Resilent families, subversive memories and the reconstitution of postwar Europe

Fundacja Collegium Civitas jest organizatorem w partnerstwie z Collegium Civitas seminarium w języku angielskim „Resilent families, subversive memories and the reconstitution of postwar Europe”.

Open seminar „Resilient families, subversive memories and the reconstitution of postwar Europe” (the seminar will be conducted in English)

We kindly invite you to the open seminar which will be held on Thursday, 15 January at. 17.00 at Collegium Civitas, Room 1222, 12th floor.

Mrs Stefania Bernini, PhD, will be the guest of the seminar introducing her scientific work. The debate will be chaired by professor Andrzej Szpociński.

How was WW2 remembered and narrated at the level of the family? How did families make sense of the cataclysm that had shattered their lives, how did they come to terms with loss and absence?

The family has remained at the margin of most studies of ‘collective memory’ and official memorialisation in postwar Europe. This paper explores family memorialisation, arguing that far from belonging to the ‘private’, family memories carried a strong political significance, relevant to the establishment of new collective identities and principles of political legitimacy.

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