Events

Recent Events

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Screening of On Saturday (V subbotu; dir. Aleksandr Mindadze, Russia, 2011; with English subtitles)

30 April 2012 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Oleksandr Zinchenko
'Buttons from Kharkiv:
What We Don't Remember about the Ukrainian Katyn'
and Andrew Wilson (UCL)
'Putin Wins, the System Decays:
The Future of Managed Democracy and "Political Technology" in Russia'

25 April 2012 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

BASEES Conference

Tom Rowley (Cambridge)
'Splintering Selfhood: Samvydav and the Case of Danylo Shumuk'

2 April 2012 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

 

 

University of Amsterdam Workshop:
Media and Memory:
Back to Basics

Featuring Ellen Rutten (Bergen)
'Media, Memory, and the Move Beyond Western Paradigms'

27 March 2012 Amsterdam

 

 

University of Groningen conference:
'Suffering, Agency and Memory
in Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Films'

Thurs 22 - Fri 23 March 2012 Theologisch Instituut, Groningen

With keynote addresses by Nancy Condee and Alexander Etkind

 

 

University of Nottingham Symposium:
Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

Tanya Zaharchenko (Cambridge)
'On Binary Short-sightedness:
A Glance at Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine'

17-18 March 2012 University of Nottingham

 

 

RussGRADS

Judy Brown (Cambridge)
'From the Grave to the Cradle:
Memory Politics of the Crimean Tatars'

16 March 2012, 5:30pm MML Graduate Suite, RFB, Sidgwick site, Cambridge

Imagining War in the 20th Century and After

Jay Winter (Yale)
and with participation of Alexander Etkind, Meike Wulf and others.

15 March 2012, 2:00pm Churchill College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Katarzyna Zechenter (SSEES, UCL)
'Memory and Postmemory in Polish Jewish Fiction'
and Andrei Zorin (Oxford)
'Lydia Ginsburg on the Leningrad Blockade:
Mechanisms of Forgetting and Repression'

14 March 2012, 5:00pm CRASSH, University of Cambridge

MAW Lunchtime Seminar

Heiko Pääbo (Tartu)
'Collective Memory and Identity Conflicts in the Space of the Former Russian Empire'

14 March 2012 MAW Research Space, RFB, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Maria Pasholok (Oxford University) discusses Ararat (dir. Atom Egoyan, 2002)

7 March 2012 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Screening of Ararat (dir. Atom Egoyan, 2002)

5 March 2012 Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College, Cambridge

Welcome Back, Putin!

Including a talk by Ellen Rutten (Bergen) on 'Russian Literature under Putin'

4 March 2012 De Balie, Amsterdam

Malye bannye Readings:
Historical Memory:
National in Form, Post-Socialist in Content

Including a talk by Vera Zvereva (Bergen/Moscow) on 'The Eternally Living Soviet Past: Discussions among Russian and Ukrainian 'VKontakte' Users'

2-3 March 2012 European University, St Petersburg

Department of Slavonic Studies Special Event

New Russian Politics and Protests:
A Roundtable on the Eve of the Presidential Election
Speakers: Sir Anthony Brenton (British Ambassador to Russia, 2004-2008), Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin and Susan Larsen (Cambridge), Mikhail Kaluzhsky (Moscow) and Vlad Strukov (Leeds).

2 March 2012 Faculty of English, GR-06/GR-07, Cambridge

MAW/Slavonic Studies special event

Mikhail Kaluzhsky (Joseph Beuys Theatre and Andrei Sakharov Centre, Moscow)
'Performing Memory:
Current Trends in Russian Documentary Theatre'

1 March 2012 Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Nelly Bekus (Warsaw)
'Memory and Forgetting in Two Post-Soviet Capitals:
Minsk and Astana'
and
Anna Krylova (Duke)
'Academic Metaphors and Interpretive Challenges of Soviet Post-War Literature and Memoirs'

29 Feb 2012 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

RGGU Seminar Series:
Current Media-Culture Research

Vera Zvereva (Bergen/Moscow)
'Studying the Culture of Internet Communication:
Trends and Approaches'

