Engagement with the past, activism in the present
Toruń, 24—26 April 2023
Conference Programme
Faculty Council Room C 0.39
24 April (Monday)
10:00 - 11:00 - registration & get-acquainted coffee
11:00 - 11:45 - opening & keynote:
- Lucy Noakes (University of Essex), Remembering Europe's Wars: Community and collective histories in the 21st century
11:45 - 13:15 - session 1.1
- Oleksandr Cherevko, Olga Kopchynska (Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy), Through education to upbringing
- Iryna Matіash (Scientific Society of History of Diplomacy and International Relations, Ukraine), Marlena Jabłońska (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Ukrainian archives in wartime: trauma and responsibility for the future
- Maryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), The struggle for democratic values and national identity: the interaction of archives and society in documenting the events of Russia’s war against Ukraine
13:15 - 14:15 - lunch (served at the venue)
14:15 - 15:45 - session 1.2
- Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Why talk about community archives?
- Agnieszka Łuczywek-Warszewska, Piotr Mucha (General Elżbieta Zawacka Foundation), The General Elżbieta Zawacka Foundation as a community archive, commemorating the Auxilary Women’s Service and Pomeranian conspiracy
- Justyna Avcı (KARTA Centre), KARTA Centre - from the social movement against communism in the 1980s to mobilisation against regimes in the 21st century
15:45 - 16:00 - coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 - session 1.3
- Louise Rodwell (University of Essex), Architects of Remembrance? How state led visual memory responses affect national memories of the First World War in Britain
- Milana Sribniak (Scientific Society Liberal Arts Collegium, Ukraine), Repatriation of prisoners of war and internees: historical background of World War I and modern vision
- Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka), Contested Histories and the Embattled Present: Lessons from the ex-Yugoslav Memoryscape
- Aytac Yurukcu (Historians Without Borders Society/University of Eastern Finland), Russia on the Balkans From Past to Present: Wartime Propaganda and Media on the Russo-Turkish War at the end of the 19th Century
20:30 - networking/social programme (Hotel Filmar)
25 April (Tuesday)
9:00 - 11:00 - session 2.1
- visit to General Elzbieta Zawacka Foundation (Old Town) & short guided tour through the Old Town
11:30 - 13:30 - session 2.2
- Lauri Partanen (Society of Finnish Archivists/University of Eastern Finland), The cooperation between the State Archives of Finland and the Archives administration of the Soviet Union in the 1950s: how did Finnish historians and archivists participate in making history?
- Alix Green (University of Essex), Historical records, contemporary collaboration: some reflections on the hows and whys of co-production between historians and archivists
- Alina Doboszewska (Dobra Wola Foundation), Development of community archiving in Ukraine
- Vitaliy Lyaska, Yuriy Pukivskyi (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv), Voices of the unheard: online archive of oral history and visual sources “Living History”
13:30 - 14:30 – lunch (served at the venue)
14:30 - 16:00 - session 2.3
- Jakub Gałęziowski (Polish Oral History Association), History as a forward-looking knowledge and encouragement for resilience
- Katarzyna Ziętal, Iwona Oleszczuk-Jaźwiecka (Centre of Community Archives, Poland), How a community builds an archive. How an archive builds a community
- Kateryna Skomarovska (Ukrainian Library Association/Vinnytsia Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V.Otamanovskyi), Vinnytsia libraries: experience of oral history research
16:00 - 16:15 - coffee break
16:15 - 17:15 - discussion on YUFE-History group (chair: Nadine Rossol, University of Essex)
19:00 / 20:00 - networking/social programme (Old Town)
26 April (Wednesday)
9:30 - 11:00 - session 3.1
- Georgi Verbeeck (Maastricht University), The Return of History as Travesty. “The Fight against Fascism” – an abused concept in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war
- Georgios Kazamias (University of Cyprus), ‘Another invasion’. And how the memory of national loss was kept alive over time
- Jewhen Sinkewycz, Olga Morozowa (Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy), The role of archives and museums in preserving the narratives of the past
11:00 - 11:30 - coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 - session 3.2
- Ioanna Alexandrou (University of Cyprus), Local memory and history of occupied Karpasia
- Chrysovalantis Kasionis (University of Cyprus), The restoration of the Cypriot economy and the priorities of the government's development policy after the Turkish invasion. Some evidence during the period 1974-1977
- Anna Laakkonen (University of Eastern Finland), Making the Soviet-Finnish Man: Narratives of Finnishness in a Soviet-Finnish newspaper in 1920-1937
13:00 - 14:00 - lunch (served at the venue)
14:00 - 15:30 - session 3.3
- Alexander Osipov (University of Eastern Finland), History and Nature as Tools of Nation-Building: The Case of Kazakhstan
- Oleh Pavliuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), The ‘New Values’ of the European Union: Reinventing the EU’s Axiology in the Wake of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
- Jukka Korpela (University of Eastern Finland), From traitor to heavenly protector of Fatherland: the posthumous life of St. Aleksandr Nevskiy
15:30 – closing