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Michael Rothberg: From Memory Wars to Memory Work: Relational Remembrance in Pinar Ögrenci's Asît (The Avalanche)

Termin	Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2025, 18.15 - 19.45 Uhr
Veranstaltungsart	Vorlesung/Vortrag
Reihe	Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture
Einrichtung	Philosophische Fakultät I
Veranstalter	Seminar für Ethnologie, Prof. Olaf Zenker
Veranstaltungsort	Steintor-Campus, Anton Wilhelm Amo-Hörsaal
Straße	Ludwig-Wucherer-Straße 2
PLZ/Ort	06108 Halle (Saale)

Beschreibung

Over the last five years, a series of acrimonious debates has taken place in Germany about Holocaust memory, antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine. In one of the most visible of those disputes, an enormous scandal rocked the 2022 documenta fifteen international art exhibit in Kassel. This lecture reviews the recent memory wars in Germany and then turns to a work that was displayed at documenta fifteen but was not part of the controversy swirling around the exhibit: Pinar Ögrenci's film Asît (The Avalanche). This film, which concerns the tangled histories of violence directed against Armenians and Kurds in a remote town in eastern Turkey, does not address the terms of the German debate directly. However, as Rothberg argues, in weaving together multiple histories of exile, trauma, and catastrophe, Asît offers a mode of relational remembrance that suggests alternative possibilities for coming to terms with the past in contemporary Germany - and beyond.

Michael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the social and cultural implications of political violence and its afterlives, and his writings have been translated into French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. His books include The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019), Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003; co-edited with Neil Levi), and Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000). With Yasemin Yildiz, he is completing Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance.

Webseite	https://amo-lectures.uni-halle.de/lectures#from-memory-wars-to-memory-work-relational-remembrance-in-pinar-ogrenci-s-asit-the

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Die Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt. // The lecture will be held in English.

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