Event Date: June 24, 2021 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm EDT
Location: Webinar

Presented by the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Centre for Global Cooperation Research and CIPS.

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By referring to texts and images, but also to language and spatial and temporal metaphors, this talk will highlight some of the ways in which remembering and forgetting are intertwined in the dynamics of our memory. This applies both to individuals as well as to societies at large.

It makes a significant difference, however, whether material remains are available or whether this is not the case. But even in material archives, for instance, which are designed to enable and support remembering in acts of retrieval, temporary forgetting is an important structural element. Similarly, monuments partake of processes of forgetting which is foregrounded in ruins and relicts. It is with the help of artworks that such processes can become visible and stimulate reflection and debates.

Schedule:

18:20-18:30
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18:30-18:35
Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Dr. Taylan Yildiz
Research Associate at the chair ‘Political System of Germany’, NRW School of Governance, University of Duisburg-Essen

18:35-19:15

45^th Käte Hamburger Lecture
Remembrance between Retrieval and Retro-projection

Dr. Dr h.c. Aleida Assmann
Professor Emerita of British Literature and Literary Studies, Konstanz University

Moderator:  Dr. Taylan Yildiz

19:15-19:45
Q&A with the Audience

19:45
Concluding Remarks and End of the Lecture