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The Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and translation with guest speaker Prof Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh).
Prof Davies presents a talk entitled ‘The Holocaust and Translation: a Complex Relationship’. In his talk and in the discussion that follows, Prof Davies thinks about the Holocaust as an essentially multilingual event, considering both the role of translation during the Holocaust and the all-important contribution of translators and interpreters to the memory of the Holocaust.
2022-09-0259 min
The Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and comparison with guest speaker Prof Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles).
Prof Rothberg presents a talk entitled ‘Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany’ and we discuss the ethics of Holocaust comparisons, Holocaust memory in a postmigrant society, and the recent public debate in Germany known as the Historikerstreit 2.0 (Historians’ Dispute 2.0).
2022-07-291h 01The Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory, media and nostalgia with guest speaker Prof Katharina Niemeyer (Université du Québec à Montréal)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Katharina Niemeyer (Université du Québec à Montréal).
Prof Niemeyer presents a talk entitled ‘The Power of Nostalgia’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, Prof Niemeyer talks about the wide range of scholarly approaches to the idea of nostalgia, its ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ forms, as well as technostalgia, and retro and vintage objects.
2022-07-221h 01The Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and (im)purity with guest speaker Prof Max Silverman (University of Leeds)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Max Silverman (University of Leeds).
Prof Silverman presents a talk entitled ‘Impure Memory’ and we discuss the links between memory and identity, the idea that memory is never pure, and the crucial contribution of art to memory cultures.
2022-07-1555 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory, materiality and waste with guest speaker Dr László Muntean (Radboud University Nijmegen)The guest speaker for this episode is Dr László Muntean (Radboud University Nijmegen).
Dr Muntean presents a talk entitled ‘Memory and Materiality: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center’. In his talk and in the discussion that follows, Dr Muntean thinks about memory materially, charting what subsequently happened to certain of the material remains of the World Trade Center and considering some of the ethical issues surrounding these ‘afterlives’.
2022-07-0855 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory, memorials and meaning with guest speaker Prof James Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof James Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
Prof Young presents a talk entitled ‘The Memorialist’ and we discuss the processes of meaning-making and interpretation that memorials are engaged in as well as the ways in which they contribute to memory cultures in different contexts.
2022-07-0157 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn Coronavirus and Collective Memory with Guest Speaker Prof Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Covid-19 Pandemic Anniversary SpecialThe guest speaker for this episode is Prof Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt).
Prof Erll presents a talk entitled ‘Coronavirus and Collective Memory’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, Prof Erll reflects on the interrelation of collective memory and the pandemic, reviewing her mid-pandemic thinking with two years’ hindsight.
The talk in this episode (10.50-52.28) is a lightly edited version of the lecture Prof Erll delivered as the keynote at the Connecting Memories 2020 online symposium, which can also be viewed at https://youtu.be/C3HXF5ZoEA0. All other material is new.
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2022-03-111h 10The Connecting Memories PodcastOn Coronavirus, Memory and Repair with Guest Speaker Prof Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) - Covid-19 Pandemic Anniversary SpecialThe guest speaker for this episode is Prof Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University).
Prof Hirsch presents a talk entitled ‘Acts of Memory and Repair in a Suspended Present: New York City 2022’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, Prof Hirsch introduces the Zip Code Memory Project community initiative, exploring the affective dimension of the pandemic and the losses it wrought.
This podcast is one of two extended specials to mark the two-year anniversary of the World Health Organisation’s declaration of a global pandemic on 11 March 2020.
2022-03-111h 05The Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and terror attacks with Guest Speaker Dr Sarah Gensburger (CNRS)The guest speaker for this episode is Dr Sarah Gensburger (CNRS).
Dr Gensburger presents a talk entitled ‘From ordinary memory to extraordinary heritage: a study of the memorialisation of the 2015 attacks in Paris?’
In her talk and in the discussion that follows, Dr Gensburger examines how the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks were remembered and discusses studying the commemoration of these events from the perspective of a sociologist and a resident of the district in which the attacks and much of the commemoration took place.
2020-07-131h 00The Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and monuments with guest speaker Prof Patrizia Violi (University of Bologna)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Patrizia Violi (University of Bologna).
We discuss ongoing debates about contested monuments and statues and Prof Violi presents a talk entitled ‘What future for contested monuments?’
2020-07-0657 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and social movements with guest speaker Prof Ann Rigney (University of Utrecht)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Ann Rigney (University of Utrecht).
Prof Rigney presents a talk entitled 'The Afterlife of Hope: how the killing of demonstrators is remembered’ and we discuss cultural memory in connection with activism and social movements as well as ways of moving away from thinking about the past in terms of trauma.
2020-06-2258 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and contested pasts with guest speaker Prof Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin).
Prof Fuchs presents a talk entitled ‘When did postwar German memory culture end: from divided memory to a pluralistic memory culture’ and we discuss cultural memory in terms of memory contests and scales of implication.
2020-06-1557 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and activism with guest speaker Dr Gyorgy Toth (University of Stirling)The guest speaker for this episode is Dr Gyorgy Toth (University of Stirling).
Dr Toth presents a talk entitled ‘Memory, performance, and Native American sovereignty rights’ and we discuss cultural memory and activism in the context of Red Power and the Native American rights struggle.
2020-06-0858 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and cultural trauma in Japan with guest speaker Prof Akiko Hashimoto (Portland State University)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Akiko Hashimoto (Portland State University).
Prof Hashimoto presents a talk entitled ‘Something Dreadful Happened in the Past: War Memories in Japan’ and we discuss the cultural memory of WWII in Japan.
2020-05-1847 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and distributed cognition with guest speaker Prof John Sutton (Macquarie University)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof John Sutton (Macquarie University).
Prof Sutton presents a talk entitled ‘Distributed Ecologies of Remembering’ and we discuss how things, places and other people are involved when we remember.
2020-05-1153 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and African American literature with guest speaker Dr Leila KamaliThe guest speaker for this episode is Dr Leila Kamali (@kamali_leila).
Dr Kamali presents a talk entitled ‘Cultural Memory Past, Present and Future in the work of John Edgar Wideman’ and we discuss the cultural memory of Africa in African American and Black British literature.
2020-05-0451 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and memorials with guest speaker Prof Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University).
We discuss Holocaust memorials and the question of relevance and Prof Niven presents a talk entitled 'Reigniting Relevance: Recent Approaches to Memorial Heritage’.
Bill Niven is Professor in Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University.
2020-04-2752 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastOn memory and the built environment with guest speaker Prof Edward Hollis (ECA, University of Edinburgh)The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Edward Hollis (ECA, University of Edinburgh).
We discuss what memory means in the context of the built environment and Prof Hollis presents a talk entitled 'Secret Lives, Memory Palaces and Concrete Monstrosities'.
Edward Hollis is Professor of Interior Design at the Edinburgh College of Art in the University of Edinburgh.
A PDF of images to accompany Professor Hollis's talk can be found here: http://connectingmemories.weebly.com/podcast.html
2020-04-2052 minThe Connecting Memories PodcastPodcast series previewIn this short preview, Paul Leworthy introduces the Connecting Memories podcasts and sets out what the series hopes to achieve.
2020-04-2004 min
Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary HistoryJay Winter on war, memory and silence (8/11/2019)In this talk, Jay Winter (Yale) explores the role of silence in traumatic memory, with particular reference to World War One and its aftermath. He argues that silence has been underestimated as a form of memory in relation to war and other moments of extreme violence. The talk is followed by a short comment by Paul Leworthy (Edinburgh). This is a recording of an event hosted by the CSMCH in November 2019.
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