2011) raises a number of important questions about the portrayal of
the Holocaust. The
film, which is based on a memoir, portrays the fate of a group of Jews who are
hidden and kept alive in the city’s sewers by a Pole. The Pole initially helps the Jews purely for material gain, and shows little empathy for their Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-54773138257109789542013-01-16T14:24:00.001+00:002013-01-16T14:25:55.262+00:00The Prison on Lonts’kyi Street: Memory Dialogue or Memory Monologue?
Courtyard of the museum, photo by Uilleam Blacker
The Prison on Lonts’kyi Street: Memory Dialogue or Memory Monologue?
Uilleam Blacker
First published on the Current Ukrainian Politics Blog:
http://ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/the-prison-on-lontskyi-street-memory-dialogue-or-memory-monologue/
L’viv’s wartime history is complex, and demands sensitivity and an Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-86980450558879368992012-10-03T13:35:00.000+01:002012-10-03T13:54:00.514+01:00Memory and Language in Ukraine: some reflections on a recent journey
It is hard to underestimate the usefulness of physically visiting landscapes of memory. This simple act can be just as instructive as hours spent in libraries or trawling the internet. As well as affording the opportunity to learn things that one would otherwise miss, it allows one to connect to the memories that one studies practically, rather than simply theoretically. It can also challenge Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-2566405898958832722012-09-27T17:53:00.001+01:002012-09-27T17:57:11.428+01:00Understanding Katyn
Epitaph tablets honouring Katyn victims outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine
Earlier this month the National Archives of the United States released to the public a massive corpus of declassified documents related to Katyn, the massacre of nearly 22,000 unarmed Polish prisoners by Stalin's secret police in 1940. Obscured by one of the longest and most extensive cover-ups in history, Katyn has been forR E Finninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277988227419632977noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-31664283799675880632012-06-04T13:26:00.001+01:002012-06-04T13:31:56.081+01:00Eastern European Xenophobia Under Western Eyes: Euro 2012 in Poland-Ukraine
The scenes of
racist and anti-Semitic behaviour among Polish and Ukrainian football fans
shown in the BBC’s recent Panorama programme speak for themselves. There is little
about these images that could be ‘manipulated’, as some Polish commentators
have suggested, to make these supporters look worse than they are. There is a serious problem. But does
it merit Sol Campbell’s warning to stay away,Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-53963956236697156132012-05-04T18:17:00.000+01:002012-05-07T18:26:05.040+01:00What’s the Colour of Russian Protest?
Julie Fedor and Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa
From the outset, the protest movement that began after the announcement of the Putin-Medvedev tandem’s ‘castling move’ in September last year claimed for itself the colour white as its key defining symbol. White was chosen for its traditional associations with purity and honesty (i.e. anti-corruption, anti-fraud), and peace (i.e. commitment to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-69848403264253498382012-02-27T18:42:00.000+00:002012-02-27T18:42:37.658+00:004 ноября как 4 февраля: к истории новейших российских протестов
English version
Галина Никипорец-Такигава
В январе 2012, говоря об обещании Михаила Прохорова участвовать в российских митингах протеста 4 февраля, Газета.ру сделала важную ошибку: «Кандидат в президенты, который побывал на митинге несогласных с итогами выборов в Госдуме, обещал принять участие в следующей акции протеста, намеченной на 4 ноября» (Gazeta.ru). Galina Nikiporets-Takigawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04018716017457401612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-55935334859194409492012-02-27T14:58:00.006+00:002012-02-27T18:42:46.734+00:004 November as 4 February: Towards a History of the Recent Russian Protests
Russian version
Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa
In January 2012, in a report announcing Mikhail Prokhorov’s pledge to participate in the forthcoming demonstrations on 4 February, Gazeta.ru made a meaningful mistake: ‘The presidential candidate, who attended a rally of those protesting the results of the Gosduma elections, has promised to take part in the next rally, scheduled for 4 November’ Galina Nikiporets-Takigawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04018716017457401612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-37634674538742124852012-02-13T09:08:00.000+00:002012-02-13T09:08:11.988+00:00On New Media, Memory and Identity in Russia by Vera ZverevaRussia has now become the European leader in terms of the number of internet users. ComScore statistics from September 2011 indicate that there are currently around 50.8 million internet users, i.e. unique visitors aged 15 and above, in Russia. In other words, roughly one third of Russians now use the internet.
