March 16
5:00 PM (Warsaw time)
Under what cultural, technological, and institutional conditions do immediate narratives translate into shared and durable memory?
As war unfolds in real time across digital platforms, the boundaries between witnessing, narrating, and commemorating collapse. This compels us to confront how the present is being transformed into history even as it is being lived.
This seminar explores how memory is produced under conditions of immediacy in Ukraine amid Russia’s full-scale invasion. By examining institutional and civic initiatives that archive, curate, and stabilize emerging memory practices, the speakers will discuss how these immediate forms of narration become embedded —or sometimes resisted — within longer-term frameworks of collective remembrance.
Speakers:
Małgorzata Łukianow (University of Warsaw)
Natalia Otrishchenko (The Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv)
Chair:
Kristina But (Zaporizhzhia National University)
Join us for a conversation on how war reshapes the relationship between the present and history, and how societies attempt to capture memory while events are still unfolding.
