(2004). Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 10-10.

Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture

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The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism

Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values Today, although the idea remains controversial, the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge based, social institutions is changing Museum Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice
At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice, this ground-breaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore, analyse and critically reflect upon the museum’s relationship to activism Including contributions from practitioners, artists, activists and researchers, this wide-ranging examination of new and divergent expressions of the inherent power of museums as forces for good, and as activists in civil society, aims to encourage further experimentation and enrich the debate in this nascent and uncertain field of museum practice
Museum Activism elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities, injustice and environmental challenges This makes the book essential reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, gallery studies, arts and heritage management, and politics It will be a source of inspiration to museum practitioners and museum leaders around the globe

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The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age

This round-table, which featured literary critics Professor Stef Craps, Professor Bryan Cheyette and Dr. Alan Gibbs, was recorded as part of the “Decolonizing Trauma Studies” symposium organized by Dr. Sonya Andermahr and Dr. Larissa Allwork at The School of The Arts, The University of Northampton (15 May 2015). Convened a week after the University of Zaragoza’s “Memory Frictions” conference, where Cheyette, Gibbs, Andermahr and Allwork gave papers, the Northampton symposium and round-table was sponsored by The School of The Arts to coincide with Andermahr’s guest editorship of this special issue of Humanities. Craps, Cheyette and Gibbs addressed five questions during the round-table. Namely, does trauma studies suffer from a form of psychological universalism? Do you see any signs that trauma studies is becoming more decolonized? What are the challenges of a decolonized trauma studies for disciplinary thinking? How does a decolonized trauma studies relate to pedagogical ethics? Finally, where do you see the future of the field? While this edited transcript retains a certain informality of style, it offers a significant contribution to knowledge by capturing a unique exchange between three key thinkers in contemporary trauma studies, providing a timely analysis of the impact of postcolonial theory on trauma studies, the state of the field and its future possibilities. Issues addressed include the problematic scholarly tendency to universalize a western model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); the question of the centrality of the Holocaust in trauma studies and the implications of this for the study of atrocities globally; the vexed issues posed by the representation of perpetrators; as well as how the basic tenets of western cultural trauma theory, until recently so often characterized by a Caruth-inspired focus on belatedness and afterwardness, are being rethought, both in response to developments in the US and in answer to the challenge to ‘decolonize’ trauma studies.

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Decolonizing Trauma Studies Round-Table Discussion

The Stockholm Declaration was the statement which summarized the main aims of the Stockholm International Forum, which was organized to promote Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research globally (hereafter, the SIF 2000; the forum was held on 26–28 January 2000). And despite the presence of non-European states such as America, Israel, Russia and Argentina, political scientist Jens Kroh (2008) has rightly stated that one of the most significant symbolic elements of the liberal representation of the Holocaust at this event was the idea that, ‘coming to terms with such a negative past has almost turned into an informal criterion for accession to the European Union’ (Kroh, 2010). Hence, the Stockholm Declaration demonstrates that the recollection of Nazi-era crimes with a central emphasis on the Holocaust has become a principal part of civic moral education in liberal Western and Westernizing nation states, particularly in Europe since 2000. These views are also echoed in sociologist Helmut Dubiel’s opinion that the SIF 2000’s representation of the Holocaust as a ‘European foundation myth’ is an attempt to ‘release the moral potential of its remembrance’ (Dubiel, 2004: 216–17), as well as in Alon Confino’s view, following and taking to extremes the ideas of Dan Diner, that the symbolism of contemporary Holocaust remembrance as moral and historical rupture has replaced the significance of the French Revolution as the ‘foundational past’ of human values in the West (Diner, 2007: 9; Confino, 2012: 5–6).

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Holocaust Remembrance as ‘Civil Religion’: The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000)

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Introduction - The Stockholm International Forum (2000) and the Transnational Turn in Memory Studies 1. 'Money ought not to be the last memory of the Holocaust': The International and Transnational Context for the Stockholm International Forum (2000) 2. Connecting with the World? The ITF and the Organization and Media Reception of the SIF 2000 3. The Global Legacies of the Stockholm International Forum (2000): The Subsequent Stockholm Conferences and the First Decade of the International Task Force 4. Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational: The International Task Force British/Lithuanian 'Liaison Project' 5. The Intellectual and Institutional Context for Understanding the Stockholm International Forum (2000): The 'Cosmopolitan' Potentials of the SIF 2000 and the Limits of the 'New Cosmopolitan' Global Theory Conclusion Bibliography Index

Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force

In the first 15 years following the collapse of Communism, and among pre-existing national and local efforts, there were also a number of international collaborative attempts to draw renewed attention to the memory of the genocide
of the Jews in Lithuania during the Second World War. These efforts included the establishment of an ITF British/Lithuanian ‘Liaison Project’ (2000–03) as part of
the work of the Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF, which has been renamed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance [IHRA] in 2013). It will be argued that the British/Lithuanian ‘Liaison Project’ offers an example of intercultural memory work which enriches and nuances the research of scholars such as Tony Judt, Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider. This is because the British/Lithuanian ‘Liaison Project’ can be interpreted in terms of British and Lithuanian political, cultural and foreign policies in relation to Europe and the
memorialisation of genocides in the global arena at the turn of the millennium

Intercultural legacies of the International Task Force: Lithuania and the British at the turn of the millennium

“So, is this global memory really about human rights?” (xii). This is just one of the many provocative questions asked by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan in their stimulating edited collection, which ...

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Marking evil: Holocaust memory in the global age

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