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Events in the loop
December 2020
Aspects and Typologies of Transitions from The Habsburg Empire to Nation-States
An online panel as part of Rijeka2020: Memoryscapes 16 December 2020, 17h Zoom and Streaming on YouTube As part of the Memoryscapes series of online lectures, we are excited to present a panel of scholars from the Nepotrans Project. The project’s goal is to provide a new, overall narrative of how the Habsburg Empire was replaced by nation states at the end of WWI and reconsider in the light of its results categories and concepts like state and statehood, local, regional and national, transition and transformation. The team addresses four main themes: state, elites, identities and discourses. The issues raised by the After the Great War exhibition held in Rijeka in October 2020 are further developed in the presentations by scholars working on various aspects of post-Habsburg Eastern and Central Europe, providing both a comparative regional perspective as well as a case study of Rijeka during this crucial transitional period of both collapse and state-building. The lectures will be in English. Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History - Budapest), ERC Nepostrans project presentation Elisabeth Haid (Institute of Political History - Budapest), From Eastern Galicia to Eastern Lesser Poland. Administrative changes and continuities. Ivan Jeličić (Institute of Political History - Budapest), The Nation-State as an Obvious Option? Fiume/Rijeka's political alternatives. Anikó Borbála Izsák (Institute of Political History - Budapest / ELTE University Budapest), Who holds the power? National Councils and local military forces in Satu Mare County. Jernej Kosi (Institute of Political History - Budapest / University of Ljubljana), Prekmurje: The 1918/1919 Revolution in the Hungarian/Yugoslav Rural Periphery. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdu2rpz8jE9DZovOdVAWZ7m79eheJEKel After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Organized as part of EPK2020, Nepotrans project, YUFE network November 2020
The International Press Association (API-IPA), together with the Residence Palace, invites Brussels-based correspondents to:
’The Croatia-Slovenia border dispute' The stages of a protracted conflict and its implications for EU enlargement In this API Hour author Thomas Bickl, EPP's policy advisor in the European Parliament, presents his new book about the border conflict between the two EU member states. He reveals the processes at work, the historical and contemporary circumstances and the strategies of the actors involved. The book highlights the roles of the EU and other parties in the conflict, and offers policy recommendations on how to strengthen conflict resolution in the EU accession process. Thomas Bickl will be interviewed by Dr. Ana MILOSEVIC, KU Leuven, followed by Q&A. WHEN: Friday 20 November 2020, 10:30-11:30h WITH: Dr. Thomas BICKL, policy adviser EPP Moderator: Michael STABENOW, API The API Hour will be held online, using ZOOM. EU accredited correspondents only who want to 'attend', need to register at info@api-ipa.org ultimately before noon Thursday 19 November. Registered journalists will later that day receive the link that will give them online access to the API Hour with the possibility to ask questions. * * * * * International Press Centre 'Résidence Palace' – Bloc C, Office/bureau 2.223 (2nd floor/2ème étage)Rue de la Loi 155, 1040 Bruxelles/Brussels – Tel: +32 2 235 22 24 Announcing dMSA!Dear friends and colleagues, We are delighted to announce a new initiative: Digital MSA (dMSA)! Approximately once a month, the MSA will host a webinar with the goal of fostering scholarly exchange of ideas on the most important issues in memory studies today. To kick off this format, we have assembled a roundtable on “Monuments and Memory Politics", featuring a broad range of perspectives and case studies: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University) introduces us to why monuments matter in the context of (trans)cultural memory, Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka) discusses the (im)possibilities of pluralistic remembrance in the context of the war in Yugoslavia, Wandile Kasibe (Iziko Museums of South Africa) takes a critical perspective on monuments and museums as signifiers of crimes against humanity, and Jalane Schmidt (University of Virginia) will join us with her expertise on Charlottesville as a case of contested memories. Join us for this roundtable on November 18, 6pm CET, and register via this link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. There is only a limited amount of slots available, please register soon. There will be different kinds of dMSA events. In addition to those organized by the MSA team, we welcome suggestions and proposals for events by and from members of the MSA, and will offer help producing these events. Organizers of important events around the world can also propose to have their events co-hosted by dMSA. All dMSA events will be available as livestreams to MSA members, making possible participation from the audience in the discussion period and will be archived for viewing by MSA members at their convenience. Please mark your calendars for the following events in this exciting series.
