Fourth conference from the “Genealogies of Memory” series entitled “Collective vs Collected Memories. 1989-91 from an Oral History Perspective” will take place in Warsaw from 6 to 8 November 2014.
The program of the conference stated as for 15 October is available here while the abstracts of all presentations are to be read here.
The conference aims at discussing how the collapse of state socialism has been commemorated, remembered, or forgotten in Eastern Europe and beyond. The event will be opened by key note speeches by our distinguished guests: Michael Bernhard, Jan Kubik and James V. Wertsch.
During the conference, we hope to address the following questions:
- Who are the primary agents of the memory of 1989–1991? For whom are the national and transnational events of that period important, how and why?
- What different horizons of expectation and realms of experience pertained in 1989–1991? How have these expectations and experiences been articulated, transmitted, and reconstructed?
- How have different groups, communities, milieus, or professional groups understood and discussed the origins, events and consequences of 1989–1991?
- How have dominant narratives of 1989–1991 evolved in the political, cultural, and academic-educational realms nationally and transnationally?
- To what extent and in what specific ways have such public narratives been translated into, reflected in, or contested by communicative and individual memories and vice-versa?
For more information, please refer to website section devoted to 2014 Genealogies of Memory gathering.
