History under pressure: Remembrance culture and civil resistance in Belarusian exile

About this Event

How does a society in exile remember? The protests in Belarus in 2020/21 have revealed political and cultural ruptures in memory. Memories of World War II, the 75th anniversary of whose end was marked in 2020, played an important role in this. Alongside the state's historical policy, a new space for remembrance is emerging in exile – free from censorship, but marked by uprootedness. This event highlights how Belarusians in exile at the Free Belarus Museum in Warsaw link history and the present and understand memory as a form of civil resistance.