Workshop "Memorials and Museums"
Chaired by
Andrés Nader (Researcher and Program Coordinator, Amadeu Antonio Foundation, Berlin, Germany) and
Christopher Capozzola (Professor of History, MIT, USA)
- Avram Alpert (Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
“Translating Memories: Two Moments from the Hiroshima Peace Park”
Download Paper (PDF) - Thomas Cauvin (History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
“Representing a Conflict During the Peace Process: The 1798 Rebellion Bicentenary in Ireland and Northern Ireland”
Download Paper (PDF) - Petrina Dacres (Art History, Edna Manley College of the Visual And Performing Arts, Jamaica)
“Sculpting History, Shaping the Nation: The National Heroes Park and the Building of a New Historical Consciousness in Post Independence Jamaica"
Download Paper (PDF) - Kathryn Harakal (United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Jalalabad, Afghanistan):
“Haunted by Images: Photography as Witness and Evidence: Kosovo’ s Missing Persons”
Download Paper (PDF) - Gal Kirn (Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
“The ‘Reconciliation’ Discourse in the Post-Yugoslav Context”
Download Paper (PDF) - Katrien Klep (Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
“Tracing Reconciliation: Chilean Truth Commissions and Memorial Sites”
Download Paper (PDF) - Katrin Mascha (German Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
“Redefining Place in the Urban Landscape of Contemporary Berlin: The Topography of Terror and the Memorial Site Berlin-Hohenschönhausen: From Places of Terror to Places of Remembrance, Education, and Mourning”
Download Paper (PDF) - Elidor Mëhilli (History, Princeton University, USA)
“Memory in Ruins: The Impossible Museum of Communism”
Download Paper (PDF) - Radosław Filip Muniak (Culture and Communication, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland)
“Aesthetics of Remembrance: Memorial Museums”
Download Paper (PDF) - Christopher Perkins (Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
“How to Remember our Fallen Heroes? Decontesting the Past at the Yasukuni Shrine”
Download Paper (PDF) - Srdjan Radović (Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
“Politics of Space and Memory in Serbia or: How One Learns to Stop Worrying about the Camp and Love the Mall”
Download Paper (PDF) - Sergey Rumyansev (Department of Sociology, Baku State University, Azerbaijan)
“’Déjà vu’ or ‘Policy of Reciprocal Curtsies’: Interstate Exchange of Monuments”
Download Paper (PDF) - Brigitte Sion (Religious Studies, Department of Journalism, New York University, USA)
“Experience and Remembrance at Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe”
Download Paper (PDF) - Amy Sodaro (Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York, USA)
“Remembering for the Future? Genocide Remembrance at the Kigali Memorial Center”
Download Paper (PDF) - Elizabeth Strakosch (Political Science and International Relations, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
“The Political Complexities of ‘New Memorials’: Victims and Perpetrators Sharing Space in the Australian Capital”
Download Paper (PDF) - Sonali Thakkar (Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA)
“Transnational Memory Culture and the Countermonument Today”
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