The 13th conference of the series 'Genealogies of Memory'! This year's theme was 'Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.'
For three days scholars from a variety of countries discussed discourses of memory and non-remembrance of large-scale natural and human-induced disasters in Europe and beyond.
The event aimed to shed light on how individuals and collectives cope with the memory of traumatic large-scale events, including wars, famines, pandemics, and natural or industrial disasters.
The core idea of 'Genealogies of Memory' is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, with the intention of promoting the study of memory in this region within the broader international academic community.

Third panel of Day 3 titled “Cultural Memory and Natural Disasters.”
Panelists:
Naum Trajanovski (University of Warsaw): Imagining the City of Solidarity: The Cultural Memory of the 1963 Skopje Earthquake and the Post-Earthquake Urban Reconstruction
Gretchen Abuso (Xavier University in the Philippines): Disaster Memories in the Global South: Visual Evidence of Typhoon Washi in the Philippines (online)
Hans Gutbrod (Ilia State University): The 2015 Tbilisi Zoo Flooding: Exploring the Ethics of Political Commemoration (online)
Erol Gülüm (Goethe University): A Future Catastrophe in Retrospect: Mnemonic Imagination of the ‘Expected Istanbul Earthquake’ on Social Media
Piotr Juszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University): The Idea of the Collapse of Civilisation and Global Catastrophe in the European Discourse of the 19th and 20th Centuries and its Impact on the Cultural Memory of Europe
Moderation: Ewelina Szpak (Polish Academy of Sciences/ENRS)