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Workshop programme - Negotiating National and Cosmopolitan Memories

The programme for the MatchPoints Seminar

Thursday
13:30-
15:00		 Workshop Session 1, Lecture Hall 3
Cultural Practices of Memory Transmission
Alice Hohenlohe (Goldsmiths, University of London):
Changing Structures of the Transmission of Memory of National Socialism in Families of Nazi Perpetrators and Followers in Germany and Links this Investigation to Questions of National Identity
Paul Miller (University of Birmingham, UK):
Yugoslav Eulogies: Remembering the Sarajevo Assassination
Stefan Iversen (Aarhus University):
Deported Narration: On Danish Concentration Camp Testimonies in the Cultural Memory of Second World War
15:30-16:55 Workshop Session 2, Lecture Hall 3
Postwar Asia
Catherine Earl (Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Applied Media & Social Sciences, Monash University):
Clashing Memories of the 20th Century: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and the Next Generation in Post-conflict Vietnam
Annette Skovsted Hansen (Aarhus University):
Memories of War in Asia: How Japanese Technical Assistance Programs Challenged Memories of a Japanese Enemy in Asia, 1955-2005
19:30-21:00 Workshop Session 3, Lecture Hall 3
Memory Politics I
Michał Machnikowski (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wroclaw):
Beyond the National and the Cosmopolitan: Politics of Memory in a Central European City at the End of the Transition Period
Cecilie Banke (Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS):
From Holocaust Memory to Memory of Mass Atrocities: The Politics of Memory in Europe after 2004
Astrid Nonbo Andersen (Department of Philosophy, Aarhus University, Aarhus University):
Global Memory Agents

Friday 

08:30-
10:00		 Workshop Session 4, Lecture Hall 3
Human Rights
Christian Axboe (East European Studies, Aarhus University):
Disentangling Individual from Collective Guilt: The Paradox of Prosecuting and Memorializing Genocide and Other International Crimes
Ulrike Capdépon (University of Hamburg):
Between Local Memory Practices and International Human Rights Discourses: From Southern Cone to Spain
Svend Erik Larsen (Comparative Literature, Aarhus University):
Do Global Memories Exist?
13:00-
14:30		 Workshop Session 5, Lecture Hall 3
Memory Politics II
Christopher Cusack (Radboud University, Nijmegen):
"Tears stand in the eyes of all alike": Multidirectional Memory in Transgenerational Literary Recollections of the Great Famine, 1892-1921
Stiina Löytömäki (University of Helsinki):
Politics of Memory and Identity Concerning Colonialism in France
Sanja Horvatinčić (Institute of Art History, Zagreb):
Cultural Politics and Memory Policy of Yugoslav Commissions for the 2nd WW Memorials in the 1950’s and the Early 1960’s
15:00-
16:30		 Workshop Session 6, Lecture Hall 3
Exhibiting Memory
Maud Guichard-Marneur (University of Copenhagen):
The ’Narrative’ Museum as a ’Memory’ Machine. The Case of the Schindler Factory Museum, Kraków, Poland

Iris van Ooijen (Faculty of Arts, Amsterdam University):
Dutch WWII Camp as Contested Space: Dissonant Collective Memories of Camp Westerbork in a Global Age

Kristian Handberg (University of Copenhagen):
Retro Ostalgia: the Memory Culture around an Other Modernity

Saturday
08:30-
10:00		 Workshop Session 7, Lecture Hall 3
Making Atrocities Present
Rebecca Clifford (Swansea University, UK):
Holocaust Commemoration and Generational "Memory": Interpreting the Purpose(s) of Official Commemoration in France and Italy
Steven High (Concordia University):
"Une fleur dans le fleuve": Remembering the Rwandan Genocide in Montreal, Quebec
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University):

Making Africa Present in Western Literary Culture. Projects of remembrance in Achebe, Gourevitch, Eggers, and Okri

 

Revised 18.08.2022
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Lone Jørgensen