Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths Charles University PRIMUS Project
In the third year of the project run, BOHEMs Team prepares for a conference taking place at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in March 2019 in order to reflect on the project team activities and research results. You can find more details and the program Below. The program in PDF can be downloaded here.
Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths – BOHEMs (PRIMUS Research Project)
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
in cooperation with
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague (CEFRES)
Faculty of Arts, Charles University – Institute for the Study of Strategic Regions (ISSR)
and
Central European Network for Teaching and Research in Academic Liaison (CENTRAL)
18:00 – 19:00 Opening Lecture
Unfinished Wars? Contextualizing Europe´s 20th Ct. Major Conflicts
Robert Gerwarth (Professor of European History, University College Dublin)
Chair: Kateřina Králová (Head of Department of Russian and East European Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:00 Program Opening
Jan Škrha (Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Charles University)
Michal Pullmann (Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Tomáš Nigrin (Director of the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)
10:00 – 12:00 Panel I: Memory of WWII – Comparative Perspectives Chair: Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)
Confronting the Main Soviet Traumas: Katyn as a Site of Memory of the World War II and the Gulag
Tomas Sniegon (Lund University)
Second World War's Myths: Cohesive and Divisive Factors
Artan Puto (State University of Tirana)
Phenomenon of Liberation in the WWII and the Historical Consciousness and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparative Approaches
Stanislav Tumis (Charles University)
Legacies of World War II: Memories and References Among South-Slavic Minorities in Austria
Katharina Tyran (University of Vienna)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote lecture
Remembering the Soviet Gulag at War
Dan Healey (Professor of Modern Russian History, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies)
Chair: Stanislav Tumis (Head of the Department of East European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
14:00 – 14:15 Coffee break
14:15 – 15:45 Panel II: Student presentations Chair: Rainer Liedtke (Professor in European History, University of Regensburg)
Social Memory of World War 2 on the Internet: Portrayal of Bleiburg and Jasenovac on the Croatian Wikipedia
Filip Fila (IMESS, UCL & Charles University)
Contested Victim Groups? Remembering WWII in Hlučín
Anežka Fojtíková (Charles University)
Politics of WWII Memory: Case of Jasenovac Education Center
Ekaterina Fedorova (Charles University)
What is a Song’s Function? Songs as a Part Collective Memory
Elli Vougiouka (Panteion University)
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 Panel III: Memory of WWII – National Perspectives Chair: Libuše Heczková (Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
The World War II in Ukraine's Current Policy of National Remembrance
Andrii Rukkas (Taras Shevchenko National University)
Slander or Satire: Readers' Letters about Vladimir Voinovich's 'Chonkin' and the Dynamics of World War II Memory in Glasnost
Polly Jones (University College Oxford)
British Memory of the Second World War and the Others: The Case of Greece
Athena Syriatou (Democritus University of Thrace)
Remembering the Spill-over of Tito-Yugoslav Macedonian Nation-building to Northern Greece in the 1940s. Communist and Nationalist Versions of Bratstvo i Jedinstvo
Christian Voss (Humboldt University of Berlin)
9:00 – 10:15 Panel IV: Memory of Holocaust and World War II Chair: Stefan Gehrke (Czech-German Future Fund)
World War II in Polish Historical Policy
Valentin Behr (University of Warsaw)
To Leave or to Stay: Dilemmas of Hungarian Jewish Survivors after the Holocaust
Ildiko Barna (Eötvös Loránd University)
Biographies of Belonging in Eastern Slovakia
Hana Kubátová (Charles University)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 Panel V: Memory of Holocaust Chair: Irena Kalhousová (Head of the Herzl Center of Israel Studies)
Surviving the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Jewish Returnees in a Soviet Borderland City (Chernivtsi, 1944–1948)
Natalya Lazar (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Jews in Post Yugoslav Space: Between Revisionism and Restitution
Haris Dajc (University of Belgrade)
“They lived here but gone…”: The Image of Jews and the Holocaust in Local History Narrative of Transcarpathia
Pavlo Khudish (Uzhorod National University)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote Lecture
Towards the Europeanization of the Memories of the World War II
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Professor of Eastern and Central European Studies and Head of the Centre for European Studies, Lund University)
Chair: Christian Voss (Professor and Head of the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin)
14:00 – 14:15 Coffee break
14:15 – 15:45 Panel VI: Student presentations Chair: Martin Petrtýl, Post Bellum
Representation of Soviets vis-à-vis Nazis in the Museum of Communism
Rose Joy Smith (IMESS, UCL & Charles University)
AIESEC: 70 Years of History
Raluca Danila (Babeș-Bolyai University)
How Do Companies Sell WWII in Praha
Jimin Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Operation Anthropoid as a Drama-Documentary
Anne Louise Sand Andreasen (University of Copenhagen)
The Thaw in Ukraine: WWII in Ukrainian Literature during the Khrushchev Period
Radko Mokryk (Charles University)
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 18:00 Panel VII: Memory of WWII – Artistic and Gender Perspectives Chair: Jakub Mlynář (Malach Centre for Visual History)
The Artistic Memory of the Holocaust as a New Direction in Commemorative Practices in Central and South East Europe
Maria-Alina Asavei (Charles University)
Performing the Past, Envisioning the Future? The Politics of World War II Memory and Art in 1980s Yugoslavia and in Contemporary "Yugosphere"
Jelena Vasiljević (University of Belgrade)
Liberation or Occupation and Who Are Involved: The Interpretation of Historical Events Through Monuments and Public Arts in Budapest, Hungary
Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Eötvös Loránd University)
Defined and Re-defined by War – Representing Masculinity in Post-War Albanian Narratives
Agata Anna Rogos (Humboldt University of Berlin)
18:00 – 18:30 Concluding remarks
Kateřina Králová (CUNI), Stanislav Tumis (CUNI), Christian Voss (HU)
Chair: Olga Lomová (Chair of the ISSR Board, Charles University)
This Conference is organized under the kind auspices of:
Jan Škrha (Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Charles University)
Michal Pullmann (Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Tomáš Nigrin (Director of the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)
and Olga Lomová (Chair of the ISSR Board, Charles University)
© 2017 Bohems
