the fundamental premise of our conference entitled Holocaust: between global and local perspectives.
What is also characteristic and essential for the series of events on the Genealogies of Memory - and what was particularly striking in this year's edition of the project - is the democratic polycentricity of the sources of presented knowledge and applied practices. For years, Pakier and Wawrzyniak have emphasised the need to define the specificity of the problem regarding Central and Eastern Europe's history and memory at the "grass-roots/regional" level. However, they suggest doing it in such a way that observations, reflections and conclusions are not in isolation/opposition to what is created in the broader "global", "international" or, as Prof. Daniel Levy (one of the keynote speakers of this year's edition) suggests, "cosmopolitan" dimension. Recognising the importance of complementary and egalitarian optics for a critical but also creative discussion around the issue of social and cultural memory of the unfolding historical events of the XX century, we have this year invited universities, research institutions and, above all, institutions of Jewish Remembrance, representing a variety of geographical, political and cultural domains (including Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin; Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris; Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Research, Vienna; Ghetto Fighters Museum, Israel; Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw; Warsaw Ghetto Museum).
Genealogies of Memory 2020. Contexts
The main objective of this year's conference entitled Holocaust: between local and global perspectives was to assess the current state of research on Holocaust memory. The last decades have resulted in a significant broadening of research in the field of Holocaust Studies. They have set out completely new directions, addressed less obvious topics, used unusual research tools and drew on previously unrecognised source materials. Most importantly, however, the Holocaust was looked at from different cognitive perspectives, without leaving it all to historians. In preparing the programme, the conference organisers