On Thursday, 5 November, from 14:00 to 19:00, a seminar on memory politics will take place at CEU’s Budapest campus, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. The seminar, titled “Occupation, Resistance, Adaptation – Memory Politics and Historical Debates on Russian/Soviet Entanglements with East and Central Europe”, will explore questions such as how the events of 1956 are remembered in contemporary Hungary, how historical memory deals with conflict, and how the post-Soviet experiences of the Baltic States and Ukraine differ from those of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Finland.
Eneken Laanes, Professor of Comparative Literature at Tallinn University, will participate in the seminar’s third panel, titled “Post-Soviet Memory Politics and Identity Building.” Eneken Laanes is the Project Leader of ERC project Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena. Her research deals with transnational memory and transcultural memorial forms in post-Soviet memory cultures of Eastern Europe. Laanes studied comparative literature at the University of Tartu, University of Bologna, the Free University of Berlin. She has been a Juris Padegs Research Fellow at Yale University and a Kone Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium.
PROGRAMME
14:00-14:15 Welcome words
Riikkamari Muhonen (director of FinnAgora)
Balázs Trencsenyi (director of the Institute of Advanced Study at CEU)
H.E. Pekka Kaihilahti (ambassador of Finland to Hungary)
14:15-14:45 Opening keynote
Erkki Tuomioja (PhD, Chair of the Historians without Borders Finland association, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland 2000-2007 and 2011-2015)
14:45-16:00 First panel: Memory of 1956 in Contemporary Hungary
Eszter Balázs (Researcher, Ludovika University of Public Service)
Anssi Halmesvirta (Professor emeritus, University of Jyväskylä)
Heino Nyyssönen (University lecturer, University of Turku)
Lucia Szemetova (Researcher, Institute of Advanced Study)
chaired by Péter Apor (Research Fellow, Institute of History)
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15-17:30 Second panel: Memories of Conflict in Russian/Soviet Borderlands
Marie Cerna (Researcher, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Pawel Machcewicz (Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Kati Parppei (University Lecturer, University of Eastern Finland)
chaired by Balázs Trencsenyi (Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, CEU)
17:30-17:45 Break
17:45-19:00 Third panel: Post-Soviet Memory Politics and Identity Building
Una Bergmane (Researcher, University of Helsinki)
Eneken Laanes (Professor, University of Tallinn)
Mykola Riabchuk (Principal Research Fellow, National Acdemy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Violeta Davoliute (Senior Researcher, Lithuanian Institute of History)
chaired by Riikkamari Muhonen (Director of FinnAgora)
The seminar will be held in English. You can register via this link by 4 November.
The seminar is jointly organised by FinnAgora and the CEU Institute for Advanced Study.