J\u00f5esalu, Kirsti<\/strong>. Invited plenary presentation \u201cExpanding Narratives: Curatorial Practices of fostering pluralism in Estonian Museums\u201d,\u00a0 9th International Symposium of the Finnish Oral History Network FOHN, Memory in Movement: Pace, Connection & Introspection. University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland, 28.\u201329.11.<\/strong>2024.<\/p>\n P\u00f5ldsam, Rebeka & Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong>. Presentation \u201cDoes adding LGBT histories on show make the museum queer?\u201d. The Art of Conviviality, MSA Nordic\u2019s Third Annual Conference Malm\u00f6 University, 24.\u201325.10<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n Reidla, Jana<\/strong> Invited plenary presentation \u201cKogumise poliitikad ja praktikad: Eesti muuseumide kogemus\u201d (Collecting policies and practices in the Estonian museums). International conference of the Estonian Association of Museums and ICOM Estonia \u201cWho owns the collections?\u201d Paide, 16.9<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n Heimo, Anne & Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>. Presentation \u201cOn Limits of Multiperspectivity: Exhibiting First-Person Narratives in Finnish and Estonian Museums\u201d. 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History. University of Luxembourg, 3.-7.9<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n J\u00f5esalu, Kirsti.<\/strong> \u201cQueering difficult history\u201d: on using LGBT+ stories in Vabamu Museum of Occupation and Freedom\u201d. 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History. University of Luxembourg, 3.-7.9<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n J\u00f5esalu, Kirsti.<\/strong> Presentation \u201cOn Museological representation of communism in Baltic museums: the example of Estonian Open-Air Museum.\u201d Conference \u201cIm\/Materielles Kulturerbe als Praxis\u201d, Institut f\u00fcr Volkskunde der Kommission f\u00fcr bayerische Landesgeschichte, Bayerische Akademie der Wisseschaften, 25-26.7<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n K\u00f5resaar, Ene<\/strong>. Presentation \u201cRepresenting and Negotiating the Limited Memory of (Soviet) Collaborationism in Baltic History Museums\u201d. \u2013 History & Responsibility: Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands. International Network for Theory of History \u2014 5th Network Conference. Lisbon, National Library of Portugal\u00a0 \/\u00a0 Iscte \u2014 University Institute of Lisbon, 21.- 24.5.2024.<\/p>\n K\u00f5resaar, Ene<\/strong>. Presentation \u201cM\u00e4letamise kui teistsugune vastutus: kuidas Balti muuseumides on tematiseeritud N\u00f5ukogude perioodi m\u00e4letamist?\u201d \u2013 1. Eesti Humanitaarteadlaste aastakonverents, Tallinna \u00dclikool, 10.-12.4<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n J\u00f5esalu, Kirsti & P\u00f5ldsam Rebeka.<\/strong> Presentation \u201cCurating dissonance? Making exhibtion on LGBT+ stories in memory museum context\u201d, XII Finnish Ethnology Days 14.-15.3<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n K\u00f5resaar, Ene & Rein Murakas<\/strong>. Presentation \u201c\u202fCurator as a mnemonic agent: how Baltic curators position themselves in the field of remembering\u201d. XII Finnish Ethnology Days 14.-15.3<\/strong>.2024.<\/p>\n From\u00a0June 9, 2023<\/strong>, as a part of our project\u2019s public outreach, a new audio journey opened at Museum of Occupations and Freedom Vabamu\u2019s permanent exhibition titled\u00a0From\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>\u201csuch people\u201d to LGBT activism. Stories from sexual and gender minorities in the 20th century Estonia<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The curator of the new audio journey is Rebeka P\u00f5ldsam, a doctoral student in ethnology at the University of Tartu. The new audio guide layer guides the exhibition visitor through the Vabamu permanent exhibition, drawing attention to some new and some old objects that help understand Estonia\u2019s LGBT history.<\/p>\n On Sept 20-23, 2023\u00a0<\/strong>the international conference\u00a0Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition\u00a0<\/a>took place\u00a0in Tallinn, co-organized by our project team.