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Events of the Max Planck Research Group "Empires of Memory" (in descending order)

“In the Ruins of Futures Past: Potentiality, Planning, and the Contested Revival of Cyprus’s Ghost City”

  • Date: Oct 28, 2021
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rebecca Bryant (Utrecht University)
  • Rebecca Bryant holds the Chair in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and is a Visiting Professor in the European Institute at the London School of Economics.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“The Memory-Activism Nexus”

  • Date: Jun 15, 2021
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
  • Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, and founder of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“Mirrors of Habsburg Memory”

  • Date: Jun 8, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan)
  • Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

"Heritage out of Control: Inheriting Waste, Spirits and Energies"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: May 17, 2021 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 19, 2021 05:00 PM
  • Location: Zoom Event

Book talk for The National Frame

  • Date: Mar 25, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Banu Karaca (EUME Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
  • Banu Karaca works at the intersection of political anthropology and critical theory, art and aesthetics, nationalism and cultural policy, museum and feminist memory studies.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory
  • Date: Jan 28, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nükhet Varlık (University of South Carolina & Rutgers University-Newark)
  • Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and Rutgers University–Newark.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Book and article presentation: “Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide”

  • Date: Jan 14, 2021
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marc David Baer (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  • Marc David Baer (PhD, History, University of Chicago) is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
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