Registration is now open for 10th edition of the European Remembrance Symposium, an annual event that each year in a different city brings together more than 200 representatives of institutions and organisations active in the field of 20th-century history. Focusing on reconciliation this time around, the 2022 symposium will be held in the Burke Theatre at Trinity College Dublin from June 1st-3rd.
The co-organiser of the 10th-anniversary edition of the event is the Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation, an international hub specialising in conflict resolution and disseminating the notion of lasting peace.
The annual symposium aims to initiate and deepen cooperation between institutions and organisations involved in researching Europe’s 20th-century history. The idea is that dialogue concerning events of the past century is needed, taking into account various sensitivities, experiences and existing interpretations. Over three days, an international group of academics and practitioners from different countries will discuss the importance and role of reconciliation in the context of past and contemporary conflicts – both international and internal. The starting point will be the Irish experiences, including those focused on the centenary of the outbreak of the Civil War.
Russia's onslaught on Ukraine will also be an important and difficult context for the symposium's debates
Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine will also be an important and difficult context for the symposium’s debates on the history of reconciliation.
To date, panellists and moderators for the Dublin symposium include Prof Donald Bloxham, University of Edinburgh; Dr Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland); Prof Dr Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University; Prof Dr Monica McWilliams, Ulster University; Prof Dr Valerie Rosoux, Université catholique de Louvain; and Prof. Peter Shirlow, University of Liverpool.
The organisers invite representatives of museums and memorial sites, and staff of academic and educational institutions, as well as NGOs active in the field of 20th-century history. The three-day meeting will offer participants an opportunity to attend both discussion panels and networking sessions, during which their institutions and projects can be presented to a wider audience.
The event programme also includes visits to museums and memorial sites, including the Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation near Dublin, as well as the exhibition After the Great War: a New Europe 1918-1923, in the courtyard of the National Museum of Ireland (Collins Barracks).
The series of European Remembrance Symposia was inaugurated in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2012. Successive editions have been held in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels, Bucharest, Paris and Tallinn. The event in Dublin is co-funded by the European Union and Fáilte Ireland.
For more about the event, see https://enrs.eu/edition/european-remembrance-symposium-2022. For symposium participant registration, see https://events.enrs.eu/dublin2022
The project is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Organisers
- European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, Warsaw
- Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation, Co Wicklow
- Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), Oldenburg
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is an international initiative aimed at the study, documentation and dissemination of knowledge about 20th-century European history and forms of its commemoration, with particular consideration given to periods of dictatorship, war and public resistance in the face of oppression. Network members are Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Albania, Austria, Czechia, Estonia and Latvia are also represented through membership of its advisory bodies. For further information, see www.enrs.eu.
Partners
Funding
- Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
- Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Germany
- Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary
- Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
- Ministry of Culture of Romania