BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10941-25e427e26e2c04363e936d34eaca9577@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260501T141719Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T133000 SUMMARY:Center for Democratic Deliberation Lecture: Ekaterina V. Haskins DESCRIPTION:\n“Remembering the War\, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to F amily Memory in Putin’s Russia”\n\nPlease email Johey Verfaille to reser ve a lunch for this event.\n\nThirty years after the breakup of the Sovi et Union\, Russia is wielding the banner of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II to rally domestic support for its aggression against Ukrai ne. The Russian state propaganda framed the invasion as a liberation mis sion by invoking the Soviet-era myth of the Great Patriotic War (1941–19 45)\, according to which the Soviet people\, led by Russia\, saved the w orld from the greatest evil of the twentieth century. At the same time\, the government has banned civil society institutions and initiatives th at reminded the country of the legacy of Soviet political violence. Reme mbering the War\, Forgetting the Terror explores the appeal of the cult of the Great Patriotic War to contemporary Russians and the waning of pu blic interest in Soviet political terror as intertwined trends. These tr ends are driven not only by the weaponization of the official WWII memor y\, but also by familial pieties and deep-seated memory habits. The auth or demonstrates how these widely shared habits of remembrance have taken root and flourished through recurring exposure to war films\, urban env ironments\, popular commemorative rituals\, and digital archives. Combin ing memory studies\, rhetorical theory\, and personal biography\, Haskin s illuminates why\, despite the staggering toll of WWII and internal pol itical violence on Soviet families\, most Russian citizens continue to p roudly embrace their family’s participation in the war effort and avoid discussion of domestic political persecution.\n\nEkaterina V. Haskins is professor of communication arts and sciences and visual studies at Penn State. She investigates official and grassroots memory practices as sig nificant sites of civic engagement. Haskins is the author of three monog raphs\, including Popular Memories: Commemoration\, Participatory Cultur e\, and Democratic Citizenship (University of South Carolina Press 2015) and Remembering the War\, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memo ry in Putin’s Russia (Penn State Press 2024) as well as numerous article s on rhetoric\, memory\, and visual culture.\n\nFor more details: https: //events.la.psu.edu/event/cdd-lecture_032024/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Rememb ering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’ s Russia”

Please email Johey Verfaille to reserve a lunch for this event.

Thirt y years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia is wielding the ba nner of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II to rally domestic supp ort for its aggression against Ukraine. The Russian state propaganda fra med the invasion as a liberation mission by invoking the Soviet-era myth of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), according to which the Soviet p eople, led by Russia, saved the world from the greatest evil of the twen tieth century. At the same time, the government has banned civil society institutions and initiatives that reminded the country of the legacy of Soviet political violence. Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror e xplores the appeal of the cult of the Great Patriotic War to contemporar y Russians and the waning of public interest in Soviet political terror as intertwined trends. These trends are driven not only by the weaponiza tion of the official WWII memory, but also by familial pieties and deep- seated memory habits. The author demonstrates how these widely shared ha bits of remembrance have taken root and flourished through recurring exp osure to war films, urban environments, popular commemorative rituals, a nd digital archives. Combining memory studies, rhetorical theory, and pe rsonal biography, Haskins illuminates why, despite the staggering toll o f WWII and internal political violence on Soviet families, most Russian citizens continue to proudly embrace their family’s participation in the war effort and avoid discussion of domestic political persecution.

< p>Ekaterina V. Haskins is professor of communication arts and sciences a nd visual studies at Penn State. She investigates official and grassroot s memory practices as significant sites of civic engagement. Haskins is the author of three monographs, including Popular Memories: Commemor ation, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship ( University of South Carolina Press 2015) and Remembering the War, Fo rgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia (Pe nn State Press 2024) as well as numerous articles on rhetoric, memory, a nd visual culture.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cdd-lec ture_032024/

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