[Discussion] CONF./CFP- Historical Memory & Russian Imperial & Soviet Society (1860-1939), June 2007

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From: "Boris I. Kolonitskii" <boris_I_kol@mail.ru>


CONF./CFP- Historical Memory & Russian Imperial & Soviet Society (1860-19=
39)

Organizers' contact addresses:

Professor Laura Engelstein
E-mail: laura.engelstein@yale.edu

Professor Daniel Orlovsky
E-Mail: dorlovsk@smu.edu

Boris Ivanovich Kolonitskii
E-mail: boris_I_kol@mail.ru

Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov
E-mail: smirn@spiiras.nw.ru

Institut istorii, RAN
ul. Petrozavodskaia, d. 7.
197110, St. Petersburg
Russian Federation

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=20
(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 G=F6ttingen, 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 historica=
l
memory. Papers will cover a wide range of problems of interest to=20
specialists in
different areas of the humanities. Possible sections (panels) will includ=
e:

  - Institutions of social memory (archives, museums, monuments, cemeteri=
es)
  - 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=20
movements.
  - Civil society and historical memory.  Historical myths of the politic=
al
    parties and social movements.  Historical images in political conflic=
ts.
  - Historical myths in visual arts, theater, film, and literature; their
    influence on public consciousness.
  - Historians and civic life.  Historians and mass historical=20
consciousness.
  - Family memory.
  - Historical amnesia: taboos of the past.
  - Study of historical memory: theoretical and methodological problems.



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