{"id":11192,"date":"2025-06-05T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11192"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:13:41","slug":"ways-of-remembering","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/winter-2024-25\/ways-of-remembering\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways of Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-1f2875eb gb-headline-text\">Ways of Remembering<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b1648cf9 gb-headline-text\"><em>Memories, Representations, Contexts<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\">Moderator: <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#veli-basyigit-anchor\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#veli-basyigit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VEL\u0130 BA\u015eY\u0130\u011e\u0130T<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation series, <em>Ways of Remembering: Memories, Representations, Contexts<\/em>, will explore the current state of memory studies, with a particular focus on violent and contested histories, and the&nbsp;various ways&nbsp;in which these histories are represented or silenced.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Outline<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-40a3327b\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Info Session <\/strong><br><strong>16 October 2024 <\/strong><br>16:00-18:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Info Session for the semester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-0140897f\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Session 1  <\/strong><br><strong>06 November 2024 <\/strong><br>16:00-18:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduction to the conversation series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b7b7bac5\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>Session 2 <\/strong><br><strong>20 November 2024<\/strong><br>16:00-18:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Walking Tours as Memory Activism <\/em><br>Conversation with <strong>Michal Huss<\/strong> and <strong>Yara Shahine-Gharable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-14b8fb2d\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">This talk will unpack how heritage walking tours can reference and visualise traumatic legacies, and as such can be used to power political projects asserting the rights of displaced persons, redefining the parameters of urban belonging, and de-colonizing cities. It will focus on two strands of walking tours, closely illustrating how they turn urban space into a stage for the critique and diversification of public memory. The first are walking tours in Berlin, guided by Syrian and Iraqi refugees, which use memorials of local traumatic history to testify to more recent traumas elsewhere, and to expand the parameters of urban belonging. The second are tours of Yaffa (Jaffa in Arabic), in which Internally Displaced Palestinians use ruins to resist the ongoing erasure of Palestinian traumatic memory and modern urban history. By bringing these distinct geo-political interventions together, the paper will advance a broader argument on the potential of walking to inform de-colonial and cosmopolitan understandings of the city and its heritage. Walking has a triple meaning for this lecture, as a research topic, a research method, and a practice. We will reflect on the use of \u201cwalking\u201d ethnography expanded through artistic mapping and visual documentation, and on the use of walking as a political practice and mode of memory activism. Working across the disciplines of history and architecture, and in between theory, method, and practice, we will reflect on the poetic and aesthetic qualities of walking, and the agency of pedestrians to rewrite the city\u2019s architectural syntax &#8211; weaving spaces together, marking unregistered memory sites, and giving voice to marginal stories and perspectives.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e82d6b2f\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong><strong>Session 3<\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>04 December 2024<\/strong><br>11:30-13:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Methods of Studying Memory After Catastrophe: The Collaborative Practice of an Artist and an Anthropologist in Antakya<\/em><br>Conversation with <strong>Yael Navaro<\/strong> and <strong>Emrah&nbsp;G\u00f6kdemir<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-1e2f8e05\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">This session will delve into the collaborative research between the anthropologist Yael Navaro and the artist Emrah G\u00f6kdemir in Antakya since 2012. What does a collaboration between anthropology and art bring to memory work? What methods may be generated through such a collaboration and what new conceptualizations of memory via Antakya\u2019s layered history? How did Yael and Emrah\u2019s research practice transform after the Antakya earthquakes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The session will include a screening of Emrah\u2019s film What do the Birds Say. The film follows the director\u2019s walks through Antakya between 2017 and 2024, tracing bird paintings encountered along the way and the story of a Syrian artist who created them. Through the eyes of witnesses, the documentary opens a window into the struggle for survival of this artist, an individual whose identity remains unknown even today. It also sheds light on the socio-economic and cultural relations between the residents of Antakya and Syrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The session will include a screening of Emrah\u2019s film What do the Birds Say. The film follows the director\u2019s walks through Antakya between 2017 and 2024, tracing bird paintings encountered along the way and the story of a Syrian artist who created them. Through the eyes of witnesses, the documentary opens a window into the struggle for survival of this artist, an individual whose identity remains unknown even today. It also sheds light on the socio-economic and cultural relations between the residents of Antakya and Syrians.