Remembrance Week
@Why_Remember
A week long programme of collaborative events from 4th-11th November hosted by @SHEFHSTSOC asking: How we remember. Why we remember. Should we remember.
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Something a little different for a Sunday. Tonight we will be showing THE HISTORY BOYS from 6pm in Interval Cafe tinyurl.com/k36grhb
The video for our #HistoryMatters panel on anniversaries is now available! historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/day-history-an… Do join in the discussion on the blog.
Nazi Germany occupation of the Channel Islands. Forgotten history which doesn't fit the GB narrative of WW2 #whyremember
Sue Vine looks to the channel Islands to argue that the British pick and choose what is remembered. #whyremember
Did the Holocaust change language? Howard Jacobson refers to 'unholy words' in his novel Kalooki Nights, including gassed, camp & train.
Does British remembrance turn the Holocaust into a German problem? #whyremember
Sue Vine questions whether British remembrance is less reverential than its German equivalent in light of British fiction #whyremember
Jacobson asks: how can the Jewish community reconcile the personal and the political? #whyremember
Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights are more overtly British, facing head on the reality of British Jews #whyremember
Are British authors avoiding reference to the British role in the Jewish story? Questions of responsibility are coming through
Sue Vice is going to speak of Holocaust remembrance in British Fiction. Can we comprehend such a problematic subject? #whyremember
This involvement of children creates a more active response. Is this a more evocative way of creating memorials? An interesting final query
The 'Gergen das Vergessen' memorial was designed by a school child. Public engagement! #whyremember
Can a memorial really achieve it's aims? How do they survive over time?
Heinrich Broder has criticised the sheer number of memorials in Germany's capital
Remembering of everyday discrimination us just as important. In Germany, remembrance is not only about the big events #whyremember
Berlin's triangle of memory integrates the negative topography. And tourists want to see it #whyremember
Remembrance is the responsibility of both the public and the state, the German govt decided in 1998
Political influence of commemoration seen in later establishment of official monuments to commemorate the Jews who lost their lives
In east Germany memorials were more prolific as socialists sought to dismantle the national socialist past
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