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Interview Timothy Snyder An interview to his Keynote “A Garden of Forgetfulness: European Memory Policies Today”

von: 6sept13

In the interview Timothy Snyder talks about his main thesis of his Keynote "A Garden of Forgetfulness: European Memory Policies Today", the linkages of Babyn Jar for a conference about Memory Politics in Eastern Europe and how the current European politics shape and will shape memory transnational as well as national.

Alexei Miller’s introductory keynote titled "Memory politics and memory wars in post-communist Europe and their impact on European memory culture" contained provocative elements. His main focus was…

The opening session sketched out a number of questions, tasks and theses the conference "Mapping Memories of Post-1989 Europe" would deal with. In their conversation, Heidemarie Uhl, Austrian Academy…

In the Concluding Panel it was discussed if a transboundary culture of remembrance is possible in Europe and how also diverging national interpretations can be included.

In Panel 7 it was discussed who the actors of memory in Central and Eastern Europe are and which institutions manifest memory in public space.

Panel 3 "Memory in the Digital Age" looked at the different forms of digital memory cultur. It asked for the impact of digital media on the rememberance culture of a younger generations but also for…

The concluding panel referred to various topics highlighted by the conference and linked theory to everyday practice. Florian Kührer-Wielach put forward a provocative introductory thesis: Western…