13 October
8.30 Registration. Veröld – ground floor
9.00 Welcome and Keynote
VHV-023. Chair: Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir
- Magdalena Zolkos: Counter-Memory and Colonialism in the Arctic: Visual and Narrative Resignifications of ‘Arctic Hysteria’
10.00-10.30 Coffee. Veröld – ground floor.
10.30-12.00 Parallel Sessions:
P1 NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY REVISITED
VHV-103. Chair: Astrid Rasch
- Anne Brædder: Negotiations with a Mnemonic Hegemony about an Industrial Fairytale and Decline
- Maria Adamopoulou: Just Work, No Talk: The Reflection of Silence and Vocality in the Greek Gastarbeiter Memories ONLINE
- Tine Bröndum and Trine Øland: Crafting New Narratives of the Danish Welfare State
- Anna Derksen: A Good Home for Whom? The Eugenic Past as a Commemorative Turning Point for Swedish Welfare Narratives
P2 DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, AND DIASPORA
VHV-104. Chair: Nadim Khouri
- Michal Pavlásek: Counter Memory and Echoes of Silence. Problematic Implications of Post-War Migrations ONLINE
- Demetrios Kapetanakos: Waste and Memory: A Consideration of Migrant Narratives in Mahamet-Saleh Haroun’s A Season in France and Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
- Mona Hedayati: Displacing Socio-Technical Boundaries: An Effective Attunement with Forced Migration Memories
- Chiara Giuliani: Their Story, Our Story. The Chinese Community in Italy in Three Graphic Essays ONLINE
- Abhilasha Gusain and Smita Jha: Personal, Cultural, and the Postmemory: Clément Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories and the Illustration of the Past ONLINE
P3 EXPANDING THE ARCHIVE
VHV-107. Chair: Ulla Savolainen
- Gal Kirn: Contribution to a “Manifesto of Counter-Memory”, ONLINE
- Lilit Dabagian: The Memomusor Project and the ‘Trashification’ of Historical Memory ONLINE
- Diana Dragomir: Archiving as Activism: Recovering the Lost Histories of the LGBTQIA+ Community in Romania, ONLINE
- Dagmar Brunow: When Counter Cultures Become Mainstream: Nordic Audiovisual Heritage Between Retromania and Multiperspectivity, ONLINE
- Vera Knútsdóttir: Spectral Memories from the Archive: Traces of Counter-Memory
P4 HISTORIES DISRUPTED AND CHALLENGED
VHV-108. Chair: Jessica Ortner
- Nate Kramer: Myth and History at Multiple Scales in Jensen’s We, the Drowned.
- Daniel Kowalsky: Disturbances at the International Colloquium: ‘La Nouvelle École Polonaise d’Histoire de la Shoah’ (Paris, 21-22 February 2019): Memory and Counter-Memory in East-West European Historiographical Schisms
- Tea Sindbæk Andersen: Bosnian War Memory Between Public Memory Disputes, Literary Narratives and Personal Contestations
- Rita Maricocchi: Latency and Counter-Memory in Katharina Warda’s “Dunkeldeutschland” ONLINE
- Marthe-Siobhán Hecke: Challenging Memory and History through Indigenous Futurisms in Dary Little Badger’s Elatsoe ONLINE
12.00-13.00 Lunch. Own arrangements
13.00-14.30 Parallel Sessions:
P5 ORGANIZING TO REMEMBER
VHV-103. Chair: Alexander Ulrich Thygesen
- Riikka Taavetti: Rainbow of Remembering? Memory Activism Constructing Queer Cultural Memory in Finland
- Gevorg Vardanyan: Confronting Silence: “Sebastia Reconstruction Union” and the Memory of the Armenian Genocide, ONLINE
- Nadezda Petrusenko: Revolutionary Narratives in Feminist Counter-Memory of Contemporary Russia: Resistance or Nostalgia?
