B0434 - POLITICAL MEMORIES IN THE BALTIC AND BLACK SEA REGIONS COMPARED

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The student is expected to learn how to examine the impact of history and memories in the wide area between the Baltic and the Black seas taking into consideration the role played by Lithuania as well as by Russia, Poland and Germany in the 19th-20th centuries. Therefore, Student is expected increase their awareness of historical literature relevant to the development of the Baltic region in the European context.

Contenuti

In order to achieve the learning outcomes, participants will make four main steps in their intellectual journey through the seminar: First, they will explore understanding(s) of the Baltic-Black Sea Region. Second, they will try to conceptualize the category of memories, especially in the political context. Third, by case and comparative studies they will broaden and deepen their knowledge about political memories in the studied region. Fourth, they will translate it into policy (making).  

Ten (two hours each) classes of the seminar will be divided into the following contents:

1. Baltic – Black Sea region: approaches, (hi)stories and attitudes – towards conceptualization of the region(s).

2. Memories – individual, collective, political, etc. Origins, manifestations and creators of political memories, politics of memory and historical policies.

3. Political memories in global and European context: centers vs. peripheries.

4. Political memories in post – Communist space: tendencies and regularities.

5. Political memories in Germany, Poland, Czechia and Hungary – case studies.

6. Political memories in Baltic States – case studies.

7. Political memories in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus – case studies.

8. Construction and deconstruction of political memories in Central and Eastern Europe – theories and practice.

9. Designing (integrative) political memories and memory politics for the Baltic-Black Sea region – policy oriented approach.

10. Seminar summary and conclusions.

Testi/Bibliografia

All the obligatory readings in the digitalized form will be made available to seminar participants in the form of the seminar reader. It will contain among others:

Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Patchworks and Networks at Europe’s Eastern Margins, 2020, Olga Bogdanova, Andrey Makarychev (eds.), Cham: Springer, pp. 9-26. ISBN 978-3-030-24877-2ISBN 978-3-030-24878-9 (eBook), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24878-9 ;

Maurantonio, Nicole, 2014, The Politics of Memory. In The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger, 1983, The invention of tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Peter J. Verovšek, 2016, Collective memory, politics, and the influence of the past: the politics of memory as a research paradigm, Politics, Groups, and Identities, 4:3,529-543, DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2016.1167094

Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas & Nina Sääskilahti, 2020, Politics of memory and oblivion. An introduction to the special issue, European Politics and Society,
21:3, 271-276, DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2019.1645419

Alexandru Gussi, 2013, Political uses of memory and the state in post-communism. Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 13(4), 721-732.

Jarosław Jańczak, Heino Nyyssönen, 2016, Conflict and Cooperation in Public Space. Symbolic (Re)Negotiation of Historic and Contemporary Scandinavian-Russian Border, “Вісник Львівського університету. Серія Міжнародні відносини / Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series International Relations”, No. 38, pp. 106–126. ISSN 2078–4333

Jarosław Jańczak, 2018, Integration De-scaled. Symbolic Manifestations of Cross-border and European Integration in “Border Twin Towns”, “Journal of Borderlands Studies”, No. 33(3), pp. 393-413. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226925 ISSN 0886-5655

Leszek Tadeusz Koczanowicz, 1997, Memory of Politics and Politics of Memory. Reflections on the Construction of the Past in Post-Totalitarian Poland, Studies in East European Thought 49(4):259-270

Andrew Asher, Jarosław Jańczak, 2007.Transnational Mythmaking in Post-Soviet Europe: Cold War and EU Monuments in a Polish – German ’Divided City’, [in:], Art and Politics: Case-Studies from Eastern Europe, Art History & Criticism nr 3, Linara Dovydaityte (ed.), Kaunas; Vytautas Magnus University, pp. 200-208.

Eva-Clarita Onken, 2010, Memory and Democratic Pluralism. The Baltic States - Rethinking the
Relationship, Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3, Special Issue:
Memory and Democratic Pluralism in the Baltic States – Rethinking the Relationship, pp. 277-294

Nation Building in Baltic States: History, Memory and Identity, 2017, ed. By K. B. Usha, Adroit Publishers.

The Politics of Memory in Poland and Ukraine. From Reconciliation to De-Conciliation, 2022, ed. by Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin, Tomasz Stryjek, Routledge.

Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia Television, cinema and the state, 2019, ed. by Mariëlle Wijermars, Routladge.

Metodi didattici

The seminar is based on the following teaching methods:

1. introductory interactive lecture offered by a teacher;

2. individual preparatory work on previous prepared study materials (academic texts and multimedia materials);

3. individual, student’s presentations enabling deepening of own interests and focusing on the most important (from each participant’s perspective) aspects of the seminar;

4. class-wide work including peer-comments and critical debate;

5. group tasks enabling practice oriented approach and applicability of the studied phenomena.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

To assess the seminar students are supposed to:

1. physically participate in the classes;

2. read the obligatory texts gathered in the seminar reader;

3. actively contribute to the seminar works by rising questions, making comments and participating in group tasks;

4. prepare and present a short individual presentation on selected theme;

and

5. prepare and present a group task of a problem solving character.

Credits collected for each of the five assessment elements will build a seminar grade of each participant.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

The following teaching tools are foreseen:

1. a seminar reader containing digitalized versions of study materials that will be made available to the seminar participants;

2. online info-session before the proper serious of meetings starts for distributing tasks;

3. in-class traditional meetings;

4. muliti-media materials joint watching and analysis;

5. PPT-type presentations;

6. paper-based and brainstorming-oriented group tasks;

7. individual (in-person and online) consultations offered by a teacher to the students.

Orario di ricevimento

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