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International Conference | 29 October - 1 November 2013
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4-Day International Conference, 29 October—1 November 2013
Keizersgrachtkerk (Oct. 29-31) & Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork (Nov. 1) The conference is jointly organized by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam and Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam. |
The conference seeks to explore, from a range of comparative approaches and methodologies, how the space-times of memory in Europe and beyond are interpreted, (re)presented, collectively remembered, instrumentalised, or silenced and forgotten. By crossing academic, artistic and professional boundaries, the conference aims to contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which ‘memory discourses’ operate as vehicles of local, national and transnational identity politics.
The conference program is rich and offers a considerable variety of topics; it features 10 keynote lectures, 54 papers, 4 ongoing art exhibitions and screenings, a special evening program with artists’ panel & students’ debate in Amsterdam, and a discussion on site at Westerbork. |
This interdisciplinary conference addresses the politics of heritage and memory, identity and occupation, European political integration and citizenship as well as the theoretical implications of totalitarianism, terror, trauma, genocide and mass violence. “Competing Memories” critically analyzes how to present competing memories and narratives museums, media, landscapes, urban environments. In addition to the EU’s geopolitical dynamics and clashes of memory about the Holocaust and other terrorscapes, the conference will broaden its focus to relate both the origins and afterlives of Europe’s ‘Age of Extremes’, to the cultural and postcolonial turns (in/against Holocaust studies), Dutch slavery/Indonesia debate, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Near East Spring revolutions.
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Keynotes
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Artists ExhibitionAnd Europe Will Be Stunned (Yael Bartana) Enduring Srebrenica (Claudia Heinermann) Museutopia (Ilya Rabinovich) Capturing Urban Conflicts: Conflict in Cities and the Contested States (Center for Urban Conflict Research) Special Evening Program Artists’ Panel & Students’ Debate: Appropriation and Competing Narratives - Wednesday 30 October 2013 / 20.00-21.30. University Theatre, UvA (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18. 1012 CP Amsterdam) Westerbork: Coffee & Discussion on Site Ivar Schute, Westerbork Archeological Research Project Marcin Urbanek, Lukas Mieszkowski, Piotr Michalewicz, Prize Winning Architects Sobibor Memorial Center 2013 |