New Frontiers in Memory Studies

Lecture Series

Current Events for

Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age

Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age

Jie-Hyun Lim
New Frontiers in Memory Studies

24/06/2025 2:00pm, Campus Westend, Casino 1.812

New Frontiers Lecture Series and Other FMSP Event

The Struggle Continues. Transgenerational Memory of the Ovaherero People’s Genocide

The Struggle Continues. Tansgenerational Memory of the Ovaherero People's Genocide

Jephta U. Nguherimo (TraCe)

17/06/2025 6:00pm, Casino 1.811

New Frontiers Lecture Series and Other FMSP Event

Restitution, Repair, and Implication: Afterlives of Colonialism and the Holocaust in the Humboldt Forum

Restitution, Repair, and Implication: Afterlives of Colonialism and the Holocaust in the Humboldt Forum

Michael Rothberg
New Frontiers in Memory Studies

07/05/2025 6:00pm, Campus Westend, IG 311

New Frontiers Lecture Series and Other FMSP Event

Archived Events

Memorializing border deaths in Europe

Memorializing border deaths in Europe

Karina Horsti

21/01/2025 4:00pm, Casino 1.812

What Readers Remember

What Readers Remember

Lovro Škopljanac

14/05/2024 4:00pm, IG 1.414 Campus Westend

Remembering Extinction: Slow and Fast Memories of Biodiversity Loss

Remembering Extinction: Slow and Fast Memories of Biodiversity Loss

Jenny Wüstenberg
New Frontiers in Memory Studies

23/01/2024 4:15pm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, IG Farben Building, Room 411

Postcolonial Memory

Postcolonial Memory

Sakiru Adebayo
New Frontiers in Memory Studies

20/11/2023 6:15pm, Online via Zoom

CANCELLED! Troubling Testimonies: Women’s Narrative of War

Troubling Testimonies: Women’s Narrative of War

Annika Björkdahl
New Frontiers Lecture Series

14/11/2023 2:15pm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend

Traveling Memories, Silences and Secrets: Life narratives of Violence Among Refugees from Africa’s Great Lakes Region (AGLR)

Traveling Memories, Silences and Secrets: Life narratives of Violence Among Refugees from Africa’s Great Lakes Region (AGLR)

David Mwambari
New Frontiers in Memory Studies

25/04/2023 2:00pm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, IG Farben Building, Room 311

Summer Semester 2018:

Christina Morina (University of Amsterdam)

Die Erfindung des Marxismus: Erfahrung, Idee und Engagement im Zeitalter der Ideologien

09 May 2018 (IG 411, 6-8 pm)

Flyer (PDF)

Julia Creet (York University, Canada)

The Journey: H.G. Adler as Modernist Historiographer

15 May 2018 (IG 1.414, 12-2 pm)

Poster (PDF)

Summer Semester 2017:

Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)

The Witness and the Archive: Digitising Memories of Childhood Abuse in Ireland

27 June 2017

Poster (PDF)

Shihan de Silva (University of London)

Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants

Film Screening & Lecture

13 June 2017

Poster (PDF)

Video: Part 1 & Part 2

Summer Semester 2016:

Verena Boos (Autorin des Romans Blutorangen) und Natan Sznaider (Professor für Soziologie, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo)

Geschichte und Geschichten des Schreckens – Wie denkt und dichtet man die transnationale Erinnerung an den spanischen Bürgerkrieg?

22. Juni 2016

Poster (PDF)
Video

Winter Semester 2015/16:

Wulf Kansteiner (Aarhus University)

Fears, Lies, and Television: The Politics of Migration Memory in Prime Time Crime

Frankfurt, 28 January 2016

Poster (PDF)

Video

Liedeke Plate (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Transcultural Rewriting as Memory Practice

12 January 2016

Video

Poster (PDF)

Daniela Berghahn (University of London)

Projecting Memories of Migration

24 November 2015

Video in three parts: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3

Summer Semester 2015:

Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz)

Forms of Forgetting

29 April 2015

Video

Poster (PDF)

Winter Semester 2014/15:

Nadia Butt (Justus Liebig University Giessen)

Metaphors of Memory and Modernity in South Asian Anglophone Novels and Films

03 February 2015

Video

Poster (PDF)

Michael C. Frank (University of Konstanz)

The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism: From the “Dynamite War” to 9/11

20 January 2015

Poster (PDF)

Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)

Digital Memory Studies: The Right to be Forgotten in Post-Scarcity Culture

04 November 2014

Poster (PDF)

Video

Summer Semester 2014:

Fan Jieping (International Relations, Zhejiang University)

Das kulturelle Gedächtnis chinesischer Migranten in Europa: Briefe von Turin nach Wenzhou (1957-85)

10 July 2014

Poster (PDF)

Stef Craps (University of Ghent)

Trends in Trauma Theory

10 June 2014

Poster (PDF)

Video

Sébastien Fevry (Film Studies, Louvain la Neuve)

Sepia cinema under Nicolas Sarkozy’s France. Nostalgia and National Identity

04 June 2014

Poster (PDF)

Video

Chiara de Cesari (University of Amsterdam)

European Memory: Tangles of Memory, Borders, and Race

03 June 2014

Poster (PDF)

Sébastien Fevry (Film Studies, Louvain la Neuve)

Illegal Migrants and National Memory in Contemporary French Cinema

27 April 2014

Poster (PDF)

Video

 

Summer Semester 2012:

Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)Mediashock

25 June 2012

Poster (PDF)

 

Michael Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean (in an Immigration Society)? Turkish/German Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Mittwochskonferenz, FZHG

13 June 2012

Poster (PDF)

Jay Winter (Yale University)

Faces, Voices and the Shadow of War

Mittwochskonferenz, FZHG

30 May 2012

Poster (PDF)