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KNL: Peter Haslinger: "Memory Politics in the Digital Age"

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Feb 08, 2022 from 06:00 to 08:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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Digital communication and the digital representation of the past are obviously closely related to memory cultures, and by that also memory politics. However, we still need a model that systematically captures this complex and multi-layered interrelationship. Also, the digital revolution raises a lot of new questions about the futures of historical knowledge and – given the political development in countries like Russia or China – especially of memory politics. The aim of the presention is therefore to give an impulse for the development of a new conceptional approach for future research. It will start with the critical potential of Digital humanities approaches when it comes to analyzing current trends in memory politics, especially in the form of populisms from above. It will then take a look at examples from Eastern Europe to address the intersection between memory politics and digital knowledge spaces and media systems. From that point of view it will in the end shed some light on how digital communication might pro-actively help to foster a digital knowledge environment that is based on multiperspectvity and a critical and ethical approach to memory cultures.




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//  Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger (Herder-Institut) studied history, Slavic studies, Japanese studies and Finno-Ugric studies in Vienna and Budapest. He was head of the Budapest branch of the Austrian Institute for East and Southeast Europe in 1996/97, after which he worked as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 541 “Identities and Alterities” at the University of Freiburg and from 2001 to 2007 at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich. After visiting professorships in Vienna and Salzburg, 2006 was followed by the Imagined Territories font. Nation and Territory in the Czech Political Discourse 1889-1938 Habilitation in Freiburg. Since 2007 he has been director of the Herder Institute in Marburg and at the same time professor for the history of East Central Europe at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Haslinger's research focuses on the history of East Central Europe since 1848, forced migration, flight and displacement, minority issues, research on nationalism and regionalism, culture of remembrance, museumisation, history politics, security and violence research, spatial turn and the history of cartography, as well as the history of discourse and the history of knowledge communication.

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