The question of whether anti-Semitism and racism can be discussed together has been the subject of public and professional debate for several years. While the debates have a high potential for conflict, it is striking that there is little empirical research on teaching-learning settings in which knowledge on the topic is (re)negotiated.
In the first part of our presentation, we analyse empirical data on the extent to which offers of remembrance culture are not perspectivised by migration society and how students position themselves in relation to these offers of interpretation, which tend to frame Nazi history in a historical seclusion of violent relationships. The students' appropriation reflects the Master's narrative of national history policies, but also shows that decentring perspectives on the culture of remembrance can be connected to the students' debate. In the second part of the lecture, we ask analytically and theoretically what challenges are faced by multidirectional memory culture programmes that address all members of a migration society and that understand the objects of memory as differently narratable and legible in (dis)continuities.
With Yalız Akbaba (Institute for School Pedagogy, University of Marburg), Constantin Wagner (Institute for Educational Science, University of Mainz)
Registration
The event is part of the digital event series "Perspectives on the Culture of Remembrance" organised by the Lower Saxony Memorials Development Department. Registration is required for participation. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to the following address, stating your name, profession and (if available) affiliation. We will send all registered participants the Zoom link in advance of the events.
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The organisers reserve the right to exercise their domiciliary rights and to refuse admission to or exclude from the event any persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organisations or who have made or continue to make anti-Semitic, anti-democratic, history-denying, nationalistic, racist or other inhuman statements, attitudes or visible signs.