Interdisciplinary Workshop on Theories and Methods VI: Memory

The KFG starts on Wednesday October 16th, 2024, into the winter term 2024/25 with a workshop on memory theory and methods by our junior fellow Ida Richter and Katrin Antweiler.

Ida Richter’s research focuses on the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration as well as the history of human rights and international criminal law. She studied political science and human rights at Sciences Po Paris and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. An article resulting from her master’s thesis has been published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice in 2020. Ida Richter’s PhD dissertation, written in the framework of a research group on Yad Vashem’s Righteous among the Nations at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University Berlin, inquired into universalistic rhetoric in the commemoration of rescue during the Holocaust, taking the example of Raoul Wallenberg’s reception history from 1945 to the 1990s. In Munich, she will work on a central aspect of a new research project on Western activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in the 1970s and 1980s.

Katrin Antweiler is a cultural theorist with special interest in memory studies. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, leading the project “Remembrance as a social norm? Paradoxes of collective memory in the postmigrant society”. Katrin received her PhD in 2022 from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany) for a work on the governmentality of Holocaust memorialization in human rights museums that was published by De Gruyter in 2023. She has moreover published in journals such as Memory Studies and International Affairs, and gained ample practical experience as an educator at different Holocaust-related memorial sites around Berlin

To register for the workshop, please contact us: kfg20@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.

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