Projects
Facing up to the Dictatorial Past: Cultural Memory and the Responsibility for Fascism in post-1990 Italian literature Ghent University
Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor spread tolerance across society. Building on the latest memory studies and historical scholarship, this project contends that the main shortcoming of contemporary memory has been a still too limited conceptualisation of a sense of responsibility for the past. ...
Intersections of Cultural Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Dave Eggers Ghent University
This project examines the interrelations between cultural memory and human rights via a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the work of the contemporary American author Dave Eggers, which encompasses bestselling novels, collaboratively produced testimonies, publishing ventures, and social activism.
Contested past: the representation of the past and the construction of cultural memory in the Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian literature of the 1990s Ghent University
The aim of this project is to analyse the scope and role of the post-Yugoslav prose of the 1990s in the transformation of the 'cultural memory' in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.
Theory of literature, trauma and cultural memory Ghent University
Dr. Ilka Saal (University of Richmond, VA) visits the UGent research group "Literature and trauma" to work conceptually in the area of literature, trauma and cultural memory. She has expertise in integrating models (Butler, Assmann) in such a way that a basis is laid for the examination of how collective and structural forms of trauma are represented in literature.
Politics, Memory Culture and Ideology in the Late Middle Ages. The Inauguration Charters of the Brabantine dukes (1356-1515) KU Leuven
In this research project Valerie aims to uncover the ideology of the challengers of ducal authority in the Late Middle Ages by studying the charters which the Brabantine dukes had to grant to their subjects at the moment of their inauguration. Furthermore, this project deals with the functionality of these constitutional charters in the creation and maintenance of urban memories.
Remember Africa? The effects of twice-migration on the religious and cultural lives of British ‘East African’ Jains Ghent University
The project "Remember Africa?” uses different types of contemporary memorial projects and narratives of individual Jains in the UK to address the experience of twice-migration and its impact upon religious and cultural praxis. It comprises two distinct levels of inquiry.
First, it will approach memory as a source, and construct a continuous history of Jainism as it moved spatially from India to East-Africa to the UK, and temporally ...
Embodying Forced Migration Accounts within Devastated Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage Sites: A Physical-Virtual Memorial. University of Antwerp
Finding the present in the distant past: The cultural meaning of antiquarianism in Late Antiquity (4-7th c. AD) Ghent University
Ancient antiquarianism has been identified as a major source of inspiration for the
development of modern historiographical practice from the Renaissance onwards.
Yet it remains seriously understudied, in particular for late Antiquity, the crucial
period of transition and transmission to the Middle Ages. The present project
proposes to fill that gap. It proposes (1) to expand the range of sources by editing ...