Summer school
"How Towns (do not) Remember"
has been held in Rivne since 2017
About school
The competition commission selects 20 participants from different regions of Ukraine to participate in the school. The organizers refund the fare and provide accommodation and meals for the participants during the summer school, and provide educational materials for free.
Participants in the summer school can be: university students, graduate students, young researchers (up to 35 years), teachers of history and other social and humanitarian disciplines, employees of museums and archives, representatives of mass media and authorities, and public activists.
Lectures and trainings are held by the representatives of the NGO "Mnemonics" and invited Ukrainian experts in the field of memory studies.
Participants in the summer school can be: university students, graduate students, young researchers (up to 35 years), teachers of history and other social and humanitarian disciplines, employees of museums and archives, representatives of mass media and authorities, and public activists.
Lectures and trainings are held by the representatives of the NGO "Mnemonics" and invited Ukrainian experts in the field of memory studies.
Topics of lectures and trainings
- Symbolic urban spaces and memory policy: theoretical foundations of analysis01
- Traditional and postmodern forms of memorialization02
- The problem of (non) presence of social minorities in the symbolic spaces of Ukrainian cities03
- Commemoration of genocide victims and memorial spaces of cities: Ukrainian and European experience04
- "Reading" memory locations (memory landscapes)05
- Urban symbolic space in literature, mythological, theatrical, and cinematic dimensions06
- The problem of preserving the historical and cultural heritage of cities07
- The symbolic spaces of cities and the development of museum work in Ukraine08
- Commercialization of the past in the entertainment establishments of cities09
History of summer schools
August 7-11, 2017
1st Summer school "How Towns (do not) Remember" was devoted to the following topics: "Symbolic space of cities in the theories of memory policy", "Monuments and memorials in the urban memory culture", "Commemoration of the genocide victims in urban memorial landscapes", "Museum practices in the symbolic space of cities", "Non-dominant groups in the symbolic space of cities".
August 6-10, 2018
2nd Summer school "How Towns (do not) Remember" was devoted to the following topics: "Symbolic space of cities in dilemmas of (non) remembering", "Monuments and memorials in the urban memory culture", "Commemoration of the genocide victims in urban memorial landscapes", "Literature and documentary videos in dimensions of collective memory," "Museums and theme cafes as agents of collective memory."
August 5-9, 2019
3d Summer school "How Towns (do not) Remember" was devoted to the following topics: "Symbolic space of cities in dilemmas of (non) remembering", "Competing meta-narratives and inclusive approaches to forming urban memorial space", "Commemoration of the genocide victims in urban memorial landscapes", "Monuments and memorials in the urban memory culture", "Museums as subjects of collective memory formation."
Lectors
Regular lectors
- Maksym Gon
- Nataliia Ivchyk
- Petro Dolhanov
- Iryna Zakharchuk
Invited lectors
Heorhii Kasianov (Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); Vasyl Rasevych (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe); Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic University); Irina Sklokina (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe); Vitalii Nakhmanovych (Museum of History of Kyiv); Alla Petrenko-Lysak (Taras Shevchenko National University); Mykhailo Tiahlyi (Ukrainian Center for the Study of the Holocaust).
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