Position: PhD Graduate
School and/or Centres: Centre for European Studies
Position: Associate
School and/or Centres: Centre for European Studies
Sulamith Graefenstein is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. She has undertaken research in Europe, North America and Asia. Her work in the area of Memory Studies and Museum Studies focuses on developing an understanding of how human rights museums and human rights memorial museums help promote notions of (trans)national justice and solidarity in an era of circulating Holocaust memory and human rights. She is author of the book The National Museum of Australia and the Debate about Australian Colonial History, published in German (Lit-Verlag 2013).
Publications
Graefenstein, Sulamith (2019). 'The Memory Imperative as a Narrative Template: Difficult Heritage at European and North American Human Rights Museums'. International Journal of Heritage Studies, pp. 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1693414.
Kennedy, Rosanne and Graefenstein, Sulamith (2019). ‘From the Transnational to the Intimate: Multidirectional Memory, the Holocaust and Colonial Violence in Australia and Beyond’. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 403-422. DOI: 10.1007/s10767-019-09329-4.
Graefenstein, Sulamith (2016). 'After the Nation? Memory Work at Mauthausen Memorial in (Trans)National Perspective'. Australian Humanities Review, vol. 59, pp. 155–173.
Graefenstein, Sandra Sulamith (2013). Das National Museum of Australia und die Debatte um die Darstellung der kolonialgeschichtlichen Vergangenheit Australiens [The National Museum of Australia and the debate about Australian colonial history]. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
Conference papers and presentations
Memory, Colonialism and the Holocaust in Australia. Symposium of the ANU Centre for European Studies 'Performing Europe’s Past in Australia', Canberra, Australia. 20 November, 2019
The Representation of Difficult Heritage in the Global Human Rights Museum. Symposium of the Australian Memory Research Network and ANU Centre for European Studies 'Between Europe and Australia: Memory, Museum and Heritage', Canberra, Australia, 14 October 2016
Challenging the Hegemony of Euro-American Holocaust Memory – Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, North America and Asia. Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference 'What Does Heritage Change?', Montréal, Canada. 3–8 June 2016
Witnessing the Holocaust, a Matter of Human Rights Education? Visitor Engagement at the Mauthausen Memorial. Human Rights and the Mobilization of Testimony, Ghent, Belgium. 15–17 June 2015
Emerging Principles of a European Holocaust Education? Memory Work at Mauthausen Memorial in Transnational Perspective. Network in Transnational Memory Studies Conference 'Memory Practices and the Making of Europe', Lund, Sweden. 8–10 June 2015
Memory and Beyond: Civic Education at the Concentration Camp Memorial Mauthausen. Symposium at ANU in collaboration with the Network in Transnational Memory Studies 'Scales of Memory: Violence, (In)justice and Dynamics of Remembrance', Canberra, Australia. 10–12 December 2014
Scholarships
2018: Early Career Researcher Workshop Travel Grant, Jean Monnet Network on Policy, Politics, Culture: EU Migration and Integration (PPCEUMI) at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
2017: Global Humanities Campus Travel Grant, Thematic Network of Principles of Cultural Dynamics at Freie Universität Berlin, DAAD
2015: Vice Chancellor’s HDR Travel Grant, The Australian National University
2013: International ANU Research Scholarship and ANU HDR Merit Scholarship, The Australian National University