If you would like to suggest a dMSA event, please contact us via info@memorystudiesassociation.org and send us a short outline of you ideas. Check out our webpage for more information on dMSA. We look forward to your participation and feedback! October 2020
After the Great War: The Exhibition behind the scenes
October 29, 2010 - 3 pm - on-line debate The discussion is going to focus on the exhibition After the Great War. A New Europe 1918–1923 and some challenges related to the multi-stage process of creating international historical exhibitions in general. The debate participants are: Prof. Jay Winter – Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University Prof. Ewelina Szpak – Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences Andrzej Jaworski – co-owner of the JAZ+Architekci studio, architect Dr Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk – European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (moderator) Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković – University of Rijeka (moderator) Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eyLIXij6TdqVwx4p8mmJUg September 2020
BISA conference: ‘Memory and South East Europe: Global currents of activism and contestation’
24 September 2020, 3.00 – 4.30pm (UK Time) Registration: https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/seewg/events/memory-and-south-east-europe-global-currents-activism-and |
Regional Group meetings
Kick-off event: 04 July 2020
(minutes of the meeting available on request) Deadlines: 20 August 2020 - biographies via Google link 31 August 2020 - Blog posts due Next meeting: Friday, 23 October 2020, at 11:30am (CET)
(minutes of the meeting available on request) CfP :MSA Regional Group on Memory in South East Europe (MSA Warsaw Conference 2021) South East Europe occupies a special place in Memory Studies. Yet, there have been scarce attempts at bringing together researchers to analyze various set of mnemonic occurrences of the countries in the region. In brief, the present-day memory studies debate on the region can be divided across diachronic lines, as, for instance, the memory of the First World War (for an overview, see Luthar 2016), the Second World War (Petrović 2014), the communist period (Mark 2010; Brunnbauer 2012; Tileagă 2012; Todorova et al. 2014) and the post-communist transformations and democratic consolidations (Jović 2004; Troebst 2011). The Yugoslav wars of the 1990s are also a significant focal point in the recent debate. Several other topoi of the most recent memory studies debates in the region include the usages of political ideologies (for an overview, Bešlin and Atanacković 2012), political identities (Todorova 2004; Ramet 2013), historiography and history-production (Luthar 2017), transitional justice (Hačikjan et al. 2005), nostalgia (Todorova 2009; Todorova & Gille 2010), transnationalism (Samardžić 2013; Kirn 2017; Ramet & Hassenstab 2017) and recently Europeanization of memory (Milosevic & Trost 2020). For the conference of the Memory Studies Association in Warsaw in 2021, the Regional Group on South East Europe seeks to launch a debate on the state of the art of Memory studies in - and on, the region. In line with the MSA CfP, we invite paper proposals that will address the growing confluences of the global and the regional to offer theoretical or methodological reflections addressing different layers of mnemonic entanglement in the region. We therefore invite paper proposals with a strong focus on South East Europe. Paper abstracts should have a length of no more than 200 words and can be written in English. A biography of no more than 80 words should also be included. Please submit your proposal by October 10 to ana.milosevic@kuleuven.be, vjeranp@gmail.com and trajanovskinaum@gmail.com. We will then shape the panel accordingly. The Regional Group Memory on South East Europe seeks to create long-term collaborations between scholars from different disciplines and geographical locations who are interested in planning projects and publications together. The conference in Warsaw will (hopefully) be the first occasion for a face to face meeting of the members of the Regional Group. Keep in mind that to become a member of the Regional Group, as well as for presenting in Warsaw, you need to be a member of the Memory Studies Association. For a paper proposal, this is not required. |