There are several important factors to note here. First, the huge numbers involved,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-51756818032432343312012-01-31T14:55:00.005+00:002012-02-13T12:21:56.240+00:00Memory Work and Civil Society
Memory Work and Civil Society, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 5 December 2011.In a paper given at Memory at War’s ‘Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe’ conference in July 2011, Jay Winter outlined the important role of memory in bolstering the growing discourse of human rights in post-war Europe. Undoubtedly, in both Western and Eastern Europe, the attention to memory, versus traditionally Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-91256436836025460232011-10-28T13:45:00.005+01:002012-01-31T14:54:51.015+00:00(De)constructing a national memory – the presence of the past in post-independence Ukrainian literature.Також не пишу я про гуннів, про готів,Ані про манкуртів, ні про яничарів,Ані про Батурин, ані про Почаїв,Ні про Калнишевського, ні про Мазепу.Варю собі каву. Читаю газету.Ходжу до клозету. Ходжу до театру.I don’t write about Huns or Goths,Nor about Mankurts nor Janissaries,Nor about Baturyn nor Pochaiv,Nor about Kalnyshevskyi, nor Mazepa.I make myself coffee. I read the paper.I go to the loo. I Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-19716243407237562362011-09-14T12:43:00.003+01:002011-09-14T12:59:52.379+01:00Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe Conference Report by Simon LewisThe “Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe” conference, which took place at King’s College, Cambridge on July 4th and 5th, gathered scholars from institutions in eight different countries, and was divided into seven panels. The last panel was followed by a round-table discussion involving all of the speakers and guests. The first session, entitled “Burying the Undead”, was started by Andrzej NowakUilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-46928975340355694772011-09-03T08:53:00.006+01:002011-09-03T09:20:36.174+01:00Post-Soviet Digital Memories in the FjordsMemory at War's Bergen team looks back on an inspiring project conference. 'Post-socialist digital memories' were the topic of a 3-day Web Wars gathering in the Norwegian fjords of 22 European/Australian media experts, (literary & cultural) historians, linguists, sociologists, political scientists, and psychologists. In what proved to be a fruitful "experimental laboratory" (Vera Zvereva) of Ellen Ruttenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03828182045050743164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-36418719868294891762011-07-07T13:52:00.004+01:002011-07-07T13:56:32.403+01:00Post-Soviet Monuments to Holocaust Victims, by Andriy PortnovOn Three Monuments to Holocaust Victims:
Reflections on Victory Day (9 May)
Andriy Portnov
There was no place for ethnically or religiously marked suffering or victims in the Soviet image of the Great Patriotic War. It is precisely for this reason that the phrase ‘peaceful Soviet citizens’ was used in referring to the millions of Jews who were murdered. The Soviet deportations on ethnic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-69646523504997461812011-06-27T11:04:00.000+01:002011-06-27T11:04:00.184+01:00Katyn Museum as Site of Divided Memory: Warsaw SeminarOn 22 June the Social Memory Laboratory at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, hosted a presentation by Piotr H. Kosicki (Department of History, Princeton University) A Divided Memory: A History of the Katyń Museum in Warsaw. The presentation was part of the Social Memory Laboratory’s regular ongoing seminar series.
