ISTME - In search of transcultural memory in Europe
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Ruspini P.
(Responsible)
Abstract
The COST Action IS1203 ‘In search of transcultural memory in Europe’ (ISTME) aims to go beyond the nationally oriented memory studies that tend to reify the bond between culture, nation and memory. Instead ISTME will investigate the transcultural dynamics of memory in Europe today. Studying how memories of the troubled twentieth century are transmitted and received across Europe, the Action explores the tension between attempts to create a common European memory, or a unitary memory ethics, on the one hand and numerous memory conflicts stemming from Europe’s fragmentation into countless memory communities on the other. Drawing on recent theoretical insights that point to the importance of memory migration, mediation and new media, ISTME seeks to develop new methods for studying and comparing effects of memory transmission over cultural borders. The Action aims to develop European memory studies theoretically and methodologically by focusing on transculturality, agency and reception - and to contribute to finding ways of accommodating memory conflicts. With the support of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER), USI has joined the ISTME Management Committee. Contributions will be especially provided to the working group focusing on memory and migration (WG3).
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Publications
- Ruspini P. (2016) Chair for the Session 5 and discussant for the paper of Gunnthorun Guthmunnsdottir "European memory on the margins: the reception in Iceland of stories from the Spanish Civil War 1942 and 2001". Transcultural memory and reception in Europe. Sofia, Bulgaria. 16-20 April 2016
- Ruspini P. (2016) Memory unbound? Migrant transnationalism and memory studies. Paper for the Panel 5 of the ISTME 2016 Conference “Locating and Dis-Locating Memory: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe”. University College Dublin (UCD) Sutherland School of Law, Dublin, Ireland. 1° September 2016
- Ruspini P. (2014) Migrant Transnationalism in Europe: theory, research and practices. Paper for the “Memory on the Move: Theory and Methodology of Memory and Migration” Working Group Meeting, during the COST network “In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe” conference. Budapest. 29 September 2014
- Giordano C., Ruegg F., Ruspini P., Kavaliauskas T. (2014) Western Europe and the rest of it: the Swiss perspective. in T. Kavaliauskas (ed.) Conversations about Transcultural European Memory. Vilnius: Publishing House of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, 149-166
- Ruspini P. (2013) Migrants’ memories and the intergenerational transmission of migration experiences in Switzerland. Paper for the session "Transmission, generations, identity" and co-chair for "Living the tales of 'homeland" session of Working Group 3 "Memory and Migration" during the "In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME)" Krakow conference held at Collegium Maius, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, 16-17 September 2013