“Explosive Convergences. Popular Memory Images in Current Political Conflicts (Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland)” (Panel with Matthias Schwartz a.o.)

Venue: online

Research project(s): World Fiction, Post/Socialist

Panel as part of the Memory Studies Association Annual Conference 2021, 5–9 Jul 2021

The slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz is head of the program area World Literature and the project World/Fiction, Post/Socialist.

Program

Speakers:

Hanna Vasilevich, International Centre For Ethnic And Linguistic Diversity Studies
Heike Winkel, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Berlin
Roman Dubasevych, Greifswald University
Anika Walke, Washington University in St. Louis
Felix Ackermann, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Matthias Schwartz, ZfL

Moderator: Nina Weller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Hanna Vasilevich (International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies): “The Role of History and Culture in the 2020 Post-Presidential Protest Movement in Belarus”