24. Episode: Adopted Heritage: Objects, Memory, and Belonging after Forced Migration, Guests: Anna Kurpiel and Katarzyna Maniak
In this podcast episode, Philipp Strobl speaks with Anna Kurpiel and Katarzyna Maniak about the concept of “adopted heritage” and the role of everyday objects in the aftermath of forced migration in post-war Poland. They discuss how material culture from former German territories was reinterpreted and integrated into new local histories, and what these objects reveal about memory, belonging, and the complex legacies of displacement and violence in East Central Europe.
Redaktion: Philipp Strobl
Produktion: Magdalena Ragl
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Hier geht´s zur Episode mit Anna Kurpiel und Katarzyna Maniak
File size: 33 MB
Dr Anna Kurpiel is an ethnologist and cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Wrocław. She is the author of books and articles on minorities, memory, and heritage in Lower Silesia (Western Poland), as well as on the turbulent identity of the Republic of North Macedonia.
Recently, together with Katarzyna Maniak, she completed a research project on relationships between pre-war things and contemporary residents of two formerly German cities, Wrocław (Breslau) and Szczecin (Stettin).
Her current research explores flood-control reservoirs and investment-related displacements. She is particularly interested in the relationships between materiality, memory, and local communities, as well as in the production of local discourses in regions undergoing socio-environmental transformation.
Katarzyna Maniak received her PhD in ethnology and cultural anthropology from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, in 2018. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University.
Her research interests include processes of cultural institutionalisation, approaches to difficult heritage, and the social impact of heritage. She is currently involved in a research project on post-conflict heritage in regions incorporated into Poland after World War II.
She is also a member of the “Homo [Lab]orans” research group, which focuses on the anthropology and history of work. Her research on State Agricultural Farms and their legacy in Western and Southern Poland draws on perspectives from the anthropology of labour, activism, and the commons.