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Calls for Applications by Mindaugas Kelpša
Based in Vilnius and the transborder region of Lithuania and Belarus, this Summer School is devot... more Based in Vilnius and the transborder region of Lithuania and Belarus, this Summer School is devoted to the heritage of missing ethnic groups in the aftermath of genocide and traumatic population shifts, or heritage of atrocity. Its goal is to introduce junior scholars to the recent history of violence in this part of Central-Eastern Europe and to equip them with interdisciplinary tools to analyse how the memory of the absent (missing Jewish population, relocated ethnic minorities, silenced historical narratives) is being handled by the local inhabitants, factored into the dominant narratives (museum exhibitions, tourist information folders, etc.) and represented in space (the invisible and forgotten sites related to the absent ethnic minorities, Holocaust sites and other contested sites).
Taking as a case study the Lithuanian-Belarusian borderlands, the Summer School will offer unique hands-on workshops in historical and ethnographic methodologies. Joining talks of invited experts with field-trips, it will allow young researchers to apply the acquired skills in oral history interviewing techniques, ethnographic photography, or digital history. Finally, the Summer School will also offer an outreach to the local population, involving the inhabitants into a curatorial intervention that will visualize the forgotten sites of “difficult heritage”.
The Summer School is open to PhD researchers and young scholars from the fields of history, ethnography, Eastern European Studies and related disciplines. Travel, accommodation, visa and other costs are covered by the organizers. Applicants are invited to send their CV and a cover letter describing their field of interest by March 30th 2016 to: difficult.heritage@gmail.com
Further Info:
JProf. Dr. Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen: mwaligor@uni-bremen.de
Papers by Mindaugas Kelpša
Acta Museologica Lithuanica, 2015
Projects by Mindaugas Kelpša
by Magdalena Waligórska, etta grotrian, Stsiapan Stureika, Mindaugas Kelpša, Ulrike Huhn, S. Lawrence, Myriam Gerber, Mario Panico, Nadzeya Charapan, Uladzimir Valodzin, Tatsiana Kasataya, and Anastasiya Astapova
The idea for this summer school was to speak of “difficult heritage” that is both intangible, or... more The idea for this summer school was to speak of “difficult heritage” that is both intangible, or takes the form of an absence, and tangible, taking the form of spaces and objects that unsettle us, haunt us, pose a challenge to our memory. Its immediate goal was not only to explore the new methodological approaches to so-called “dissonant heritage”, but also to provide the young scholars with an interdisciplinary set of research tools and experience that would enhance and facilitate their further research.
It was our guiding principle to start this summer school in the so-called “periphery of Europe”, and try to export some of the lessons learned there into the much more theorized context of Western Europe. The German leg of the school was therefore to take place only after we had explored the Lithuanian-Belarusian borderlands.
See our blog and the documentation of our findings on our website: http://www.digitalhistory.uni-bremen.de/summerschool/wordpress/
by Mindaugas Kelpša, Magdalena Waligórska, Stsiapan Stureika, Anastasiya Astapova, Uladzimir Valodzin, Anastasia Felcher, Nadzeya Charapan, Ilay Halpern, Aleksandra Kubica, Tatsiana Kasataya, and etta grotrian
The website presents the documentation of our itinerant summer school held in Lithuania and Belar... more The website presents the documentation of our itinerant summer school held in Lithuania and Belarus 1-12 August 2016, with texts, projects, photos and films of our participants, realized in the villages of Medininkai and Halshany. Authors are an international group of PhD students and post-docs specializing on the region. The second edition of the summer school is planned for 2017.
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Based in Vilnius and the transborder region of Lithuania and Belarus, this Summer School is devot... more Based in Vilnius and the transborder region of Lithuania and Belarus, this Summer School is devoted to the heritage of missing ethnic groups in the aftermath of genocide and traumatic population shifts, or heritage of atrocity. Its goal is to introduce junior scholars to the recent history of violence in this part of Central-Eastern Europe and to equip them with interdisciplinary tools to analyse how the memory of the absent (missing Jewish population, relocated ethnic minorities, silenced historical narratives) is being handled by the local inhabitants, factored into the dominant narratives (museum exhibitions, tourist information folders, etc.) and represented in space (the invisible and forgotten sites related to the absent ethnic minorities, Holocaust sites and other contested sites).
Taking as a case study the Lithuanian-Belarusian borderlands, the Summer School will offer unique hands-on workshops in historical and ethnographic methodologies. Joining talks of invited experts with field-trips, it will allow young researchers to apply the acquired skills in oral history interviewing techniques, ethnographic photography, or digital history. Finally, the Summer School will also offer an outreach to the local population, involving the inhabitants into a curatorial intervention that will visualize the forgotten sites of “difficult heritage”.
The Summer School is open to PhD researchers and young scholars from the fields of history, ethnography, Eastern European Studies and related disciplines. Travel, accommodation, visa and other costs are covered by the organizers. Applicants are invited to send their CV and a cover letter describing their field of interest by March 30th 2016 to: difficult.heritage@gmail.com
Further Info:
JProf. Dr. Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen: mwaligor@uni-bremen.de
by Magdalena Waligórska, etta grotrian, Stsiapan Stureika, Mindaugas Kelpša, Ulrike Huhn, S. Lawrence, Myriam Gerber, Mario Panico, Nadzeya Charapan, Uladzimir Valodzin, Tatsiana Kasataya, and Anastasiya Astapova
The idea for this summer school was to speak of “difficult heritage” that is both intangible, or... more The idea for this summer school was to speak of “difficult heritage” that is both intangible, or takes the form of an absence, and tangible, taking the form of spaces and objects that unsettle us, haunt us, pose a challenge to our memory. Its immediate goal was not only to explore the new methodological approaches to so-called “dissonant heritage”, but also to provide the young scholars with an interdisciplinary set of research tools and experience that would enhance and facilitate their further research.
It was our guiding principle to start this summer school in the so-called “periphery of Europe”, and try to export some of the lessons learned there into the much more theorized context of Western Europe. The German leg of the school was therefore to take place only after we had explored the Lithuanian-Belarusian borderlands.
See our blog and the documentation of our findings on our website: http://www.digitalhistory.uni-bremen.de/summerschool/wordpress/
by Mindaugas Kelpša, Magdalena Waligórska, Stsiapan Stureika, Anastasiya Astapova, Uladzimir Valodzin, Anastasia Felcher, Nadzeya Charapan, Ilay Halpern, Aleksandra Kubica, Tatsiana Kasataya, and etta grotrian
The website presents the documentation of our itinerant summer school held in Lithuania and Belar... more The website presents the documentation of our itinerant summer school held in Lithuania and Belarus 1-12 August 2016, with texts, projects, photos and films of our participants, realized in the villages of Medininkai and Halshany. Authors are an international group of PhD students and post-docs specializing on the region. The second edition of the summer school is planned for 2017.
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