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Thematic focus
- Social History
- Multi-Perspectivity in History Teaching
- History of National Minorities
- Histories of Discrimination and Persecution
- Histories of Violence
- Histories of Wars and Warfare
- History of Anti-Semitism
- History of National Minorities
- Holocaust
- Remembrance / Collective Memory
- 20th Century
- Second World War
- First World War
- 1918-1939 (“Interwar Period”)
Language
English
Country
Romania
Address
Iași, Romania
Date
23 - 25 September 2026
Time
09:00 - 16:30
(GMT+02:00) Bucharest
Description
The 16th edition of the Genealogies of Memory conference brings together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to explore how traumatic memory is passed down between generations. The conference asks how transmission happens, through family storytelling, commemorative practices, education, museums, archives and digital media, and how trauma disrupts and reshapes that process. Central and Eastern Europe, marked by twentieth-century wars, genocides, forced displacements and political repression, provides the conference's main geographical focus, examined comparatively alongside traumatic histories from other world regions. Discussions will be organised around four themes: the processes and patterns of transgenerational trauma transmission; hegemonic narratives of trauma alongside counter-memories and dialogic practices; artistic and reconstructive forms of memory work, including postmemory and archival engagement; and the digital mediation of trauma, from polarisation and echo chambers to new possibilities for personal and interconnected storytelling. The programme features a keynote by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College), nine thematic panels, a roundtable discussion, and a guided tour of memory sites in Iași. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, and the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism of the Romanian Academy.
Organiser
European Network Remembrance and Solidarity