EVZ Conversations! Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Berlin (ots) – After eight years of armed conflict, Russia has been waging an open war of aggression against Ukraine since the end of February 2022. In addition to the acute humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine and the existential repression of open civil society in Russia and Belarus, another threat can be identified – a massive and fundamental threat instrumentalization of history, in a way that has not existed since the end of the Second World War.
How might future memory work and the politics of history react to this? The EVZ Foundation would like to answer these and other questions in the new EVZ digital event format Conversations! pick up and discuss. Representatives of institutions involved in memory work, historical politics and science speak every two weeks.
The series of events begins in Thursday, April 21, 2022around 6:30 pm about the subject History as a reason for war: Putin’s narrative of ‘denazification of Ukraine’.
The guests are:
- Nikolai Klimeniouk, freelance writer,
- Dr Irina Sherbakova, historian, founding member and director of the Memorial’s education and youth programs, and
- Prof. Dr. Karl Schloegel, Eastern European historian and publicist.
The event will be moderated by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EVZ Foundation, Dr. Andrea Despot.
The event will take place digitally and in German. Entries are requested at [email protected].
More information at: www.stiftung-evz.de/evz-conversations
Information on upcoming events: www.stiftung-evz.de/newsletter
Memory, Responsibility and Future of the Foundation (EVZ)
It is the task of the EVZ Foundation to keep alive the memory of the injustice of National Socialist persecution, accept the resulting responsibility in the here and now and actively shape the future. The central motive for founding the foundation in 2000 was the payment of humanitarian compensation to former forced laborers of the Nazi regime – a milestone in the German process of reconciliation with the past. Today, through its fields of education and action, the foundation supports projects that serve survivors of National Socialist persecution, international understanding and the strengthening of human rights.
Questions and contact:
Memory, Responsibility and Future of the Foundation (EVZ)
Catherine Kowark
Friedrichstrasse 200
10117 Berlin
Phone +49 (0)30 – 25 92 97 24
Email: [email protected]
www.stiftung-evz.de