24 February 2012 RGGU, Moscow

Postcolonial Approaches to Postsocialist Experiences
Conference co-organised by MAW Cambridge and the University of Passau

24-25 February 2012 King's College, Cambridge

RussGRADS

Molly Flynn (University of Cambridge)
'Staging Memory:
Re-enacting the Death of Sergei Magnitsky
in Teatr.doc's One Hour Eighteen'

23 February 2012 Graduate Suite, RFB, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

UCL SSEES 11th International Postgraduate Conference
on Central and Eastern Europe:
Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities
in Central and Eastern Europe

Tanya Zaharchenko (University of Cambridge)
'On Binary Nearsightedness:
A Glance at Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine'

15-17 February 2012 UCL SSEES, London

 

 

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Gernot Howanitz (Salzburg)
'Re-Playing the Stalinist Past'
and
Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (Cambridge)
'The Manezhka Affair and the First Steps of Russian Mnemonics'

Wed 15 Feb 2012, 5:00pm CRASSH, University of Cambridge

MAW Training Session:
Online Search:
How to Analyse Integrum
and Explore the Blogosphere

Led by Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (Cambridge)

Wed 8 February 2012 Room 146, RFB, Sigdwick Site, Cambridge

University of the Third Age in Cambridge

Judy Brown (Cambridge)
'"Memory at War" in Eastern Europe:
The Past that Doesn't Pass'

Wed 8 February 2012 Room 3, University Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Alistair Renfrew (Durham University) discusses Okraina (dir. Piotr Lutsik, 1998)

Wed 8 February 2012 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Screening of Okraina (dir. Piotr Lutsik, 1998)

6 February 2012 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Julie Fedor (Cambridge)
'The Tandem's Anti-Soviet Turn:
New Memory Projects in Contemporary Russia'
and
Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Vienna)
'Nationalising the "Common Victory":
in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands'

1 Feb 2012 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

University of Toronto CERES Graduate Student Symposium

Tanya Zaharchenko (Cambridge)
'On Binary Vision: The Lost Gradations of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine'

27-28 January 2012 Toronto

 

 

Heritage Research Group Seminar

Panel discussion on History and Memory, featuring Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)

19 January 2012 McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Peter Rodgers (Sheffield)
'How Many Ukraines?
Understanding Regionalism and the Politics of National Identity
in Post-Soviet Ukraine'

18 Jan 2012 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Higher School of Economics Seminar

Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (Cambridge)
'Integrum and Other Web-Based Search Instruments for the Humanities'

23 December 2011 Higher School of Economics, Moscow

'Democracy in Russia' seminar:
Russian School, Church, Media
and Problems of "Working Through the Past"'

Featuring Vera Zvereva (Bergen)

22 December 2011 'Memorial', Moscow

University of Tartu Workshop:
Hard Memory, Soft Security:
Competing Securitisation of the Legacy of Communism in Eastern Europe

Video podcast
Programme
Photo gallery

9 - 10 December 2011 University of Tartu

University of Helsinki seminar:
'Integrum Databases - New Tools
for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies'

Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (Cambridge)
'Overview of Integrum Applications
from Sociolinguistic Tasks to Mnemonics
(Unity Day in Russia)'

7 December 2011
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

 

University of Helsinki workshop:
'Russian Corpora Workshop'

Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (Cambridge)
'The Internet as a Corpus'

7 December 2011
University of Helsinki

 

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MAW Lunchtime Seminar

Anika Walke (Washington University, St Louis)
‘Memories of an Unfulfilled Promise:
Internationalism and Patriotism in Post-Soviet Oral Histories of Jewish Survivors of the Nazi Genocide’

8 December 2011 MAW Research Space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

MAW Lunchtime Seminar

Nikita Petrov ('Memorial' Society, Moscow)
'Reflections on the Current State of Historical Memory in Russia'

6 December 2011 MAW Research Space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Special Event: 'Memory Work & Civil Society' Workshop
(co-organised with CRIC)
A workshop on NGOs and the politics of memory in Eastern Europe and Spain.
Speakers include: Nikita Petrov ('Memorial' Society, Moscow);
Piotr Filipkowski (KARTA, Warsaw);
Oleksandr Svyetlov (Vasyl Stus Memorial Society, Kyiv);
Sofia Dyak (L’viv Centre for Urban History, L’viv);
and Fiachra McDonagh (Gernika Gogaratuz, Gernika).
Programme

