“Mnemonic migration – transnational circulation and public reception of Bosnian War-time memories” Seminar
2022-03-22
– 2022-03-22
09:30
– 11:30
- English
Prof. Jessica Ortner and Prof. Tea Sindbæk Andersen, (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a talk on "Mnemonic migration – transnational circulation and public reception of Bosnian War-time memories" as a part of 4EU+ International Seminar Series "European Memory Studies: New Research Directions".
Jessica Ortner is Associate Professor at the department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Ortner’s research focuses on German and European memory politics, Eastern European and Bosnian migrant literature and German-Jewish literature. Publications include the monograph Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature (in print), and, together with Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Memory Studies – Special Issue. Memory of Joy (2019).
Tea Sindbæk Andersen is Associate Professor of East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Sindbæk Andersen’s research focuses on cultural memory, uses of history, identity politics and popular culture in the Yugoslav area. She is the author of Usable History? Representations of Yugoslavia’s difficult past from 1945 to 2002 (Aarhus UP 2012) and, with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, co-editor of The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception (Brill 2018).
The seminar is organized by Center for Research on Social Memory (CRSM), Faculty of Sociology, and the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies (CFC) of the University of Warsaw, and conveyed by Dr Nicolas Maslowski (CFC) and Prof. Joanna Wawrzyniak (CRSM).
You will find more information on 4EU+ Pluralities of Memory project under this link: https://www.europeanpluralities.uw.edu.pl/.../project.../...
