Sigtunastiftelsen, Stockholm, Sweden/Zoom
16-19 August 2022
Programme
Tuesday, August 16
15:00-16:00 Registration
16:15-16:30 Welcome: Hans Ruin
16:30-17:30 Keynote:
Siobhan Kattago: How ‘Never Again’ crumbled when Russia invaded Ukraine
Chair: Hans Ruin
18:00-19:00 Dinner
20:00-21:00 Panel 1. Narratives of Agonistic Memories
Chair: Tora Lane
Discussant: Michael Rothberg (zoom)
Iryna Tarku: Remembering Resistance, Remediating the Past: Ukrainian Donbas War Prose as a Medium of Counter-Memory
Asmaa Hassaneen: In A Memory Market: The Agonistic Memory of 1948 and Subverting the Holocaust Industry in Two Palestinian Family Sagas (zoom)
Wednesday, August 17
9:30-10:30 Panel 2. Remembering Through Visual Culture
Chair: Rebecka Katz Thor
Discussant: Ann Rigney (zoom)
Ragini Chakraborty: Politics of Memory Preservation: A Perspective on the 1947 Partition Archive
Alexander Ulrich Thygesen: Taking the Streets to the Museum: The Entanglement of the Museo del Estallido Social in the Memory-activism Nexus
10:45-11:30 Panel 3. Memory and Body Politics
Chair: Hans Lauge Hansen
Discussant: Astrid Erll
Lauren Cantillon: Contested memories: recognising ‘body searches’ / ‘strip searches’ / ‘genital examinations’ / ‘virginity testing’ as state sexual violence
12.00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Panel 4. Reviving Counter- Memories
Chair: Hanna Teichler
Discussant: Stef Craps
Clara Vlessing: Mobilising Memory for Women’s Liberation: Reparative Remembrance in the Afterlives Emma Goldman
Andrey Gavrilin: White-Blue-White: revival of deep collective memories in Russian Anti-War Movement
14.15-15:15 Panel 5. Contested and Competitive Memories
Chair: Astrid Erll
Discussant: Silvana Mandolesi (zoom)
Hannah Katalin Grimmer: Nos quitaron todo hasta el miedo. [They took away everything, even our fear.] Artistic practices on the walls of Santiago de Chile
Siarhei Salei: “Opposition Version” of Historical Memory in Belarusian Political Discourse in 2014-2020
15:45-16:45 Panel 6. Reinventing the Past through Memories from Below
Chair: Brett Kaplan
Discussant: Wulf Kansteiner (zoom)
Brigitte Herremans: Moving Beyond Formal Truth Practices and Forensic Truth in the Syrian Conflict. How Informal Truth Practices Contribute to Thicker Understandings of Truth (zoom)
Eline Mestdagh: Les Assises Décoloniales. ‘Counter-truth telling’ from below in the face of Belgium’s Congo Commission.
17:00-18.00 Partners’ Meeting
18:00-19:00 Dinner
20:00-21:00 Keynote:
Alexander Etkind: Russia against modernity: How a cold memory war turned into a hot shooting war
Chair: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
Thursday, August 18
9:30-10:30 Panel 7. Social Memory and National Memory Politics
Chair: Jessica Rapson
Discussant: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
Valentina Tanailova: The Actualisation of the Memory of the Caucasian War among the Circassians of Kabardino-Balkaria (zoom)
Dariusz Nikiel: Politics of Memory in Action. Historical Narratives of the Polish Government (2015–2022) and Their Consequences for Local Conflicts of Memory
10:45-11:45 Panel 8. State Abuse of Memory
Chair: Lucy Bond
Discussant: Rick Crownshaw
Rita Hornok: Memory Politics Meets Foreign Policy? (Neo)Turanism in Hungary as a Multifaceted Political Myth
Beatriz Besen de Oliveira: Brazilian Counter-Revolution or Dictatorship? The Political Uses of Memory in Contemporary Brazil
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Leisure activity/Guided tour in Sigtuna
14:30-15:30 Panel 9. Cinematic Representations of Perpetrators
Chair: Jessica Ortner
Discussant: Hanna Teichler
Ana Kršinić Lozica: Screening mnemonic battles: The spectre of Jasenovac haunts again
Meng-Hao Li: ‘Have you forgotten, or are you scared of remembering?’ The Strategies for Representing Perpetrators in Detention
15:45-16:45 Panel 10. Haunting Memories
Chair: Florence Fröhlig
Discussant: Hans Ruin
Ruben Hordijk: The Spectral Heir and the Legitimate Heir: Responses and Response-ability to Transgenerational Trauma
Paula O’Donohoe: How are politicised and polarised memories transmitted? Transgenerational transmission of memories from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Regime in today’s Spain
17:00-18:00 Keynote:
Jessica Rapson and Lucy Bond: Capitalising on the Past: Heritage, Industry, and the Whitewashing of Memory in the Deep South
Chair: Stef Craps
19:00 Dinner & Party
Friday, August 19
9:30-10:30 Panel 11. Victimhood and Memory
Chair: Lovisa Andén
Discussant: Susanne Knittel (zoom)
Savina Sirik: Memorialization of complexities in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
Cagla Demirel: Is it just a ‘Victim Olympics’ or does every mother cry the same? Exploring inclusive victimhood narratives in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
10:45-11:45 Panel 12. Memory Practices
Chair: Victoria Fareld
Discussant: Brett Kaplan
Linda Mannheim: Stumbling Stones: Victims, Non-Victims, and ‘Memory Culture’ in Germany
Amelia Ino: Memory Praxis: The role of literature pedagogy in shaping, transmitting, and challenging cultural memory
12:00-13:00 Lunch
