Open seminar: Memory Politics of the North, 1993-2023

To register for the seminar, please use this link: https://nettskjema.no/a/444543

Program

12.00-12.15 Professor Kari Aga Myklebost, NORMEMO project PI: Welcome and opening remarks

PART 1

Memory politics in the Russian European North

12.15-12.45 Associate Professor Helge Blakkisrud: Installing patriotism: Recent developments in Russian History Education

12.45-13.15 Associate Professor Elena Kochetkova: Small agents of emotional memory: Local libraries and the memory politics of the Great Patriotic War in the Russian North

13.15-13.45 PhD Candidate Artem Spirin: Contested memories of the violent past in a border region: the political use of Stalinist terror and Finnish occupation in post-Soviet Karelia

13.45-14.15 Senior Research Fellow Håvard Bækken: Malaya Rodina in Policy and Practice: The Local Anchoring of Grand Patriotic Narratives in North-West Russia

14.15-14.35 Q&A

14.35-15.00 Coffee break

PART 2

Transborder memory politics: Russia and Norway

15.00-15.30 Professor Stian Bones, Professor Kari Aga Myklebost, and Senior Research Fellow Kristian Lundby Gjerde: Preserving the Narrative of Liberation. The Kirkenes Red Army Liberation Commemorations in Norwegian-Russian Relations, 1994-2019

15.30-16.00 Head of Department Joakim Aalmen Markussen and Associate Professor Petia Mankova: Russian-Norwegian preservation of WWII cultural heritage in Northern Norway

16.00-16.30 Professor Marianne N. Soleim: The exhibition 'Soviet Prisoners of War in Norway' on travel in Russia 2010-2024

16.30-17.00 Q&A, followed by concluding remarks 

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The seminar is free and open to a general audience, but registration is mandatory. You can register here: https://nettskjema.no/a/444543

The NORMEMO project is headed by UiT The Arctic University of Norway and conducted with partner institutions University of Oslo, The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, The Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, and University of Bergen. For more, please visit the NORMEMO home page, Memory Politics of the North 1993–2023 | UiT