- Camilla Orjuela: Memory Activism after Mass-Starvation: Mobilizing a Famine Past ONLINE
P6 SCRUTINIZING COLONIALISM AND POST-COLONIALISM
VHV-104. Chair: Vera Knútsdóttir
- Silke Reeploeg: Arctic Memory Cultures: Counter-Memories and the Coloniality of Knowledge
- Giti Chandra: Decolonising Trauma: Conflicting Memories and the Literature of the Raj
- Sólveig Ásta Sigurðardóttir: What to Remember: Langston Hughes’s Analysis of Nordic Colonialism
- Irma Erlingsdóttir: Imaginary Territories in The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
- Astrid Rasch: Re-Embodying Mediated Memory: Countermemories of Race and Empire in Black British Nonfiction
P7 COUNTER-MEMORIES AND MUSEUMS
VHV-107. Chair: Elisabetta Modena
- Corey Schultz: Ruin as Memory and Memory as Ruin: Memory and Counter-Memory in the National Earthquake Museum
- Olga Zabalueva: Precarious Heritage: (Fr)agility, Uncertainty, and the Time to Act (The Case of Rörelsernas Museum, Sweden)
- Ene Kõresaar & Kirsti Jõesalu: Counter-Memory as “Another Kind of Responsibility”: Baltic Museums’ Negotiations with the Post-Communist Memory Regime
- Ulla Savolainen: Counter-Memory or National Heritage? Minority Memories in the National Museum
- Anna-Karin Eriksson: (Counter)memorializing the Kamikaze ONLINE
14.30-15.00 Coffee. Veröld – ground floor
15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions:
P8 CONSPIRACIES AND CONTEMPORARY USES OF MEMORY
VHV-103. Chair: Tea Sindbæk Andersen
- Brady Wagoner and Lisa Herbig: Making sense of the Pandemic through Historical Analogies
- Rebecca Pfabel: Counter Memory as Conspiracy: The War on Critical Race Theory ONLINE
- Terri Tomsky: Guantánamo’s Future: Digital Museums and Memory Activism in the Global War on Terror ONLINE
P9 LISTENING, CARE WORK AND ETHICS
VHV-104. Chair: Robert Nilsson Mohammadi
- Liron Ben-Ezra: The Relationship Between a Holocaust Survivor and a Social Worker as an Act of Remembrance. Vu Zaynen Mayne Zibn Gute Yor? (From Yiddish: Where are my Seven Good Years?) ONLINE
- Jogilė Ulinskaitė and Monika Verbalyte: Feelings of Pride and Humiliation in the Memories of Lithuania’s Post-Communist Transformation
- Susanne Luhmann: Memory Care Work as Counter-Memory: Memorial Activism at the Former Uckermark Concentration Camp for Girls and Young Women
P10 Transnational Feminist Countermemorial Practices: Travellings and Contestations
VHV-107. Chair: Alison Crosby
- Shahrzad Mojab: Figures of Dissent: Women’s Memoirs of Defiance
- Amber Dean: Towards a Queer Diasporic Remembrance of Air India Flight 182: Memorializing Transnational Flows of Loss and Desire
- Alison Crosby: Transnational Contestations: Memorializing Sexual Harm in Postgenocide Guatemala
- Christine Lehnen: Towards A Feminist Mnemonic Aesthetics
16.30 Reception. Litla Torg (University Centre)
19.00 Conference Dinner. Kopar Restaurant
14 October
9.00 Keynote
VHV-023. Chair: Astrid Rasch
- Eva Maria Fjellheim: Through Our Stories We Resist: Decolonial Perspectives on Southern Saami History, Indigeneity and Rights
10.00-10.30 Coffee. Veröld – ground floor
10.30-12.00 Parallel Sessions:
P11 ACTIVISM AND ART
VHV-104. Chair: Nadezda Petrusenko
- Alexander Ulrich Thygesen: Activist Remembrance on Four Legs: The Chilean Protest Symbol of Negro Matapacos in the Memory-Activism Nexus
- Sarah Awad: Creative Destruction of Protest Symbols
- M. Paula O’Donohoe: Art as an Impulse for Counter-Memories: Examples of Artistic Activism in Spain
- Neha Jain: From Hostia to Heathens: Food Culture and Migration in the Works of Matt Black and Vandana Shiva ONLINE
P12 PERFORMING AND VISUALIZING COUNTER MEMORIES
VHV-107. Chair: Sólveig Ásta Sigurðardóttir
- Maria G. Moschou and Spyros F. Moschonas: Conflicted Pasts and the Greek Civil War (1944-1949). Visualizing Counter-Memory Through Works of Imprisoned and Exiled Artists
