Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures

Christina Kraenzle is Associate Professor of German Studies at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on modern German-language cultural studies, with an emphasis on issues of transnational cultural production, mobility, globalization and memory. Maria Mayr is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Her research analyzes contemporary German-language cultural productions, with a focus on migration, memory, transnationalism, and identity discourses.

• 1.Introduction: The Usable Past and Futures of Transnational European Memories. Christina Kraenzle and Maria Mayr.- 2.Between the National and the Transnational: European Memories of the Second World War in the 21st-Century Museum in Germany And Poland. Stephan Jaeger.- 3.Contemporary Memory Politics in Catalonia: Europeanizing and Mobilizing the History of the Spanish Civil War. David Messenger.- 4.Memory Competition or Memory Collaboration? Politics, Networks and Social Actors in Memories of Dictatorship. Sara Jones.- 5.Towards a Transnational Ethics for Europe: Memory and Vulnerability as Gateways to Europe’s Future in Koen Peeters’ Grote Europese roman. Jan Lensen.- 6.Transnational Memory in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon and Cate Shortland’s Lore. John O. Buffinga.- 7.Visions of Europe in Fatih Akin’s The Evil Old Songs: Divided Past, Transnational Future? Eva Maria Esseling.- 8.Beyond Foundational Myths: Images from the Margins of the European Memory Map. Christian Sieg.- 9.A Place in the Sun: Colonial Entanglements in Lukas Bärfuss’ Hundert Tage and Daniel Goetsch’s Herz aus Sand. Charlotte Schallié.- 10: Compelled to Share: Exploring Holocaust and Residential School Survivors’ Stories. Willow J. Anderson.- 11.From Europe’s Early Iron Age to a Shanzhai Village: Themed Environments, Global Property Markets, and the Role of Hallstatt’s Cultural Legacy. Markus Reisenleitner.