Seminar: “Museums of Communism. New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe” by Stephen M. Norris
Author
Stephen Norris is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (OH). He is the author of three books, including Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism, and the editor or co-editor of six other books, including Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently writing a biography of the Soviet political caricaturist Boris Efimov (1900-2008) entitled Communism’s Cartoonist: The Extraordinary Lives and Deaths of Boris Efimov.
Discussant
Beata Nessel-Łukasik is an art historian, sociologist, who graduated PhD of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and now works at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. Her work focuses on the impact of social changes on contemporary museums and various groups of audiences. As a museologist she was associated with the Warsaw National Museum (1998-2010) and Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek (2011-2020), where she created the first Local Programs Department in Poland and as co-author Sulejówek Social Archives (www.sulejowekpossasiedzku.pl) and “The relational museum. On the threshold / beyond threshold” (“Museology. New Places” 2020). She also edited two other volumes: as author an interdisciplinary monograph “Memory Coalitions” (The Program “Excellent learning – Monograph 2022-2023”) and as co-author “Audiences (in) museum” (The National Institute of Museums 2022). Currently, she is focused on the impact of polycrises on museums in Poland (scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 2023). She is an ICOM member, member of “Museology” editorial team and of the artistic and research Telos Group.
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