Kick-Off Panel Discussion

Globalized Remembrance?

Conflicting Memories in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals

Friday, October 25, 2019, 4pm

With Aleida Assmann, Omer Bartov, Carol Gluck, Zuzanna Dziuban and Rachel Ibreck

Chair and short project presentation: Ljiljana Radonić

Introduction by Ljiljana Radonić
Welcome words by Michael Rössner, director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History
After Radonić's introduction spoke Aleida Assmann, Omer Bartov, Carol Gluck, Rachel Ibreck and last, but not least, Zuzanna Dziuban

As a kick-off event for the five-year project Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals (GMM) renowned members of the advisory board and the project team discuss if the “globalization of memory” indeed exists and what its trajectories and limitations are. We approach the question geographically by debating memory politics e.g. in East Asia and Rwanda; by critically unpacking competing memories of genocide and the Holocaust; and by investigating the prism of material and forensic traces at memorial sites.

Venue: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna

Contact: Marlene Gallner

More information can be found here

In cooperation with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies