BUDAPEST Conference “Memory Politics in Europe – Towards a Deepening East-West Divide?”
On June 14-16, 2023 the Jean Monnet Network European Memory Politics hosted the conference “Memory Politics in Europe: Towards a Deepening East-West Divide?”. The event brought together scholars from Europe and North America exploring the ways in which collective memory shapes current events and political loyalties on the European continent in a comparative perspective. This conference was organized by the Eötvos Loránd University, Budapest.
Panels looked into how collective memory is enacted in educational-and social practices and how historical narratives are mobilized in contemporary political conflicts ( program )
The conference featured a Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Panel on a Deepening East-West Divide in Europe related to divergent forms of memory and national identity. Related to a study tour in memory politics organized by the University of Victoria, the Budapest event also showcased a Youth Panel with the Zachor Foundation for Social Remembrance, co-financed by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada.
Jean Monnet Network European Memory Politics Project Partners and Lead:
Ildikó Barna, Birte Wassenberg, Beata Halicka, Oliver Schmidtke (Lead)
Jean Monnet Network EuMePo Collaborators: Piotr Oleksy, Francesca Tortorella, Fazila Mat, Bartha Diana Gabriella
Conference participants
Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Panel:
Memory Politics in a Regional Perspective: Towards a new East-West Divide? Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Panel
Video the the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Panel
Panel II: Commemorating the Past Across Europe: Remembrance and Memorialization in Education
European Memory in Local Context: Tracing Local History and Memory (IWalk) – Zachor Foundation for Social Remembrance
Panel III: Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Youth Panel with the Zachor Foundation for Social Remembrance
Moderators: Gabriella Komoly (Zachor Alapítvány), Ildikó Barna (ELTE), Vivien Turza (Zachor Alapítvány)
Presenter Emily Duff (University of Victoria)
Discussion group from the left: Kate Korycki (western University), Elke Rajal ((University of Passau) and
students from the University of Victoria: August Kirste-Yee, Alissa Schmidtke, Maia Vasko
Discussion group students from the University of Victoria (from left) Sarah Robinson, Simrat Otal, Jacob Moreno
Presentation by Kalea Palmer (university of Victoria)
Day 2: Panel IV: Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Memory, Narrative, and Agency across Vulnerable Populations
Panelists: Lidia Zessin-Jurek Masaryk Institute and Archives, CAS, Prague, ERC-Project “Unlikely refuge?) and Karolina Lendák-Kabók
Panel V: Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Remembrance, Reconciliation and Resilience
Laura Kromják (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences)
