Engagement with the past, activism in the present

Engagement with the past, activism in the present

Toruń, 24—26 April 2023

 

Conference Programme

 

Collegium Humanisticum,

Bojarskiego Street 1

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

 

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

Engagement with the past, activism in the present