ACTIVITIES2013

Our Activities include:

▶ organising conferences, symposiums, seminars and academic workshops;

▶ producing events such as exhibitions, film screenings and film reviews;

▶ publishing academic works, research publications, and translations of existing books;

▶ supporting academic research;

▶ co-producing films, as well as television and radio programmes;

▶ promoting the study of history through traditional and electronic media.

Thematic Priorities of the Network

Remembrance and commemoration genealogies;

Region – culture – identity;

Different experiences of 20th-century dictatorships;

Resistance, opposition, objection;

Society and daily life under dictatorship;

Consequences of totalitarianism and dictatorships.

Statistics

Yearly contributions

Employees’ salaries not included

448,877.81 €

300,000.00 €

PolandGermany

Projects Per Year

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

3 35

12

33

36

Externally vs internally

proposed projects

2008–2013

37; 40%

55; 60%Own projectsExternal projects

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

2

0

2

6

14 131

3

3

6

1923

Own projects External projects

External vs Internal

projects

Project Expenditure by

Category 2008-2013

conference/symposium36%

film/media13%

publication14%

networking20%

exhibition6%

educational5%

website2%

other4%

Projects per Category per Year

2011 2012 20130

2

4

6

8

10

12

8

10

12

2

7

5

0

7

9

1

2 2

1

2 2

0

1

4

1 1

2

0

3

0

conference/symposium film/media publication networking

exhibition educational website other

Expenditure for Project Categories 2011-

2013

2011 2012 20130.00 €

20,000.00 €

40,000.00 €

60,000.00 €

80,000.00 €

100,000.00 €

120,000.00 €

140,000.00 €

160,000.00 €

conference/symposium film/media publication networking exhibition educational website other

Expenditure for Project Categories 2011

94,782.20 €

42,919.45 €

63,265.34 €

3,446.38 €

2011

conference/sym-posium

film/media

publication networkingexhibition educationalwebsite other

Expenditure for Project Categories 2012

96,932.65 €

46,592.37 €

61,403.75 €

103,470.90 €

24,811.20 €

6,174.56 €

6,234.41 € 48,574.14 €

2012

conference/sym-posium

film/media

publication networkingexhibition educationalwebsite other

Expenditure for Project Categories 2013

150,406.90 €

71,337.91 €

102,074.81 €

70,610.97 €

42,394.01 €

56,608.48 €

9,030.67 €

2013

conference/sym-posiumfilm/mediapublicationnetworkingexhibitioneducationalwebsiteother

Applying for External Funding

Projects approved:

Visegrád Fund – both of ENRS’s applying projects approved:

12 000 EUR for „Genealogies of memory” 2013;

12 000 EUR for 2nd International Symposium of European Institutions dealing with 20th Century History 2013.

Projects expecting for decision:

European Commission’ Funds:

Europe for Citizens: 36 000 EUR applying for 2nd International Symposium of European Institutions dealing with 20th Century History.

Applying for External Funding

In the works:

Operating grant from Communication Department of European Commission: finance the operating expenditure of an EU body that is pursuing an aim of general European interest or an objective that forms part of an EU policy.

Expanding ENRS to the New Countries

Romania - Minister of Culture Daniel Barbu expressed his willingness to join ENRS

ENRS invited future Romanian coordinator to the annual meeting of ENRS assemblies;

The official response will be send by Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski to the Romanian Minister of Culture (ENRS suggested two diffrent ways in include Romania – new intential agreement or annex).

Expanding ENRS Assemblies – Sandra Kalniete (Latvia) and Oldřich Tůma (Czech Republic).

Secretariat’s Current Projects

Secreteriat’s Current Projects

Recent projects:

The Roots of the Collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc – economic aspects (part of the project The End of an Era - Eastern Europe in Transition 1989-1991), 16-18 May, 2013 in Warsaw;

International conference Anti-Semitism in Central Eastern Europe. Ideas, Politics and Praxis of Jew-Hatred from a Comparative Perspective, ca. 1880-1939, 16-18 May, 2013 in Warsaw;

International conference What was Communism – Ideology and Implementation, 30-31 May, 2013 in Berlin.

present activities of the Secretariat

Recent projects:

The film review Who’s into Historical Cinema? – 2013 edition: Times of Terror. The 1940s as shown in Cinema, 5-9 June, 2013;

A documentary Central Europe Goes to Freedom directed by Mirosław Jasiński – ceremonial screenings in Cieszyn (3 May), Warsaw (27 May), Wrocław (4 June) and Bratislava.