<\/p>\n The aim of the conference was\u00a0to study the changes in post-socialist, especially Eastern, Central and South-East European memory cultures, which have emerged as a result of transnational, regional, national and local tensions and interactions, and have received a new direction since Russia\u2019s war of aggression in Ukraine. One of the common themes of the conference was\u00a0\u201cMnemonic pluralism and critical dialogue in museums\u201d. In five panels discussing museum and memory work, researchers and museum workers from Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, the Netherlands and Estonia presented their research. A separate panel was devoted to the vulnerability and preservation of Ukrainian cultural heritage in war conditions. One of the plenary speakers at the conference was Erica Lehrer from Concordia University.<\/p>\n As the final event of the conference we initiated a discussion centred around Vabamu\u2019s new audio journey \u201cFrom \u2018Such People\u2019 to LGBT Activism\u201d. Rebeka P\u00f5ldsam and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu introduced project and making of the audio journey, and lead the discussion around intervention .<\/p>\n The other organizers of the conference are Tallinn University Project Translated Memory: Eastern European Past on the Global Arena (ERC, Eneken Laanes) and the Working Group for Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS).<\/p>\n Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>, \u201cRevisiting the Use of Life Stories in the Museum: a Baltic Perspective\u201d, keynote presentation at the international seminar\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Oral histories, life stories and analysing significance in museums October 5-7, 2023, University of Turku (project\u00a0Nordic voices: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings<\/a> (2022-2024)).<\/p>\n Linara Dovydaityt\u0117<\/strong>, \u201cCollecting and Mediating Memories in the Museum:The Baltic case,\u201d\u00a0presentation at the 2nd PoSoCoMeS conference \u201cPost-Socialist Memory Culture in Transition<\/a>\u201c, Tallinn University.<\/p>\n Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>, \u201cMuseum Memories after Post-Communism: Representing Soviet-time Collaboration in Baltic History Museums\u201d, presentation at the 2nd PoSoCoMeS conference \u201cPost-Socialist Memory Culture in Transition<\/a>\u201c, Sept 20-23, Tallinn University.<\/p>\n Kirsti J\u00f5esalu & Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>, \u201cPast migration \u2013 present communities: re-presenting the post-WWII migration and Russophone minority in Baltic history museums\u201d, The Memory Studies Association Conference \u201cCommunities & Change\u201d, July 3-7,\u00a02023, Newcastle University\u00a0UK.<\/p>\n On\u00a015-17 June 2023 CBSE\u00a0Turning Points: Values and Conflicting Futures in the Baltics<\/a>\u00a0took\u00a0place in Kaunas, Lithuania. MNEMUS presented our work in the\u00a0panel \u201cMuseum Practices as Memory Work\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(June 17th):<\/p>\n On August 14-19<\/strong>, 2022, the MNEMUS working group conducted fieldwork in the Latvia<\/strong> to document and analyze the collection and exhibition activities of museums in reflecting the history of the 20th century. We visited several exhibitions both with and without a guide, documented certain exhibitions, and interviewed the staff managing collections and exhibitions, also heads of the museums. We were kindly welcomed at the Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, Tukums Museum, National History Museum, Latvian War Museum and Latvians Abroad \u2013 museum and research center.<\/p>\n Picture Gallery of the Latvia\u2019s Fieldwork<\/a><\/p>\n On June 27- July 1,<\/strong> 2022,\u00a0Linara Dovydaityte, Kirsti J\u00f5esalu and Terje Anepaio conducted fieldwork in Tallinn<\/strong> and Ida-Virumaa<\/strong>. They visited Estonian Open Air museum and Patarei prison museum, in Tallinn, and Sillam\u00e4e museum, Kohtla-N\u00f5mme Mining Museum and Kreenholm factory in Ida-Virumaa.<\/p>\n On February 8-10,<\/strong> 2022, Ene K\u00f5resaar and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu conducted fieldwork in Vilnius<\/strong>, Lithuania<\/strong>. The main aim was to visit and document the Homo Sovieticus<\/em> exhibition opened at the end of 2021 in the Tuskulenai Memorial Park in Vilnius.<\/p>\n On\u00a01-2\u00a0December\u00a02022,<\/strong>\u00a0 the 8th international symposium of the Finnish Oral History Network (FOHN) \u2013\u00a0AFTER: Time, Place & (Dis)Connections in Oral History & Life Storying<\/a>\u00a0took place at the University of\u00a0Helsinki.\u00a0Terje Anepaio, Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jana Reidla<\/strong>\u00a0presented a paper \u201cDistant and familiar: researching colleagues in the Baltic history museums\u201d on 1 December in the session\u00a0(Dis)connections in Oral History Interview: Thinking of Time, Language, and Intersubjectivity.