To locate one’s (and ones’) root has been a recurring theme, both as personal pursuits and academic endeavor. At the state level, the nation’s meticulously articulated history and collective memory often serve as the source of convergence for its people. At the community level, people share a story, an experience, and hence a sense of belonging. Such collective notions are possibly coherent with individuals’ stories, but they can also be dissonant and even contradictory to each other. The act of recording history at the level of the civilian is, therefore, an intriguing undertaking: Our sense of the past is shaped by a variety of forces, including our education and broader processes of socialization, our built environments, and the listening-in and sharing of experiences among family members, friends, community, and the media. These interconnected and dialectical elements dictate how we remember and narrate the past, and hence how the past is manifested in these elements. The workshop will present ongoing research and practices – theories, case studies or methodologies - concerned with the way in which the past is interwoven into various forms of cultural artefacts and activities to be remembered, narrated, celebrated or instrumentalized.

Speakers

Marketa Bajgerova Verly (OEAW, Austria)
Dora Choi and Haider Kikabhoy (‘Walk in Hong Kong’, Cultural Enterprise)
Rossella Ferrari (Department of East Asian Studies University of Vienna)
Shu-mei Huang (Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University)
Liza Wing Man Kam (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna)
San-Hwan Lu (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Vienna) Fabrizio Massini (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna)
Florian Purkarthofer (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna)

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DATE: Friday, May 09, 2025

TIME: 13:00-18:00

LOCATION: MediaLab of the Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies, UZA 2, Rotunde,
Stiege H, Ebene 1&3, Josef-Holaubek- Platz 2, 1090 Vienna