- B. Rüya Kalıntaş: Counter-Memory on Stage: Re-enactments of Traumatic Past of Alevi Community, ONLINE
- Siemke Böhnisch: Performing Cultural Unforgetting in Ødeland (Hålogaland Theatre, 2021)
- A. Berkem Yanıkcan: Performing Queer Testimonies in Contemporary Turkish Theatre: Memorialization of Queer Experience in 1980’s Turkey ONLINE
- Sabine Doran: Counter-Memories of Modernity’s Sweet Tooth: Subtleties (Walker, Herzog, Akomfrah) ONLINE
P13 CONTESTING NATIONAL MEMORY CULTURES
VHV-108. Chair: Shahrzad Mojab
- Ewa Michna: The Role of Counter-Memory in Identity Politics. The Case of Upper Silesian Activists
- Ulrich Rittmann: 1619 and 1945: Fights for Cultural Hegemony in Memory and Counter-Memory in the United States and Germany ONLINE
- Tracy Adams and Yinon Guttel-Klein: Israeli Culture of De-Commemoration: Counter-Memory as a Form of Social Protest
- Damjan Božinović: ‘Netflix Memory’: Period Dramas and Transnational Remembrance for the Masses
- Anastasia Glawion: Finnish National Memory in a Transnational Context on the Axis History Forum
12.00-13.00 Lunch. Own arrangements
13-14.30 Parallel Sessions:
P14 RE-IMAGINING AND COUNTERING THE PAST
VHV-104. Chair: Mona Hedayati
- Elisabetta Modena and Giancarlo Grossi: Immersive Historytelling and Counter-Memories (Re-)Presenting the Past in Virtual Realities
- Gerardine Meaney: Archontic and Transmedia Practices as Counter Memory: The Case of Neo-Victorianism, ONLINE
- Robin Ekelund: Countering Automated and Algorithmic Memories on Facebook
- Samara Velte: “How would you represent the armed conflict in an image?”: Basque Adolescents Negotiating their Collective Past ONLINE
- Nadim Khoury: Peace and the New Fronts of Israeli-Palestinian Memory Wars
P15 VERSATILE (COUNTER)MEMORIALS
VHV-107. Chair: M. Paula Donohoe
- Dimitra Gkitsa: Protests of Memory: Activist Practices for Counter-Memories in the Balkans
- Justyna B. Walkowiak: The Silent War of City-Texts: The Case of Berlin and Poznań
- Doron Eldar: Excavating Colonial Entanglements in the Countryside ONLINE
- Dhanya V Sankar and Sarbani Banerjee: Recovering Maafa: Analysis of Transgenerational Memory and Counternarratives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing ONLINE
14.30-15.00 Coffee. Veröld – ground floor
15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions:
P16 MEMORIES OF WAR
VHV-104. Chair: Ulla Savolainen
- Siri Hempel Lindøe: Memories from the Wrong Side. Norwegian Stories from the Eastern Front in WWII in Two Documentary Film Projects about the Front Sisters and the Front Fighters.
- Magdalena Zakowska: Liberation without Liberated. Contemporary Polish and Russian Seditious Counter-Memories about the End of the Second World War ONLINE
- Unni Lagås: Counter-Narratives and the Reproduction of Heroism
- Anne Heimo: “I felt like a human being…”: Counter-Memories of the 1918 Finnish Civil War ONLINE
P17 MEMORYSCAPES
VHV-107. Chair: Astrid Rasch
- Christophe Davis: Haunting as Agency: Memory Activism Against Gentrification in Montréal
- Robert Nilsson Mohammadi: A Place to Remember: Community-Based Public Art Against Racism in the City of Malmö, Sweden
- Mauro Greco: Neighbourliness, Work and Family: Neighbours’ Testimonies of the ex Clandestine Detention Centre Sectional 1° in Santa Rosa-La Pampa, Argentina ONLINE
- Bridget Blankley: Can a Memorial Change Your Mind? ONLINE
P18 COUNTERING THOUGH VERSATILE MODALITIES
VHV-108. Chair: Nadim Khoury
- Lindsey A. Freeman: Running as Counter Memory-Work, ONLINE
- Kristjana Gunnarsdóttir: The Body Remembers: Illness as Counter Memory in the Case of Korean Hwabeyong ONLINE
- Iryna Tarku: Writing to Resist: Donbas War Prose as a Medium of Counter-Memory
- Jessica Ortner: Counter-Memories of the Bosnian War in Nicol Ljubić Meeresstille (Stillness of the Sea)
- Dr Alena Pfoser: Tourism Memories as Counter-Memories? The Case of Russian Post-Imperial Tourism ONLINE