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PostDoc Symposium: Astrid Erll : New Directions and Challenges in Cultural Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future

When

Jun 14, 2016 01:45 to Jun 15, 2016 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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GCSC

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Tuesday 14 June

13:45     Welcome and Introduction

14:00     Symposium Panel 1: Memory and reconciliation in postcolonial and postsocialist contexts

  • Nikola Baković “Bronze of Contention: Remembering Marshal Stepa Stepanović in Čačak (Serbia)”
  • Hanna Teichler “Of binaries and transgressions – memory studies, performance theory and Canada’s Roadmap to Reconciliation”
  • Kaya Alice de Wolff “Memory Conflicts in Postcolonial Media Cultures: Struggles for Recognition of the Genocide on Herero and Nama in the Public Media Discourse in contemporary Germany”

16:00     Symposium Panel 2: Memory and film

  • Nadia Butt “Memory and Media: ‘House’ as a Realm of Memory in Pakistani Television Drama”
  • Christina Jordan “A Prince Producing Memories? The Active Production of Collective Memories in Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee”
  • Erin Högerle “Film Festivals and the Memory Industries”

 

18:00     Keynote Lecture: Prof. Astrid Erll (Frankfurt)

 

Wednesday 15 June

09:30     Symposium Panel 3: Memory and transnational literature

  • Mirko Milivojevic “(‘Yugo’)nostalgia and cultural memory – towards alternative past(s) and present?”
  • Sayma Khan “Reading South Asian Partition Literature across linguistic and temporal distance”
  • Maria Elisabeth Dorr “Collapsible spaces and distant storyworlds in (trans)cultural memory studies”

11:30     Symposium Panel 4: Memory and institutions

  • Dora Komnenović “Discarding a Common Past: The «Cleansing» of Croatian and Slovenian Libraries in the 1990s and Beyond”
  • Sarah Czerney “Rewriting the nation’s history: subversive media strategies in museums”
  • Yingjie Zhang “How much can Western memory of World War II be linked with the Eastern?”

13:00     Lunch

 

14:30     Symposium Panel 5: Memory and digital/new media

  • Sophie-Charlotte Opitz “Framing Remembrance – Encountering Memory: A Case Study on Conceptual War Photography and its Strategy to Educate Memory Practices in Museums”
  • Eva Jungbluth “Visual Memory Tropes in Graphic Narratives”
  • Ana Lúcia Migowski and Willian Fernandes Araújo “‘Looking Back’ at memories on Facebook: Remembering an being remembered by digital technologies”