The Kremlin`s Memory Policies and Mythmaking in Russia and Ukraine

The workshop explores how memory policies and historical myths are 
used to shape ideas of identity and belonging in Russia and Ukraine. The 
program offers a range of perspectives on how these narratives are produced, 
promoted, and contested at the local and regional levels.

Programme

12:00-12:30 – coffee

12:30-12:40 – opening

Moderator: Kari Myklebost (UiT)

12:40–13:10 Ingunn Lunde (UiB) — Who Are “The People of Donbas”? A View from Ukraine’s Eastern Regions

13:10–13:40 Håvard Bækken (IFS): The "Youth Army" in Local Communities: The Use of Local Memories and Symbols in the Promotion of Patriotic Identities in Russia and Occupied Territories

13:40–14:00 — Coffee Break

14:00–14:30 Artem Spirin (UiT) — Fortifying Border Memories: Memory Politics in the Post-Soviet Russian North

14:30–15:00 Elena Kochetkova (UiB) — Public Libraries and the Contemporary Politics of Great Patriotic War Memory in the Pechenga Region, Russia

15:00–15:30 — Helge Blakkisrud (UiO) — Teaching the Great Patriotic War: Navigating Federal Narratives and Local Memories in Russian School History Textbooks

15:30 — Closing Remarks