CALL FOR PAPERS – “Transatlantic Memories: History Activism, Heritage, and Diplomacy across the Atlantic World”
This workshop seeks to address the growing interest in the ways activists, states, and transnational institutions appeal to transatlantic publics in the name of a shared past. Transatlantic history offers a rich tapestry of people and organizations invoking, contesting or reshaping visions of a common past, ranging from public battles around transatlantic monuments, museums, and memorials through transnational campaigns for restitution to new forms of heritage tourism or the cultural diplomacy programs of transatlantic governments. The aim of this workshop is to bring these multiple strands of research and practice together. What we would like to discuss is how transatlantic actors and their public representations of the past have changed the way we see and think of transatlantic relations and the Atlantic world.
Taking a broad approach to the topic, we invite scholars working in public history, cultural memory, cultural heritage, transatlantic history, the history of U.S. foreign relations or international relations. The workshop is intended to take place on-site in Berlin, but participants may also tune-in via Zoom or Webex. If necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop can in whole or in part be arranged as a hybrid or online event.
Inquiries can be made to the conveners via the following e-mail addresses: l.werle@fu-berlin.de