Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal/Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco (2012 - 2014)
Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (bis März 2014)
Die postkoloniale arabische Geschichtsschreibung des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde zumeist durch offizielle Diskurse gelenkt, um für den neuen Staat eine einheitliche Nationalgeschichte zu entwerfen und staatliche wie nicht-staatliche Erinnerungsakte zu regulieren. Nationale Geschichte wurde zu einem vereinfachenden Narrativ geglättet, welches alternative Erzählungen ausschloss. Politisch wurde nationales Vergessen häufig durch Amnestien umgesetzt.
Marokko und Libanon stellen im Nahen Osten Ausnahmen dar, da es in beiden Ländern seit fast zwanzig Jahren kontinuierlich (!) experimentelle Formen der Kulturproduktion gibt, die sich auf die jeweilige gewalttätige Vergangenheit beziehen. Jüngste Entwicklungen in beiden Ländern können als eine variable Politik der Erinnerung und des Vergessens/der Amnesie bezeichnet werden: In Marokko hat die Zivilgesellschaft die Gründung einer Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommission auf die politische Tagesordnung gesetzt; im Libanon verweigert der Staat jede Form der Historisierung des und Erinnerung an den Bürgerkrieg. Die drei Subprojekte gehen von den individuellen sozialen Praktiken aus, um einen Beitrag zu aktuellen Forschungsdesideraten zu leisten.
Das Projekt untersucht Literatur, (Auto-)Biographie, Film, Chroniken, Interviews, Pamphlete und Manifeste in ihrer potentiellen Funktion als „Gegen-Gedächtnisse“ und als transformative Praktiken, die sich zwischen persönlicher und kollektiver Erinnerung ansiedeln. Dabei soll untersucht werden, wie Kulturprodukte als Gegengewichte zu einem aktiven Vergessen funktionieren.
Heads of project
Dr. Sonja Hegasy (2012 - 2013)
Monika Borgmann (2012 - 2013)
Projects
Transforming Memories: Media and Historiography in the Aftermath of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission, seit 2014
Dr. Sonja Hegasy, ZMO
Sites of ReMemory: Situating Cultural Production and Civil Violence in Lebanon
Dr. habil. Saadi Nikro, ZMO, until December 2013
Memory and Reconciliation: Conflict on Mount Lebanon
Makram Rabah, M.A., based in Beirut at UMAM D&R, until December 2013
Wounded Memories: An Ethnographic Approach to Cultural Production
Dr. Laura Menin, ZMO, Associate Researcher
Activities:
October 13th, 2013, Panel: Personal and Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco organized by ZMO and UMAM with Saadi Nikro (ZMO), Sonja Hegasy (ZMO), Makram Rabah (UMAN) and Laura Menin (ZMO); in the framework of the annual MESA Meeting 2013, New Orleans, USA
October 3rd 2013, Columbia University, Middle East Institute, Faculty House, Contemporary History And Its Discontents - Memory Politics in Morocco, lecture by Sonja Hegasy (ZMO)
26 - 29 September 2013, Arsenal Berlin
Film program Sights of Memory - Filme aus dem Libanon, organized in collaboration with arsenal - institute for film and video art
  
August 13th, 2013, work talk with the editor and journalist Aboubakr Jamaï on 'Monarchy/PJD: A game of "coopetition" and the historian Driss Maghraoui on 'The Normalization of the PJD in the Moroccan Political Scene'
June 3rd, 2013, Thematic Workshop: Memory Studies, organized by Saadi Nikro, Venue: ZMO
June 1st, 2013, 4 pm: Missing: An Exhibition About Absence, Talk with Dr. Norman Saadi Nikro (ZMO) on the exhibition; Gerichtshöfe, Gerichtsstrasse 12-13, Berlin Wedding
Prof. Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) guest scholar from May 1st to June 30th, 2013.
