Other Videos
Belgian Francqui Chair: Inaugural Lecture by Ann Rigney
“Stories in the Wild: How Public Life is Shaped by Narrative”
May 10, 2021 (Antwerp/digital)
Inaugural lecture as laureate of the Belgian Francqui Chair 2020-2021 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp.
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IMSG Project Presentation: FMSP Humboldt Fellow Magdalena Zolkos
“Reimagining Cultural Memory of the Arctic in the Graphic Narratives of Oqaluttuaq”
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Webinar: Experiencing and Remembering Cultural Trauma
As illness and deaths mount and COVID-19 continues to exact its toll, there is no question that we are experiencing a cultural trauma of enormous magnitude and globality. The time is right for asking: What does it mean for a community as a whole to experience trauma? How does the community represent the trauma, both as it is unfolding and in the future? How will it remember the trauma in the future? How will these memories affect future experiences?
SPEAKERS
Daniel Levy, Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, New York
Astrid Erll, Professor of Anglophone Literature at Goethe University, Frankfurt
Ronald Eyerman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, & researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden
Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Moderator: William Hirst, Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology at the New School
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Lecture at ReAct (Remembering Activism) Project, Utrecht University
Astrid Erll
“Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales”
This lecture took place on January 21, 2020 in Utrecht and addressed the practice of literary memory activism, using the Refugee Tales (www.refugeetales.org) as an example. Refugee Tales is an outreach project of the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group. Its aim is to put an end to indefinite detention of immigrants in prison-like Removal Centres. You can watch the video here.
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Lecture “Corona and Collective Memory” by Astrid Erll
This keynote is part of the Connecting Memories 2020 Symposium hosted by Paul Leworthy (University of Edinburgh) and Bárbara Fernández Melleda (University of Hong Kong). Access it here.
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Masterclass with Dagmar Brunow (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
In cooperation with the Studiengalerie (Goethe University)
“Mining the archive of migration: John Akomfrah’s audiovisual memory work”
With an introduction by Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe University)
November 7, 2019
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Astrid Erll in Conversation with Michel Friedman @ “Auf ein Wort…” (Deutsche Welle)
Ist das Gedächtnis statisch oder dynamisch? Funktioniert es kognitiv oder emotional? Beherrscht das Gedächtnis den Menschen, oder beherrscht der Mensch das Gedächtnis? Michel Friedman und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Astrid Erll debattieren über das Gedächtnis.
Keynote from the symposium “New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies”, coorganised by the GCSC, Gießen and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
(Astrid Erll)
“New Directions and Challenges in Cultural Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future”
Justus Liebig University, Gießen, June 2016
Panel discussion:
“National Celebrations and Cultural Memory in Multicultural Societies”
Participants: Rae Francis, Bruce Scates, Astrid Erll, and Frank Schulze-Engler
Frankfurt, 12 February 2014
NITMES Conferences
International conference organized by NITMES: Network in Transnational Memory Studies, led by Utrecht University, and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP)
“Provincializing European Memory”
Frankfurt, 24-25 September 2015
COST Network ‘In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe’
Keynote from the ISTME kick-off conference in Copenhagen (Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney)
“Memory and mediation – Ideas and challenges”
University of Copenhagen, May 2013
“Mobilizing Memory for Change”
A film about the ISTME conference at the Central European University in Budapest
Budapest, September – October 2014