Flight, Displacement and Deportation
Event series “Writing (hi)stories: The Second World War in Literature and Science”
in cooperation with the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
Thursday, 13 March 2025 | 6 p.m. | at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
The event will be held in German. Simultaneous translation into English will be provided.
The deportation from the three Baltic countries to Siberia under Soviet rule shaped the lives of individuals and continues to haunt collective memory to this day. We will talk to the translator of Dalia Grinkevičiūtė’s historical biographical notes and the author of a recently published graphic novel about the experience of deportation. Together we will explore how memories of exile and trauma are passed on between generations, opening up new perspectives on these historical experiences and their continued relevance.
Mit:
- Vytene Muschick, translator of Dalia Grinkevičiūtė Aber der Himmel – grandios
- Jurga Vilė, author of Siberian Haiku
- Dr Félix Krawatzek, political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies and PI of the ERC project MoveMeRU. He will talk about research that has analysed how memories of expulsion and deportation are passed on between generations in Estonia.
Free entry
Please register in advance: events@zois-berlin.de
The third and final event in the series is:
Gulag and labour camps
3 April, 6 p.m., Location: Museum Berlin-Karlshorst