Workshop 'Trauma, Memory and History: A Comparative Reflection between Morocco and Lebanon' at the University of Rabat, 18 - 25 April 2013
Report of the Workshop by Fatima Zhara Blila, Laura Menin and Makram Rabah
Screening of « La Chambre Noire », April 23rd, 2013, Amphithéatre Charif Al-Idrissi, Faculté des Lettres-Centrale, Rabat
Friday, March 15th, 2013, Public Debate with Sonja Hegasy: What Future Now? The Palestinian Refugees and the Arab Uprisings in Framework of the Workshop Memories of Palestine: The 1948 Nakba, at ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstraße 18/19, Berlin
November 1-6, 2012, Beirut,
Workshop directed by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim:
Documentation & Human Rights
Second Regional Meeting organized by UMAM D&R with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
Thursday, October 11th, 2012, Beirut, Official Launch of Initiative: The Passionate of Darkness – Carceral Experiences in Syria’s Prisons
By UMAM D&R (directed by Monika Borgmann & Lokman Slim)
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012, 10:30 am, ZMO
Work talk with Driss el-Yazami, President of the National Human Rights Council
August 14th, 2012, 2 pm, ZMO, Work talk with Julie Billaud;
'Poetic Suicide: Expressing Discontent in a Girls' Dormitory in Kabul'
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012, Beirut,
Public Debate with Monika Borgmann:
The Checkpoints of Memory in a Post-War City, in the framework of the Hay Festival Beirut
The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon, by Norman Saadi Nikro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 2012
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012, 2 pm, ZMO
The American University of Beirut:
At the Intersection of Arab Nationalism and American Education
Work Talk with Prof. Betty Anderson, Boston University
Prof. Joseph Massad (Columbia University), guest scholar from 6th to 14th May 2012
Friday, April 20th, 2012,
Tufts University, Massachusetts
The War of the Mountains 1982–1983: Oral History and Collective Memory
Lecture by Makram Rabah at the conference 'The Legacy of Kamal Salibi'
Opening workshop in Beirut, 10 - 17 April 2012
Report of the Workshop published at H-Soz-U-Kult
January 18-20, 2012, Casablanca, Morocco
Coalition to Co-Host First Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Sites of Conscience Meeting / Presentation: Memory at Work
with
Monika Borgman, UMAM D&R
Project-related links:
New Publication:
UMAM D&R (ed.)
About Baalbeck Studios and Other Lebanese Sites of Memory
Beirut, 2013 |
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E+Z: Der Kampf um Erinnerung
von Mona Naggar, 14. August 2013
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Temporalities by Russell West-Pavlov reviewed by Norman Saadi Nikro, Vol. 13, No1 2013
taz: Den Alltag der Folter erzählen
by
Jannis Hagmann, May 3rd, 2013
Deutschlandfunk: Die grausame Folter darstellen
by Martina Sabra, May 2nd, 2013
Fikrun wa Fann: Blick zurück nach vorn
- Marokko ringt um sein postkoloniales Selbstverständnis
by Sonja Hegasy, March 2013
Now: The unorthodox becomes orthodox
by Makram Rabah, January 18th, 2013
Review of Middle East Studies: Buchrezension über "War and Memory in Lebanon" von Sune Haugbolle, Cambridge University
Press, 2010
by Makram Rabah, Summer Issue 2012
Qantara.de: Geächtet und vergessen
In
English
by Sonja Hegasy, June 5th, 2012
Qantara.de: Das Wort und der Krieg. Elias Khourys Roman 'Yalo'
In English
In Arabic
by Sonja Hegasy, April 25th, 2012
NOW Lebanon: The
Syrian Marco Polo
by Makram Rabah, April 15th, 2012
Qantara.de: Streit um ein Schulbuch
In English
In Arabic
by Sonja Hegasy, 13. April 2012
Homepage of the Lebanese Political Detainees in Syria
Ali Abou Dehn, President of the LPDS
Egypt Independent: What
will happen to Lebanon?
by Makram Rabah, 14. März 2012
A
History Lesson for Lebanon
Documentation by Hadi Zaccak
„Gendered Memory in the Middle East and North Africa: Cultural Norms, Social Practices, and Transnational Regimes”, Special Issue Journal for Middle Eastern Women Studies, 8: 1, Winter 2012. (Eds. together with B. Dennerlein)
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