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Click the image to the left or follow the link below for a full listing of events at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia this semester.

WCEE Winter Events

WCED/CPPS Conference. The Contemporary Interpretation of Historical Legacies in East Central Europe.

Friday, May 20, 2016
10:15 AM-7:00 PM
Off Campus Location
This conference examines how contemporary societies interpret historical legacies in post-communist Europe. Historical references and understandings permeate contemporary political and cultural debates: from Jedwabne to the IV Republic, from Galicja to the variegated and contested individual identities in Ukraine, societal actors repeatedly interpret, construct, and use instrumentally historical legacies to achieve contemporary ends. Participants will examine several facets of historical legacies and their modern interpretations. The conference will bring together anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists to reconsider and reinterpret the “weight of history” and the relevance of historical memories and legacies in the contemporary region.

Friday, May 20, 5:30 PM | Keynote Address
Jan Kubik, University College London
"Politics of History—What Does it Stand For?"
Room A, POLIN Museum

With the exception of the keynote address, this conference is not open to the public.

Conveners:
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies director, University of Michigan
Geneviève Zubrzycki, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies director, University of Michigan

Participants:
Michał Bilewicz, University of Warsaw
Krisztina Fehérváry, University of Michigan
Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan
Pauline Jones Luong, University of Michigan
Jan Kubik, University College London
Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia
Katherine Lebow, Oxford University
Andrzej Leder, University of Warsaw
Marcin Napiórkowski, University of Warsaw
Małgorzata Pakier, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Leonid Peisakhin, New York University-Abu Dhabi
Dariusz Stola, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Jason Wittenberg, University of California, Berkeley
Larry Wolff, New York University
Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw
Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan

Sponsors: U-M’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies; POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
Event Type: Conference / Symposium
Tags: Anthropology, European, History, International, Jewish Studies, Politics, Sociology
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, International Institute, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
Upcoming Dates:
Friday, May 20, 2016 10:15 AM-7:00 PM

Videos of programs organized by WCEE affiliates are posted on the CES, CCPS, and CREES websites.

Videos of select events are also available on the University of Michigan's YouTube Channel.