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SUMMARY:Sense of Place lecture series: “Postwar L'viv\, Kaliningrad\, Wr
 ocław” - Uilleam Blacker (UCL SSEES)
DTSTART:20151029T173000Z
DTEND:20151029T190000Z
UID:TALK60815@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:21355
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The paper will examine how popular culture appeals t
 o the senses of its consumers in order to achieve specific memory effects.
  The context for this exploration are cities in east-central Europe that e
 xperienced large-scale population loss and transfer after World War II\, s
 uch as L'viv\, Wrocław\, Kraków or Kaliningrad. The paper will look at h
 ow popular cultural forms\, from detective novels and guidebooks to festiv
 als and restaurants\, allow the present inhabitants of these cities to acc
 ess the lost\, multicultural pasts of their cities through the recreation 
 of the sensory experience of inhabiting those cities\, and also of the mne
 monic effects that are linked to that sensory experience.\n\nBio:Uilleam B
 lacker is Lecturer in Comparative East European Culture at the School of S
 lavonic and East European Studies\, University College London. His main re
 search interests lie in cultural memory and contemporary culture in Poland
 \, Ukraine and Russia. He is currently completing a book\, entitled Memory
 \, Forgetting and the Legacy of post-1945 Displacement in Eastern Europe\,
  which deals with contemporary cultural memory processes in cities that ex
 perienced drastic population losses and resettlement as a result of World 
 War II. 
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
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