Keynote Speakers
2012.04.19 |
The Role of Oral Evidence in the History of Danish Resistance during World War Two
Esben Kjeldbæk, keeper of The Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945, will demonstrate the value of anecdotal evidence and taped interviews with Danish sabouteurs from World War II.
2012.01.19 |
"Grandpa Was No Nazi". Migration, Generation and Memory in Contemporary Germany
Michael Rothberg from University of Illinois shows, how generational transition was decisive to how Nazi genocide is remembered in Germany
2012.01.18 |
Living on two planets: Normative and traumatic transitions in individual and collective remembering
Dorthe Berntsen from Aarhus University discusses complicated grief reactions and traumatic memories from war time experiences, assassinations, catastrophes and terrorist attacks.
2012.01.18 |
Global Memories Revisited: From Holocaust to Human Rights Regime
Daniel Levy from Stony Brook University talks about ways of handling past injustices after World war II and the Holocaust
2012.01.18 |
Historians and the Politics of Commemoration: an Irish Case study
The peace process in Ireland seemed to demand a 'historical amnesia'. Tom Dunne from University College Cork will discuss to what good comtemporary political concerns are prioritised over the historian's duty to engage critically with the sources
2012.01.18 |
Narrative Templates and “Cultural DNA”
'Different cultural DNAs'. With examples from post-Soviet Russia, James V. Wertsch from Washington University, St. Louis, explains how this notion results in very misleading explanations of conflicts between cultures
2012.01.18 |
Challenging amnesia: perpetrators' and victims' storytelling
Anna Bull from University of Bath examines how traumatic past events are transmitted between generations, and the narrative templates victims and perpetrators tend to use
2012.01.18 |
Cognitions underlying differences in generational memories of conflict and war
Willliam Hirst from New School for Social Research, New York, will talk about memories of 9/11, World War II, and the different generational memories that involve individual psychological mechanicms
2012.01.18 |
Australian generations? An oral history of generational experience, memory and identity
The Great Depression superceeds wartime memories. Alistair Thomson from Monash University, Melbourne, will talk about the generational identities of Australia, and why some experiences are more generationally potent than others
