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Re-Calling the Past - Collective and Individual Memory of World War II in Russia and Germany
Conference at the University of Tampere December 1-2, 2006

It is one of the prerogatives of this multidisciplinary conference to
examine the fractures, interactions and intersections of private and
collective memories at different times and different places in different
texts as fiction, autobiographic writing, movies, monuments, oral history or
historiography. The conference will also focus on the question of how and in
which ways the reconstructive working of the memory is anchored in the
cultural traditions of national imagery production, i.e. what are the topoi
which are taken up and reproduced by reconstructing the memory of the past.
A comparative conference paying attention to the parallel changes in Russian
and German societies can contribute to the discussion on whether and how
meanings given to similar experiences differ in different contexts. It is
obvious that with the topic of the war and its recalling we will also focus
on methodological issues of how to read and understand analogical
experiences structured by different cultural backgrounds.

The conference is open to all interested students and scholars. No
conference fee. Guest listeners are asked to register by e-mail to Outi
Jäppinen (outi.jappinen@uta.fi). For further information please contact Arja
Rosenholm or Withold Bonner (first name.last name@uta.fi)

Organizers: German Language and Culture, Slavonic Philology (School of
Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Tampere) and the
Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki).


Preliminary Programme

Thursday, November 30th
18.00 - 19.50 Registration (entrance hall of Pinni B-Building)

Friday, December 1st
09.00 - 09.30
Opening of the Conference by Prof. Krista Varantola, Rector of the
University of Tampere

(Pinni B1097)

09.30 - 10.15
Keynote 1 (B1097):
Helmut Peitsch (Potsdam): Changing Meanings of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung"
("Mastering of Nazi Past") in East and West Germany 1945 - 1975.

10.15 - 11.00
Keynote 2 (B1097):
Marianna G. Muravyeva (St. Petersburg): The City of Women: Collective Memory
and Mythology about the Siege of Leningrad in Russian Historiography.

12.00 - 14.00


Panel 1: Remembering Everyday Life (B3109)

Yulia Gradskova: Remembering Everyday Life in the 1940s - 1950s: Femininity,
Beauty and Maternity in the Shadow of the War.

Oksana Malygina (Perm): Labour Everyday Life during World War II

Gulsina Selyaninova (Perm): Rationing System, Begging, Naturalization and
Other Means of Food Provision among Soviet People on the Home Front and in
the Occupied Territory during WW II.

Katya Vladimirov (Kennesaw): Charms of our Sorrows: Family and the Rhetoric
of Daily Life during WW II.

Panel 2: Formations of Collective Memory (B3111)


Peter Carrier (Queens): Private and Public Memory of the Second World War
and the Shoah in Contemporary German Historiography. An Unsurmountable
Dichotomy?

Andrea Moll (Berlin): "To Remember, or Not to Remember" - Aspects of Museum
Practice in the Depiction of World War II. A Report with Illustrative
Examples from Germany and Russia.

Robin Osow (Toronto): Displaying the War in the German Historical Museum.

Anette Storeide (Oslo): From Political Education to Pluralistic
Commemoration - The Memorial Site Sachsenhausen 1961 - 2006.

Panel 3: City Memories (B3118)

Karl D. Qualls (Dickinson College): Persistence of "Memory": Travel,
Transitions and the Fate of Sevastopol's Image.

Ramona Saavedra Santis (Berlin): Between Pride and Bitterness: The Fall of
Sevastopol in 1942 in the memory of Soviet Female POWs, Survivors of the
Nazi Concentration Camp Ravensbrueck.

Elena Trubina (Ekaterinburg): Conflicting Memories in Public Space: A Case
of Volgograd.

Maria Litovskaja (Ekaterinburg): War Sverdlovsk - The City of Evacuated in
Modern Ekaterinburg.


14.30 - 16.00


Panel 4: memories and Formation of National Identity I (B3109)

Tobias Privitelli (Bern): Two Different Wars? World War II as "Second
Imperialist War" and "Great Fatherland War" in Russia.

Karoline von Oppen (Bath): "Aber nein, da war doch schon die Wehrmacht":
Remembering and Forgetting in Yugoslavia.

Tsypylma Darieva (Berlin): Remembering and Forgetting German Expulsion and
Loss. From "Vertriebene" to "Spätaussiedler".


Panel 5: "Wrong Friends" (B3111)

Olga Baranova (Florence): Representation and Treatment of the Issue of
Collaboration in Soviet, Western and Post-Soviet Russian and Belarussian
Historiography.

Polina Golovatina (Ekaterinburg): Rethinking the Allied Aid to the Soviet
Union on Lend-Lease in American and Soviet-Russian WW II Historiography:
Reconciling Differences or Two Sides of the Same Medal?

Rose Magnusdottir (Chapel Hill): The American GI in Soviet Postwar Memory:
Remembering the Wartime Alliance in the Soviet Union.

Panel 6: Memories of the Leningrad Siege (B3118)

Catherine Borden (Ann Arbor): Leningrad's Siege and the Multiple Meanings of
"Patriotism"

Katrin Paehler (Illinois): The Wrong Grad, the Wrong Victims: Investigating
the (West-)German Historiographical Discourse on the Siege of Leningrad.

Mari Raami (Helsinki): Ol'ga Berggol'ts and the Memory of the War.


