HINKING THROUGH THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
Inaugural Conference of the Memory Studies Association
3-5 December 2016 in Amsterdam
Saturday, 03 December 2016
17.30 Registration
18.00-19.00 Reception
Light dinner & drinks served.
Room: Serre
19.00-19.30 Welcome address
Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) and Jenny Wüstenberg (York University)
Room: Groote Zaal
19.30-21.00 Roundtable “Moving Memory”
Astrid Erll (University of Frankfurt), Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University), Ann Rigney
(Utrecht University), Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University)
Room: Groote Zaal
Sunday, 04 December 2016
9.00-10.30
Panel 1: Memory and Theory
Chair: Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Room: Groote Zaal
Björn Thomassen (Roskilde University) & Rosario Forlenza (New York University)
Rethinking the theoretical foundations of memory though liminality
Slawomir Kapralski (Pedagogical University of Krakow)
Between Memory and Theory: Addressing Theoretical Deficits of Memory Studies
Gerd Sebald (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Enlarging the conceptual base of memory studies by redefining the concept of memory?
Vincent Druliolle (University Carlos III Madrid)
Beyond the objectification of memory: the implications of understanding memory as and essentially contested concept
Franziska Metzger (University of Teacher Education Lucerne)
Mythicisation as Mechanism of Memory Construction-Methodological and Conceptual Reflections
Panel 2: Memory and the Arts
Chair: Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick)
Room: Bibliotheek
Cimen Günay-Erkol (Ozyegin University) & Ugur Caliskan (Bogazici University)
Turkey’s Military Periods and Literature as Memory Work
Efi Aharon
The newly born mother: Immigration and Imagination – Daughters of immigrant mothers invent maternal memories and create new identities
Olga Poliukhovych (University of Kyiv-Mohyla)
The Role of Memory in the Shaping of National and Cultural Identity
Darcy Buerkle (Smith College)
Antifascism, Affect and The “Mexican Suitcase"
Noga Stiassny (University of Hamburg)
The Artscapes of the Holocaust
Eyal Boers (Tel-Aviv University)
Black Book: Dutch Prototype or Jewish Outsider. Films in the Service of Memory
Panel 3: Memory Going Nowhere?
Chair: Anamaria Dutceac-Segesten (Lund University)
Room: Koorzaal
Felix Krawatzek (University of Oxford) & Rieke Trimcev (University of Greifswald)
Universalising a European Past? Things to do with Entangled Memory
Sara Jones (University of Birmingham)
(Why) is memory stuck? The National and Transnational in Memory Studies Theory
Joanne Sayner (University of Birmingham)
Travel Writing: Theory, Translation and Adaptation
Alex Brown (University of Birmingham)
Theory: The Memory of Ideology (and the Ideology of Memory)
Amy Sodaro (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
Memory’s Future?
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break (Room: Serre)
11.00-12.30
Panel 4: Memory Concepts
Chair: Siobhan Kattago (University of Tartu)
Room: Bibliotheek
Andrea Cossu (University of Trento)
Memory, Cultural Structures and Meaning Mechanism
Kári Driscoll & Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University)
Towards a Posthumanist Memory Studies
Jarula Wegner (University of Frankfurt)
Shifting Paradigms: from linguistic to performative turn
Ana Dragojlovic (University of Melbourne)
Violent Histories and Embodies Memories: Affective Methodologies in memory Studies
Rafał Riedel (University of Opole)
Authoritarian populism as a vehicle in memory manipulation
Panel 5: Memory Regions
Chair: Simon Lewis (Free University Berlin)
Room: Koorzaal
Malgorzata Pakier (Polin Museum) & Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)
Conceptualising Memory Regions
Yifat Gutman (Ben-Gurion University)
Memory activism as a memory region: A comparative lens to the mobilization of contested pasts
Tea Sindbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
Do we need a ‘tectonics’ of memory?
Paul Vickers (University of Giessen)
Memory Studies and Europe’s Epistemic Peripheries: Does the future lie in the archive
Emilia Salvanou (Hellenic Open University)
The "refugee crisis" as a new normality and its implications on memory studies. The case of Mediterranean refugees
Panel 6: Memory as a Field
Chair: Marek Kucia (Jagiellonian University Krakow)
Room: Groote Zaal
Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University)
After the Boom
Anamaria Dutceac-Segesten (Lund University)
Memory studies: The state of an emergent field
Ruramisai Charumbira (University of Texas)
Renaissance: The Dialectics of memory and Forgetting
Lea David (Tel Aviv University)
Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights
Christina Simko (Williams College)
Reflections from Across the Pond: Difficult Pasts in the United States and Europe
12.30-14:30 Lunch (Room: Serre)
Roundtable “Do Memory Scholars matter in Memory Politics?”
Elazar Barkan (Columbia University), Jan Kubik (University College London), Roma
Sendyka (Jagiellonian University), Cecilie Stokholm Banke (Danish Institute for
International Studies),
Chair: Christina Morina (Duitsland-Institut Amsterdam)
Room: Groote Zaal
14.30-16.00
Panel 7: Combining Disciplines
Chair: Joanne Garde-Hansen (University of Warwick)
Room: Bibliotheek
Oliver Plessow (University of Rostock)
Didactics of History and Memory Studies- reflections of an intricate relationship
Angelika Bammer (Emory University)
Can We Talk? Neuroscientists and Humanists on memory
Anette Storeide (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Searching for the Constructors and Promoters of Memories: Why Memory Studies should look to MLG
Barbara Tönquist Plewa (Lund University)
Memory Studies and Critical Heritage Studies - a happy marriage ?