<\/p>\n On\u00a013-14 October 2022<\/strong>,\u00a0the\u00a0MSA Nordic 2022 Conference<\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with The Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature Explorations in Counter-Memory, Reykjavik, Iceland. Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong>\u00a0presented a paper \u201cCounter-Memory as \u2018Another Kind of Responsibility\u2019: Baltic Museums\u2019 Negotiations with the Post-Communist Memory Regime\u201d. See the\u00a0Programme<\/a>\u00a0here.<\/p>\n On\u00a019-21 October 2022<\/strong>, the conference \u201eRecent history and its untold stories in open-air museums<\/a>\u201d took place\u00a0at the Estonian Open Air Museum in Tallinn.\u00a0Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>\u00a0delivered a keynote speech \u201cMuseum making memories with life stories: (How) Does it work?\u201d on 20 October.<\/p>\n On September 2<\/strong>, 2022, Jana Reidla<\/strong> and Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> presented a paper \u201cBetween \u2018Heritage\u2019 and \u2018Stuff\u2019: On the Function of Auxiliary Collections in Estonian Museums\u201d at the SIEF Museums and Material Culture Working Group webinar \u201c(In-)significant stuff. Museums and the flipside of meaning making\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n On June 13-16<\/strong>, 2022 The Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference \u201cRE:\u201d<\/a> took place in Reykjavik. Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> presented in the panel \u201cMinority Memories and Heritages in (Re)imagining Nations and Multinational Communities\u201d.<\/p>\n On June 12-18<\/strong>, 2022 Baltic Museology School \u201eDealing with Difficult Heritage in Museums\u201c took place in Telsiai, Lithuania.\u00a0Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> presented a paper\u00a0\u201eMuseum, memory and ontological security: the case of Estonian Museum of Occupations and Freedom Vabamu\u201c (Online, June 13).<\/p>\n On May\u00a026<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Professor of Oral History and Memory Studies Ene K\u00f5resaar\u00a0delivered an inaugural lecture<\/a> \u201cLife stories as a memory work\u201d in the White Hall of the UT Museum. See the Picture Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n On May 19-20,<\/strong> Ene K\u00f5resaar and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu presented a paper\u00a0Diversification and Alternative Subjectivities in Estonian Museums:\u00a0Memory of Soviet Complicity Revisited<\/strong>\u00a0at an international conference\u00a0\u201cCultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective\u201d organized by the University College Cork, Ireland.<\/p>\n On May 10.-11<\/strong>, 2022\u00a0the international conference \u201cMuseums as spaces of cultural translation and transfer<\/a>\u201d took place in Tartu, co-organized by the UT College of World Languages and Cultures and the University of Ghent. Ene K\u00f5resaar was a member of the Scientific Council of the conference.<\/p>\n On March 9<\/strong>, 2022, was presentation of the book Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity<\/strong><\/em>, edited by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Sofia Laine, P\u00e4ivi Salmesvuori, Ulla Savolainen, Riikka Taavetti,\u00a0Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity. Localized Politics of European Memories <\/a>\u00a0(Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Heritage and Memory Studies series). With a chapter of\u00a0J\u00f5esalu, Kirsti and\u00a0K\u00f5resaar, Ene. Mitigating the Difficult Past? On the Politics of Renaming the Estonian Museum of Occupations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On March 8<\/strong>, 2022, at the research seminar of the Estonian National Museum,\u00a0Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> talked on a topic\u00a0Museum from the point of view of a memory researcher: contradictory subject positions in the exhibition<\/strong>. They introduced the MNEMUS project, discussed the possibility of analyzing the interpretation of 20th century in exhibitions in a combination of memory theories and the methodology of social positioning. As an example, they discussed the representations of the Soviet agricultural leader in Estonian and Lithuanian museums.<\/p>\n On February 3<\/strong>, 2022\u00a0Terje Anepaio<\/strong> participated in the discussion \u201cPresentation of Everyday Life in the GDR and ESSR in Museums<\/a>\u201d organized by the Estonian Embassy in Berlin (via Zoom). The discussion partner was S\u00f6ren Marotz, the exhibition director of the GDR Museum, Berlin. The discussion was moderated by Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On January 27<\/strong>, 2022 Eliis Vaino<\/strong> defended\u00a0the applied anthropological master\u2019s project \u201cAutistic child as a museum visitor on the example of the University of Tartu Museum\u201d, supervisor Kirsti J\u00f5esalu.