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Workshop & PhD course
Aesthetics of Memory
(October 21, 2014)
Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture
(CJMC) & PhD School of the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen
Abstract
In being inter-generationally transmitted, the b haunting
legacyb of the Holocaust (Gabriele Schwab) turns from first-hand to
second-hand memory. The connection to the past is then mediated e.g. by
written testimonies and stories, photography and film, monuments and
architecture, behaviors and gestures. Once the last eyewitnesses will have
passed away, knowledge about past events will no longer be based on personal
experience but can only be re-collected by means of imaginative investment.
Then local, regional and transnational cultures of memory willlive on nothing
but b postmemoryb (Marianne Hirsch). How can one then avoid oblivion,
re-present the past, and protect and appropriate othersb dear-bought
insights?
Children of Holocaust-survivors have described the second
generation as the hinge generation: b The guardianship of the Holocaust is
passed on to us.b (Eva Hoffmann) However, the third, fourth, and coming
generations, too, carry responsibility for how this historical heritage is
received and handed down.
The workshop & PhD course b Aesthetics of
Memoryb addresses fundamental questions that concern all countries,
societies and individuals that have in one way or another been part of a
murderous past and/or struggle with its aftermath: How can processes of
commemoration be stimulated, indifference turned into attention and traumatic
memories worked through? Which strategies of expression, re-presentation and
communication have proved particularly successful in evoking critical
reflection? By what means do they speak to the senses and the intellect,
touch people emotionally and open up new imaginary spaces?
In an
interdisciplinary meeting of art history and theory, philosophy and theology,
the possibilities and limitations of memorial objects and landscapes will be
explored. Moreover, the interplay between words and images, the use of
synesthetic techniques and the creation of time-interfaces will be examined.
Last but not least, dialogical aesthetics and performative practices of
placing viewers in interlocutory situations will come into focus.
See
program<http://teol.ku.dk/cjmc/english/events/aesthetics_of_memory/CJMC.Ae
sthetics_of_Memory.21.10.2014.docx>
Participation is free, but online
registration<http://teol.ku.dk/cjmc/english/events/aesthetics_of_memory/fo
rmular/> is required before October 10, 2014. Please indicate your name,
email address, and institutional affiliation.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Welz
Professor (mso) in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
Founding Director of
CJMC: Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture
Department
of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen
KC8bmagergade 44-46, third
floor, room 354
DK - 1150 Copenhagen K
Tel. 0045 - 353 23682
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
"http://teol.ku.dk/cjmc/english/<http://www.teol.ku.dk/cjmc/english/>
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