MEMORIAL SITES. ACTS OF REMEMBERING THROUGH MEDIA AND VISUAL CULTURE.

PROGRAMME

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS 1 

Session 1. Thur 24 Feb. 4-5pm UK time. 

Discussant Rebekah Cuppit (BIRMAC, Birkbeck, University of London)

Algorithmic Memory: Digital Media and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Joel McKim (Birkbeck, University of London)

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS 2:

ECHOES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN ASIA

Session 2. Thursday 7h March 10am-12pm UK time Building Tuol Sleng

Discussant Professor Astrid Erll (Founder of Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Goethe University Frankfur)

The Long Journey from the atrocity paradigm to cultural heritage: Discovering S-21, Building Tuol Sleng

Professor Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (PI Repecri, University of Valencia)

The Holocaust in a Chinese Mirror - reflections on Shanghai's Jewish Refugees Museum

Professor Edward Vickers (UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship, Kyushu University, Japan)

CASE STUDIES 1: TRANSNATINOAL MEMORIES IN EAST ASIA.

Session 3. Thur30 March 3-5pm 

Transnational Memory of the Sino-Japanese War

Discussant: Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London)

Reading the Transformations of Chinese War of Resistance Museums in the Xi Jinping Era through the Visual Analysis

Bajgerova, Marketa (ERC Project “Globalized Memorial Museums”, Austrian Academy of Science and University of Vienna)

Investigating Photography Albums of Japanese Soldiers in North-East China. Methodological and Epistemological Challenges

Jasmin Ruckert (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)

Memorial sites in Korea

Discussant Owen Miller (SOAS, University of London)

The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities

Suzy Kim (Rutgers University)

Jeju 4.3 – Postmemory Aesthetics of Museal Images

Hyun Seon Lee (SOAS, University of London)

CASE STUDIES 2: MEMORIAL SITES IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE

Session 4. Friday 12 May 4-5.30pm.  

Discussant Piotr Cieplak (University of Sussex) 

Globalized Memorial Museums – Victim Hierarchies and Travelling Musealization Trends 

Ljiljana Radonić (PI ERC project “Globalised Memorial Museums”, Vice-director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences)  

Forensic Reframings of Museums and Memorial Sites at the former Nazi Camps 

Zuzanna Dziuban, (ERC project Globalized Memorial Museums, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Lidice – From “Ground Zero” to the Present

Ivo Plsek (Masaryk University).

CASE STUDIES 3: MEMORIAL SITES IN POST-FASCIST SOUTHERN EUROPE

Session 5 Thur 15th June. 3-5.30pm

Discussant Mari-Paz Balibrea (CILAVS, Birkbeck, University of London) 

The second life of difficult heritage. Visual re-enunciations of fascist architecture between political mobilizations and pop-culture representations.

Professor Francesco Mazzucchelli (PI TraMe – Center for the Semiotic Study of Memory, University of Bologna)

Memory in The Making: La Barranca And The Mujeres De Negro Through Their Images

Zoé de Kerangat (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Democratic visions for a conflictive heritage. The cinematographic 'counter-memory' of the Valley of the Fallen (1978-2016)

Maria C. Puche-Ruiz & María José Romero-Ternero (Universidad de Sevilla).

Identification and analysis of sites of memory in the city of Seville. Dissemination and heritage interpretation strategies

Maria C. Puche-Ruiz, Pilar Díaz-Cuevas & Alfonso Fernández-Tabales (Universidad de Sevilla).