Overview
The conversation series, Ways of Remembering: Memories, Representations, Contexts, will explore the current state of memory studies, with a particular focus on violent and contested histories, and the various ways in which these histories are represented or silenced. In each session, guest scholars and cultural practitioners from a diverse range of contexts and disciplines will engage in critical conversations about specific cases of memorialisation and cultural representation of difficult pasts.
The series will especially concentrate on the multilayered imbalance between the representations of the past and how this asymmetry translates into the present-day politics, society and culture in different contexts.
Learning Outcomes
The conversations will provide participants the opportunity to reflect on different topics in the field, including but not limited to:
- Cultural and artistic representations of violent histories
- Nation-building and memory
- Spatiality of memory
- Temporality of memory
- Emotions, affect and memory
- Reconciliation, justice and contemporary atrocities.
The conversations will address the following questions alongside many others:
- What, why and how do we remember?
- What is the role of memory in nation-building?
- How do memorialisation and cultural representation influence processes of reconciliation with violent pasts?
- How do emotions and affect play a role in remembering and forgetting?
- How does space function as a field of memory practice?
- What is the significance of remembering the past in relation to present atrocities?
Outline
Introduction
06 November 2024
16:00-18:00 CET
Session 1
20 November 2024
16:00-18:00 CET
- Conversation with Michal Huss
Session 2
04 December 2024
11:00-13:00 CET
- Conversation with Yael Navaro and Emrah Gökdemir
Session 3
18 December 2024
16:00-18:00 CET
- Conversation with Karen Till and Berlin-based activists/artists.
Session 4
08 January 2025
16:00-18:00 CET
- Art, Knowledge Production and, the Organizing of Forgetting
Conversation with Banu Karaca
Session 5
22 January 2025
16:00-18:00 CET
- TBA
Instructors
Veli Başyiğit
Veli Başyiğit is a cultural manager based in Berlin and a fellow at Off University. His practice focuses on collective memory, encountering difficult pasts, social movements, cultural heritage and disseminating knowledge through creative means. He earned his BA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University in 2016 and his MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University in 2017. From 2018 to 2024, he worked at Anadolu Kültür on various projects in the fields of cultural heritage, transnational cultural collaboration and research-based exhibitions. He is currently involved in the digital archive and online exhibition project Diyarbakır’s Memory, a partnership between Anadolu Kültür and the Diyarbakır Association for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets. In 2016, his research report on obstacles to artistic freedom of expression at Turkey’s film festivals was published by Siyah Bant.
Certification
This course is hosted by Universität Bremen and certified with 3 ECTS upon successful completion.
Please check the course requirements from the course syllabus and inform your instructor(s) about your request to receive a certificate for this course.
You will find the full syllabus on Moodle course page.
At the end of the semester, the instructors will inform the learning designer about your request and grade. The certificate will be prepared with the university secretariat and it may take up to 8 weeks.
Registration
Our courses are held on a digital learning platform, Moodle. Before you create your account on Moodle, we have some notes for your and others’ digital security.
- When you register, you can use a nickname. Nicknames with offensive, racist or sexist undertones will not be accepted.
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- We aim to create an inclusive learning environment with our participants and educate ourselves in a more inclusive language. Be eager and tolerant to learn from each other and challenge any discriminating language. You can have a look at it here.
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