5 December 2011 CRASSH, Cambridge

History, Memory and Politics Seminar

Markku Kangaspuro (Helsinki)
'Changing Interpretations of Victory Day in Russia

1 Dec 2011 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Dieter de Bruyn (Ghent University)
'From the "Second Katyn" to "A Day without Smolensk":
Facebook Responses to the Smolensk Tragedy and Aftermath'

30 November 2011 CRASSH, Cambridge

MAW Lunchtime Seminar

Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)
Mourning and Melancholia in Putin's Russia:
An Essay in Mnemonics

28 November 2011 MAW Research Space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Televising Memory Group

Discussion on the Russian historical talk show Istoricheskii protsess (episode originally aired 11 August 2011, 'Pravovaia zashchishchennost': ot stalinskikh chrezvychainykh troek do dela Magnitskogo')

29 November 2011 MAW Research Space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Theories and Methods

Panel: History and Memory in Eastern Europe:
How Special?
Harald Wydra (University of Cambridge)
'Dynamics of Memory in East and West: Elements of a Comparative Framework'

Panel: Dynamics of Memory:
Borderlands
Tanya Zaharchenko (University of Cambridge)
'How Memory becomes Identity:
The Curious Case of East Ukraine'

Panel: Dynamics of Memory:
Silence and Articulation
Uilleam Blacker (University of Cambridge)
'Unknowable and Unspeakable? Traumatic Memory and Cultural Representations of the Katyn Massacre'
Simon Lewis (University of Cambridge)
'The Legacy of Catastrophe: Approaches and Methods on the Example of Belarus'

Panel: Media of Remembrance:
Space/Place
Judy Brown (University of Cambridge)
'Walking Memory through City Space in Sevastopol, Crimea'

23-25 November 2011 Warsaw

Europe East and West: Film History and Mourning Seminar

David Gillespie (University of Bath)
Presentation on the film Svolochi ('Bastards') (dir. Aleksandr Atanesyan, Russia, 2006)

23 November 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancaster)
'Polish Martial Law of 1981 on Screen'
and
James Mark (University of Exeter)
'The Unfinished Revolution: The Contested Meaning of 1989 in Central-Eastern Europe'

16 November 2011 CRASSH, Cambridge

ASEEES Convention

Panel: Memory at War:
Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge)
'Reading 20th Century Trauma in the Cities of Poland, Russia and Ukraine'
Julie Fedor (Cambridge)
'New De-Stalinisation Discourses'

Roundtable: Postcolonial Memory
in Eastern Europe
Alexander Etkind (Cambridge) and Ellen Rutten (Bergen)

Panel: Victims at War:
Mythscapes and Politics of WWII
in Russia and Its Neighbourhood
Matti Jutila (Helsinki)
'Western Remembrance of the Vicims in the East:
Politics of WWII in pan-European Parliamentary Assemblies'
Markku Kangaspuro (Helsinki)
'Finnish Victim Narratives on the Winter War and Continuation War
Jussi Lassila (Helsinki)
'Russian Civic Activism within the Great Patriotic War'

Panel: Alternative Models of Authority
in Russian New Media
Ellen Rutten (Bergen)
'Legitimizing Illegitimacy: Russian Social Media and the Aesthetics of Imperfection'

Roundtable: What Has Changed in Russia?
Three Years of Medvedev's Presidency
Jussi Lassila (Helsinki)

MAW Project Coordination Meeting
Bergen, Cambridge and Helsinki teams

17-20 November 2011 Washington, D.C.

