Program
16 October (Thursday)
9:00–9:15 - opening of the conference
9:15–9:35 – Ewa Domanska, Piotr Piotrowski, Introductory Note: Can Memorials Create Responsible Utopias?9:35-10.30
- Mischa Gabowitsch, Bronze Soldiers Fighting: On the Agency of Soviet War Memorials
- Małgorzata Wosińska, The Embodied Memorial. Local Commemoration of Genocide in Rwanda from an Ecological Perspective
10:30–11:00 discussion
11:00–11:10 coffee break11:10-12:10
- Roma Sendyka, Forensic memorials. Memorializations on Non-Sites of Memory
- Agata Stolarz, Museum as a Memorial? The Curious Case of Musée du quai Branly
12:10–12:30 discussion
12:30–14:00 lunch14:00-15:00
- Hollyamber Kennedy, Synthetic Illuminations and Anthropocenic Imaginaries: On the Concept of the Memorial in the Age of Messianic Cosmopolitanism
- Oskar Amiri, Educational Values of Commemorative Public Spaces in Poznań. Analysis of the Urban Composition Elements
15:00–15:20 discussion
17:00 – keynote address: Joanna Rajkowska
The Peterborough Child – the Concept of Chakra and the Shame of Disease Exposed in the Public Space
19:00 – Joanna Rajkowska's documentaries presentation
17 October (Friday)
9:00–10:30
- Elżbieta Błotnicka-Mazur, Turn to Things in Polish Assemblages of the 1960's – Commemoration of the Object?
- Marta Smolińska, Nomadic Monument: White Penetration of (Memory) Space
- Anne Peschken, The Wandering Buoy – a Solar-Driven, Mobile Remembrance Tool
10:30–11:00 discussion
11:00–11:10 coffee break11:10–12:10
- Kazimierz S. Ożóg, The Madness of Monuments in the Third Republic of Poland
- Jarosław Jaworek, Sonic Memorials
12:10–12:30 discussion
12.30–14:00 lunch14:00-15:00
- Anna Barcz, The Role of Animal Memorials in the Anthropocene
- Małgorzata Praczyk, ‘Terraforming’ Memorial. Utoya Memory Wound and the Need of Marking the Earth
15:00–15:20 discussion
15:30–16:30
Memorials tour - "Symbolic mapping of the Św. Marcin Street"17:00 – grand lecture: Krzysztof Wodiczko
Toward the Un-War Memorial
