Engagement with the past, activism in the present

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The conference is supported by
the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the task
assigned by the Ministry of Education and Science Republic of Poland
Solidarity with Ukraine - European Universities.

 

2nd edition of the international conference
"Engagement with the past, activism in the present"
 
 
 10-12 October 2024
Toruń, Poland
 

This year we want to focus on how to educate historians and archivists at universities, so that when they have finished their education they will be, according to the conference's title, 'engaged with the past and active in the present'. Like the previous edition, the conference focuses in particular on networking between representatives of the YUFE consortium and Ukrainian university partners. 

 

Conference venue: Collegium Humanisticum, ul. Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Toruń

Faculty Council Room (C 0.39 - ground floor)

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

Day 1 - Thursday, 10th October

9:00-9:30 - registration

9:30-10:00 - opening remarks

10:00-11:30 - Session 1

Kseniia Smyrnova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv - education and research through and in the aftermath of the war

Olga Morozova (Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy), Education of historians during the war. An example of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy

Yurii Pukivskyi (Ukrainian Catholic University), From the experience of the course «Documenting the war in Ukraine» (the risks of «hot pursuit» research)

11:30-12:00 coffee break 

12:00-14:00 - Session 2

Oleksandr Czerewko (Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy), The historical component of archival studies as an important tool for understanding the present

Maryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), At the Edge of Historical Traditions and Digital Innovations: Transformation of Archival Profession and Education in Contemporary Ukraine

Anna Maksymenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Archival education in emergency situations: problems and achievements of students during the transition to distance learning in the conditions of pandemic and full-scale war in Ukraine

Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Teaching (about) community archives and their impacts - perspectives, possibilities, challenges

14:00-14:45 - lunch 

14:45-16:15 - Session 3

Discussion panel: How can we make history training at our universities more international? Chair: Alicja Bartnicka

 

 

Day 2 - Friday, 11th October

9:00-11:30 visit to the bank (to collect the travel grants in cash - participants need to have their passports/IDs)

11:30-12:00 - coffee break 

12:00-14:00 - Session 4

Marnix Beyen (University of Antwerp), Student excursions to Bosnia and Herzegovina as an engaged form of history education

Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka), Murals and Memory Politics: Street Art as an Engagement with Contested Histories in the former Yugoslavia

Georgi Verbeeck (Maastricht University & University of Leuven), From a Museum frozen in Time to a Museum for our Times. The transformation of the AfricaMuseum in Brussels

Mykhailo Tupytsia (Ukrainian Catholic University), Historical Sources for the Study of 18th-Century Parish and Monastic Book Collections of Mukachevo Eparchy: Search and Study

14:00-14:45 lunch 

14:45-16:15 - Session 5

Democratising History? Engagement with the Past in Contemporary Britain, Chair: Nadine Rossol (University of Essex)

Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford), Engagement with the past, activism in the present: Learning from the History Workshop Movement

Lucy Noakes (University of Essex), Reflections on Collaborative History During the Centenary of the First World War

Francis Van Berkel (University of Essex, Commonwealth War Graves Commission), From Preserving the Past to Engaging With It: The Trajectory of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

 

Day 3 - Saturday, 12th October

10:00-10:30 - coffee break

10:30-12:00 - Session 6

Evgeny Manzhurin (University of Eastern Finland), Local Grounding: A Tool to Prevent the Hijacking of History by Grand Narratives

Fran Đurasin (University of Rijeka), Constructing public emotion through urban landscapes: Graffiti, monuments and public space in Koprivnica

Anna Krygier (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Key competences in historical education in the 21st century

12:00-12:30 - closing remarks

12:30-13:30 - lunch 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Engagement with the past, activism in the present