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-2b41dc9a\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong><strong><strong>Session 4<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>08 January 2025<\/strong><br>16:00-18:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Art, Knowledge Production, and the Organizing of Forgetting<\/em><br>Conversation with <strong>Banu Karaca<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-18f4b65b\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Working from the proposition that the production, circulation, and presentation of art in its institutional formation has been shaped by (state) violence and dispossession, this session will focus on how art is staked to memory and erasure, resistance and restoration, and why art has been at once vital and unwieldy for national projects. While art, just like cultural heritage, is often hailed for its capacity to mobilize memory, we will examine the art world as a site at which forgetting is established and maintained. Drawing on a variety of case studies, the discussion will explore how violence and dispossession (and their disavowal) have created the material and legal conditions of forgetting, and how forgetting is organized in the knowledge production on art and heritage, be it in the practice of writing art history or in public discourses.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c6789f6e\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong><strong><strong>Session 5<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>15 January 2025<\/strong><br>16:00-18:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Art, Memory-Work and Counter-Cartographies in Berlin<\/em><br>Conversation with <strong>Larissa Fassler<\/strong>, <strong>Desir\u00e9e Desmarattes<\/strong> and <strong>Tonderai Koschke<\/strong>, hosted by <strong>Karen Till<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3c0297c0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">This conversation highlights how works of memory and art make visible the complexities and traumas of particular places which have become sites of protest in the \u2018wounded city\u2019 (Till, 2012) of Berlin. After Karen briefly introduces the context of memory cultures in Berlin, she will host a conversation with artists to explore how their creative remappings of particular places and built environments invites the city\u2019s inhabitants to become more aware of the legacies of state-perpetrated violence and the possibilities of more just futures. In Hour 1, we explore two works by artist Larissa Fassler \u2013 the diptych canvasses <em>Forms of Brutality<\/em> (2019), revealing the multiple realities of Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg, and the sculpture <em>Palaces\/Palaces<\/em> (2022), depicting multiple historic city palaces and the controversial Humboldt Forum at the Museum Island in Berlin-Mitte. We consider the artist\u2019s use of counter-mapping practices that result in palimpsestic works that embody the legacies of power, trauma, and resistance in Berlin in present-day landscapes. In Hour 2, we continue the discussion of anticolonial memory-work. Arts producer, artist and researcher Desir\u00e9e Desmarattes will provide a brief overview of the pilot project \u2018Dekoloniale Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt\u2019 (Decolonising Memory Cultures in the City, hereafter Dekoloniale) and introduce Dekoloniale\u2019s decentralised 2024 Festival \u2018Was Bleibt?\/What Remains\u2019 held in Berlin-Mitte and Wedding. The festival\u2019s artist in residence programme focused on \u2018Colonial Ghosts &#8211; Resistant Spirits: Church, Colonialism and Beyond\u2019. Dekoloniale artist-in-residence Tonderai Kosche will then introduce her <em>Terra Multis<\/em> project, with installations in the medieval Nikolaikirche and at the Afrikanisches Str. U-Bahn stop. In both hours, we consider how place-based artistic interventions invite urban inhabitants to become more critically aware of Berlin\u2019s forgetful histories and become inspired by alternative imaginaries.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-6fb3d645\">\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong><strong><strong>Session 6<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><strong>29 January 2025<\/strong><br>16:00-18:00 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Visibility\/Invisibility: A Problematique of Remembering in the Present Time<\/em><br>Conversation with <strong>Meltem Ah\u0131ska<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-1fee72cf\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">By referring to two short films produced in Turkey, Tarihte Ya\u015fanmam\u0131\u015f Olaylar (Serp\u00eahatiy\u00ean Neqewim\u00ee \/ Things Unheard of) (Ramazan K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, 2023), and Anadolu Yok (There is no Anatolia) (Ferit Katipo\u011flu, 2017), this session will problematize the problematic of visibility and invisibility with regard to various concepts and issues of memory. We will dwell on frames of perception within the regimes of visibility in relation to remembering and forgetting in the present time, and discuss ways of questioning \u201cthe obviousness of the visible in order to sketch a new topography of the visible\u201d in Jacques Ranci\u00e8re\u2019s terms. The question of archives, and the connection between memory and senses, as well as between memory and history will be further explored in this vein.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">16.102024 &#8211; 31.01.2025<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div 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