MARTYRDOM & MEMORY WARS IN EASTERN EUROPE
Monday 13 May 2013
Darwin College, Cambridge
9:00-10.00
KEYNOTE
Chair: Alexander Etkind (Cambridge)
Jay Winter (Yale), ‘Beyond Glory? Contrasting Grammars of
Commemoration in Europe East and West’
10:00-10:10
Coffee
10:10-11:25
Panel 1: PARADIGMS
Chair: Harald Wydra (Cambridge)
Jill Gather (Cambridge), ‘The Construction of Martyrdom in the Early
Church’
Zuzanna Bogumił (Warsaw), ‘Do Milieux de Mémoire Still Exist in Eastern
Europe?’
Maria Mälksoo (Tartu), ‘In Search of a Modern Mnemonic Narrative of
Communism: Russia’s Mnemopolitical Mimesis’
11:25-11:30
Break
11:30-12:45
Panel 2: RECOGNITION
Chair: Olesya Khromeychuk (Cambridge)
Philipp Chapkovski (Florence), ‘1937 as Great Purifying Sacrifice: SelfDevouring Ideology in Modern Russian Neo-Stalinist Literature’
Uilleam Blacker (Cambridge), ‘Urban Martyrology and the Other in
Postcommunist Poland and Ukraine’
Sander Brouwer (Groningen), ‘Between Martyrdom and Victimhood:
Thoughts on Bykov’s Justification’
12:45-1:45
Lunch
1:45-3:00
Panel 3: ICONS
Chair: Rachel Polonsky (Cambridge)
Agata Drelova (Exeter), ‘”Martyrdom for Nation”: Remembering Jozef Tiso in
Postcommunist Slovakia’
Julie Fedor (Cambridge), ‘”New Martyrdom” as Foundation Myth for a New
Russia’
Iryna Starovoyt (Groningen), ‘Holodomor, its Amnesia and Memory
(Re)making in LIterature and Film’
3:00-3:15
Coffee
3:15-4:30
Panel 4: BODIES
Chair: Keir Reeves (Cambridge/Monash)
Matilda Mroz (Greenwich), ‘Martyr on the Cross: Cinema and Crucifixion’
Tom Rowley (Cambridge), ‘Documentary Film and Dissident Reburial in
the Soviet Union 1989-1991’
Simon Lewis (Cambridge), ‘Contested Martyrdom: Khatyn’s Troubled
Mourning’
4:30--
Roundtable