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The democratic breakthrough in Poland and in other Central‑European countries led to a process of liberation and transformation of public memory. Societies, whose memory had been ‘occupied’ for decades, focused on debating the problem of identity with the fervour of neophytes. They discussed their origins and their destiny. Poland, a country that survived two occupations at the same time, is settling with the past, which has far reaching consequences both for its own self‑awareness and for its attitude towards the neighbours. However, memory freed of censorship and pressure of a single ideology becomes easily enslaved in the face of another ideology. Thus, the historical culture of Poland that is developing in the age of globalisation and numerous international challenges, is full of contradictions and questions that cannot be easily answered.
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Two polish historians and friends, both born in 1916, were among the most eminent medievalists in Poland in the 20th century. Their academic debut came in the years preceding the outbreak of WWII, while their careers progressed brilliantly in the years following the end of the war. For several decades, they marked their academic presence as the authors of great works, and they held the most prominent offi ces in academic life in Poland and in the international arena. They took an active part in the process of political transition, leading to Poland regaining full sovereignty in 1989, and they approved of its evolutionary mode. They were unquestionable moral authorities for scholarly circles and beacons in public activities. Aleksander Gieysztor died in 1999, followed another eleven years later by Gerard Labuda (2010), who remained active until his last days. The 100th anniversary of their birthdays reminds historical circles, first and foremost, albeit not only, of Warsaw and Poznań, about their academic and public achievements.
Historia@Teoria
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2017
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vol. 1
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issue 3
53-60
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The article att empts to defi ne the history of historiography as a subdiscipline of history; it indicates the numerous competences of historians of historiography which are nessesary for undertaking an (auto)refl ection around the history of their discipline, for touching the theoretical and methodological aspects of historiography, and for the study of historicity of historiographical texts. Th e author asks about the current status of the history of historiography and new horizons of research. Regarding the fi eld of changes in the ways of comunication, she sees potential chances for increasing the interest of new recipients in the history of historiography. The author amplifi es the weft of reception, understood as a phenomenon that belongs to the comunication situation occuring between the author of transmission and his recipients. The author refers to the inspiration of the methodological conception of the school of reception aesthetics from Constance (W. Iser, R. Jauss) and the hermeneutics of H-G. Gadamer. Reception is a new concept for presenting the history of historiography as a fi eld of research on the historicity of historical works.
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The text explores the portrayal of Jan Hus in the context of the 600th anniversary of his death, which was commemorated in the year 2015. The author analyses different media used for commemoration of Jan Hus from the perspective of Memory Studies.
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Taking an example of an analysis of viewers’ comments on the film Anthropoid (2016, directed by Sean Ellis), on the local Czech portal csfd.cz and on the portal IMDB.com, opened to the global viewing community, shows some differences in the reception of this film by the Czech and global audience. In this particular case, the relationships between global and local memory are illustrated and some memory studies theses are verified.
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The text is a brief introduction to the study of historical digital games. First, it substantiates the importance of research on game representations of the past and proposes a basic terminology. Based on the development of general game studies, the text deals with the current research on history of digital games and especially on the history in digital games. In the last part, the subject of study is problematized and current analyses of the approach of game developers and players to the historical elements of digital games are analyzed. The conclusion places the research in the broader context of the field of public history.
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The paper aims to outline how video games Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier, 2014) and My Memory of Us (Juggler Games, 2018) use narrative and ludic structures to create commemorative stories about the First World War and the Second World War. The author refer to the concept of historical culture (among others, in Jörn Rüsen’s interpretation) and examine the connections between the two video games focusing on the issue of designers’ intentions (digital games as examples of the commemoration of the past), the genre similarity (2D platform games), the intermedial convergence and the press reception. He discusses the strategy of the cultural agreement between designers and users, analyzes historical narratives as a part of the gameplay, examines relations between the individual and collective’s perspective and characterizes immersion’s mechanisms which reinforce players’ identification with the victims of both wars.
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This paper aims to present how the past is viewed in contemporary cultural and social narratives, and defines contemporary attitude to the past among Poles. My deliberations are placed in the context of the present-day society/culture and their constituting processes, namely the phenomenon of forgetting the past, democratization of the past, its privatization/individualization, commodification of the past and new ways of experiencing it. The paper will specifically concentrate on the archaeological past - that is the past created by archaeologists, and on archaeological heritage. It address three crucial issues, namely: (1) how changes in the historical context of post-1989 Poland influenced the emergence the renaissance of the past and different narratives about it; (2) what are the most important and widespread forms of presenting and/or experiencing the archaeological past in the present?, and (3) what are the main motivations that lie behind contemporary Poles interest in the past, archaeological heritage and activities undertaken around it? Finally, it is argued that the changes in the people’s attitudes towards the past have led also to a transformation in the hierarchy of aims and methods in education and dissemination of the knowledge about the past within institutions concerned with the past on a professional level.