Daphne Winland (York University)
Researching unspeakable pasts: lessons from ethnographic approaches
Panel 8: Connecting Scholars and Practitioners
Chair: Nicolas Moll (Independent Researcher and Intercultural Trainer, Sarajevo)
Room: Groote Zaal
Kara Blackmore (Curator and PhD Candidate LSE)
Art and Exhibition Making as Method: An exploration into curatorial practice in post-conflict societies
Laura Boerhout (Educator, Curator and PhD Candidate University of Amsterdam)
Engaging with memory activism. Thoughts on positionality and commitment
Manca Bajec (Artist and PhD Candidate Royal College of Art)
Ethical considerations on artistic research in the field of Memory Studies
Esther Captain (Author and Head of Centre for Applied Research in Education Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
Navigating different fields of difference in- and outside academia. Challenges and opportunities
Wim Manahutu (Curator, Heritage Professional and PhD Candidate Free University Amsterdam)
(Re-)presenting Maluku. Voices from a post-colonial community in the Netherlands
Panel 9: Are Memory Studies Euro-centric?
Chair: Ralph Sprenkels (Utrecht University)
Room: Koorzaal
Fabiola Arellano (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich)
Illustrating Memories: Documentation of Survivors’ Testimonies in Post-conflict Peru
Mónika Contreras Saiz (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Soap Operas (telenovelas): Unofficial Vehicles of Memory in Latin America?
Hendrikje Grunow (Universität Konstanz)
Feeling the Past. De-Eurocentrering Historical Consciousness
Leonardo Moreira Pascuti (Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Ingolstadt)
Nunca Mais: The Holocaust Perception and the Post-Dictatorship Discourses in Brazil (1979-1985)
Lena Voigtländer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Reflections of a Time Past - Photography and the Post-Generation in El Salvador
16.00-16.15 Coffee Break (Room: Serre)
16.15-17.45 Professional Development Events
1: Career Café
Advice on the job market for memory scholars
with Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow), Jan Kubik (University College London),
Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia), Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Warwick
University), and others
Room: Groote Zaal
2: Teaching Workshop
Workshop on pedagogy in Memory Studies
with Jonathan Bach (New School) and Sara Jones (University of Birmingham)
Room: Koorzaal
18.00-19.30 Roundtable “Where is the memory field going?”
Wulf Kansteiner (Aarhus University), Siobhan Kattago (University of Tartu)
Erica Lehrer (Concordia University), Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia),
Chair: Jenny Wüstenberg (York University, Toronto)
Room: Groote Zaal
19.30 Dinner (self-pay)
Participants will be organized into small, thematic dinner groups
Monday, 05 December 2016
9.00-10.30
Panel 10: Methodology in Memory Studies
Chair: Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki)
Room: Bibliotheek
Elizabeth Worden (American University)
Studying memory Practices: methods for Moving Beyond the Expected Past
Philipp Ebert (University of Cambridge)
Beyond Elite Discourse. Contemplations on how to incorporate the wider public’s views into the study of memory
Alma Jeftic (International University of Sarajevo)
Analysis of Narratives in memory Studies: Advantages and Disadvantages of Quantitative Approach
Catherine Guisan (University of Minnesota)
Setting the Record Straight: Whose Memory Should we Trust?
Vicky Karaiskou (Open University of Cyprus)
Implicit memory and priming effects: can we ignore them?
Panel 11: Memory and the Media
Chair: Codruta Pohrib (Maastricht University)
Room: Koorzaal
Joyce Van de Bildt (Tel Aviv University)
Online memory platforms and their role in the construction of collective memory
Dana Hakman (Amsterdam University College)
You press the button, the algorithm does the rest: new positions of photography as memory tool.
Steffi De Jong (University of Cologne)
Sound memory? Towards a sensory study of cultural memory
Farah Aboubakr (University of Edinburg)
Recreating and Mapping Palestinian Homeland through Storytelling in Performative Arts and Cinema
Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen)
Family memory in times of deep mediatization
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break (Room: Foyer)
11.00-12.30
Panel 12: Places of Memory
Chair: Antony Kalashnikov (University of Oxford)
Room: Koorzaal
Peter Pirker (University of Vienna)
Mapping Urban Memorial Landscapes
Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna)
Remembering Across Borders
Tim Gruene (University of Hongkong)
Memory Spaces as Film
Konstantina Chrysostomou (Architect)
Negotiating Cultural Identities and memory in post-conflict space. The memorial landscapes of Nicosia
Carolyn Birdsall (University of Amsterdam) & Danielle Drozdzewsk (UNSW Australia)
Mobile Research: The Place of (Auto)Ethnography in Contemporary Memory Studies
Panel 13: Places of Amnesia
Chair: Sara Jones (University of Birmingham)
Room: Bibliotheek
Gruia Badescu (University of Cambridge)
Urban Disruptions: Between Place-making and Places of Amnesia
Helen Roche (University of Cambridge)
“Places of Amnesia" and Postwar German Memory Culture
Philipp Ebert (University of Cambridge)
Forgetting and Political Legitimacy in Democratic Transition: The Case of 20th-Century Germany
Elena Zezlina (University of Cambridge)
The Placing of Amnesia on the Northeastern Border of Italy Post-1945
Brian Johnsrud (Stanford University)
New Methods for Discovering "the Reader" of Literary Texts - Involving Memory and the Past
12.30-13.00 Concluding Words (Room: Koorzaal)
13.00-14.30 Memory Studies Association planning meeting (Location TBD)
Informal lunch (self-pay) - open to all participants.
15.00-16.30 Black Heritage walking tour (optional)
Led by Surinamese-American Jennifer Tosch, the Black Heritage Tour tells the hidden histories of the African diaspora in the Netherlands and the focuses on untold stories of the Dutch slavery history. For more information, see: http://www.blackheritagetours.com/