Human rights and the war as judicial issues
International Conference THE POLITICS OF MEMORY AS A WEAPON: Perspectives on Russia's War against Ukraine (8–10 February 2023, Berlin)
PANEL
Human rights and the war as judicial issues
Panelists:
Vera Dubina (Research Centre for East European Studies, Bremen),
From memory law to memory war: abuses of history in contemporary Russia
Aarif Abraham (Garden Court North Chambers, Manchester /
Accountability Unit), A special tribunal for the crime of aggression committed in Ukraine
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (University of Oslo), Transitional justice after empire? The politics of memory holes, doublethink and a shared future-time
Paula Rhein-Fischer (University of Cologne), Russia and the European court of human rights: a farewell in stages
Tetyana Sheptytska / Mykola Bryvko (National Historical and Cultural Reserve Bykovnyanskie Graves, Kyiv) / ONLINE, The politics of memory of burial places as a tool of opposition to the Russian Federation
Moderation: Arkadiusz Radwan (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
The conference aims to examine the mechanisms and methods used in the political and social implementation of historical disinformation, the portrayal of the enemy, and discuss ways in which these can be prevented or mitigated. The latter entails a (self-)critical analysis of political and scholarly dealings with history in various European countries. It also reflects on what happens when warnings from political and academic voices are not taken seriously enough, and on the consequences of the way in which attention has shifted from Russia to Ukraine.
The conference was preceded by a conference in Prague "Memory of the Past and Politics of the Present” on 28–29 November 2022 at the Goethe Institute in Prague. Both conferences are a part of the ENRS content framework “History, Memory, and Russia`s war against the Ukraine”.