{"id":34985,"date":"2025-08-26T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/?p=34985"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:58:31","slug":"memorials-gorups-functions-international-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/memorials-gorups-functions-international-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorials, Groups, Functions – international conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Holocaust Memorial Center cordially invites you to the
\nMemorials, Groups, Functions<\/strong>
\nInternational conference \u2013 Holocaust Memorial Centre, Budapest \u2013 17\u201218 September 2025.<\/p>\n

Modernity has brought the secularisation of memory culture, and the 20th century has given rise to a new type of memorial.<\/p>\n

Memory is linked to a group, but also to a place. The modern national memorials of the 19th century built on and reinterpreted the pages of religious\/denominational and dynastic memory. The devastation of the world wars, the absence of mourning for relatives who had died far away, the inaccessibility of their graves, gave rise to new types of memorials. The unresolved losses of displacement and genocide also manifested themselves in memorials. This is all the more true of the destruction of the Holocaust and the creation of memorial sites. The individual can remember as a member of the group, through the group’s discourses and communal rituals. Memorial sites are surrounded by heteroglossia, and may be associated with competing group memories. The importance of a memorial site in a group strategy may vary, and its necessity may be debated.<\/p>\n

Our conference provides a forum for the analytical presentation of memorial sites and the forms of remembrance associated with them, regardless of whether they are still in use today or in need of preservation.<\/p>\n

Date<\/em><\/strong>
\n17-18 September, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/em><\/strong>1094 Budapest, P\u00e1va utca 39.<\/em><\/p>\n

The conference will be held in English with Hungarian interpretation.<\/p>\n

Please RVSP by 16 September, 2025<\/p>\n

Registration<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/bit.ly\/memorials-groups-functions<\/a><\/p>\n

Memorials, Groups, Functions – pragramme
\nInternational conference \u2013 Holocaust Memorial Centre,
\nBudapest \u2013 17\u201218 September 2025. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:45 \u2013 9:15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Registration
\n9:15 \u2013 9:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome speeches:<\/p>\n

Andor Gr\u00f3sz<\/strong>, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation
\nVince Szalay-Bobrovniczky<\/strong>, Deputy Secretary of State for Civil and Social Relations of the Prime Minister<\/p>\n

PLENARY PRESENTATION – <\/strong>Chair: <\/strong>Andr\u00e1s Zima
\n9:30 \u2013 10:00\u00a0\u00a0 Gilly Carr: The IHRA Charter for Safeguarding Sites: preserving Holocaust sites in the context of the challenges of the 21st<\/sup> century
\n<\/strong>10:00 \u2013 10:15 Discussion
\n10:15 \u2013 10:30 Coffee break<\/p>\n

First section – <\/strong>Chair: Andr\u00e1s L\u00e9n\u00e1rt
\n10:30\u2013 10:50\u00a0 Hanna Lessing: A look at the changing nature of remembrance
\n<\/strong>10:50 \u2013 11:10 \u00c1d\u00e1m Kerpel-Fronius: The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and its place in a diverse memorial landscape
\n<\/strong>11:10 \u2013 11:30\u00a0 Ljiljana Radonic: The Era of Memorial Museums and Traveling Memorialization Trends
\n<\/strong>11:30 \u2013 11:50\u00a0 Discussion
\n11:50 \u2013 13:00 Lunch break<\/p>\n

Second section –<\/strong> Chair: Levente Olosz
\n13:00 \u2013 13:20 Matej Beranek: Memorials in Slovakia – history and present<\/strong>
\n13:20 \u2013 13:40\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Cs\u0151sz: The fortress of Kom\u00e1rom as a memorial site in the Hungarian collective memory
\n<\/strong>13:40 \u2013 14:00 Michal Brandl: Holocaust between global and local: Holocaust memorialization in Croatia
\n<\/strong>14:00 \u2013 14:20 Discussion
\n14:20 \u2013 14:45 Coffee break<\/p>\n

Third section –<\/strong> Chair: Ad\u00e9l Nagy
\n14:45 \u2013 15:05 \u00c9va Kov\u00e1cs: Fluid and Forgotten Knowledge of the Roma Genocide. The Memoryscape of the Gr\u00e1bler Lake
\n<\/strong>15:05 \u2013 15:25 Krinka Vidakovi\u0107: Memorialization Today: A Case Study of \u201cStaro Sajmi\u0161te\u201d
\n<\/em><\/strong>15:25 \u2013 15:45 Milovan Pisarri: A Winding Path to Memorialization: The Case of the Bor Concentration Camp
\n<\/strong>15:45 \u2013 16:10 Discussion
\n16:10\u00a0\u00a0 Closing remarks<\/p>\n

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Thursday, September 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:40 \u2013 10:00\u00a0\u00a0 Registration
\n10:00 \u2013 10:05 Welcome speech<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Fourth section \u2013 <\/strong>Chair: Istv\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m P\u00e1l
\n10:05 \u2013 10:25 Tanja Tulekovi\u0107: Memorial sites \u2013 places of education
\n<\/strong>10:25 \u2013 10:45 Ladislav Trajer: Preserving Jewish cemeteries in Serbia
\n<\/strong>10:45 \u2013 11:05 L\u00e1szl\u00f3 M\u00f3d: Transformation of War Landscape to Memorial Landscape. Examples from the Italian-Slovenian Borderland
\n<\/strong>11:05 \u2013 11:30\u00a0 Discussion
\n11::30 \u2013 12:00 Coffee break<\/p>\n

Fifth section – <\/strong>Chair: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Cs\u0151sz
\n12:00 \u2013 12:20 Norbert Gl\u00e4sser \u2013 Andr\u00e1s Zima: Places preserved by their multivocality
\n<\/strong>12:20 \u2013 12:40 Nicolae Dragusin: Before and After 1989\/1991. Memorializations of the Holocaust in former Communist States
\n<\/strong>12:40 \u2013 13:00 Discussion
\n13:30 \u2013 13:35 Closing remarks: Andr\u00e1s Zima
\n13::35 \u2013 14:35 Lunch<\/p>\n