Organizers' contact addresses:
Professor Laura Engelstein [log in to unmask]
Professor Daniel Orlovsky [log in to unmask]
Boris Ivanovich Kolonitskii e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov e-mail: [log in to unmask]
197110, St. Petersburg. ul. Petrozavodskaia, d. 7. Institut istorii, RAN
Proposal for International Scholarly Colloquium
Historical Memory and Russian Imperial and Soviet Society
(1860-1939)
European University, St. Petersburg, June 2007
Project Directors:
Laura Engelstein (Yale University)
Boris I. Kolonitskii (St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy
of
Sciences)
Supporting institutions:
European Studies Council, YCIAS, Yale University (USA)
St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian
Federation)
European University, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
Organizing Committee:
Vladimir Cherniaev (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Ziva Galili (Rutgers University)
Manfred Hildermeier (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Mikhail Krom (European University, St. Petersburg)
Daniel Orlovsky (Southern Methodist University)
Sergei Potolov (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
William Rosenberg (University of Michigan)
Nikolai Smirnov (Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
The colloquium will examine various types and manifestations of historical
memory. Papers will cover a wide range of problems of interest to
specialists in different areas of the humanities. Possible sections
(panels) will include:
- Institutions of social memory (archives, museums, monuments,
cemeteries)
- The state in relation to the historical past (official jubilees
and monuments, state archives and history textbooks)
- Imperial memory, memory of the national state, memory of national
movements.
- Civil society and historical memory. Historical myths of the
political parties and social movements. Historical images in political
conflicts.
- Historical myths in visual arts, theater, film, and literature;
their influence on public consciousness.
- Historians and civic life. Historians and mass historical
consciousness.
- Family memory.
- Historical amnesia: taboos of the past.
- Study of historical memory: theoretical and methodological
problems.
Organizers' contact addresses:
Professor Laura Engelstein [log in to unmask]
Professor Daniel Orlovsky [log in to unmask]
Boris Ivanovich Kolonitskii e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov e-mail: [log in to unmask]
197110, St. Petersburg. ul. Petrozavodskaia, d. 7. Institut istorii, RAN
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