Current Project:

TRANS.ARCH

Archives in transition. Collective memories and subaltern uses

International Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the MSCA-RISE Scheme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Research and Innovation Staff Exchange). Grant agreement #872299.

Project Website: https://trans-arch.org/

Participating Universities:

Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany). Project Coordinator.

Univerzita Palackého V Olomouci (Czech Republic), Università Degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy), Universidad De Sevilla (Spain), Universitat De Valencia (Spain), Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero (Argentina), Universidad Nacional Del Litoral (Argentina), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)

 

Description

Historical archives have a considerable influence on the formation of collective memory. As memory repositories, they can contribute to the transfer of information between generations. The EU-funded TRANS.ARCH project will create a network of researchers, both young and experienced, for the study of current uses and functions of archives in the context of globalization-related crises. In particular, the project will not only investigate how archives allow new elaborations of historical and social models but will also offer a basis for a new approach to the cultural heritage of societies. The team will focus on the different political, judicial, cultural, and artistic uses of the archives developed by migrant groups and sexual dissidents in Europe and Latin America.

 

Objectives

In the field of memory studies, there is broad consensus that interrogating interlocking national and transnational collective memories can strengthen democratic structures. These conflicts around the processes of memory reveal the central importance of archives, especially when it comes to knowledge and experiences by subalternized groups, historically excluded from public debates.

 Archives, the central object of this project, allow new elaborations of historical and social models, but also provide a basis for rethinking the cultural heritage of societies. The TRANS.ARCH project focuses on a relatively unexplored dimension of this field, namely the different political, judicial, cultural, and artistic uses of the archives deployed by migrant groups and sexual dissidents in Europe and Latin America. In relation to this, the media, technical, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of the digitalization of knowledge are examined since the transition from analogue archives to digital archives is changing the relationship between the public and the private.  In the current phase of globalization, in which times and geographical spaces are fragmented and interconnected again, the archival ratio is modified.

TRANS.ARCH will create a network of young and experienced researchers who will examine the current functions and uses of archives in the context of the crises associated with globalization. While the transatlantic makeup of the consortium of institutions involved in the project will allow a comparative analysis of the European and Latin American contexts, the innovative approach to the uses of archives by migrants and sexual dissidents will require researchers to create a new transdisciplinary approach with a strong gender perspective. This approach will open the way for the understanding of the transitional condition of archives, both in terms of their current political and cultural uses, and in terms of their changing theoretical status.

Participating universities:

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) – Coordinator of the project

Prof. Dr. Roland Spiller

 

Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)

Prof. Dr. Daniel Nemrava

Roma Tre University (Italy)

Prof. Dr. Camilla Catarrulla

University of Valencia (Spain)

Prof. Dr. Manuel de la Fuente

University of Sevilla (Spain)

Prof. Dr. José Manuel Camacho Delgado

National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina)

Prof. Dr. Daniel Link

National University of the Litoral (Argentina)

Prof. Dr. Analía Gerbaudo

Javeriana University (Colombia)

Prof.es Dr. Jeffrey Cedeño / Jefferson Jaramillo Marín

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Peru)

Prof. Dr. Ana María Francesca Denegri

 

Project start date: 01.09.2020 Project end date: 31.08.2024