On May 19, 2026, at 14:30, Associate Professor and Candidate of Historical Sciences Smbat Hovhannisyan will deliver a lecture at the YSU Faculty of History on "Memory and Crisis: Is It Possible to Historicize the Past?"
The lecture will focus on the interaction between crisis events and collective memory, where crisis is viewed not as a passive field for recording the past, but as a fundamental condition for the production of memory itself. Drawing on the theoretical approaches of Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, and Reinhart Koselleck, the presentation will examine the problems of constructing memory under conditions of rupture in historical continuity. It will explore how the triple rupture of language, social frameworks, and temporality contributes to the formation of discourse, public practices, and new regimes of experience centered around the axis of crisis.
Admission is free.