Europe East and West: Film History and Mourning Seminar

Screening of the film Svolochi ('Bastards') (dir. Aleksandr Atanesyan, Russia, 2006)

21 November 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Conference on Polish Literature since 1989

Uilleam Blacker (University of Cambridge)
'Traces of Lost Others: Memories of Vanished Urban Communities in Contemporary Polish Literature'

10 November 2011 UCL SSEES, London

Memory and Literature after Auschwitz and the Gulag

Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge)
'Magical HIstoricism: Memory and Fantasy in Fiction and Non-Fiction'

10 November 2011 University of Colorado at Boulder

Memory and Countermemory:
Memorization of an Open Future:
A Research Symposium
Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge)
‘Warped Memory: A History of Mourning for the Soviet Victims’

6-8 November 2011 Arizona State

Memory at War special event

Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (University of Cambridge)
'Quantitative Analysis of a Memory Event: 9 May 2011 in L'viv'

3 November 2011 Memory at War research space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

James Koranyi (University of St Andrews)
'Romania, Serbia, and Contemporary Memories of German Victims'
and
Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University)
'Negotiating the Holocaust, Portraying Flight and Expulsion: Representations of the 1933-1950 Period in German Regional Museums'

2 November 2011 CRASSH, Cambridge

'Televising Memory' Group

Discussion on the Russian historical talk-show Istoricheskii protsess

31 October 2011 MAW research space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Europe East and West: Film History and Mourning Seminar

Simon Lewis (Cambridge)
Talk on the film Everything is Illuminated

26 October 2011 King's College, Cambridge

Europe East and West: Film History and Mourning Seminar

Screening of the film Everything is Illuminated

24 October 2011 King's College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Tim Beasley-Murray (SSEES, UCL)
'Memory, Forgetting and Silence'

19 October 2011 CRASSH, Cambridge

Conference:
'Virtual Russia:
Digital Space and Post-Soviet Political Culture'

Organised jointly by the Future of Russian Project, the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the University of Bergen's Web Wars project

19-21 October 2011 St Petersburg

'Crimea Policy Dialogue' Workshop on Media Analysis

Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (Cambridge) and Jukka Pietilainen (Helsinki)
'Media Wars over Memory Events: Methodology of Media Analysis Based on Quantitative Approaches
Funded by the Finnish Foreign Ministry within the Wider Europe framework, administered by PATRIR

14-16 October 2011 Simferopol

Cambridge Intelligence Seminar

Julie Fedor (Cambridge)
'Remembering the Victims of the NKVD in Contemporary Russia'

14 October 2011 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

(co-hosted by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies)
Professor George Grabowicz (Harvard University)
'The Eternal Return of National Mystifications:
the Voynich Manuscript, the Book of Vles and the Igor Tale'

12 October 2011 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

'Memory, Religion and Revolution' Workshop

3 October 2011 Darwin College, Cambridge

International Congress of Belarusian Studies

Simon Lewis (Cambridge)
'De-Sovietisation and Working Through Trauma'

23-25 September 2011 Kaunas

University of Bergen Conference:
'Old Conflicts and New Media:
Commemorating the Socialist Experience Online'

30 Aug - 1 Sep 2011 University of Bergen

'Transformations' Conference

Tanya Zaharchenko (Cambridge)
'Post-Soviet Transformations in East Ukraine:
Literature and Identity'

7-8 July 2011 University Graduate College, Cardiff University

Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe

4-5 July 2011 King's College, Cambridge

CRASSH Future University Conference

Chair: Judy Brown (Cambridge)
Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge) on 'Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine: Developing the Subdiscipline of East European Memory Studies through Interdisciplinary Dialogue at CRASSH'

30 June 2011 Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
'Roma and Genocide: From Muted Memories to Politics of Identity'

8 June 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Europe East and West: Film, HIstory and Mourning Seminar

Annie Ring (MML, Cambridge)
Discussion of The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

3 June 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Translating Atonement:
Can Countries Learn from Each Other?

Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)
Panel discussion on Memory Wars

4 June 2011 Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte, Am Neuen Markt 9, Potsdam

Cambridge Ukrainian Studies/MAW/Centre for International Studies Public Lecture

Timothy Snyder (Yale)
'Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin'

2 June 2011 Umney Theatre, Robinson College College, Cambridge

Memory at War special event

Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University)
'The Literary Representation of Childhood in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia'

30 May 2011 Memory at War research space, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Europe East and West: Film, HIstory and Mourning Seminar

