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Reshaping Memory: Instrumentalization of History and Protest Discourse Narratives
Sun, November 23, 8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST), -Session Submission Type: Panel
Brief Description
The strategic instrumentalization of elements of the common ground or intertextual reference space—be it historical or geographical factual knowledge, or elements of the shared cultural archive, such as film, art, or music—is often employed to legitimize a particular agenda or intent. This process can operate in a top-down mechanism, where an authoritarian regime imposes a revision of collective memory (for instance, through the redrawing of borders or the reinterpretation of historical events). Conversely, in a bottom-up dynamic, it manifests as the updating of a shared, community-forming memory and its situating within contemporary discourse (for example, through the use of film quotes on protest signs).
The panel focuses on deliberately induced transformations of collective memory and examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms through which such processes unfold. It explores how memory is strategically recontextualized in political and social movements, the role of intertextuality in shaping protest communication, and the tensions between institutional narratives and grassroots memory practices.
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Papers
When Telefon became Brzoglas: The Recreation of Language and Identity during the Croatian Ustasha Regime (1941–1945) through Censorship of Fctional Prose - Elias Moncef Bounatirou, U of Vienna (Austria)
'Деда Вуле има фарму, иja-иja-о': On the Actualization of Elements of Collective Memory and Their Instrumentalization for the Current Student Protests in Serbia - Anna Jouravel, U of Freiburg (Germany)
'Ukraine doesn't exist': Historically Changing Borders as a Justification for Military Aggression - Holger Kuße, Dresden U of Technology (Germany)
Translating Alternate Histories: Kniga istoriografija and the Justification of Russian Expansion into the Slavic South - Patrick Oberstolz, U of Vienna (Austria)