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Panel 3. Figures of Loss: Exile, Melancholy, and Memory in Literature and Film (Berlin, 15.09.25)

Conference "Memories, Narratives, and Conflicts: At the Confluence of Perspectives" (Berlin, 15.09.2025), co-organized by the Center for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Marc Bloch Center Panel 3. Figures of Loss: Exile, Melancholy, and Memory in Literature and Film 00:02:19 Piera Rossetto (Ca’ Foscari University) "'Your Story Makes Me Cry. But Mine Too:' Vicky Shiran and the Riddle of Conflicting Memories" 00:31:42 Laetitia Simcha Ohayon (Columbia University), "The Feeling of Loss: First and Second-Generation Women Writers of Judeo-Maghrebi Origin on Assembly, Exile, and Melancholia" 1:00:16 Discussion Description of the conference: ‘Memory’ as a subject of study and a political, social and media issue has dominated public debate in Europe since the late 1980s. ‘Duty to remember,’ ‘realms of memory,’ ‘wars of memory,’ ‘competition among victims,’ ‘memory invasion,’ ‘paths of memory,’ ‘politics of memory,’ ‘defence of memory,’ ‘murderers of memory’: these expressions reflect a new relationship with the world, a new regime of historicity that François Hartog calls presentism. This new configuration of the relationship with the past is reflected in various identity claims, particularly from previously dominated groups, but also in new institutional practices. Memory becomes a tool for mobilisation and intervention in the media, in public life, in politics in the broad sense of the term, but also in literature and the arts. It fuels epistemological reflection within the humanities and social sciences community. Indeed, numerous studies have sought to analyse the ‘memory moment’ in sociology, political science, history, literary criticism and cultural studies. However, few research projects and scientific events bring together different disciplinary perspectives. The aim of this conference is to re-examine this issue in light of recent research on the phenomena of making memories visible in relation to conflict and antagonism. The objective is therefore to highlight the convergences between different approaches in the humanities and social sciences and, on this basis, to initiate a joint reflection on the methodologies and theories that currently underpin memory studies, including their dimensions of effective research practices. The innovative nature of this approach also lies in the reversal of perspective, no longer considering divergent memories as merely conflictual but also as offering potential for new narratives, stories and social practices. Organisers : Centrum Badań Historycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (CBH PAN) in Berlin Centre Marc Bloch (CNRS) Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP, UMR 7220) Partners: Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES, Prague) Université de Toulon Institut d’études romanes de l’Université de Łódź Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung Camera and editing: Marek Kowalczyk