11/05/2023
11:00 13:00

Événement en format hybride (présentiel / visio-conférence sur zoom)

“After the expulsion - In Search of Homely Remains. The geopolitics of collecting in a Russian exclave (Kaliningrad)”

Lieu : Salle S1, 2e étage, 28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris

Un séminaire organisé dans le cadre du groupe "Migration et mobilités" du CERI et du séminaire "Mémoires et patrimonialisations des migrations" de l'EHESS.

Intervenante :
Olga Sezneva, University of Amsterdam

The Russian exclave Kaliningrad is where historical turbulences seem to never end. The dissolution of the Third Reich in 1945 meant the expansion of the Soviet empire westward, and the removal and resettlement of at least three million people. The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 and perturbations that followed, including the current military escalation in Ukraine, generated tides of contradictory identity politics at the core of which has been the question of belonging. In a crucial way, here belongingunderstood as property, mesh together with belonging conceived as emotional attachment. My presentation will follow a rise in collecting and exhibiting objects from the inter-war, German past, in the region in the 2010s and until now. Methods of acquisition, modalities of display, and framing narratives deliberately emphasize the familial, the intimate, the domestic. Collecting itself is passionate and utterly committed. Collectors and the objects produce together specific lines of descent. In my presentation I will discuss the role of ‘home’ as a cultural-material idiom and cultural appropriation in the construction of belonging after resettlement.

 


Responsable scientifique de l'événement : Catherine Perron, Sciences Po-CERI

 


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Organisé par : CERI