Screening of The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

30 May 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies Conference
Black Sea and Baltic Sea Regions:
Influences, Confluences and Cross-Currents in the Modern and Contemporary Ages

Judy Brown (University of Cambridge)
'"Memory at War" in Estonia and the Crimea:
A Comparative Analysis of Commemorative Practices surrounding the Great Patriotic War 1941-45'

21 May 2011 Targoviste, Romania

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Vera Zvereva (University of Bergen)
'Battles for Historical Memory: Dealing with Disputable Events on Ru.net/Ukr.net'
and
Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)
'Making Sense of War in City Museums: Petersburg, Warsaw, Dresden'

25 May 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

CRASSH City Seminar Workshop

Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge)
'Living among the Memory of Vanished Others: The Case of L'viv'

13 May 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University)

'Primal Scenes: Translating Experiences of "Algeria" into "French Theory"'
and
Josephine von Zitzewitz (University of Oxford)
'The Virtual Musem of the Gulag: Integrating Material Memory'

11 May 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Europe East and West: Film, HIstory and Mourning Seminar

Kristian Feigelson (Paris)
Discussion of The Danube Exodus (dir. Peter Forgacs, 1998)

5 May 2011 H6, Gibbs Building, King's College, Cambridge

Europe East and West: Film, HIstory and Mourning Seminar

Screening of The Danube Exodus (dir. Peter Forgacs, 1998)

2 May 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Max Hayward Seminar

Ellen Rutten (Bergen)
'Russian New Media and Beyond: The Aesthetics of Imperfection'

3 May 2011 Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College, Oxford University

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Jacek Purchla (Research Institute of European Heritage, Krakow)
'Cracow -- "The Heart of Poland"'
and
Markku Kangaspuro (University of Helsinki)
'Victory Day in History Politics'

27 April 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

ASN conference

Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge)
'The City and Memory in Ukrainian and Polish Popular Fiction'

14 April 2011 ASN Conference, New York

International Playwrights Season Seminar

Europe's New East
Panel featuring Rory Finnin (Cambridge); Bridget Kendall (BBC); Ed Lucas (The Economist); Richard Mole (UCL SSSEES) and Masha Karp (freelance journalist).

9 April 2011 Royal Court Theatre, London

BASEES conference

Markku Kangaspuro (Helsinki)
'Interpretations of World War II and the Great Patriotic War'

2 April 2011 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Cultural Memory Research Workshop

Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)
'Memory, Mourning and Magical Historicism in Visual Art: The Gulag Survivor Boris Sveshnikov'

2 April 2011 School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

BASEES conference

Julie Fedor (Cambridge)
'Defining "Historical Falsification"'
Matti Jutila (Helsinki)
'Marxist Ethnopolitics in The Soviet Story'
Maria Mälksoo (Tartu)
'The Soviet Story and the Latvian Style of Coming to Terms with the Past'
Jussi Lassila (Helsinki)
'Reception of The Soviet Story'

3 April 2011 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

University of Central Lancashire Guest Lecture

Matilda Mroz (Cambridge)
'History in Polish Film and New Media'

30 March 2011 UCLAN, Preston

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Philip Cavendish (UCL-SSEES)
A presentation on the film 4 (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Russia 2005)

17 March 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

David Ferris (University of Colorado)
'Spacings of Memory: Benjamin's Moscow'
and
Stephanie Bird (UCL)
'The History of Destruction and the Possibility of Comedy in the Work of W. G. Sebald'

16 March 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

MAW Special Event

Andriy Portnov (Ivan Krypiakevych Institute for Ukrainian Studies, and editor-in-chief of the journal Ukraina Moderna)
'Thinking About Memory in the Polish-Russian-Ukrainian Triangle: Tendencies, Common Places, Prospects'

15 March 2011 MAW Research Space, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies:
Graduate Research Triangle (Cambridge-Oxford-UCL)

11-12 March 2011 King's College, Cambridge Abstracts
Programme

MAW Special Event

Maria Mälksoo (Tartu)
'Cosmopolitanising the Criminality of Communism:
Competing Securitisation of the Soviet Legacy in Europe'

8 March 2011 Room 250, Arts & Humanities Research Area, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

4 (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Russia 2005) (with English subtitles)

