4EU+ Pluralities of Memory Spring School: Borderlands of Memory
NRVSS 2024 Academic program and Schedule
Day 1 | 15 April
| 17:30 | Registration and icebreaking dinner
(Karoliny Světlé 321/23, 110 00 Staré Město) |
Day 2 | 16 April
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Museum visit
The National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror (Resslova 9a, 120 00 Nové Město) Meeting at 9:45 in front of the building |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break
Time for transfer to Jinonice Campus (U Kříže 661/8, 158 00 Praha 5-Jinonice) Lunch and transfer individually Meeting at 12:45 in front of the Jinonice Campus main building |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University) | room C612
Memory Between Reparation and Prevention. How The Memory of Extreme Violence Can Be Seen as a Form of Cure for Societies |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Coffee break | room C612 |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Paweł Dobrosielski (University of Warsaw) | room C612
Discourses Of War – How the Current Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Narrated Through the Second World War and the Holocaust Imaginary |
Day 3 | 17 April
| Site visit
Malach Centre for Visual History (Malostranské nám. 2/25, 118 00 Malá Strana) Meeting at 9:15 in front of the building | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Presentation of the Centre, its sources and activities |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Work with digital sources |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Jiří Kocian (Charles University)
From Sources to Data: Bottom-up Digitized Interviews Collections Curation |
| 12:15 – 14:15 | Lunch Break
Time for transfer to the National Museum (Václavské náměstí 68, Praha 1) Lunch and transfer individually Meeting at 14:00 in front of the building |
| 14:15 – 16:15 | Museum Visit
National Museum (Exposition of the 20th century history) (Václavské náměstí 68, Praha 1) |
Day 4 | 18 April | Jinonice Campus (U Kříže 661/8, 158 00 Praha 5-Jinonice)
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Meeting at 9:15 in front of the Jinonice building
Pietro Conte (University of Milan) | room C612 From Monuments to VR: Keeping “Comfort Women”‘s Memory Alive |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | room C612
Lunch (sandwiches and salads) provided by the organisers |
| Keynote sessions | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Andreas Bandak (University of Copenhagen) | room B103A
As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiography and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30 – 15:45 | Daniel Knight (St. Andrews University) | room B103A
Memory in the Yet-to-Come: Future Hindsight and the Critical Present |
| 18:30 | Dinner for speakers
(Národní 8, 110 00 Nové Město) |
Day 5 | 19 April | Jinonice Campus (U Kříže 661/8, 158 00 Praha 5-Jinonice)
| Keynote session | |
| 9:45 – 11:15 | Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)| room B103A
Curating Mnemonical Security: Museums’ Responses to War Situations |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | room B103A |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Wrap-up and Certification | room B103A |
| 12:15 – 14:15 | Museum visit
(V Celnici 1031/4, 118 00 Nové Město) |