Eruptions of New First World War Memories

This workshop aims to study the intense commemoration activities which have been catalysed across Europe by the First World War centenary.

Through a series of paper presentations focusing on 'eruptions' of new First World War memory, we will study and compare the characteristic elements of such newly erupting war memories across Europe.

Programme

09:30  Welcome, introduction, purpose of the workshop
          Tea Sindbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen)

09:45 – 10:45  Shells, Snow and Lice. Allegoric Representations of WWI in Serbian
                       Historical Narratives
                       Olga Manojlović Pintar (Institute for Newer History, Belgrade)

11 – 12  Remembering and Forgetting. The Trauma of the Bulgarian Defeat in WWI in
             Bulgarian Collective Memory
             Ivan Ilchev (Sofia University)

12 – 13  Lunch break

13 – 14  Representations of the First World War in the Politics of Memory in Russia and
             Ukraine
             Anna Bazhenova (Institute of East-Central Europe, Lublin)

14:15 – 15:15  French Sikhs’ commemorative practices and discourses about the First
                       World War
                       Christine Moliner (École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),
                       Paris)

15:45 – 16:45  Remembering the Great War in independent Montenegro
                       Ismar Dedović (University of Copenhagen)

The workshop is open to anyone interested.

For more information, please contact Tea Sindbæk Andersen or Ismar Dedović.