Book panel: Memories for the Future, Future Memories? From the Middle Ages to the remembering in 19th- and 20th-Century Baltics

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

In this book panel we will talk about the future and memory and the future of memory in the context of the late Middle Ages and the 19th and 20th centuries. How did societies in the Baltic (Latvia and Estonia) think about prospective memory in these periods, and what did they do to preserve memories for the future? And finally, what is the future of memory studies in the Baltic region?
The occasion for this conversation is Gustavs Strenga’s recently published book "Remembering the Dead: Collective Memory and Commemoration in Late Medieval Livonia" (Brepols, 2023), which was published with the support of the AABS.

Short Bio

Gustavs Strenga (University of Greifswald)
Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts),
Kristina Jõekalda (Estonian Academy of Arts) Mārtiņš Kaprāns (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia)

Sub Unit

• History, Memory, and Identity

Chair

• Linda Kaljundi, Estonian Academy of Arts / Tallinn University

Participants

• Gustavs Strenga, Latvian Academy of Culture/ University of Greifswald

• Linda Kaljundi, Estonian Academy of Arts / Tallinn University

• Mārtiņš Kaprāns, University of Latvia

• Kristina Jõekalda, Estonian Academy of Arts