6.5.2024

Green Commemoration. Towards new strategies for remembering in public space.

Stakeholder meeting

Nowa Synagoga, Partyzantów 7
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Event program

How to deal with places of difficult heritage? How to include green space in commemorating the Holocaust? How to create open, respectful spaces enabling symbolic dialogue between victims and survivors and research, activist, artistic and local communities? How to consciously use the potential of non-human memory actors in times of the ongoing climate crisis?

We will look for answers to these and other questions during the meeting "Green Commemoration. Towards new strategies of remembering in public space", focused around specific examples of interdisciplinary activities and projects from various parts of Poland: Green Commemorations (Pikule, Szumowo), Willows of Estera (Chrzanów) and Medicinal Plants Plaszowa and Still Standing (Kraków).

  • Green Commemoration

    6.05.2024
    • 18.30

      Green Commemoration. Towards new strategies of commemoration in public space.

      • Aleksandra Janus
      • Magda Rubenfeld
Event Description WP 7

Organization

Sponsors

  • The project is funded by the European Union (CERV-2022-REM) and involves nine European partners: FestivALT, UMF, Zapomniane Foundation, JCC Warsaw, Formy Wspólne Foundation, Jewish Cemetery Documentation Foundation, CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe, University of Würzburg and Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg.

Green Commemoration. Towards new strategies of commemoration in public space.
  • Aleksandra Janus

    Anthropologist, researcher, co-author of the Museum Laboratory initiative and "Museums for the Climate", president of the Zapomniane Foundation;

  • Magda Rubenfeld

    Activist, curator and cultural animator, co-founder and co-curator of FestivALT.

6.05.2024 18.30

In the conversation, we will consider together what useful tools - theoretical, but also practical - can be provided by the environmental history of the Holocaust, which has been developing since the 1990s and is becoming more and more popular around the world and in Poland. Drawing on the experience gathered so far, we will also draw attention to potential pitfalls, the most common dilemmas and problems accompanying the implementation of this type of initiatives. People participating in the meeting will also receive the e-book "Green Commemoration. Towards new strategies of remembering in public space.

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