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)

 

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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)