MEMORY OF THE PAST AND POLITICS OF THE PRESENT - 29. 11. 2022
Channel: Akademie věd České republiky
Date: 2022-11-29

Memory of the Past and Politics of the Present Conference 

link https://www.usd.cas.cz/aktuality/konference-memory-of-the-past-and-politics-of-the-present/

Venue: Goethe-Institut Prag

Organizer: Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences within the Strategy AV21

Partners: Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten

November 29, 2022

09.30–11.00 Session 3
Chaired by Markus PIEPER (Saxon Memorial Foundation)

Marie ČERNÁ (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Contemporary History) ⦁ The Utilisation of Historical Memory in the Contemporary Czech Pro-Russian Activism 

Frank GRELKA (European University Viadrina, Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies) ⦁ The German-Russian revisionist consensus over Ukraine, 1918–2022

Peter RUGGENTHALER (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences) ⦁ Reflections on the Russian Aggression in Ukraine from an Austrian Perspective

Aleksey KAMENSKIKH (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute for Slavic, Turkic and Circum-Baltic Studies & Perm Memorial) ⦁ The Language of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ as the Substitution: 2014–2022

11.00–11.30 Coffee break

11.30–13.00 Session 4
Chaired by Gábor DANYI (European Network Remembrance and Solidarity)

Martin KRATOCHVÍL (STEM Institute for Empirical Research) ⦁ Czech Opinion on Foreign Countries over the Last Three Decades and Czechs' Perception of Russian War against Ukraine

Juraj MARUŠIAK (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Political Science) ⦁ Russia in the Collective Memory of Post-Communist Slovakia in the Context of Its Aggression against Ukraine

Réka SARKÖZY (National Széchényi Library, 1956 Institute – Oral History Archive) ⦁ The Memory of the Don Disaster in Hungarian Documentaries

Valeria KORABLYOVA (Charles University, Institute of International Studies) ⦁ Disentangling from the Past: Politics of the Future as a Vehicle for Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Aggression

13.00–14.00 Lunch & coffee break

14.00–15.30 Session 5
Chaired by Oldřich TŮMA (ÚSD)

Burkhard OLSCHOWSKY (Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe) ⦁ German Ostpolitik Reconsidered?

Gábor DANYI (European Network Remembrance and Solidarity) ⦁ And History Has Yet to Repeat Itself: Russia's War in Ukraine and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Martin PEKÁR (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice) ⦁ Misunderstanding vs. Disinformation: Historical Events and the Performance of Public Policy in Slovakia

David SVOBODA (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes) ⦁ From Sichynsky to Azov: Ukrainian Political Radicalism in Czech Public Stereotypes of the 20th and 21st Century

15.30  Closing