The Role of Oral Evidence in the History of Danish Resistance during World War Two
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Esben Kjeldbæk, keeper of The Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945, will demonstrate the value of anecdotal evidence and taped interviews with Danish…
"Grandpa Was No Nazi". Migration, Generation and Memory in Contemporary Germany
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Michael Rothberg from University of Illinois shows, how generational transition was decisive to how Nazi genocide is remembered in Germany
Living on two planets: Normative and traumatic transitions in individual and collective remembering
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Dorthe Berntsen from Aarhus University discusses complicated grief reactions and traumatic memories from war time experiences, assassinations,…
Global Memories Revisited: From Holocaust to Human Rights Regime
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Daniel Levy from Stony Brook University talks about ways of handling past injustices after World war II and the Holocaust
Historians and the Politics of Commemoration: an Irish Case study
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The peace process in Ireland seemed to demand a 'historical amnesia'. Tom Dunne from University College Cork will discuss to what good comtemporary…
Narrative Templates and “Cultural DNA”
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'Different cultural DNAs'. With examples from post-Soviet Russia, James V. Wertsch from Washington University, St. Louis, explains how this notion…
Challenging amnesia: perpetrators' and victims' storytelling
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Anna Bull from University of Bath examines how traumatic past events are transmitted between generations, and the narrative templates victims and…
Cognitions underlying differences in generational memories of conflict and war
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Willliam Hirst from New School for Social Research, New York, will talk about memories of 9/11, World War II, and the different generational memories…
Australian generations? An oral history of generational experience, memory and identity
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The Great Depression superceeds wartime memories. Alistair Thomson from Monash University, Melbourne, will talk about the generational identities of…
