Project Presentation in Amsterdam
The 4-Day International Conference seeks to explore, from a range of comparative approaches and methodologies, how the space-times of memory in Europe and beyond are interpreted, (re)presented, collectively remembered, instrumentalised, or silenced and forgotten.
News from Oct 25, 2013
Conference "Competing Memories"
From October 29th until November 1st 2013, researchers, artists, and experts from various disciplines meet in Amsterdam to critically analyze how to present competing memories and narratives museums, media, landscapes, urban environments. By crossing academic, artistic and professional boundaries, the conference aims to contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which ‘memory discourses’ operate as vehicles of local, national and transnational identity politics.
Key questions and themes include: How can we articulate generational memory practices (post-memory) when events are remembered across and between geopolitical discourses of war and conflict? How is memory narrated through space? What defines “a site” as a specific place as opposed to undefined space? How is collective memory performed through “spatial practices” (tourism, commemorations, bodies)? How are witnesses included and created in archives and then used in historiography?
Within the scope of this project, Prof. Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos and Dr. Cord Pagenstecher talk about "Mapping Transnational Testimonies: The Online Archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945” on the 30th of October 2013.