„Memory and the City“

Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School 2017, September 10-15, 2017

The first Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School, organized by the Austrian Academy of Science, the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and the Center for Austrian Studies in the European Forum at the Hebrew University, combines two significant frames in order to understand geographical, spatial and material dimensions of memory: The focus on memory culture and the framework of urban studies. The objective of the graduate school is to analyze and discuss the interaction between these two frames in a general sense (entangled memories, sites of memory, material memory culture) as well as in regard to specific case studies that include museums, memorials, street names, or memory tours. Beyond this focus on ‘classical’ memory sites we also intend to discuss the relation between memory and the city in a more abstract (graphic) or virtual sense, which will include the research of visual sources (photographs, maps) as well as imaginary landscapes (film) or virtual places (animated environments, virtual places of memory, audio tours).

Organizers at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History: Heidemarie Uhl, Ljiljana Radonić

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