„REGIONS OF MEMORY. A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON EASTERN EUROPE NOVEMBER 26-28, 2012, WARSAW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED SPEAKERS CAROL GLUCK is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, specializing in the history of modern Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, international relations, history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West. Her books include JapaŶ’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (1985); Showa: The Japan of Hirohito (1992); Asia in Western and World History (1997); Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon (2009); Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History (2013); and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (forthcoming). ELIZABETH JELIN is an Argentine sociologist engaged in research in the areas of human rights, social movements, gender, and the family. She is the principal researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Buenos Aires, director of the graduate program in the social sciences at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento – IDES in Buenos Aires and professor in the graduate school of the faculty of law at the UŶiǀeƌsidad de BueŶos áiƌes. “he is the authoƌ of “tate ‘epƌessioŶ and the Laďoƌs of MeŵoƌLJ ;ϮϬϬϯͿ aŶd editoƌ of Meŵoƌies of ‘epƌessioŶ. GYANENDRA PANDEY is Director of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Workshop, Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project. He has published extensively on questions of violence, nationalism, marginality and citizenship, as well as on the history of history-writing. Among the best known of his single-authored books are Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (rev. ed. 2002); and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001). STEFAN TROEBST , born 1955, is since 1999 Professor of East European Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig. He holds a Ph. D. degree in East European History and Slavic Studies by the Free University of Berlin where he also completed his habilitation. His fields of research are international and interethnic relations in modern Eastern Europe as well as the comparative cultural history of contemporary Europe. He has published widely on culture, history and politics of the Balkans, East-Central Europe, Russia and the Baltic Sea Region. His current research focuses on cultures of remembrance and politics of history in post-dictatorial Europe and on regionalizing concepts in historical research.