Day 1, February 27
9.30.00 – 10.00, Welcome and Coffee
10.00-10.15 Welcome
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund University), Introduction
10.15 -11.45, Panel 1
Nelly Bekus (University of Exeter, UK): Challenges of Mnemonic
Transnationalism: Political Mobilization of the Concept of Genocide in Belarus
Iryna Ramanava (European Humanitarian University in Vilnius):
View of Stalinism after 2020: ”Denigration of Soviet reality” or ”Victory of socialism”?
Gundula Pohl (Hagen University): Trials as historical-political tool in the
Republic of Belarus
Discussant: Per Anders Rudling (Lund University)
11.45–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.30, Panel 2
Thomas Bohn (Justus-Liebig-University): End of History – Russian World – Historic Turning Point. Reflections on Paradigm Shifts in Belarusian Studies
Dorota Michaluk (Nicolaus Copernicus University): Emigration of Belarusian historians to Poland after 2020
Simon Lewis (University of Bremen): Remembering Belarus’s Revolutionary Summer: Memory, Outrage and Mobilization in Contemporary Belarusian Literature.
Discussant: Violeta Davoliute
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.30 Panel
Andrej Kotljarchuk (Uppsala University): History connects, History divides. The official and alternative narratives of World War II in today’s Belarus
Aliaksei Kazharski (Charles University): Waging war on the dead? The destruction of memory sights of Poland’s Home Army by the authoritarian regime in Belarus
Aliaksandr Kazakou (Lund University): From contested memory to
cooperative memory? Belarus-Ukraine memory entanglements in the time of war: the Battle of Orsha case.
Discussant: Thomas Bohn (Justus Liebig University)
17.30 Dinner at Kulturen Restaurant
Day 2, February 28
9:00 – 10:30, Panel 4
Aliaksei Bratachkin (Fern Universität in Hagen)
New Regimes of Forgetting in an Authoritarian Context: Transformation of Cultural Memory in Belarus and Russia (2020-2024)
Camilla Gironi (Independent Researcher)
“Two States, One Destiny”: the Russification of the official Belarusian politics of memory in the post-2020 era. (online)
Valer Bulhakau (ARCHE journal)
Soft power of the “Russian world”: the place of Belarus in the historical politics of Russia before and after the 2020 presidential elections
Discussant: Aliaksei Kazharski (Charles University)
10.30-10.50 Coffee break
10.50-12.00, Panel 5
Nikolay Zakharov (Södertorn högskola), Aliaksei Lastouski (”Political Sphere” Institute): Historical Politics of the Belarusian Orthodox Church: between Holy Russia and the national narrative
Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute): The Meaning of Time in Lukashenka’s Memory Politics After 2020
Discussant: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund University)
Conclusions by Barbara Törnquist Plewa and Per Anders Rudling
12.00 Lunch
End of the Conference