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The issues raised in the article focus on the ways of communicating family narratives from the perspective of reflection on this type of historical writing by the history of historiography. An expression of this reflection is the proposed classification of narrative strategies and genre types of narration within the set of family histories, and the conceptual category of family histories, which captures this set and opens the field for further discussions on the phenomenon of private family narratives.
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Both publications (The Bloody Finals: The spring of 1945 in the Czech Lands and The Bloody Summer of 1945: Post-war violence in the Czech Lands) are extensive historical textual-and-pictorial guidebooks mapping the geography of violence in the Czech Lands in the end of the Second World War and shortly thereafter, and as such fit well into the broader portfolio of works of this type written by Jiří Padevět. In the reviewer’s opinion, the books are primarily intended as documentary, popularization and educational publications and therefore lack many attributes of a regular historical work, but their reflections in the media and society, which make their author a respected authority in the interpretation of modern Czech history, justify and perhaps even necessitate subjecting the books to a critical review. While fully respecting the author’s intentions and motives, which aim at a remedial selfreflection of the nation’s past and which he has obviously succeeded to achieve, there is one outstanding problem, namely that the books do not contain any definition of the genre selected by the author and its principles; the same applies to the theoretico-methodological basis. In addition, they neither contain an adequate reflection of previous research results nor provide an adequate publishing service and give up any attempt at an interpretation. In the reviewer’s opinion, the guidebooks lack relevant instructions for use and a key allowing the reader to evaluate the accumulated empirical information they contain. The reviewer further focuses on whether and how the two books advance historical knowledge, the questions they open, what they bring from the viewpoint of historical culture, and on their editorial and publishing quality.
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Obě publikace mají charakter rozsáhlých historických textově-obrazových průvodců, mapujících geografii násilí v českých zemích v závěru druhé světové války a po jejím skončení, a řadí se do širší produkce tohoto typu z pera Jiřího Padevěta. Podle recenzenta tyto svazky mají sice primárně dokumentační, popularizační a osvětové cíle a postrádají řadu atributů odborné historické práce, avšak jejich mediální a společenský ohlas, který autorovi a jeho dílu propůjčuje velkou autoritu při výkladu moderních českých dějin, zakládá oprávnění a snad i nutnost podrobit je kritické reflexi. Při plném respektu k autorovým záměrům a motivům, které míří k ozdravné sebereflexi národní minulosti a které se mu zřejmě daří naplňovat, však zůstává problémem, že v uvedených pracích není nijak definován zvolený žánr a jeho zásady, stejně jako nejsou naznačena teoreticko-metodologická východiska. Vedle toho neobsahují dostatečnou reflexi dosavadního výzkumu ani nenabízejí náležitý ediční servis a zcela rezignují na snahu o interpretaci. Průvodcům tak podle recenzenta schází relevantní návod k použití i klíč k vyhodnocení nahromaděných empirických poznatků. Dále se recenzent soustředí na otázky, zda a jak obě publikace posunují historické poznání a jaké problémy otevírají, co přinášejí z hlediska historické kultury a jaká je úroveň jejich redakčního a edičního zpracování.
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Recent studies of culture and cultural participation in Poland are marked by a turn towards heritage and collective memory. As regards science and its distinctive status, certain trends may be observed that are parallel to general changes occurring in culture and social life. Cultural studies includes research on politics of memory and historical culture. Regardless of changing cultural practices, studies of cultural participation and of memory and heritage are usually treated as autonomous. Works which describe dimensions of cultural participation in terms of frequency of engaging in socially sanctioned practices, typically reduce historical culture to a museum activity. The article reflects on the phenomenon of the time of memory, discussing how it affects the interpretation of cultural participation and its dimensions, along with the respective empirical research. It is based on the assumption that the actor-network theory, applied by Marek Krajewski to research on cultural participation, is a good starting point for studying participation in historical culture understood here as an area of cultural activities that include collective memory and heritage.
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The subject of the article is the characteristics of modern forms of memory institutionalization – the kind of commemorative practices and the related production and dissemination of knowledge in the public space. This topic seems especially important but also controversial in post-socialist countries, in which a major process of revision of the past is continues. This process becomes a part of the political pluralization of the public sphere and the expression of the emancipation of various previously marginalized groups. Using the example of the three museum: Museum of the Macedonian Struggle for Sovereignty and Independence, War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo and „Polin” Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the author discusses: – the articulation and afirmation of subjectivity by means of museum as an institution – the mechanism for shaping the authority of institutions so as to legimitize the interpretation of the past – the relationship between the particular, often fragmented registers of the memory and the dominant power discourses.
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