Remembrance of Soviet Repressions in Post-Soviet Spaces: International Conference
The international conference will focus on the discussion among experts on religious, political, discursive, historical and aesthetic differences in the shape of the memory of repression in post-Soviet and post-dependence spaces from the Soviet Union. It is organized by IEiAK UW as part of the 90th Anniversary of Ethnology at the University of Warsaw.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
21 September 2024
Venue: Faculty of Culture and Arts, University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-332 Warsaw
16.15 – registration
16.30 – 18.00 – opening speech Zuzanna Bogumił Memory Studies of Soviet Repressions: between global and local perspectives
18.30 – dinner
22 September 2024
Venue: Muzeum of Memory of Sybir and the Sibirak Memorial / "Baśniowa" Hotel & Restaurant in Wyszkow
16.30 18.00 open discussion & reflections on the specifics of regional commemorations and policies of remembrance
19.00 – dinner
23 September 2024
Venue: "Baśniowa" Hotel & Restaurant in Wyszkow
10.00 – 12.00: 1st roundtable Soviet Repressions Mobilized in times of War
Moderator: Tomasz Rawski (Faculty of Sociology Warsaw University)
Aleksander Makhov (PhD candidate IFiS PAN) Evoking memory to emplace oneself. Uses of the traumatic Soviet past by wartime migrants from Russia
Katarzyna Roman Rawska (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS) TB
Raili Nugin (Tallinn University), Monument wars in Estonia after the break-out of full Russian aggression towards Ukraine in 2022
Andriy Fert (lecturer at Kyiv School of Economics), Spiritual Decolonisation of XXth century history during the Russian invasion
12.00 – 13.00 lunch
13.00 – 15.00 2nd roundtable: Soviet Recalcitrant heritage
Moderator: Iwona Kaliszewska (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw)
Margaret Comer (Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London), Comparison, Conflict, Comprehension: Heritage Studies Approaches to the Holocaust and Soviet Repression
Guillaume Tiberghien (University of Glasgow), TBC
Joanna Czeczot (writer) Silence over the Steppe: Kazakhstan and the Memory of Russia
Ketevan Gurchiani (Ilia State University, Georgia) , Loud Spaces, Quiet Stories: Layers of Tbilisi Courtyards
15.00 – 15.30 coffee break
15.30 – 17.00 Open discussion
24 September 2024
Venue: "Baśniowa" Hotel & Restaurant in Wyszkow
10.00 – 12.00 3rd roundtable Local Memories of Repressions
Moderator: Magdalena Lejman (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw)
Iwona Kaliszewska (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw), Memory of deportation among Dargi people in Dagestan
Tuya Shagdar (Mongolian National University), What happened to the Museum of Political Repression? How does the city remember purges?
12.00 – 13.00 – lunch
13.00 – 14.30 Concluding discussions
15.00 – transfer from Wyszkow to Warsaw