Secretariat’s Upcoming Projects

Upcoming projects:

History at Hand – XVII edition of the contest for school youth, 24 June in Warsaw: The Poles and their Neighbours after World War II: against one another, along one another, together… – with the special prize for international teams; contest is a part of EUSTORY — an international network, established by the Körber Stiftung, Hamburg, of independent history contests for the youth of all parts of Europe;

Remember Europe – Education Workshop and International Summer Youth Camp, 5-11 August in Hungary – focused on the consequences of communism in different countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Secretariat’s Meetings

(selection)Secretariat official meetings, i.e.:

KARLA WURSTEROVA – Visegrad Fund Director,

BOŽENA KRÍŽIKOVÁ – the director for international cooperation in the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic,

SANDRA KALNIETE - member of the European Parliament,

PROF. WŁODZIMIERZ BORODZIEJ – the House of European History in Brussels,

TAJA VOVK VAN GAAL – Academic Project Leader, Directorate General for Communication – House of European History, European Commission,

LASZLO TOKES – member of the European Parliament,

PAVEL TYCHTL – Policy Officer – “EUROPE FOR CITIZENS" PROGRAMME MANAGER, Directorate-General for Communication, European Commission,

Secretariat’s Meetings

(selection)Secretariat official meetings, i.e.:

JAN TRUSZCZYŃSKI – DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EDUCATION, TRAINING, CULTURE AND YOUTH, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

JACEK SARYUSZ-WOLSKI – Member of the European Parliament,

JOACHIM ZELLER – Member of the European Parliament,

GYORGY SCHOPFLIN – Member of the European Parliament,

BOGUSŁAW SONIK – Member of the European Parliament,

AGNIESZKA WALTER-DROP – Director for the Committees, Directorate-General External Policies of the European Union, European Parliament,

MAREK PRAWDA – AMBASSADOR, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF POLAND TO THE EUROPEAN UNION.

Key projects

Conferences

Educational

Projects

Exhibitions

Publications

Sound in the Silence

In 2012, this educational project for young people was held in the former military area of Groß Born (now Borne Sulinowo, Poland) and

in the neighbouring former camp for Soviet prisoners.

Sound in the Silence

Educational project dedicated to students and artists

The keywords:

Surroundings – how your surroundings effect the arts?

Understanding – your surroundings and history

Expression – express your emotions, express you knowledge through art

music workshops

theater workshops

dance workshops

film workshops

Places: 2011: Hamburg, 2012: Borne Sulinowo

International Symposium of European Institutions dealing with 20th Century History

1st International Symposium

of European Institutions Dealing with 20th Century History took place in 2012 in

Gdańsk.

International Symposium of European Institutions dealing with 20th Century History

Main goals:

exchange experiences, establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries;

support the preservation of the European memory of its past;

strengthen an international dialogue on the European culture of remembrance;

transform the concept of European culture of remembrance from an abstract term into a practical approach, which will be useful for future historical researches and historical education.

2013 edition:

10-12 October, 2013 in Berlin

How much transnational cooperation does European remembrance require? Caesuras and Parallels in Europe

2014 edition:

Autumn of Nations in Europe 1989. Remembrance and Legacy

International Symposium of European Institutions Dealing with

20th Century History

Visit project’s new website www.europeanremembrance.enrs.eu

International Symposium: 2013

budget 2013 total budget: 59 000 €

27000 €

12000 €

20000 €1. ENRS

2. Visegrad Fund

3. Partners

2013Genealogies of Memory

Genealogies of Memory the main goals and priorities

Research and popularise issues connected with social memory

Assess the various ways in which 20th-century events in Central and Eastern Europe are remembered

The project encompasses:

an annual international conference

publication of selected conference articles

organisation of seminars

the website www.genealogies.enrs.eu

Genealogies of Memory previous editions

I edition:

Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe. Theories and Methods,

23–25 November 2011

II edition:

Regions of Memory: A comparative perspective on Eastern Europe Warsaw (Poland), 26–28 November 2012

Co-organisers: Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Warsaw), Free University of Berlin

2013EDITION SeminarsThe seminars’ aim is to continue the debate started during the first conference in November 2011.

