„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

PROGRAMME BOOKLET

Programm

20181116

12:00:00

Henning Michelsen (Weimar): Spuren und Fehlstellen - Über die Arbeit mit historischen Lichtbildsammlungen

Henning Michelsen

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20181116

18:30:00

Ortrun Bargholz (Berlin): »Dichterwerkstatt von heute. Die Exilgeschichte eines Atelierhauses, Schriftstellers und Architekten.« (Screening, 34min / mit anschließender Diskussion)

Ortrun Bargholz

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20181117

09:00:00

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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20181117

09:30:00

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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20181117

10:00:00

Shuxi Yin (Hefei): Forgetting the Bitterness of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Shuxi Yin

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20181117

11:00:00

Christian Rossipal (New York): Under Erasure – Irregular Migrants and Transversal Heritage in Northern Europe

Christian Rossipal

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