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Minority memories and heritages in (re)imagining nations and multinational communities II 
Convenors:
Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki)
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
HERITAGE
:
Room H-202
Sessions:
Thursday 16 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel examines the roles and places of minorities, their memories, practices, and heritages in the efforts to (re)imagine nations and multinational communities, to (re)define their centres and margins, and to (re)member their pasts for the purposes of the present and future.

Long Abstract:

For well over a century, folklore studies and ethnology have participated in and sometimes led the efforts to (re)imagine nations and multinational communities, to (re)define their centres and margins, and to (re)collect their pasts for the purposes of the present and future. More recently, the emergence of ‘cultural heritage’ and ‘cultural memory’ as new categories of thought and action have come to (re)shape the ways in which these processes of (re)imagination are (re)valued and (re/de)constructed. This panel examines the roles and places of minorities, their memories, practices, and heritages in these (re)imaginings and (re)definitions. We invite case-study-based and theoretical contributions that explore the following questions: What kinds of tensions and logics relate to the canonization and marginalization of various groups and their perspectives with regard to collective memory? How are minority and majority categories co-constructed and related to each other in different historical times and in different venues? What kinds of roles have archives, museums and other memory and heritage institutions had in (re)imagining communities, national and otherwise? How do these (re)imaginations differ at institutions operating at national, regional, and local levels and how have they changed over time? How do grassroot voices and institutional actions interrelate (if at all), and what kinds of opportunities and frictions are associated with their interplay? How to best redress past acts of disremembering and dismembering? What kinds of ethical and epistemological challenges relate to differing and even conflicting conceptions of groupness and identity?

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Session 1 Thursday 16 June, 2022, -
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