Genocide and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

As Russia’s aggression against Ukraine tragically confirms, genocide continues to play a significant role in the history and memory of Central and Eastern Europe. Participants in this roundtable will examine how identity – individual and collective – has been shaped by the experience of mass killing, and how the discourse of genocide is leveraged by the politics of memory. The participants in this roundtable are contributors to the Handbook of Memory in Central Eastern Europe, to be published by Routledge in 2025, edited by Dovilė Budrytė and Violeta Davoliūtė. They will discuss their work in progress, and engage in a dialogue.

Sub Unit

• Politics/Law

Chair

• Violeta Davoliute, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (Lithuania)

Roundtable Members

• Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College / Vytautas Magnus / Vilnius U (Lithuania)

• Nikolay Koposov, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Anton Weiss-Wendt, Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (Norway)

• Yuliya Yurchuk, Södertörn U (Sweden)