SEMINARS 2013

The seminar focused on recently published book Remembering Katyn (Etkind, Finnin et al., Polity Press 2012) and served as a presentation of the Memory at War. Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine project

Memory Studies in Contemporary Ukraine: methodology and socio-political contexts - paper by dr. Olga Wolaniuk (National Pedagogical University in Kiev, Nation’s Memory Institute in Ukraine)

Remembering KatyN22nd March 2013, Warsaw University Library 

Political contexts of social memory in

contemporary Ukraine23th May 2013, Warsaw History Meeting House 

Conference

Genealogies’ main conference in 2013:

Legal Frames of Memory. Transitional Justice in Central and Eastern Europe

Warsaw

27-29 November, 2013

Legal frames of memoryThe aim of the conference is to examine the realtionship between law and memory:

law as a framework of social memory from perspective of legitimizing certain norms, values, and visions of the past,

toward developing a framework of grassroots sociasl activity wherein individuals and groups promote certain interests and historical narratives,

the way legal discourse merges with other aspects of social life, including concepts of justice defined in the works of historians, media and cultural texts.

Legal Frames of MemoryThe subjects of the conference include, but are not limited to:

retributive justice, i.e.: trials, decommunization and vetting;

restorative justice, i.e., rehabilitation of political prisoners, restitution of nationalized property, compensation;

institutes of national remembrance and the issue of access to the files of the communist security apparatus;

representations of concepts of justice in historical work, media or cultural texts.

Budget Genealogies 2013total: 55640,90 EUR

Conference Seminars0.00 €

10,000.00 €

20,000.00 €

30,000.00 €

40,000.00 €

50,000.00 €

60,000.00 €

ENRS' funds External funds

Who’s into Historical Cinema?film review

ENRS’INVOLVEMENT FROM 2011

Who’s into Historical Cinema? cycling film review

Who’s into Historical Cinema?

The Central European cinematographies showing the different aspects of a specific historical period or event

Present productions connected with a particular historical subject, such as the Second World War, Stalinism, and the fall of communism:

2011 edition: Phantoms of Freedom

2012 edition: In the Shadow of the Swastika and the Red Star (Warsaw) and Im Schatten des Hakenkreuzes und des Roten Sterns (Hamburg)

2013 edition: Times of Terror. The 1940s as shown in the cinema

Who’s into Historical Cinema? Total project cost 2013: 28 400,00 €

5000,00 €

23 400,00 €1. ENRS

2. Museum of Polish History

Publications

Publications

Publications 2013 Remembrance and Solidarity Studies

Remembrance and Solidarity Studies is an academic periodical published by ENRS in English. It is conceived as a forum of cooperation and exchange of opinion between historians, sociologists and representatives of others disciplines engaged in memory studies.

Sea and modernity. Rostock, Gdynia, Klaipeda and Tallinn in 20th Century

Comparative research on the history of the four Baltic port cities – Rostock, Gdynia, Klaipeda, Tallinn and their societies in the 20th century: the role as the national “gates to the world” (before and after the WW II).

Publications 2013 The Loneliness of Victimes – postconference

Conference took place in December 2011 in Budapest and gathered participants from all over Europe. The main topics were the presentation of most recent researches and different views on methodology and  ethics of counting the victims of WWII.

Lest We Forget. Memory of totalitarian regimes in Europe

The book „Lest We Forget. Memory of totalitarian regimes in Europe” is an international publication in three languages (english, german and french) dedicated to the youth. Publication consists of 30 stories from 16 countries, each of them dedicated to one man whos life was changed by totalitarianism.

International Social and Educational Campaign to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary

of the Fall of Communism in Europe

plans for 2014

International Social and Educational Campaign to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary

of the Fall of Communism in Europe

International Social and Educational Campaign to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of Communism in Europe

The goals of the campaign:

the anniversary should be of fundamental imporantance for European identity,

bringing back the sense of togetherness, solidarity, hope and enthusiasm seen during the Autumn of Nations,

show the different interpretations of that period, understand the 1989 transformations from many different viewpoints,

encourage a broader, pan-European understanding of these events.

International Social and Educational Campaign to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of Communism in Europe

Key features of the campaign:

diversity and complexity of the planned activities,

involvement of artists, politicians, journalists, and historians from several countries,

focused on “official” narrations as well as „small narrations” based on the memories of individuals,

encourage democratic changes where dictatorships still survive,

European Union as a common direction for the former Soviet bloc countries.

International Social and Educational Campaign to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of Communism in Europe

Artistic activities,

Science promotion activities,

Promotional activities in the media and internet,

Activities in the public space,

Educational and promotional materials,

Publications.

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