The first part of the symposium will involve presentations of research undertaken by scholars from ANU and Konstanz University, Germany as part of the DAAD/Go8- funded project, “Memory and Migration: German Australian Dialogues in the Humanities.”

 

This project brings together memory and migration studies in Germany and Australia and has a dual focus. First, it problematises the memory of migration, examining how migrants remember the experience of dis-/re- location and explores the possibility of trans generational transmission. Second, it explores memory and migrants, investigating if and how migrants engage with established national narratives which have been shaped by a contaminated past. It also pays attention to tensions between official and unofficial narratives and explores cultural products (literature/ music/ performance) as both repositories of, and vectors for, unacknowledged or unassimilated experiences.

 

The theme of the second part of the symposium is “Material, Memory and Place” comprising presentations from scholars working on memory with a particular focus on interconnections between Australia, Germany and Europe.

 

To view the program for this event please see: Material, Memory and Place