University of Essex – Practices of Commemoration and Memorialisation – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: University of Essex
Website: https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/01/29/practices-of-commemoration-and-memorialisation
Address:
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
This event is a Centre for Public History event and also part of the University of Essex's Holocaust Memorial Week event programme.
This workshop-panel explores what existing modes of Holocaust commemoration reveal about the nature of public memory and commemorative practices, what questions they pose for those that produce them and those that receive them, and their relevance for commemorating present-day human rights issues such as refugee and migrant deaths.
Some key issues we will reflect on include:
The idea of “living memorials” that emerged after the Second World War
The Stolpersteine project and its role within a wider body of ground-based artworks that commemorate political violence
The memoir as a genre of intimate and public memorialisation and commemoration
Creative approaches to counter-mourning such as the Gegendenkmal movement
Other topics that the audience may bring to discussion
The session’s goal is to foster a dialogical, interdisciplinary space that reconsiders the wider stakes of commemoration in the face of gross human-rights violations today.
Meet the Panel:
Professor Sanja Bahun, Executive Dean (Arts and Humanities)
Professor Jonathan Lichtenstein, Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies
Professor Lucy Noakes, Director of the Centre for Public History
Dr Michael Tymkiw, Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
The event is free to attend but booking is required.
Important notice, there are currently roadworks around the Clinghoe Hill area so please allow extra time to get to campus.
For complimentary car parking, enter your car registration number when prompted during registration.
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Centre for Public History