Excellence Initiative - Research University

University Centre of Excellence IMSErt - Interacting Minds, Societies, Environments

Contactul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń
tel.: +48 56 611 37 15
+48 516 638 621
e-mail: imsert@umk.pl

#ReThink Autumn Summer School

Zdjęcie ilustracyjne
CANVA photo: CANVA

Our postdoctoral fellow Francesco Trupia has recently participated in the #ReThink 1989 Autumn School organised by the Kolegium Europy Wschodniej im.Jana Nowaka- Jeziorańskiego in Wojnowice at the Zamek na Wodzie. The school has not only been a stimulating event for discussing much-debated issues of post-1989 democracies in the region, but it has also been a great opportunity to meet scholars, students and activists from all Europe and share ideas, values and memories of the 1989 year and its aftermaths. In particular, a combination of thought-provoking discussions and practical workshops have enabled both participants and organisers to be engaged in rethinking the political and socio-cultural consequences of the 1989.
 

The field of Memory Studies has largely won the ground of debates and discussions amongst participants, yet without overlooking multi-layered and interdisciplinary facets that play a crucial role when it comes to (re-)address the post-1989 developments, hopes and transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Throughout the 4-day school, participants have also discovered hidden places, cultural heritage and people’s memories of Wrosław by visiting the city and meeting up with witnesses who stood for human rights and dignity, democracy and civil rights, peace and freedom under Communism in Poland during the 80s. Meeting figures and activists who continue up until today to keep their personal as well as collective memories of the past, has been centrally paramount to shed new light on those grassroots events that began to reshape Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

other news