16.30 - 18.00


Panel 7: Prisoners of War (B3109)

Withold Bonner (Tampere): The Endless Process of Reconstructing Memories:
Captivity and Anti-Fascist Re-education in Texts by GDR-author Franz
Fühmann.

Elke Scherstjanoi (München): Another German Memory.

Stuart Smith (Dublin): "Lagerkoller": Prisoner-of-War in Gerd Gaiser's "Eine
Stimme hebt an" (1950).


Panel 8: Memories and Generations (B3111)

Olga Nikonova (Tscheljabinsk/Tübingen): Changing Memories of War: Some
Thoughts on Evolution of Two Front Generations.

Tamar Rapoport, Edna-Lomsky Feder (Jerusalem): WW II and Shoah as Memory
Fields in Immigration: Personal Stories of Young Russian Jews in Israel.

Ludmila Andreeva (Perm): The Formation of the Mentality and Traditions of
the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War and Their Influence on the
Modern Generations od Russians.


Panel 9: Ego Documents (B3118)

Elisabeth Cheauré (Freiburg): Forced Interculturality: Traumas of War and
Strategies to Overcome them in Southwest Germany (Diaries, Letters,
Actions).

Kobi Kabalek (Berlin): On Immediate Memories: Narrations of Rescue in
Occupied Germany, 1945 - 1949.

Joanne Sayner (Birmingham): "In twenty years we will all be victims":
Memories of Nazism and the Challenge of the Autobiographical.

19.00 - Reception at the University of Tampere (Upper hall, Pinni B, 5th
floor)





Saturday, December 2nd

09.00 - 09.45

Keynote 3 (B1097):
Peter Jahn (Berlin): "We" and "They", Friend and Foe in Recent Russian Films
on the Great Patriotic War.

09.45 - 10.30

Keynote 4 (B1097):
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton): Notes of Loss and Despair: Memorizing War in
Songs.


11.00 - 12.00


Panel 10: Memorizing War in Songs (B3109)

Suzanne Ament (Radfort): The Shaping of Memory and Identity: The Legacy of
World War II Soviet Songs.

Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh): Symbolism, Rhetoric, and Psychology in Russian
World War II Posters.


Panel 11: Memories and Formation of National Identity II (B3111)

Ilya Kalinin (St. Petersburg): Memory of the Great Patriotic War as an
Oblivion of GULAG Victims. Debates within Russian Liberal Intelligentsia.

Markku Kangaspuro (Helsinki): Use of World War II Memories in a Political
Discourse of Russia.


Panel 12: Jewish Veterans I (B3118)

Zvi Gitelman: Soviet Loyalties and Jewish Identities. Jewish "frontoviki"
Remembering World War II.

Anika Walke (Oldenburg): "Perhaps it was the powers that saved me".
Reconsidering Survival in Post-Soviet St. Petersburg.

Panel 13: Jewish Veterans II (B1097)

Liliana Ruth Feierstein (Buenos Aires/Düsseldorf), Liliana Furman (Buenos
Aires/Freiburg): Memory under Siege: Jewish Veterans of the Soviet Army in
Present-Day Germany.

Sveta Roberman (Jerusalem): Red Army WW II Veterans in Israel:
Reconstructing Narratives of the Past and Struggling to Belong to the New
Homeland.

Lisa Vapné (Paris): The Reshaping of the Memory of WW II in the Post-Soviet
Era: The Case of Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany.

Panel 14: Movies and TV Series (B3109)

Elena Baraban (Winnipeg): Sons of War: representation of children in Soviet
Films about WW II.

Olga Kucherenko (Cambridge): The Fiction and Reality of War through the Eyes
of Soviet Child-Soldiers.

Christine Engel (Innsbruck): Metamorphoses of Heroes and Patriots on the
Contemporary Russian Screen.

Panel 15: War and Gender I (B3111)

Kirsi Räisälä (Tampere): Dialogues with War - Natalya Baranskaya and the
Remembrance Day.

Nadežda Ažgihina (Moscow): Reflections on the 1st and 2nd Publication of
Svetlana Aleksievich's "War's Unwomanly Face".

Elena Shulman (Texas): "Soldiers of the Word": Soviet War Correspondents,
Russian Nationalism and Masculinity from the Second World War to the Soviet
Invasion of Afghanistan.

15.00 - 15.45


Keynote 5 (B1097):
Svetlana Aleksievich (Belarus/Göteborg): The War's Unwomanly Face.

Panel 16: How (not) to Remember (B1097)

Beate Fieseler (Bochum): The Wounds of War: memorizing Experiences of the
Soviet War-Disabled in Fiction, Film and Autobiography.

Nina G. Shapiro (Princeton): Mute Witnesses: The Myths of the Ostarbeiter.

Agnieska Weseli (Warsaw): How (not) to Tell about it: Homosexuals and
Homosexuality in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau according to Prisoners' Relations.

Panel 17: War and Gender II (B3111)

Roger Markwick (Newcastle/Australia): "A sacred duty": Women Veterans
Remembering the Great Fatherland War, 1941 - 1945.

Irina Rebrova (Krasnodar): The Features of the Female Perception of World
War II (Based on material of regional memories).

Arja Rosenholm (Tampere): On Elena Rzhevskaya's War Prose: Genre and Gender.


17.15 - 17.45

The Final Countdown (B1097)

Closing Discussion