Abstracts Archive

The partition of the Indian subcontinent which was an epoch-defining moment in the history of modern South Asia marked the end of British dominion over the Indian landscape, and also subsequently led to the creation of twin states of India and Pakistan. This seminal event of the twentieth century is...

The stories of New Orleans have always unfolded as a tale of two cities-the booming, vibrant, best-known neighborhoods famous for their Mardi Gras traditions, juxtaposed alongside the poverty, violence, dislocation, and racial segregation experienced by the city's most vulnerable populations. In the...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is sometimes considered a "memory disorder." Traumatic events that have occurred in the past are often relived in nightmares and flashbacks as if it happens in the here and now, whereas patients find it hard to remember daily events in the present. Furthermore im...

Over the past decades, "memory activists" in Chile have constantly struggled to preserve the memory of those who had been brutally killed, tortured or made disappear during the Pinochet dictatorship. One of the latest form of memorialization has been the struggle by civil society sectors and victims...

The aim of this paper is to map out the manifold narrativisations and representations of the complex trauma – i.e. trauma of the victim, perpetrator and witness– in the film The Load (Teret, Ognjen Glavonic, 2018). The film researches the story hidden behind the discovery of the mass grave on t...

This interdisciplinary research will be the first investigation of the collective memory of the Halabja chemical attack on March 16, 1988, which led to the deaths of 5,000 people and the displacement of thousands more. In the section of literature using the theory of Maurice Halbwachs's collective m...

The conservative, nationalistic revolution in today's Poland is a very complex phenomenon usually seen as a part of international process or the consequence of economical transformation. The fact that this revolution is lead by right-handed political forces together with Catholic Church let us look ...

The issue of foreign workers in Israel has been part of the Israeli public agenda in recent years. In the late 1980s, foreign workers came to Israel from many countries, and were employed mainly as household workers, caregivers, a...

The concept of postmemory (Hirsch) focuses on the transmission of memory within families. But what is a family? What memories are transmitted and how, and what memories are not shared between generations? How is transmission interfered with, interrupted or blocked? My research with daughters and son...

The 'Memorial to the Victims of Communism-Canada, a Land of Refuge' is scheduled to be unveiled in spring 2020 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Situated between the Supreme Court and the National Archives, this material act of commemoration is best conceptualized as a form of 'memory enclosure,' on...

Ruins are empty places filled with memories. These cement or rock skeletons can be the aftermath of a force of nature, environmental imbalance or human behaviour. Places may become the agents and bearers of memory even in its ravaged shapes. This paper is a result of a PhD investigation and it aims ...

Ever since the United States Institute of Peace published three-volume Transitional Justice in 1995, transitional justice has become a buzzword frequently heard on various occasions all over the globe when it comes to political transitions or regime changes. While political scientists and jurists ar...

My research focuses on Jewish children rescued from Czechoslovakia to Great Britain by the Barbican Mission to the Jews in 1939. Some children came from families of mixed German-Jewish origin and experienced a double trauma - divorce and stigmatization due to German and Jewish nationality. They also...

The last few years have seen a significant increase in both original and scientific publications on comics. In particular, comics are emerging as a new medium for the popular dissemination of history and memory, often intersecting the genre of docu-journalism. Precisely by this boom in attention fro...

Within the tradition of Indonesian lagu nasional, or nationalistic songs, various contemporary variants are emerging. Some of them are classical songs, others build upon the past and expand the tradition. One variant is the lagu perjuangan, which encompasses Indonesian songs that celebrate and comme...

Authors, artists, and activists of the generation of postmemory insist on their rights to represent, remember, and shape public memory of the comfort women atrocity through cultural productions such as literature, the visual arts, and protest. They engage with the atrocity through what Marianne Hirs...

This paper will examine Applied Theatre as a form of public pedagogy for exploring the Shoah. It will focus on a project entitled "Triangulation", an aesthetic form of representation with which to explore contemporary resonances of the Holocaust. The materiality of the triangles that marked the Nazi...

The paper is aimed at presenting and discussing the theoretical (and metaphorical) concept of assemblage of memory inspired by and grounded in the creative work done in connection with social research within the framework of participatory theatre. Based on three projects of this kind that I collabor...

Lüju (lü opera) of Shandong province as the major regional operatic genre and folk tradition in contemporary China, has been transformed and reconstructed as cultural heritage, educational, and propaganda tools of the party-state, attractions of cultural tourism, and trigger of nostalgic desires o...

In 1923 Turkey and Greece agreed to the compulsory exchange of populations of their religious minorities, a story central to the Greek identity that poses international interest since it was the first compulsory population exchange in history. The narrative of the Asia Minor refugee memory is not st...