Abstracts Archive

Using the case-study of the Marš Mira, a peace march to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995, this paper argues that 'space claiming' must be understood as a complex and active process that is driven by a myriad of different motivations and incentives. The march retraces the steps that ...

In this paper I explore the current artistic use of an old watchtower (built around 1980) that was part of the borderlands in Berlin, Germany, dividing East and West Berlin before 1989. As a former command station, the tower was equipped with radio technology to coordinate the monitoring of the bord...

The presentation explores notions of memory, heritage, and tradition and their respective domains vis-à-vis a reading of the museum exhibition "Ingrians – The Forgotten Finns" held at the National Museum of Finland in 2020. Ingrian Finns are a Finnish-speaking historical minority of Rus...

Memorials are public sites, usually urban, that promote memory of a collectively shared past. While much research has focused how memorials have shifted in focus from tradition ways of representing heroes and victories to a 'counter memorial' form about victims and loss, little has been done to tran...

This paper explores the complex relationship between literary art and artificial memory in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle and its afterlife in Liz Moore's The Unseen World. Both works engage with artificial memory from its classical roots to its contemporary expression ...

Connective Remembering: Digital Memory and Media GenerationsThis paper presents findings from a pilot study which aims to examine how digital memory is produced, consumed and interpreted by different media generations. It is premised that media and mediatization play an increasingly prominent role i...

Belgium is a country highly divided into two linguistic communities that interpret their common past based on some strong antagonistic emotions. Some of these emotional states like resentment or humiliation are very rarely openly expressed by people or by media.We adopted a bottom-up approach that a...

Haidari, in Western Attica, just in the outskirts of Athens, served as the main concentration camp in Greece during the German Occupation (1941-1944), run by the SS/SD. It also functioned as a transit camp for the deportation of political prisoners and Jews, destined for either slave labour sites or...

This presentation analyzes the affects and emotions of survivors of Franco dictatorship (Spain, 1939-1975) from the crossroads of anthropology of emotions, feminist epistemology and memory studies.Based on life stories of women who were persecuted by the regime, the presentation explores the emotion...

The field of memory studies contains no dearth of scholarship on the subject of mourning and its associated ritual, commemorative, and even legal practices. Yet, where one might hear "elegiac" used to describe elements of a memorial, little study has been devoted to elegy, the poetry of mourning, as...

As argued by the Dutch sociologist Fred Polak (1972), a society with no positive images of the future indicated a society in decline. Although the context of Polak s work focused on the mid-twentieth century as being unique in largely possessing negative images of the future (Hicks, 2007), in the co...

Most of research in the area of memory studies is devoted to the modern society. There are relatively few academic works studying the cultural memory of previous eras, such as those of Jan Assmann and Jacques Le Goff. The greatest difficulties in studying memory at the past times are caused by the o...

This presentation adds to the still relatively small corpus of historical studies dealing with memory's workings within specific kinds of institutional or organized community, and explores a possible territory of 'convergence' between memory studies, organizational studies and military history. 'Mil...