6th Nation-wide scientific and practical conference "Memory policy in theoretical and practical dimensions"
At the beginning of May 2019, NGO “Mnemonics” and the Ukrainian Center for the Study of the Holocaust held the 6th Nation-wide scientific and practical conference "Memory policy in theoretical and practical dimensions" (Rivne, May 3-4, 2019). This year's event had the theme "Spaces of memories". Researchers from 12 regional centers of Ukraine – experts in the field of memory studios – participated in the conference. Participation in the conference of the representatives of Western, Central, Eastern and Southern Ukraine ensured its nation-wide status.
Equally important to the organizers was the fact that both supporters of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and its opponents attended the conference. Academic discussions between the experts who advocate different visions of memory policy in Ukraine are a prerequisite that shapes the image of the conference as a platform for dialogue.
The main thematic sections of this year's conference were as follows:
Memory spaces: theoretical aspects.
A city in the memory spaces.
Spatial projections of memory conflicts and reconciliation.
Gender perspective of memory spaces.
Memory spaces in the formal and non-formal education.
Genocides in the memory spaces.
Literary projections of memory spaces.
Texts and memory contexts: memorization and commemorative practices.