7 March 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Tanya Zaharchenko (MML, Cambridge)
A presentation on Before the Rain (dir. Milcho Manchevsky, Macedonia 1994)

3 March 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Heritage Research Group Seminar

Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge)
'Memory at War: Heritage Sites and Memory Conflicts in Eastern Europe'

3 March 2011 McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site, University of Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Astrid Erll (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
and
Andrew Hoskins (University of Nottingham)
'Premediation and the Interdisciplinary Study of Memory'

2 March 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge Abstract

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Before the Rain (dir. Milcho Manchevsky, Macedonia 1994) (with English subtitles)

24 February 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Russgrads Seminars

Judy Brown (MML, Cambridge)
Workers and Whatever: History, Memory and Oblivion in the Crimea

22 February 2011 Graduate Seminar Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

MAW Special Event

Vadim Staklo (Yale University Press)
Digital Stalin

18 February 2011 Room 250, Arts & Humanities Research Area, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

History Research Seminar, University of Plymouth

Julie Fedor (Cambridge)
'The Textbook Wars: Arguing about the Twentieth Century in Twenty-First Century Russia'

16 February 2011 Department of History, University of Plymouth

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Svitlana Shlipchenko (Kyiv Mohyla Academy)
'Politics of Memory: Reshaping Cultural and "Physical" Landscapes in Contemporary Ukraine

16 February 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Rosie Baker (MML, Cambridge)
A presentation on Zhivoj/Alive (dir. Aleksandr Veledinsky, Russia 2006)

17 February 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Zhivoj/Alive (dir. Aleksandr Veledinsky, Russia 2006) (in Russian, with English subtitles)

11 February 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

Public Lecture

Timothy Snyder (Yale)
'Mass Killing and Commemoration: Some European Disharmonies'

10 February 2011 Clare College, Cambridge
Presented by Memory at War and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies

Intelligence Seminar

Julie Fedor (Cambridge)
'Russian Intelligence Past and Present'

4 February 2011 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

John Barber (King's College, Cambridge)
'The Siege of Leningrad and the Politics of Memory' A presentation on Blokada/Blockade (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, Russia 2006)

3 February 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts London)
'Excavating Experience: Photographs and Difficult Histories'

Natan Sznaider (Academic College of Tel-Aviv)
'Hannah Arendt and Jewish Memory: The Case of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction'

2 February 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning Seminar

Blokada/Blockade (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, Russia 2006)

27 January 2011 Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge Film screening (to be followed by a talk by John Barber on 3 February)

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

Gabriel Motzkin (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
'A Theory of the Role of Memory in the Construction of History'

19 January 2011 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

East European Memory Studies Research Group Seminar

1 December 2010 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Georgiy Kasianov (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)
'The Great Famine of 1932-33 and the Holodomor:
Memory, History, Identity and State-Building'
and Meike Wulf (Maastricht)
'Changing Memory Regimes in Eastern Europe'

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning

23 November 2010 Keynes Hall, King's College, University of Cambridge

Daniel Wolpert (MML, Cambridge)
'Death and the Fraulein:
Is the Future Simply a Dream You Never Wake Up From?'

East European Memory Studies Research Group seminar

17 November 2010 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Volodymyr Kulyk (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)
'The Role of the Media in (Re)Shaping Historical Memory in Ukraine'

Europe East and West:
Film, History and Mourning

12 November 2010 Keynes Hall, King's College, University of Cambridge

Yella (directed by Christian Petzold, Germany 2007)
A film about an imagined life in the West which takes place within a dream/imagined memory at the point of death of an East German woman.

Memory and Post-War Cinema:
Film Critics on the Frontlines
(A symposium in honour of Maia Turovskaia)

4 - 5 November 2010 University of Cambridge

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East European Memory Studies Research Group seminar

3 November 2010 CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)
'Divided Memory: Poland's Double Postcoloniality';
and
Julie Buckler (Harvard University)
'The Material of Culture:
Russian Imperial Artifacts Playing Soviet and Post-Soviet Roles'

MAW Workshop on the Film The Soviet Story

2 - 3 November 2010
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

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