The Cultural Memory of Mass Violence

response: Juliane Prade-Weiss

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Organized by
Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU Munich)
Dominik Markl (Georgetown University Washington, DC)
Vladimir Petrović (Institute for Contemporary History Belgrade)

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Programm

09:00 - 09:15 INTRODUCTION

09:15 - 10:00 Astrid Erll (Frankfurt)
‘Memory After Violence’ to ‘Memory Before Violence’

10:00 - 10:45 Dominik Markl (Washington, DC)
Monumental Representation of Power and the Justification of Mass Violence

COFFEE BREAK

11:15 - 12:00 Christoph Thonfeld (Dachau)
“I do not want to talk publicly, but if I am asked, I respond as well as possible.”
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and the Medialisation of Holocaust Memory

12:00 - 12:45 Miranda Jakiša (Vienna)
(Re-)Mediating Srebrenica: Holocaust Memory and Competitive Victimhood after Yugoslavia

LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 14:45 Stephanie Bird (London)
Merle Kröger’s ‘Die Experten’ and its Thrilling Intervention in Memory Polemics

14:45 - 15:30 Juliane Prade-Weiss (Munich)
Foregrounding the Media of Memory: Transgenerational Trauma in Stepanova’s ‘In Memory of Memory’

15:30 - 15:45 Vladimir Petrović (Boston)
The Internment of the ‘Praying Indians’ on Deer Island: A Cleansing Memory Report

COFFEE BREAK

16:15 - 18:00 Podiumsgespräch mit Martin Schulze Wessel (Munich)
Russland – Ukraine: Krieg um die Erinnerung