Veranstaltungen

Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Alfons-Goppel-Straße-Str. 11
80539 München

Media shape our memories. This is not a new phenomenon. Humans have created external records to support remembering for thousands of years, ranging from cave paintings to archives, monuments, bodily practices, and printed books. Sometimes, media are used by individuals who try to document and remember their lives (e.g., by writing a diary or creating a photo album); sometimes, media are used by groups and societies who want to preserve and to form collective memories (e.g., about historical events) and collective identities. In this regard, literature, film, and visual art, addressing different age groups (children, young adults, and adults), are particularly important. There is a variety of interactions and transitions between different media as well as between individual and sociocultural memories. Although established media formats and cultural institutions continue to play an important role with respect to individual as well as collective memories, the transformations of the digital age have created new possibilities but also new challenges. For instance, people living in the 21st century tend to preserve much more information about their private and professional lives than previous generations. In a similar vein, social and new visual media may have a profound impact on the way collective memories are created, told, and remembered. Many important questions regarding the role of media for memory and remembering in the 21st century remain unanswered. To explore the current state-of-the-art and to sketch avenues for future inquiry, the interdisciplinary workshop will bring together psychological and sociocultural perspectives.

Öffentliche Veranstaltung

Andrea Abele-Brehm, Vice-President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University); Fabian Hutmacher (University of Würzburg); Aline Cordonnier (UC Louvain); Svetlana Efimova (LMU Munich); Gernot Howanitz (University of Innsbruck); Aileen Oeberst (University of Potsdam); Joachim Kimmerle (IWM Tübingen); Gilbert Ndi Shang (University of Bayreuth; Yuri Leving (Princeton University); Christian Pentzold (University of Leipzig)

Registration (via email) is openuntil May 31. Attendance is limited.

benedikt.luther@uni-wuerzburg.de

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Svetlana Efimova, Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at LMU Munich and Dr. Fabian Hutmacher, lecturer at the Human-Computer-Media Institute at JMU Würzburg