„Collecting loss“ (Second Annual Conference)
It is the tension inherent in the absence of people, things, places or symbols, which turns loss into a community inspiring force. According to Aleida Assmann, it seems »much more difficult to store gaps, voids and absence than the experience of a presence« (Assmann, 2006). Current technologies promise the possibility of fully documenting the world. Nothing would be lost. This would lead to something we could think of as a non-biased, total archive, that would be almost impossible to navigate. Contrary to this stands the idea of the classifying archive, which, by definition, is constituted by selection, exclusion and thus by deliberate disposal.
Under the title »Collecting Loss«, the 2nd Annual Conference of the Research Training Group »Identity & Heritage« asks if and how loss can be collected and stored and how absence can be shown. In order to explore the multiple dimensions of loss, and opposing strategies of collecting, storing, and presenting practices, we will be looking into the relationship between the concepts of loss, archive, heritage, and identity.
15-17 November 2018, Bauhaus University Weimar

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Sonya Schönberger (Berlin): Zeitzeugenarchiv und Scherben der Berliner Trümmerberge
Sonya Schönberger
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Henning Michelsen (Weimar): Spuren und Fehlstellen - Über die Arbeit mit historischen Lichtbildsammlungen
Henning Michelsen
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Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik (Lublin): Soviet monuments - symbols of victory, loss or reconciliation?
Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik
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Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay (Wien): Archiving Loss and Desire. Queer Neo-Ottomanism in Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Works
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
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Carolin Vogel (Frankfurt/Oder): Archiv ohne Archiv: Der Ort als Gedächtnisraum
Carolin Vogel
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Schirin Kretschmann (Weimar): Liquid Matter(s) – Archivarische Strategien in der künstlerischen Forschung.
Schirin Kretschmann
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Ortrun Bargholz (Berlin): »Dichterwerkstatt von heute. Die Exilgeschichte eines Atelierhauses, Schriftstellers und Architekten.« (Screening, 34min / mit anschließender Diskussion)
Ortrun Bargholz
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Moritz Hermann (Mainz): »I am Dandara« – Fiction, History and Gender in the Memory of the Resistance to Colonial Slavery
Moritz Hermann
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Sweta Singh (New Delhi): In the Search of History and Identity: The Malabari or Black Jewish Community of India
Sweta Singh
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Christian Rossipal (New York): Under Erasure – Irregular Migrants and Transversal Heritage in Northern Europe
Christian Rossipal
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Bahar Majdzadeh (Paris): Topography of the absence of the Iranian political exiles
Bahar Majdzadeh
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