"Narrations, spaces and pictures of memory - Historical Museums: representation, memory and politics"

Today in Warsaw:
What: conference "Narrations, spaces and pictures of memory - Historical Museums: representation, memory and politics"
When (conference):  1-2.06.2011
where: Warsaw, Poland
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1 June: Narrations, spaces and pictures of memor

Working conference (all presentations in English)

Conference venue: Polish Culture Institute, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, room 9

9:00 Opening session: Prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz, Director of Polish Culture Institute UW

• Christian Delage (Paris 8/EHESS-IHTP): Writing the Narrative of a Memorial: the Case of Compiègne
• Ewa Klekot (UW): Visiting the Warsaw Royal Castle – WWII Destruction and a Question of Authenticity

10:3o

• Geneviève Zubrzycki (University of Michigan/Ehess): Memory and Collective Identity in Museum Spaces outside Museums.
• Marcin Napiórkowski (IKP UW): Creation and Reconstruction of History from the Perspective of Anthropology of Things. The Case of the Warsaw Rising Museum

12:oo

• Mirosław Nizio (Nizio Design International): Spaces of Memory. Representing History (presentation of architecture/design works)

13:oo–14:3o lunch time

14:3o

• Maud Guichard (EHESS): Between the National and the International: the Non-Space of the Judaica Gallery at the National Museum in Krakow
• Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Museum of the History of Polish Jews/ NYU): Restoring History to Memory: Museum of the History of Polish Jews
  

16:oo

• Rémy Besson (EHESS): Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, a Memorial?
• Agnieszka Pajaczkowska (IKP UW): Memory in Photographs. Identity Photos from the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Iwona Kurz (IKP UW): Life after Life. Usage of Auschwitz Chronicles in the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

2 June: Historical Museums: representation, memory and politics

Pannel discussion (Polish/French languages with interpreter)

Conference venue: Dom Spotkań z Historią, ul. Karowa 20

16:oo­–19:oo

Isabelle Backouche (Ehess)

Christian Delage (Paris 8/Ehess-IHTP)

Paweł Machcewicz (Second World War Museum)

Dariusz Gawin (Warsaw Uprising Museum)

Jacek Leociak (Museum of History of Polish Jews)

Katarzyna Madoń-Mitzner (Dom Spotkań z Historią)

discussion moderator: Paweł RODAK (Polish Culture Institute UW)