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The Past Is Still to Change: Performing History from 1945 to the Present

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Date: 21-23 October, 2009

Venue: Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), Kaunas, Lithuania

Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University (VMU)

The Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities of Vytautas Magnus University invites to participate in the international conference about interpreting history”The Past Is Still to Change: Performing History from 1945 to the Present”, which will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania.

 The conference is focused upon an important issue for contemporary society – that of interpreting the past and writing its history. The subject of the conference refers to critical historiography, proposing that history is not a stable body of fact(s) but a shifting range of meanings produced by different cultural, social and political practices (such as rituals of public memory, historical re-enactments, museums, memorials et al.) and that the general images of the past are substantially affected by art (literature, visual arts, theatre, film, performance). The conference will open a discussion concerning the performative means of (re)constructing the past, going beyond a passive interpretation of historical texts, activating a participation in the ‘performing’ of history. The act of performing history also describes history as an academic discipline which is involved in (re)construction and (re)interpretation of the past. Consequently the conference will discuss the problems of research and evaluation of the past as it is faced by researchers of the legacy of the Cold War, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic region.

One of the major aims of the conference is to discuss these problems on an interdisciplinary basis, to reveal the complex multidimensional significance of the concept of performing history. Contributions are invited from different fields and disciplines – history, political science, social sciences, culture studies, literary research, theatre studies and visual art studies – both concerned with the past and the forms of remembering the past in contemporary society.

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