![]() was a series of innovative efforts to rescue the non-hierarchical comparison of historical traumas from a taboo of relativization. The emergence of the terms of “multidirectional memories,” “transcultural and traveling memories,” “prosthetic memories,” etc. Since the right-wingers of the Historikerstreit in West Germany contaminated the term of relativization by presenting Nazism as a response to Bolshevik terror, and, thus, giving an impression to exculpate Nazi perpetrators, the relativization of the Holocaust has become a taboo in memory studies. The ambivalence of the cosmopolitanization and re-nationalization has been peculiar to the global confluence of the Holocaust and postcolonial memories.īearing that ambivalence in mind, I suggest the “critical relativization” as a solidary nexus in connecting the Holocaust and (post-)colonial memories mulitdirectionally. Paradoxically, the global memory formation has become a battleground for competing national memories, and cosmopolitan memory often has worked to camouflage the re-nationalization of the remembrance in the name of humanity. ![]() However, the cosmopolitanization of the Holocaust is not flat. The dynamics of comparison, cross-referencing, a juxtaposition to and repulsion from the Holocaust in the global North has been influential in making the postcolonial mnemoscape in the global South. As a way of evoking empathy in the global public sphere, memory activists in the tri-continent tend to cite the Holocaust as a mnemonic template. The thaw of frozen memories after the Fall in 1989 released suppressed memories of the colonial past in the tri-continent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This paper reflects the global confluence of the Holocaust and postcolonial memories in the post-Cold War mnemoscape. ![]() On the Global Confluence of the Holocaust and (post-)colonial Memories ![]() "Critical Relativization" as a Mnemonic Nexus. Furthermore, we will look at how these globally circulating Holocaust memories intersect with and are localized by national perspectives. Particular attention is paid to the shift of Holocaust Memory to its pluralization. This keynote addresses the 'short history' of how the Holocaust has been remembered during the last two decades. Ximena Goecke (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)Ĭhilean-Jewish Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs as Transnational Literature and Transgenerational MemoryĬommentary: Adam Kerpel-Fronius (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin) Transnational Memory Work in Schindler’s Factory in Cracow, Poland ![]() The Holocaust in Poland: How to Research the Local in an Increasingly Globalised Field of Scholarship? The Ambivalence of ‘Glocal’ Memories Online: Holocaust Survivors as Archetypes for the Depiction of ‘German Victims’ in YouTube Videosĭanielle Lucksted (Stony Brook University, New York)ĭiffusion of ‘Global’ Memory Norms on the Local Level: Implications for Poland and BeyondĪgnieszka Wierzcholska (Freie Universität, Berlin) On the Global Confluence of the Holocaust and (Post-)Colonial Memories ‘Critical Relativisation’ as a Mnemonic Nexus. Mnemonics and its Discontents: Between Integration and Contestation Central European Time (UTC+1:00).ĭaniel Levy (Stony Brook University, New York) * Please note that all times are indicated according to Warsaw time, i.e. The online debate will take place on YouTube on 25 November (Wednesday) at 15:00–18:30 CET. ![]()
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