Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK. He has published widely on the history of memory, the history of deindustrialization, industrial heritage, the history of social movements and labour movements, the history of historiography, historical theory and the history of nationalism and national identity.Wulf Kansteiner is Professor of Memory Studies and Historical Theory at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include the methods and theories of memory studies; the role of visual media—TV, film, digital culture—in the formation of cultural memory; post-narrativist historical theory; and Holocaust history, memory, and historiography. His recent publications include ‘Prime Time Nationalism: Patterns of Prejudice in TV Crime Fiction’ in National Stereotyping, Identity, Politics, European Crises (2021) and ‘Media and Technology,' in The Twentieth Century, vol. 6 of A Cultural History of Memory (2020).

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Stefan Berger and Wulf Kansteiner.- Chapter 2: Agonistic Memory Revisited.- Anna Cento Bull, Hans Lauge Hansen, Francisco Colom González.- Chapter 3: Mass Grave Exhumation Site as Agonistic Fora: a Comparative Study of Spain, Poland and Bosnia.- Francisco Ferrándiz and Marije Hristova.- Chapter 4: Memory Cultures of War in European War Museums.- Stefan Berger, Anna Cento Bull, Cristian Cercel, David Clarke, Nina Parish, Eleanor Rowley, Zofia Wóycicka.- Chapter 5: ‘Krieg.Macht.Sinn’ The Making of an Agonistic Exhibition on War in the Ruhr Museum Essen.- Cristian Cercel, Daniela de Angeli, Wulf Kansteiner, Stefan Berger and Eamonn O’Neill.- Chapter 6: ‘To understand does not mean that you will approve’: Transnational Audience Research on a Theatre Representation of Evil.- Diana Gonzáles Martin and Hans Lauge Hansen.- Chapter 7: Taking Agonism Online: Creating a Mass Open Online Course to Disseminate the Findings of the UNREST Project.- David Clarke, Nina Parish and Aysha Séne.