Invitation to the conference BYKIVNIA, BABYN YAR, BUCHA

 

The conference will be held in offline and online formats.
Place: Pilecki Institute in Berlin, Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Date and time: 25 November, starting at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom: https://forms.gle/WQMjUcpiW8iCcHUZ7

Registration: https://forms.gle/ikkXeu73gyU4g6q89

 

Organizers: NGO Svitarta, Center for Historical Research Berlin Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies at the Viadrina University, Pilecki Institute in Berlin, Lithuanian Institute of History. Supported by the EVZ Foundation.
Languages of the event: English and Ukrainian (simultaneous translation)

 

"The conference will contribute to the understanding of the tragedies of the last century and the inclusion of memories about present tragedies into the general memory paradigm of Ukrainian and European society. The conference can influence the memory culture in different European countries due to analytical approaches and well-thought-out presentations of academic papers. The conference will contribute to the development of clear and appropriate terminology to describe the character current Russian-Ukrainian war. 
The aim of the conference is to analyze the causes and consequences of memorial discourses about past and present tragedies, as well as the commemorative practices that have emerged from them.

Main topics of the conference:
- Perceptions of the "triangle of evil" in the different European countries: politicians, academics, media, and the publications;
- What different intellectuals, political and cultural groups in the European community understand by the terms communism, Nazism and rashism;
- Discussion on the concept of rashism: sources and conceptualization;
- Can we compare communism, Nazism and rashism?

[...]

The conference is an important intellectual component of the holistic presentation of the project "Bykivnia, Babyn Yar, Bucha - Between the Massacre and the Memory of It".

About the Project

The idea of the project is to discuss the collective memory of сommunism, Nazism and Russia‘s contemporary crimes committed during the ongoing war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine through focusing on the three places of the mass executions of the civilian population around Kyiv:

Bykivnia – victims of communism who were executed in the years 1937-1941.

Babyn Yar – Victims of Nazism, killed in the years 1941-1943.

Bucha – Victims of rashism, killed in the short period from 03.03 to 31.03.2022.

The project draws public attention to the traumatic legacy of the occupation of Ukraine by the totalitarian communist and Nazism regimes and their impact on collective memory. It also helps to find tools to understand and explain the reasons for the crimes of the current authoritarian regime in Russia.

The project offers the opportunity to look at communism, National Socialism and the current authoritarian regime in Russia from a historical retrospective, to compare their ideologies, objectives and terror methods and at the same time to try to develop mechanisms to counteract and prevent similar crimes in the future.

We invite you to an open dialogue not only about our past, but also about the present and the future that we want to create.

The project is implemented by Svitarta with the support of the EVZ Foundation.

Project partners:
- Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
- Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Lietuvos istorijos institutas
- Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine
- The National Historical and Memorial Reserve Bykivnia Graves
- Babyn Yar is a National Historical and Memorial Reserve
- Archive department of Bucha City Council

Project website: https://bbb.in.ua/en/ "

Quoted from: NGO ‘Svitarta

Deutschsprachige Informationen zum gesamten Projekt finden Sie hier: https://bbb.in.ua/de/

Das Tagungsprogramm und ein Interview mit  Dr. Anatolij Podolsky, einem wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter des Projekts  „BYKIVNIA, BABYN YAR, BUCHA – BETWEEN THE MASSACRE AND MEMORY” können Sie sich weiter unten herunterladen.