Common History, Divided Memories. Historical Commissions Negotiating History
(2019) Memory Studies Association Third Conference — Location: Madrid (25.June.2019)
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- After “painful pasts” such as the two world wars, occupations and massacres, some countries, supported especially by UNESCO, decided to create bilateral historical commissions. They did so in a context of appeasement, favouring reconciliation between former enemies. The aim of this paper is to analyse how neighbouring countries deal with divided memories of a common past. Our hypothesis is that historical commissions are created in this aim and negotiate history through different strategies: domination, compromise, omission, superposition, reframing of the negotiation. For this aim, I will mobilise the data collected for my PhD, such as interviews and archives, and especially the analysis of the Polish-German common history schoolbook. I will also take benefit from literature dealing with uses of memory, reconciliation and historical commissions. My paper will fall under Paul Ricoeur’s “pluralistic lecture” and Jean-Marc Ferry’s “reconstructive ethics” frameworks, which analyse the relevance of a dialogue in these contexts.
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Hébert, E. (2019). Common History, Divided Memories. Historical Commissions Negotiating History. Memory Studies Association Third Conference, Madrid. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/124864