[ecrea] Shared Spaces, Shared Memories, Shared Visions: Contemporary Visual Representations of the Second World War in German Cities (Newcastle University, 5 November 2015)

*Call for Papers*

*Shared Spaces, Shared Memories, Shared Visions: Contemporary Visual
Representations of the Second World War in German Cities*

Workshop at Newcastle University

5 November 2015


To mark the 25^th anniversary of the reunification of Germany and the
subsequent reassessment of commemoration and memorialisation processes
connected with the Nazi period, this one-day workshop will bring
together experienced and emerging researchers to discuss visual
representations of the German wartime experience. The discourse
surrounding the roles played by the wider German population has
traditionally been informed by a series of binaries, with the opposing
positions of ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ constituting a central component
of this engagement. With a focus on the ways in which visual media and
physical sites within the German cityscape represent the events of World
War Two, this workshop aims to move beyond the established
victim/perpetrator binary, and explore the complexities that inform this
wartime experience.

Possible topics for papers could include:

-Competing narratives within the cityscape. How do public spaces in
German cities explore and explode the victim/perpetrator division?

-Online extremism: the impact of Neo-Nazi extremists on the
victim/perpetrator discussion (such as websites misappropriating the
Dresden bombings).

-The difficulties of simultaneously presenting victim and perpetrator
narratives within a shared space, and management strategies for any
resulting conflicts

-The shared onscreen presence of victim and perpetrator narratives in
film and television, and how this impacts on our understanding of
Germany as one nation.

- Narratives of German resistance: comparative representations of the
Rosenstraße protest in von Trotta’s 2004 film ‘Rosenstrasse’ and the
onsite memorial to the event.

-How narratives of victimhood and perpetration are explored in city
architecture such as the Jewish Museum Berlin’s Libeskind building, or
the post reunification design of the Reichstag.

Participants are invited to submit an abstract of 150-200 words for 20
minute papers in English, along with a brief bio and short list of
relevant publications (where applicable) to (gary.jenkins /at/ ncl.ac.uk)
<mailto:(gary.jenkins /at/ ncl.ac.uk)>by *2 September 2015*.

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*Please note: *Postgraduate students are actively encouraged to submit
proposals.

For further information, contact (gary.jenkins /at/ ncl.ac.uk)
<mailto:(gary.jenkins /at/ ncl.ac.uk)>or (l.e.bath /at/ ncl.ac.uk)
<mailto:(l.e.bath /at/ ncl.ac.uk)>

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