\u00a0<\/strong>The master\u2019s project was completed in cooperation with the University of Tartu Museum. As part of a master\u2019s project, Eliis Vaino presented recommendations to the museum on how to better organize a museum visit for autistic pupils. See photo\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n On September 3-9<\/strong>, 2021, the MNEMUS working group conducted fieldwork in Lithuania<\/strong>: in the museums of Vilnius and Kaunas. The main aim was to document and analyze the collection and exhibition activities of museums in reflecting the history of the 20th century. So, we visited several exhibitions both with and without a guide, we interviewed the members of the exhibition teams, the collection keepers and the leading staff of the museums.<\/p>\n We are grateful to the museums where we were kindly welcomed: Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fight, National Museum of Lithuania (including Old Arsenal, New Arsenal, House of Signatories, House of Histories), Vilnius Museum, Civic Education Centre, Kaunas City Museum (Mikas and Kipras Petrauskai Museum), Kaunas 9th Fort Museum, M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art (especially the community platform \u201cBackup stories\u201d at the Kaunas Picture Gallery, Great War Museum.<\/p>\n Picture Gallery of\u00a0the Lithuania\u2019s fieldwork<\/a><\/p>\n December 6-7<\/strong>, 2021. Conference \u201cParticipation and Public Interpretations: How to Navigate Multiple Historical Narratives in Museums?<\/a>\u201c. Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> made presentation \u201cDiversification of mnemonic discourses on Russophone minority in Estonian museums: is agonistic memory possible?\u201d<\/p>\n July 5-9<\/strong>, 2021. Memory Studies Association (MSA) 5th conference \u2018Convergences\u2019; Warsaw (online). Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> made presentation \u201cOn museological representation of communism in Estonia: the role of Soviet collaborator\u201d.<\/p>\n June 19-24<\/strong>, 2021. SIEF 15th Congress<\/a>, Helsinki (online). Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> participated at the roundtable \u201cIn difficult heritage: whose rules, which community?\u201d<\/p>\n June 15<\/strong>, 2021. Nordic Culture Point project\u2019s Nordic Baltic Network of Life Writing webinar. Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> made\u00a0presentation \u201cNotes on the use of life stories in the museum: observations from Estonia and Latvia\u201d.<\/p>\n June 3-4<\/strong>, 2021. ERC \u201cTranslating memories\u201d workshop \u201cVictims, Perpetrators and Implicated Subjects in Central and Eastern Europe<\/a>\u201d, Tallinn. Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> and Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> made presentation \u201cDiversification and alternative subject positions. On museological representation of communism in Estonia\u201d.<\/p>\n March 24-27<\/strong>, 2021. European Social Science History Conference<\/a> (ESSCH), Leiden (online). Presentations:\u00a0Kirsti J\u00f5esalu<\/strong> \u201cOral History and NGOs-activism: educating and commemorating about 20th century history\u201d;\u00a0Ene K\u00f5resaar<\/strong> \u201cRevisiting the Use of Life Stories in the Museum: a Baltic Perspective\u201d;\u00a0Terje Anepaio<\/strong> \u201cLet our stories be in the museum, too! Collecting memories of Russian speaking miners in Estonia\u201d.<\/p>\n The first meeting of the Council included joint seminars and museum visits. MNEMUS project leader Ene K\u00f5resaar introduced the project to the Advisory Board. Member of the MNEMUS project Jana Reidla, presented her doctoral dissertation<\/a> on museum research, which was to be defended on August 27. The board members visited the new permanent exhibitions of the University of Tartu Museum<\/a>, the Estonian National Museum, the Museum of Occupations and Freedom (Vabamu), and the Estonian History Museum with in-depth guided tours by the leading curators of the respective museums. At the final seminar, the members of the Board gave valuable feedback comparing the recent shifts in museums in Baltic countries. It was agreed to hold the next Board seminar in spring 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2024 Presentations J\u00f5esalu, Kirsti. 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