Europe in the World: Cultural Remediations
Cultural practices are essential for crafting people-to-people solidarities and shaping political and social visions. In this event, organised by the ACES theme group ‘Europe and the World’, we reflect on the remembrance and remediation of Europe’s connections with the world in art and culture.
Event details of
Europe in the World: Cultural Remediations
- Date
- 11 June 2025
- Time
- 16:00 -17:30
- Location
- Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis
- Room
- E1.01E
Two speakers offer insights from their latest research, highlighting how dynamics of gender, race, and nationality in European memory politics shape visions of Europe as well as its relations to other parts of the world. The speakers reflect on the American inflections of European AIDS memories (Nebeling Petersen) and post-Communist imaginations of the future in times of transition (Schellens).
Michael Nebeling Petersen
“What is remembered lives”: (Re-)mediating the AIDS Crisis, Retroactivism, Nostalgia, and Queer Memory
Copyright: Michael Nebeling Petersen
I will explore how TV and cinema have reshaped public memory of the AIDS crisis through retroactivism, nostalgia, and queer memory, focusing on American representations and discussing their dominance over other narratives and regional contexts.Michael Nebeling Petersen
Dorine Schellens
Beyond Post-Communism: Imagining the Future in Times of Transition
Copyright: Dorine Schellens
How did people across Eastern Europe imagine the future during the transitions of the late 1980s and 1990s? I explore how writers and cultural theorists saw the potential future of their societies from the era of perestroika until the late 1990s. By comparing Russia and Eastern Germany, I map the diverse future scenarios envisioned in the former communist region.Dorine Schellens
