The Connecting Memories Podcast

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent University).
Prof Wüstenberg presents a talk entitled ‘Slow Memory: Remembering Gradual Change in an Accelerating World’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, she presents her concept of ‘slow memory’ and explores how we might better register and remember slow-moving developments, given that our existing tools for remembering are overwhelmingly designed for remembering eventful history.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Helen Finch (University of Leeds).
Prof Finch presents a talk entitled ‘Queer Memory, Queer Poetics’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, she explores queer memory as a means to serve queer history and queer mnemic techniques as a kind of fugitive practice conducive to breaking down normative modes of time and escaping oppressive logics.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Mihaela Mihai (University of Edinburgh).
Prof Mihai presents a talk entitled ‘Critique as Political Care: Democracy, Memory, Theory’. In her talk and in the discussion that follows, she explores how particular interpretations of the past become accepted as 'self-evident truths' and how critical interventions within the mnemonic field can be understood as a form of political care for a society's democracy.

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).