The Connecting Memories Podcast Paul Leworthy

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh).

Prof Davies presents a talk entitled ‘The Holocaust and Translation: a Complex Relationship’. In his talk and in the discussion that follows, Prof Davies thinks about the Holocaust as an essentially multilingual event, considering both the role of translation during the Holocaust and the all-important contribution of translators and interpreters to the memory of the Holocaust.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles).

Prof Rothberg presents a talk entitled ‘Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany’ and we discuss the ethics of Holocaust comparisons, Holocaust memory in a postmigrant society, and the recent public debate in Germany known as the Historikerstreit 2.0 (Historians’ Dispute 2.0).

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Katharina Niemeyer (Université du Québec à Montréal).

Prof Niemeyer presents a talk entitled ‘The Power of Nostalgia’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, Prof Niemeyer talks about the wide range of scholarly approaches to the idea of nostalgia, its ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ forms, as well as technostalgia, and retro and vintage objects.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Max Silverman (University of Leeds).

Prof Silverman presents a talk entitled ‘Impure Memory’ and we discuss the links between memory and identity, the idea that memory is never pure, and the crucial contribution of art to memory cultures.

The guest speaker for this episode is Dr László Muntean (Radboud University Nijmegen).

Dr Muntean presents a talk entitled ‘Memory and Materiality: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center’. In his talk and in the discussion that follows, Dr Muntean thinks about memory materially, charting what subsequently happened to certain of the material remains of the World Trade Center and considering some of the ethical issues surrounding these ‘afterlives’.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof James Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
Prof Young presents a talk entitled ‘The Memorialist’ and we discuss the processes of meaning-making and interpretation that memorials are engaged in as well as the ways in which they contribute to memory cultures in different contexts.