Paměť, vyprávění a konflikt: V průsečíku perspektiv

Kolokvium organizují:
Centre d’études historiques de l’Académie polonaise des Sciences (CBH-PAN)
ISP (UMR 7220)
LincS (UMR 7069)
Université de Toulon
Université de Łódź
a Francouzský ústav pro výzkum ve společenských vědách (CEFRES, Praha)

Kdy: 15.-16. září 2025
Kde: Berlín, Polská akademie věd a Centre Marc Bloch
Jazyky: francouzština a angličtina

‘Memory’ as a subject of study and a political, social and media issue has dominated public debate in Europe since the late 1980s. ‘Duty to remember,’ ‘realms of memory,’ ‘wars of memory,’ ‘competition among victims,’ ‘memory invasion,’ ‘paths of memory,’ ‘politics of memory,’ ‘defence of memory,’ ‘murderers of memory’: these expressions reflect a new relationship with the world, a new regime of historicity that François Hartog calls presentism. This new configuration of the relationship with the past is reflected in various identity claims, particularly from previously dominated groups, but also in new institutional practices. Memory becomes a tool for mobilisation and intervention in the media, in public life, in politics in the broad sense of the term, but also in literature and the arts. It fuels epistemological reflection within the humanities and social sciences community.

Indeed, numerous studies have sought to analyse the ‘memory moment’ in sociology, political science, history, literary criticism and cultural studies. However, few research projects and scientific events bring together different disciplinary perspectives. The aim of this conference is to re-examine this issue in light of recent research on the phenomena of making memories visible in relation to conflict and antagonism. The objective is therefore to highlight the convergences between different approaches in the humanities and social sciences and, on this basis, to initiate a joint reflection on the methodologies and theories that currently underpin memory studies, including their dimensions of effective research practices. The innovative nature of this approach also lies in the reversal of perspective, no longer considering divergent memories as merely conflictual but also as offering potential for new narratives, stories and social practices.

Program

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin

09:00 I Registration
09:30 I Opening

  • Igor Kąkolewski I Director of the Center for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin (PAN)
  • Jay Rowell I Director of the Marc Bloch Center (CNRS – MEAE)
  • Mateusz Chmurski I Director of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CNRS – MEAE)

10:00 I Panel 1 – Between Oral Archives, Emotions, and Traumas: Contemporary Issues in Social Memory in Eastern Europe

  • Piotr Filipkowski I (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin) From Recording Individual Testimonies to Transforming Collective Memory – Or not Really? Some Remarks on Polish Oral History in the Last Decades
  • Joanna Wawrzyniak & Krzysztof Florek I (Center for Research on Social Memory at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw) Emotional Conflicts in Remembering Deindustrialization in Poland and Lithuania
  • Joanna Urbanek I (House of European History in Brussels) “KZ Syndrome”. Experience of Auschwitz and its Meaning for the Survivors in Medical Records

12:00 – 13:00 I Lunch

13:00 I Panel 2 – Visual Cultures, Materiality, and Education in Transnational Memory: New Approaches to Holocaust and Postwar Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Zofia Wóycicka & Michalina Musielak I (Center for Research on Social Memory at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw)  In Search of the Right  “Vibe”. Socialization in (Trans)national Memory and Visual Cultures and its Impact on the Perception of Holocaust Exhibitions in Poland and Germany
  • Catherine Perron I (Sciences Po, Centre d’études internationales – CERI, CNRS) German Heritage in Eastern Europe: Disputes and Potentials. Encounters, Exchanges and Conflicts Surrounding the Musealisation and/or Restitution of Objects after Expulsion
  • Ewa Tartakowsky I (Institut des sciences sociales du politique – UMR 7220, CNRS)  Contested Spaces, Silenced Histories: Critical Memory Work in the Classroom on the Warsaw Ghetto Virtual Monuments

15:00 – 15:30 I Coffee break

15:30 I Panel 3 – Figures of Loss: Exile, Melancholy, and Memory in Literature and Film

  • Piera Rossetto I (Ca’ Foscari University) “Your Story Makes Me Cry. But Mine too”. Vicky Shiran and the Riddle of Conflicting Memories
  • Laetitia Simcha Ohayon I (Columbia University) The Feeling of Loss:
    First and Second-Generation Women Writers of Judeo-Maghrebi Origin on Assembly, Exile, and Melancholia   
  • Sara Izzo I (Université de Bonn) Entre mémoire visuelle et textuelle – Revisiter le régime des Khmers rouges à la lumière de l’œuvre cinématographique et littéraire de Rithy Panh

17:30 – 18:00 I Coffee break
18:00 I Concert
20:00 I Dinner

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025
at Marc Bloch Center

09:00 I Panel 4 – Between Fiction and History: The Novel Confronting the Fractures of the Past

  • Przemysław Szczur I (Université de la Commission de l’Éducation nationale de Cracovie) Histoire et conflit. Quelques réflexions à partir du roman historique transnational polono-français de l’époque romantique
  • Laure Lévêque I (Université de Toulon) « La semaine sainte » d’Aragon (1958) : le roman historique comme instrument de gestion des conflits internes ?
  • Sylvie Brodziak I (CY Cergy Paris Université) « Les maquisards » de Hemley Boum ou la force du roman dans l’écriture de l’Histoire

12:00 – 13:00 I Lunch

13:00 I Panel 5 – Resistances and Reconciliations: Conflicting Memories and Historical Legacies

  • Anita Staroń I (Université de Łódź) « La Réconciliation » / « Die Versöhnung » (1913-1914) : chronique d’une bataille pacifiste
  • Simone Visciola I (Université de Toulon) La Résistance italienne aujourd’hui et hier : une dialectique complexe entre mémoires en conflit et historiographie
  • Maxime Prévost I (Université d’Ottawa) Les deux régimes mémoriels de la résistance chez Pierre Boulle

15:00 – 15:30 I Coffee break

15:30 I Panel 6 – Memory Policies and Cultural Frameworks: Between Exhibitions, Politics, and Commemoration

  • Magda Saryusz-Wolska I (German Historical Institute in Warsaw) Infrastructures of Cultural Memories. What Do We Overlook When Studying Historical Exhibitions
  • Aurélia Kalisky Käte I (Hamburger Kolleg “Cure” Saarbrücken / Marc Bloch Center) “Never Again”: A Political and Cultural History of a Memorial Injunction From the Kishinev Pogrom to the Genocidal War of Revenge in Gaza
  • Thomas Chopard I (EHESS / CEFRES) & Petra Hudek I (Slovak Academy of Sciences, CEFRES) Slovak Memory Policies and Commemorations for the 80th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War