In his presentation Piotr H. Kosicki stressed that “in JanuaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-70959500820606065322011-05-29T20:54:00.003+01:002011-05-31T12:44:18.978+01:00A Georgian Perspective on Memory ConflictsIt's common to say that we have the most mobile monuments in Georgia. In fact, the statement is literally true: the government erects, removes, dismantles, blows up and relocates different statues and memorials quite frequently. Having been exposed during my first lecture as a student at the Faculty of History at Tbilisi State University to the positivist myth that "history is an exact science",Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-17459936149896740212011-05-05T13:16:00.003+01:002011-05-05T13:20:46.289+01:00Memory at War LunchOn May 11, the Web Wars team hosts a project lunch at the University of Bergen. Team members Vera Zvereva (researcher), Maartje Gerretsen (filmmaker) and Ellen Rutten (project leader) will share project plans and first findings with local experts and project affiliates from both Slavonic and media studies. Scholars or practitioners with an interest in the field(s) who happen to be able to join inEllen Ruttenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03828182045050743164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-85936401557553602192011-04-05T19:57:00.001+01:002011-04-05T19:58:24.377+01:00Sites of Forgetting II, by Andriy PortnovSomewhat unexpectedly for me, my text about how a ‘Death Tower’ of a Nazi concentration camp for Soviet POWs was transformed into a five-star hotel in Lviv, published a week ago at the ‘History Lessons’ portal, in English translation on the 'Memory at War' collective blog, and in Ukrainian at Polit.ua, prompted a broad response. I received a great many letters and comments, and these have shaped Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-7992995516075523012011-03-21T16:00:00.000+00:002011-03-21T16:00:13.704+00:00Historian Andriy Portnov on Sites of Forgetting in LvivAndriy Portnov reflects on the forgotten war-time history of a five-star hotel in central Lviv which once housed a Nazi concentration camp for Soviet POWs.
Image source: Wikipedia
Sites of Forgetting
In the 1850s the Austrian authorities in Lviv began building a fortified citadel designed to ensure control of the city in the event of an uprising or military actions. Two large and two small Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-37488853153533082182011-03-01T12:55:00.012+00:002011-03-01T13:42:24.599+00:00Old Conflicts, New Media Conference in the MakingBergen's pendant of the Memory at War project, Web Wars, is now up and running. Currently, the WW members are busy finalizing the list of speakers for the first big WW event: the international conference Old Conflicts & New Media: Commemorating the Socialist Experience Online. Keynotes are 'Globital Memory' expert Anna Reading (London South Bank University) and Volodymyr Kulyk (Institute of Ellen Ruttenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03828182045050743164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-71688461040528861132011-02-11T14:16:00.011+00:002011-02-12T16:34:19.921+00:00Ukraine's Monument War<!--StartFragment--> Ukraine began 2011 with a war of monuments. The most significant blow of the ‘conflict’ thus far was struck on 31st December, when a monument to Stalin in Zaporizhzhia was blown up. The monument was erected by the local Communist party on the territory of its headquarters in 2010. The bust was reportedly decapitated on 28 December, before its complete destruction on New Uilleam Blackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090415915639327121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-76540380596820002282011-02-07T16:09:00.001+00:002011-02-07T16:10:36.296+00:00Karaganov: Russians Must Face Up to Soviet 'Suigenocide'Sergei Karaganov delivered an extraordinary programmatic speech on the Soviet past at a meeting with President Medvedev in Yekaterinburg on 1 February 2011. In the speech, Karaganov set out his vision for reconstituting the Russian identity through a re-evaluation of the Soviet past, in a series of striking images. He argued that Russian society could not regain its self-respect until it faced upUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-21378104825956762402011-01-21T18:12:00.003+00:002011-02-05T19:54:01.005+00:00Russian Media Storm over Lenin MausoleumDebates over what to do with Lenin's corpse were renewed this week in the lead-up to the anniversary of Lenin's death (on 21 January), after the launching of a United Russia campaign to bury Lenin and transform his mausoleum into a museum.The campaign was launched by popular historian and Gosduma United Russia deputy Vladimir Medinskii, who this week has variously called Lenin's 'presence as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166371116677014558.post-64628373397882624062010-12-08T15:39:00.003+00:002011-02-05T19:51:52.431+00:00Memory at War postgraduate conference 11-12 March 2011The Memory at War project is holding a postgraduate conference on Memory Studies in Eastern Europe on 11-12 March 2011 at the University of Cambridge.The conference will be the first of a series of three to be held annually between the Universityof Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.In Western Europe and North America, Memory Russian Dinosaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708798725927250672noreply@blogger.com3