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

Location: Zoom Meeting

“Ambivalent Infrastructures.The Geology and Geopolitics of Power in the Upper Euphrates”

  • Date: Feb 17, 2022
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zeynep Kezer (Newcastle University)
  • Zeynep Kezer is a Professor at the School of Architecture Planning at Newcastle University (UK). She is interested in examining how modern state-formation processes and nationalist ideologies play out in the built environment, informing everyday practices and identity formation.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“Memory, Race, Decolonial Activism”

“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

Book talk for The National Frame

“Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory

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

"Furnishing a foreign home: Habsburg Sarajevo’s Ottoman heritage coped with, appropriated, and displayed"

  • Date: Dec 10, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maximilian Hartmuth (Universität Wien)
  • Maximilian Hartmuth is principal investigator in the ERC project “Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878-1918” (ERC#758099, 2018-2023).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Nov 10, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Zoom-based webinar hosted by the Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities” [more]

"Germans without Footnotes: Islam, Belonging and Poetry Slam in Berlin"

  • Date: Oct 28, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katarzyna Puzon (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • Katarzyna Puzon is an anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Stones May Break: On the Politics of Monumentalization in Times of Toppling Statues

Webinar 2020
  • Date: Oct 5, 2020
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Zoom-based webinar hosted by the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Lands” [more]
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