International Conference THE POLITICS OF MEMORY AS A WEAPON: Perspectives on Russia's War against Ukraine (8–10 February 2023, Berlin)
PANEL
Culture and art in the face of the war
Panelists:
Konstantin Akinsha (International Association of Art Critics, UK) / ONLINE,
‘You can’t go back to Constantinople’: fetishism of history as an excuse for the looting of cultural property
Varvara Keidan Shavrova (Royal College of Art, London), The art of self-determination – how the creative communities in Ukraine and the Baltic States can resist Russia’s invasion
Alina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolayev),
Weaponisation of history in the visual discourse of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Olga Radchenko (National University of Cherkassy), Ukrainian and Russian film productions about the Second World War: potential and dangers
Moderation: Beate Störtkuhl (BKGE, Oldenburg)
The conference aims to examine the mechanisms and methods used in the political and social implementation of historical disinformation, the portrayal of the enemy, and discuss ways in which these can be prevented or mitigated. The latter entails a (self-)critical analysis of political and scholarly dealings with history in various European countries. It also reflects on what happens when warnings from political and academic voices are not taken seriously enough, and on the consequences of the way in which attention has shifted from Russia to Ukraine.
The conference was preceded by a conference in Prague "Memory of the Past and Politics of the Present” on 28–29 November 2022 at the Goethe Institute in Prague. Both conferences are a part of the ENRS content framework “History, Memory, and Russia`s war against the Ukraine”.
