BLOG: Exploring European Memory Politics in Europe on a Study Tour with 18 students from Canada
Undergraduate and graduate students were exposed to experiential learning while travelling to Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland for three weeks. During and after the trip, students and accompanying scholars were invited to reflect on the various experiences while on the Study Tour in European Memory Politics. Read some of the contributions on our blog.
Below a chronological overview of the contributions:
Introduction and preparations od the Study Tour in European Memory Politics.
Day 1 – June 3rd / Victoria-Vancouver-Muenich-Vienna
The Adventure Begins – Study Tour in European Memory Politics by Janine Wulz
Day 2 – June 4th / Arrival in Vienna
Stickiness of Memory by Lisa Chalykoff
Day 3 – June 5th / Vienna: Introductory City Walk with Bernhard Weidinger
Graffiti as an example of public memory politics by Maia Vasco
In the traditional centre of Jewish life in Vienna by Oliver Schmidtke
Day 4 – June 6th / Vienna
Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands. Tour and Meeting with Experts /
Round Table Holocaust Education and Memory Politics, Ministry of Education /
Event Memory Politics with Jochen Böhler für Polen, Andrea Petö bzw. Éva Kovács für Ungarn und Helga Embacher für Österreich. Jewish Museum Vienna
How to deal with contested historical memories and statues by Beate Schmidtke
Holocaust Distortion: Contested Memory in Europe by Matt James
Exchange on Holocaust education and prevention of anti-semitism with Austrian officials by Beate Schmidtke
Day 5 – June 6th / Train to Oświęcim: Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim
Day 6 – June 7th / Oświęcim: Visit Museum Auschwitz I Stammlager
Meeting with a survivor
Overwhelmed in Auschwitz by Vanessa Wheaton
Day 7 – June 8th / Oświęcim: Museum Auschwitz II Birkenau, Synagogue
Tidal wave of emotions in Auschwitz – Birkenau by Ellie Hiotakis and Simrat Otal
Holocaust memory across Europe by Alicia Ward
Processing Auschwitz through Photographs by Kästle Van Der Meer
Day 8 – June 9th / Bus to Kraków, Walking tour Jewish Krakow (Kazimierz), Jewish Galicia Museum
Reflecting on Evidence of Life by Maia Vasco
From a Jewish Paradise to Nazi Concentration Camps by Jacob Moreno and Emily Duff
From Munitions Factory to Constructed Memory- The case of Schindler’s Factory Museum in Krakow by Alicia Ward
Day 9 – June 10th / Night Train Kraków-Vienna/ Reflections
Day 10 – June 11th / Vienna
Euthanasia Memorial at the Spiegelgrund and Otto Wagner Church
Meet Activists at the Slovenian Student Union
Slovenian Student Activists by Elena Senecal and Rowan Salverda
Vienna: Stumble upon memory by Ana Paula Santana Bertho
Day 11 – June 12th/ Vienna: University and Memory Politics Tour
Siegfried’s Kopf Memorial at the University of Vienna by Megan Klein and Anika Luteijn
Day 12 – June 13th / Budapest Workshop at ELTE
Day 13 – June 14th/ Budapest
Konrad-Adenauer Foundation Canada Panel I: Memory politics in a regional perspective
Remembrance and Memorialization in Education
Engaging Generation Z in Topics of Collective Memory & History: Thoughts from the 2023 European Memory Politics Conference by Kästle Van Der Meer
Tracing Local History and Memory Using a Digital Application (IWalk)
Reliving History Through an IWalk: My Experience at a Memorial on the Danube River by Kästle Van Der Meer
Thoughts of an Inspired Student by Alicia Ward
Day 14 – June 15h /Budapest Conference
Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Memory, Narrative, and Agency across Vulnerable Populations
Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Remembrance, Reconciliation and Resilience across Refugee Communities
Methodological Sightseeing Tour in the World of Automated Text Analytics with ELTE Research Center for Computational Social Science (rc2s2.elte.hu)
Visit to the House of Terror
Surviving Terror: From the Holocaust Memorial Center to the House of Terror by Alicia Ward
Intergenerational trauma presentation and the visit to the House of Terror by Sarah Robinson and August Kirste-Yee
Day 15 – June 16th / Budapest
Remembrance and Amnesia, Silences in Memorialization
Museums and Memorialization
Hungarian Memory Politics in the Field: Monument of National Martyrs, Memorial of National Unity, Liberty Square
Selective Memory: Német Megszállás Áldozatainak and Misrepresentations of the Past in Modern Hungary by Kalea Palmer and Emma Newton
Day 16 – June 17th / Budapest
Reflection / Student PanelLearning about the Fascist Past: Hungary’s current approaches by Alissa Schmidtke
Budapest Conference: Memory Politics in Comparative Perspective by Matt James
Summaries of the Budapest June Conference by Fazila Mat
Day 17 – June 18th / Train to Klagenfurt
Hotel Rossmann at the Wörthersee
Day 18 – June 19th /Wörthersee
Eisenkappel and Memorial Politics and the Alpe-Adria Region Hike
Day 19 – June 20th / Bus to Triest
Loibl Memorial
Day 20 – June 21st / Triest: City tour Triest with Francesca Pitacco
Tour at Risiera di San Sabba
Some Aesthetic Aspects of Holocaust Memorialization by Lisa Chalykoff
Day 21 – June 22nd / Triest
Foibe di Bassovizza, Memory Politics in Italy
Memory on the Border – Loibl Tunnel by Alicia Ward
Final Reflections
