Diese von der Graduate School of the Humanities am Walter Benjamin Kolleg organisierten Kurse zur Aneignung überfachlicher akademischer und berufsvorbereitender Kompetenzen stehen prioritär allen Doktorierenden der GSH offen. Freie Plätze können je nach Anmeldeeingang an weitere Doktorierende, MA-Studierende, Postdocs und externe Interessierte vergeben werden.
Content
This workshop aims to engender an interdisciplinary discussion of the role of digital media in the development of collective memory. It includes a guest lecture by Silvana Mandolessi as well as a discussion of theoretical texts on the topic of digital memory.
Specific questions which will be addressed during the workshop include:
- What changes do digital media bring about in collective practices of remembrance?
- How do digital media activate collective memory by centring social attention?
- How do digital archives and social media convert images, texts and audio-videos into media of collective memory?
- What possibilities for participation do digital media offer and to what extend do they produce a democratisation of cultural memory?
Silvana Mandolessi
Silvana Mandolessi is an assistant professor in Hispanic Literature at the Catholic University of Leuven and the leader of the ERC-project “We are all Ayotzinapa. The Role of Digital Media in the Shaping of Transnational Memories on Disappearance“, which examines the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in September 2014.
Miriam Lay Brander
Miriam Lay Brander is a Junior Fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg with a project on “Fragmented Memories. New Digital Archives as Media of Collective Memory in the Caribbean.” Prior to this she worked as an assistant professor for Hispanic and French Literature at the University of Constance and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Constance Centre of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration.”
