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A picture of the obelisk in Buenos Aires

Photo: Memory Studies Association

28 July 2026|Presentation

Papers on the non-human in artistic practices of remembrance accepted to the 10th Annual MSA Conference in Buenos Aires

We are delighted to announce that Fabian Röderer William’s paper “The Plinth as Planter for Public Art. Veronica Ryan’s Proposal...

A picture of the obelisk in Buenos Aires

Photo: Memory Studies Association

28 July 2026|Presentation

Panel “Difficult Heritage and ‘Nature’” accepted to the 10th Annual MSA conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Our panel “Difficult Heritage and ‘Nature’: Greening Toxic Monuments – Encouraging Resilience or Forgetting?” has been accepted to...

Foto eines verlassenen Innenraums mit Graffiti

Photo: Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier

12 November 2025|Announcement

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): „Jenseits der schönen Denkmalwelt: Genese und Perspektiven von Difficult und Dark Heritage“

On 12 of November at 18:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will give a presentation entitled...

Teamphoto of the speakers in Prague

Photo: Fabian Röderer Williams

18 July 2025|Announcement

Finalization of the Panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetics of Doubt” at the 9th MSA Annual Conference in Prague

The ERC team contributed a panel to the 9th Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, “Beyond Crises: Resilience and...

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14 July 2025|Conference

Panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt” accepted to the 9th Annual MSA conference in Prague

We are delighted to announce that our panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt in Reframing Difficult Heritage –...

Reproduction of the painting Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe by Pedro Berruguete, between circa 1493 and circa 1499

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

9 July 2025|Announcement

Guest lecture on the "The Iconography of the Inquisition" by Prof. Dr. Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London)

Prof. Dr. Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London) will give his lecture entitled “The Iconography of the Inquisition” on...

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University of York, Campus West

Photo: University of York; Mark Woodward

9 April 2025|Presentation

"'Invasive Alien Species': Imaginations of Plant Agency and Migration in Iván Argote's Descanso" at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference

As part of the panel “More-than-human worlds on the move: Reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in...

Flyer postcolonial hauntologies

Photo: University of Amsterdam/ Concordia University

8 March 2025|Presentation

“Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization?” at “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past”

At the workshop “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past” held by the University of Amsterdam (NL) and...

Portrait / Award Ceremony

Photo: Johanna Spanke

28 November 2024|Announcement

Johanna Spanke receives gold medal at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis

Johanna Spanke has been awarded the gold medal in the category of photo theory at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook...

Caricature

Photo: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / CC-BY-SA 4.0

15 November 2024|Presentation

Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900

Magdalena Tonia Füllenbach presents her paper "Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der...

Columbus

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

14 November 2024|Presentation

"At Home with Columbus" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in Johannesburg

At the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg...

Front view of Victor Brecheret’s sculpture Monumento às Bandeiras (1953), in São Paulo, Brazil

Photo: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz Mariordo, Creative Commons

14 November 2024|Presentation

“Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in Johannesburg

Carla Guimaraes Hermann presents her paper “Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors: Denilson Baniwa’s Brasil Terra Indígena (2020)...

Logo Developing Room

Photo: Developing Room/ Rutgers University

8 November 2024|Presentation

"Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization" at Ninth Graduate Student Colloquium

Winona Pawelzik presents her paper "Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization in...

Portrait / Book cover

Photo: P. Feuerböther / De Gruyter

7 October 2024|Announcement

„Photomurals“ by Johanna Spanke nominated for the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis

Congratulations to Dr. Johanna Spanke – her book "Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen...

MSA

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19 July 2024|Presentation

“Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” - MSA 8th Annual Conference

Johanna Spanke presents her paper “Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” at the Memory Studies...

logo of the 36th CIHA World Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts

Photo: CIHA

24 June 2024|Presentation

"La Joven de Amajac" - 36th CIHA World Congress

Johanna Spanke presents the paper "'La Joven de Amajac': The Patrimonialisation of Mexico’s Pre-Hispanic Heritage and Its...

logo of the 36th CIHA World Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts

Photo: CIHA

24 June 2024|Presentation

"Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery" - 36th CIHA World Congress

Carla Guimarães Hermann presents the paper “Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery: examples from Rio de Janeiro...

logo of the 36th CIHA World Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts

Photo: CIHA

24 June 2024|Conference

Panel “Patrimonializations” - 36th CIHA World Congress

Yuning Teng from Universität Hamburg, along with Maria Inez Turazzi from Fluminense Federal University and Hélène Sirven from...

chairs of lecture hall (audimax)

Photo: UHH/Dingler

20 June 2024|Lecture

Lecture by Margit Kern at Universität Tübingen

Margit Kern „Visuelle Skepsis und der Glanz Gottes in der Malerei der Frühen Neuzeit“, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Eberhard Karls...

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Photo: SARChI, University of Johannesburg

8 November 2023|Presentation

"The ephemeral as a strategy of intervention" - Conference "Monumental Developments" in Johannesburg

Johanna Spanke presents her paper "The ephemeral as a strategy of intervention: Aesthetic reframings of the Columbus Monument in...

Roter verschwommener Pfeil, der kreisförmig auf sein eigenes Ende zeigt

Photo: Hochschule Hannover

26 October 2023|Lecture

Symposium „Kritik als Haltung und Methode“, Hochschule Hannover

Margit Kern presents the paper „Bildliche Kritik und visuelle Skepsis. Parallelen und Divergenzen zweier Konzepte“ at the Kurt...

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