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SoSe 22: Experiencing and exhibiting the past at museums, memorials and in digital environments

Irmgard Zündorf

Hinweise für Studierende

The first session (20.4.2022) will take place in presence in room A.320, all further sessions will be held online.

Kommentar

Facing a growing distance towards foundational historical events, the mediation of the past gains more and more importance. Museums and memorials serve as bridges to the past. Digital technology posed significant challenges as well as opportunities on commemorating and exhibiting the past. Although memory was always mediated, digitization offered new and unforeseen storage space for mnemonic objects. Accessibility increased beyond the physical access to archival collections. Documents, photographs, films and testimonies turned into data, which could be related to other data, thereby constituting a complex net of interlinked memories. Search engines invited users other than experts to explore past events, however, these search functions also offered new and interactive ways of using, interpreting and transforming records from the past. Social media networks rapidly became new memory ecologies, offering a space for sharing memory and adapting analogue forms of commemoration for new media environments.
This joint online course with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem introduces a variety of ‘memory ecologies’ that adopt various aesthetic, stylistic, textual, topographical, contextual, and commemorative elements. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Ebbrecht-Hartmann, T. (2020). “Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19.” Media, Culture & Society. 24 December 2020. DOI:10.1177/0163443720983276; Hoskins, A. (2016). “Memory ecologies.” Memory Studies, 9:3, pp. 348- 357; Young, J. E. (1993). The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr.), pp. 1-15. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00 14 Termine

Mi, 20.04.2022 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Irmgard Zündorf