Look out for the following presentations by the Translating Memories team at the annual Memory Studies Association conference, taking place this year in Newcastle, UK, 3-7 2023 July.
July 4
15:45-17:15 Eneken Laanes‘s presentation in the panel “Mnemonic Migration”
July 5
10:45 – 12:15 Anita Pluwak‘s presentation “Conspiracy theories as mnemonic practice: Popular conspiracy fiction from postsocialist Poland and the intersecting discourses of memory and suspicion” in the panel “Fictions, facts, and counter-memories”
6 July
11-12:30 Diana Popa‘s presentation “Reworking Romanian and Hungarian Past: Holocaust Memory in Péter Forgács’s and Radu Jude’s Archival Documentaries” in the panel “The Axis Powers in Cultural Memory: Transnational Tropes and (Un)Critical Storytelling about World War II”
11-12:30 Hanna Aunin‘s presentation “Change in the Memory of Estonian Mass Deportations and its Representations through Film: The Awakening (1989) and In the Crosswind (2014)” in the panel “Memories of Displacement”
7 July
11-12:30 Margaret Comer‘s presentation “New Narratives in Times of Conflict: Estonian Museum Responses to the War in Ukraine” in the panel “Re/creating belonging in and through museums”