Panel
10 Nov 2023 · 4.00 pm

Literature about WWII: Constructing Memory

Venue: FernUniversität in Hagen, Campus Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 21, 10719 Berlin
Research project(s): Adjustment and Radicalisation

Panel at the conference “(Re)Considering Violence: New Configurations of History, Memory, and the Present in Belarusian and Neighbouring Societies” organized by the Forum für historische Belarus-Forschung, 9–11 Nov 2023

Program

Comments: Nina Weller
Moderation: Simon Lewis

  • Gunbritt Kohler: War in Belarusian Literature of the Interwar Period
  • Anton Liavitski: The Limits of Idealism: Vasil Bykaŭ and the Soviet Memory of the Second World War (1965–1970)
  • Jakob Wunderwald: The Second World War in Belarusian Literature between Bykaŭ and Vežnavec
  • additional participants tbd