memory – Cyfrowi humaniści / Digital humanists

German-Belorussian-Lithuanian relationships

agakud — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:19:00 +0000

Looking for ideas of scientific excursions? I recommend you to go to Lithuania. I took part on the excursion for German, Lithuanian and Belorussian students „Lithuania During a Period of The Two World Wars“ (05.10.2014 – 17.05.2014, Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania), organised in cooperation with the Vilnius University and European Humanities University.

Here you can get to know our seminar’s programme, so you can organise it for you and your group.
Day 1. Ariival to Vilnius. Free day in Vilnius. Introduction to the city.

Day 2. Older History of Lithuania and it’s importance for Lithuanian national Identity: Grand Duke Gediminas monument and a monument of Polish – Lithuanian poet Adam Mickiewicz.

Day 3. Polishness and Lithuanianness in the beginning of the XX century: Rasos cementary and memorial house of composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

Day 4. Excursion to Kaunas – Kaunas during the Interwar period – a temporary capital of Lithuania, XIX Fort of Kaunas, interwar architecture and monuments in the relation to Lithuanian national identity.

Day 5. Jewish Vilnius and the Holocaust: Center of Tolerance, former Jewish ghettos, Museum of Holocaust. Discussion with some people who were born in ghetto and managed to survive.

Day 6. Memorable places in the surroundings of Vilnius: Paneriai memorial place and the old Capital – Trakai.

Day 7. Occupation regimes repressions and resistance: Lithuanian occupations during and after the Second World War – Museum of Genocide Victims.

Urban Spaces of L’viv

agakud — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:52:00 +0000

There was a number of number of international conferences dedicated to the link of topics „Lviv: City – Society – Culture”. On May 29-31, 2014 the 12th conference took place at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Center for Urban History. This conference, dedicated to Lviv’s urban space in both its physical and symbolic dimensions, was precisely called „Urban Spaces of Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg: Imagination, Experiences, Practices.”More informations.

Memory places of Kraków

agakud — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:00 +0000

I helped to conduct the seminar about history of and memory places in Kraków (13-19 May 2013) of Prof. Jürgen Angelow and (this time) Prof. Zdzisław Noga. The participants were students of the Freie Universität Berlin und Pedagogical University in Krakow. The topics of speeches were related as always to historical places (monuments, public places, churches etc.).

The development of the seminar’s concept and the seminar organistation were very important to me since my Ph.D is dedicated L’viv’s remembrance from 1867 till 1939.

Beside that I gave a speech on the every day life in Nowa Huta, relations between inhabitants of Nowa Huta and Kraków and the museum concept of Nowa Huta (ecomuseum), which was also an interesting experience.

Polish Eastern Borderland in Węgliniec

agakud — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Commemoration of an expulsion can help to overcome the trauma of expelled. This is the case with the Museum of the Polish Eastern Borderland in Węgliniec, which I visited. The history of the Museum you can read and see here. It’s of course a very emotional and not professional museum, but it’s interesting to see and to listen what the whole equipment, documents and photos mean for the museum’s founder Alfred Janicki.

Janicki deals with emotions of the visitors very instrumentally. He even makes them want to cry. Unfortunatelly he also seems to own the the whole equipment, documents and photos. He works now for the city library, so hopefully the things will be later taken over by the library.

Memory places and culture of remembrance in L’viv

agakud — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:25:00 +0000

Remembrance culture and memory places in L’viv are more and more interesting as a research topic. To give the students the opportunity of researches on the topic Prof. Jürgen Angelow (University Potsdam/University of the Saarland) organised a seminar on this topic in L’viv 2007 and 2012.

The topics were divided into 6 sessions:

1. Memory places of Ukrainians and Poles,
2. Memory of Habsburg rule over Central Europe (L’viv),
3. Memory of Holocaust and Jewish life in L’viv,
4. Death cult und multinationality – cemeteries of L’viv,
5. World War II and „Soviet time” – commemoration of Germans and Soviets in the city,
6. Other minorities on example of Armenians.

2007 the seminar was organised by Prof. Angelow, M.A. Iryna Kharyk and me. Then the participants came from the Potsdam University and L’viv University. They gave lectures on different aspects of national culture of remembrance in L’viv.

In 2012 me, Matthias Guttke, the lector of German Academic Exhange Service (DAAD), Sabine Schwager, the DAAD assistant, helped to conduct the seminar. The participants of this seminar were students of the University of the Saarland (history) and the Ivan-Franko-University of L’viv (intercultural communication).

Team of the seminar „Culture of remembrance in L’viv”, me, Prof. Jürgen Angelow and Iryna Kharyk (University L’viv, 2007).

Literature: On The Frontiers of Central Europe: Ukrainian Galicia at the Turn of the Millennium
Музей „Тюрма на Лонцького”
Тарик Сиріл Амар. ІНАКША, АЛЕ ПОДІБНА, ЧИ ПОДІБНА, АЛЕ ІНАКША? ПУБЛІЧНА ПАМ’ЯТЬ ПРО ДРУГУ СВІТОВУ ВІЙНУ У ПОСТРАДЯНСЬКОМУ ЛЬВОВІ.

Monuments as a medium of remembrance

agakud — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:22:00 +0000

European Network Remembrance and Solidarity established in Warsaw supports since 2011 researches on genealogies of memory in Central and Eastern Europe. It’s first conference was dedicated to theories and methods. I gave there a paper on „Monuments and memory constructs in L’viv between 1867 and 1939”. The programme of the conference you can download here.The panelists analysed also public space of Kaliningrad and walking memory of Sevastopol. You can look at the video of the panel in English/German here:
http://genealogies.enrs.eu/video-recording/media-of-remembrance-1-spaceplace-en/

Fluctuating memory

agakud — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Collective, individual, cultural or communicative memory are very well known in the science. But what is fluctuating or ambiguous memory? I came to this conclusion in regard to my analyse of monuments in L’viv between 1867 and 1939. „Ambiguous memory” means that the memory on one person or event is differential for different society groups and even individuals.

The monuments could be symbols of the city, region, nation and state, also of course of an political, cultural, religious idea at once. This results from the booming landscape of monuments in L’viv.

I presented my these for the participants of the Kolloquium about current researches in the history of the Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Professur für Europäische Regionalgeschichte, Technische Universität Chemnitz) in Chemnitz in November 2011.

Monuments in L’viv – 1867-1939 – a concept

agakud — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:12:00 +0000

Do you look for concepts of analyses on remembrance? Look at this poster.

Vienna – city as museum

agakud — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:32:00 +0000

In October 2006 I took part on a seminar Vienna – city as museum. Fin de Siecle of Vienna.

Is the church a work of art or not?

Both a work of art and not a work of art. The opinion depends on premises.

Escape, expulsion after the World War II and its commemoration

agakud — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:55:00 +0000

In September 2006 I took part on German-Polish seminar about escape, expulsion after the World War II and their commemoration. We were listening to memories of Sybiracy. We had a discussion with a member of German Association of German Displaced Persons (Bund der deutschen Vertriebenen). We’ve visited Cedynia to watch the monument of a battle by Cedynia and to discuss about myth of Piast dynasty.