The program of the International Memorial for April

The international historical-educational, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" announced a program of events for April 2016.

Conference hall of the International Memorial (Karetny Ryad, 5/10)

April 1 and 2 - XXIV Big Bath Readings
(together with the New Literary Review Publishing House)

This year, large bath readings are devoted to the problem of the formation of secular culture in traditionalist, authoritarian, self -isolationist modern societies: strategies for survival, resistance, adaptation and creating conditions for personal and social autonomy from state dictates.

The conference also raises the question of how such strategies were effective in the conditions of authoritarian systems and how suitable for the formation of a posttotalitarian society.

Conference program and thesis of participants - here

April 4 at 19:00 - show of the film "1944" (2015)
(within the framework of the project "Documentary Environment" and the exhibition "Different Wars. School Textbooks on the Second World War")

Director: Elmo Nyugan
Script: Leo Kunnas
Producers: Christian Taska, Maria Avdyushko, Ilkka Matil

The discussion after the film is attended by the director of the film Elmo Nyugan and film critic, the chef-reactor of Colta.ru Mikhail Ratgauz.

The film tells about the military events that took place in Estonia in 1944, during the July fights in Sinimaye to November, when the Syrve Peninsula was already conquered by the troops of the Soviet Army. The war is shown through the eyes of the Estonians, who fought on the side of the German army in the 20th Estonian division of Waffen-SS , and as part of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Soviet Army.

For the inhabitants of Estonia, it was a war, where representatives of the same people fought with each other, where someone could choose for themselves, and whom they were forced to find themselves in Peckla. The main characters of the picture are faced with a difficult choice - the soldiers of the warring parties Karl Tammik and Yuri Yigi - as well as their colleagues, relatives, friends and completely unfamiliar people ...

The film is nominated for the Nick Award in the category "Best Film of the CIS and Baltic States"

April 11 at 18:30 - meeting of the Mandelstam Society

The program: Pavel Nerler's message “Alexander Tsybulevsky about Osip Mandelstam” (Based on the materials of the book: Alexander Tsybulevsky. Poetics of Underlines: Critical prose. Note books. Photos ”). The book is being prepared in the UFO Publishing House.

It is expected that Sergey Zlobin, Andrei Treivish and others will take part in the discussion.

April 12 at 19:00 - “unsafe territories” with Martin Shoible

Public-Talk with German writer Martin Shoible , author of the books “Israel and Palestine: Instructions for use” (2015), “Zwischen den Grenzen-Zu Fu 0ch Israel und Palästina” (2013) and others, about the specifics of the writer's walking “Neblying” territories ".

Moderator: Oleg Nikiforov (project letterra.org )

April 13 at 19:00 - meeting with Sergey Mironenko
(in the cycle "Historian for the workbench")

Sergey Mironenko is a Russian historian, doctor of historical sciences, professor, director of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Military Health Society.

In the focus of the cycle “Historian behind the workbench” - a historian and his creative laboratory, as well as important problems of today's science and the formation of a historical community.

Project leaders: Konstantin Morozov and Nikita Sokolov.

The cycle is designed primarily for historians, students and graduate students of historical faculties, as well as everyone who is interested in historical science and its problems.

April 15 at 19:00 - Seminar of the cycle "Left in Russia. History and modernity "

April 18, 19:00 - report by Ulrika Hong (Bremen University) “On the issue of ethnographic research of“ modern sectarianism ”in the context of the anti -religious campaigns of Khrushchev”
(joint seminar on Soviet history “The revival of Soviet ethnography from the spirit of atheism” of the German Historical Institute in Moscow, the Center for Franco-Russian Research in Moscow and the International Memorial)

Details - here

The focus of the seminar includes new trends and methodological approaches in the field of Soviet history. Speeds are held in Russian, except for especially indicated cases. Some reports of the seminar are published on the Perspectivia.net website on Soviet History Discussion Papers .

April 21 at 19:00 - Seminar "Internet as a mirror of new revolutions"
(in the cycle "In which country do we live")

Andrei Soldatov will talk about the Internet and politics, the Internet as a means of social communication and surrogate of social action, the growth of state control behind the blogosphere, as well as about the business measurement of the Russian Internet.

The international memorial continues the cycle of expert lectures and discussions according to the current state, problems and prospects for the development of the Russian state and society "in which country we live."

Expert discussions are held once a month on a wide range of problems with the participation of leading experts, journalists, politicians.

The participants in the discussions were Lev Gudkov, Kirill Rogov, Natalya Zubarevich, Vladimir Milov, Boris Makarenko and others.

Project curator: Nikolai Petrov, head of the laboratory of the methodology for assessing regional development of the Higher School of Economics.

Outside the international memorial

April 16 at 17:00 - tour "Moscow Varlam Shalamov"

The fate of a person woven into the history of the city: from the avant-garde circles of the 1920s and a student room near the Chinese City Wall until the lonely old age of a genius who did not wait for recognition. Two arrests and two return. Family drama. The search for a new form to display inhuman experience, the search for ways of survival is physical and spiritual. All this was in Moscow, dumb witnesses to Tom - Moscow houses, Moscow alleys.

The collection of the group at the beginning of Nikolskaya Street, near the Nautilus shopping center.

April 28 - awarding ceremony of laureates of the XVII All -Russian competition of historical research work of high school students
(in the central house of filmmakers)

Congress of guests and a bench presentation of the works of schoolchildren - 11:00
The beginning of the ceremony is 12:00

Every day, except Saturday and Sunday, from 11:00 to 19:00 exhibitions “Different Wars: School textbooks of European countries about the Second World War” and “Live or write. Barlam Shalamov ” (curators Christina Linx and Wilfried F. Schöller)