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Victimhood - Acknowledgement - Politics of Memory: Struggling over the Memory of Suffering

03/09/2024 to 05/09/2024

On September 3-5, 2024, the conference Victimhood – Acknowledgment – Politics of Memory: Struggling over the Memory of Suffering was held in Dresden, co-organized by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. This conference was organized as part of the MSCA project Political Polarization and Communist Past: Czech and German Case led by Klára Pinerová. Scholars from various fields such as psychology, history, anthropology, law, memory studies, sociology and political sciences met at the conference and dealt with the topics of victimhood, victims and victim associations in post-socialist countries in East-Central and East-Southern Europe. The conference focused on the role that victims and their organizations played after 1989, what were their goals and through which activities they wanted to achieve recognition and redress. Participants agreed that the concept of victimhood plays a significant role in shaping national identity, political discourse or historical memory not only in the post-socialist countries, but it is a complex phenomenon influencing politics, international relations, social dynamics, and cultural representations in the contemporary world as well.

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