Abstracts Archive

Turkish migration to Germany that started in the early 1960s was essentially a response to a call concerning demand for labour on a temporary basis. However, when the gastarbeiter scheme translated into a permanent citizenship, return to homeland became a myth which was environed not only by rememb...

In my presentation I will focus on the post-imperial memories of the Habsburg empire and their remediation in the autobiographical writings of Stefan Zweig (The World of Yesterday, Memoirs of a European, 1942) and Milos Crnjanski (Commentaries to Lyrics of Ithaka, 1959). I will position Stefan Zweig...

Marcel Proust's masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu ('In Search of Lost Time') is the paradigmatic novel of memory in modern European literature. Since its original publication between 1913 and 1927, this monumental chronicle of artistic awakening and development amid European modernity's tra...

Russian state, media, and diplomatic actors are exporting a militaristic conception of memory to bolster Russian influence abroad-and undermine that of its rivals. Through media and diplomatic institutions, the Russian government is using its levers of influence and public diplomacy to create memory...

While spatial organization of memories and their insertion into citiscapes was traditionally considered a product of the contemporary ideological framework and work of political elites, the ways and forms in which we bring memories back to the present significantly changed during the last decade. Me...

This presentation will focust on recent Spanish films that have explored repression during Franco's dictatorship, through the image of spaces where it took place. Starting out from films Aquí y N'Otro Tempu (Ramón Lluis Bande, 2014) and Elefantes (Carlos Balbuena, 2017) we will analyze how land...