EuMePo Conference Budapest, June 14–16, 2023 | Program

Registration

Opening remarks

Panel I: Memory Politics in a Regional Perspective: Towards a new East-West Divide? Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Panel
Moderator: Beata Halicka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Zoom Registration Link: please register by sending an email to info@eucanet.org

Speakers

• Kate Korycki (Western University): Nostalgic Longings and Liberal Causes of the Right-Wing Populist Turn
• Piotr Oleksy (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań): Poland’s Historical Turn and Its Relations with the West
• Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria): Memory Politics, Identity, and Democracy in Germany and Poland

Coffee break

Panel II: Commemorating the Past Across Europe: Remembrance and Memorialization in Education
Moderator: Ildikó Barna (ELTE Research Center for Computational Social Science)

Speakers

• Katarzyna Kulinska (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews): Holocaust Education in Poland: Context and Challenges
• Elke Rajal (University of Passau): Countering Antisemitism through Holocaust Education. A Cross-National Comparison
• Beate Schmidtke, Kästle Van Der Meer (University of Victoria): Collective Memory in the 21st Century: Learning with and from the Young Generation
• Francesca Tortorella (Université Catholique de Lille): Considerations on How to Actualize Memory across Europe
• Janine Wulz (University of Victoria): The Future of Holocaust Education. A Critical Perspective on How Societies Prepare Teachers For Educating About Traumatic Pasts

Lunch (provided at the conference venue)

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
Moderator: Gabriella Komoly (Zachor Alapítvány), Vivien Turza (Zachor Alapítvány)
Speakers: Field School participants | Emily Duff, Ellie Hiotakis, Rowan Lori Salverda, Anika Luteijn, August Kirste-Yee, Megan Klein, Jacob Moreno, Emma Newton, Simrat Otal, Kalea Palmer, Sarah Robinson, Ana Paula Santana Bertho, Alissa Schmidtke, Elena Senecal, Kaestle van der Meer, Maia Vasko, Alicia Ward, Vanessa Wheaton

Dinner (for speakers, moderators, invited guests, and Field School participants)
Kőleves Vendéglő (1075 Budapest, Kazinczy utca 37–41.)
Please note that Panel III will be also in Kőleves Vendéglő!

Investigating Memory Politics and Other Social Phenomena Empirically: Methodological Sightseeing Tour in the World of Automated Text Analytics with ELTE Research Center for Computational Social Science (rc2s2.elte.hu)

Speakers

• Ildikó Barna (ELTE RC2S2): An analysis on the framing of Trianon and the Holocaust in Hungary using Natural Language Processing (co-author: Árpád Knap (ELTE RC2S2))
• Renáta Németh (ELTE RC2S2): Who knows it better? The task of detecting discrimination using human coding vs. text mining (co-authors: Jakab Buda (ELTE TáTK, ELTE RC2S2) and Bori Simonovits (ELTE PPK))
• Zsófia Rakovics (ELTE RC2S2): Memory politics – Different issues and political communication strategies in the Hungarian Parliament

Panel IV: Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Memory, Narrative, and Agency across Vulnerable Populations
Moderators: Laura Kromják (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences), Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria)

Speakers

• Karolina Lendák-Kabók (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences): Revelations of Untold Trauma from the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
• Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Masaryk Institute and Archives, CAS, Prague, ERC-Project “Unlikely refuge?): Memory and Choice—Jewish Refugee Survivors in Postwar Poland

Lunch (provided at the conference venue)

Visit to the House of Terror

Coffee Break

Panel V: Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Remembrance, Reconciliation and Resilience
Moderator: Christina Griessler (netPOL / Andrássy Universität Budapest)

Speakers

• Rana Dajani (Harvard University & Hashemite University): The Immortal Kiss of Our Grandparents. A Paradigm Shift in Perception of Trauma Rooted in Evolutionary Biology
• Laura Kromják (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences), Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic (Zayed University & St Louis University): Memories of Genocide and Mass Violence: Remembrance and Intergenerational Trauma

Dinner (for speakers, moderators, invited guests, and Field School participants)
VakVarjú Étterem Pest (1061 Budapest, Paulay Ede utca 7.)

Panel VI: Remembrance and Amnesia, Silences in Memorialization
Moderator: Birte Wassenberg (Sciences Po University of Strasbourg)

Speakers

• Tímea Jablonczay (Milton Friedman University): Counter-Memories, Multidirectional Memory, and Anti-Memory of the Holocaust during the 1960s in Hungary
• Matt James (University of Victoria): Two Kinds of Mnemonic Distortion in Contemporary Debates About Rights
• Andrea Pető (Central European University): Illiberal Memory Politics as a Successful Paradigm Shift in the Memory of the Holocaust

Coffee Break

Panel VII: Collective Memory in Action: Museums and Memorialization
Moderator: Lisa Chalykoff

Speakers

• Borbála Klacsmann (University College Dublin): Invisibilizing Responsibility: The Holocaust Museums of Slovakia and Hungary
• Domonkos Sik (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences): Memory Transmission and Political Socialization – The Case of Contemporary Hungary
• Katarzyna Taczyńska (University College Dublin): Whose Memory? – The Holocaust in the Museums in Łódź (Poland)

Lunch (provided at the conference venue)

Panel VIII: Hungarian Memory Politics in the Field: Monument of National Martyrs, Memorial of National Unity, Liberty Square
Expert guides: Ildikó Barna (ELTE Research Center for Computational Social Science) and Borbála Klacsmann (University College Dublin)

Individual dinner options