The Kremlin`s Memory Policies and Mythmaking in Russia and Ukraine
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Workshopen utforsker hvordan minnepolitikk og historiske myter brukes til å forme forestillinger om identitet og tilhørighet i Russland og Ukraina. Programmet tilbyr ulike perspektiver på hvordan disse fortellingene produseres, formidles og utfordres på lokalt og regionalt nivå.
Program
12:00-12:30 – coffee
12:30-12:40 – opening
Moderator: Kari Myklebost (UiT)
12:40–13:10 Ingunn Lunde (UiB) — Who Are “The People of Donbas”? A View from Ukraine’s Eastern Regions
13:10–13:40 Håvard Bækken (IFS): The "Youth Army" in Local Communities: The Use of Local Memories and Symbols in the Promotion of Patriotic Identities in Russia and Occupied Territories
13:40–14:00 — Coffee Break
14:00–14:30 Artem Spirin (UiT) — Fortifying Border Memories: Memory Politics in the Post-Soviet Russian North
14:30–15:00 Elena Kochetkova (UiB) — Public Libraries and the Contemporary Politics of Great Patriotic War Memory in the Pechenga Region, Russia
15:00–15:30 — Helge Blakkisrud (UiO) — Teaching the Great Patriotic War: Navigating Federal Narratives and Local Memories in Russian School History Textbooks
15:30 — Closing Remarks
