Memory as a historical and cultural phenomenon
National Research University Higher School of Economics
(Moscow, Russian Federation)
21-22 November 2019 г.
International Scientific Conference
Memory as a historical and cultural phenomenon .
Russia and the West. XX and XXI centuries
Interventi:
Raffaella Perin, Is Italy still a Catholic Nation? Use and Abuse of History
In the past two decades, such concepts as «historical memory», «culture of memory», «culture of history», «memory and commemoration practices» are included into the popular topics of the interdisciplinary research. The interest in memorial researches and commemorative practices is very wide. The appearance of public history was directly related to the cultural processes of the second half of the 20th century and with the revival of interest in the historical memory.
Under the name of Public history, there is a wide range of new knowledge or new interpretations of documents and artifacts that occur beyond the boundaries of academic history. Journalists, politicians, media commentators, film directors, artists, bloggers have access to the past and often interpret it in the unusual and original form.
The main idea of the conference is to show how people perceive the past in Europe and in Russia, what is the difference, how national aspects could influence our perception of history, and how to avoid the ideologization of history, or is it impossible, and why?