Politics of Memory in Conflict(ual) Areas

Inter-ReSET Workshop

27-28 March 2009
Venue: OSA Archivum, Arany Janos utca 32

The workshop “Politics of Memory in Conflict(ual) Areas”, (March 27-28, 2009, hosted by OSA Archivum (at CEU), Arany János utca 32, Budapest) was spearheaded by several HESP - ReSET projects in collaboration with the History, Gender Studies and International Relations departments of the Central European University within the framework of the Comparative History project.

The workshop is focusing on the potentially divisive - “conflictual” - areas of academic inquiry, aiming to revisit critically the existing practices and dominant paradigms in undergraduate teaching in social sciences and humanities in the region. The workshop will focus on specific problems of memory, using it as one of the critical concepts to discuss a range of interrelated subjects that cut across state, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together scholars and junior researchers from several ReSET projects, all of them dealing with memory in some way, the workshop does not want only to raise issues that are of importance for all of these projects, but also to investigate possible areas of shared interest for further research and teaching which can use/produce synergy of the existing networks.

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