Narratives of Memory,
Migration, and Xenophobia
in the European Union
and Canada
Helga Hallgrímsdóttir and Helga Thorson, Editors
2019
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Title: Narratives of memory, migration, and xenophobia in the European Union and Canada / Helga Hallgrímsdóttir and Helga Thorson, editors.
Names: Hallgrimsdóttir, Helga, 1969- editor. | Thorson, Helga, editor. | University of Victoria (B.C.), host institution.
Description: Based on papers presented at a symposium held in August, 2017 at the University of Victoria.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2019017322X | Canadiana (ebook) 20190173297 | ISBN 9781550586503 (softcover) | ISBN 9781550586510 (PDF) | ISBN 9781550586527 (EPUB)
Subjects: LCSH: Memorialization—Political aspects—European Union countries—Congresses. | LCSH: Memorialization—Political aspects—Canada—Congresses. | LCSH: Collective memory—European Union countries—Congresses. | LCSH: Collective memory—Canada—Congresses. | LCSH: Memorials—Case studies—Congresses. | LCSH: Art and society—Congresses.
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List of Figures 3
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction HELGA HALLGRÍMSDÓTTIR AND HELGA THORSON 7
Section I The Politics of Memory
Chapter 1 Austerity Talk and Crisis Narratives: New Memory Politics and Xenophobia in the European Union
HELGA K. HALLGRÍMSDÓTTIR 15
Chapter 2 I-witness Holocaust Field School Experiences, Indigenous Peoples, and Reconciliation in Canada
DAWN SII-YAA-ILTH-SUPT SMITH 35
Chapter 3 Anti-Immigrant Propaganda and the Factors That Led to its Success in Hungary
ILDIKÓ BARNA 53
Chapter 4 Echoes from Brazil: Remembering to Forget
TAMARA AMOROSO GONÇALVES 73
Section II Interacting with Sites of Memory
Chapter 5 Studies in Contrast: Notes from the Field
Chapter 6 The Individual’s Interaction with Memorial Sites
LORRAINE DUMONT 117
Chapter 7 On Ravensbrück
MATTHIAS HEYL 133
Chapter 8 Unpacking My Jewish Identity through the Ravensbrück Memorial Site
ETHAN CALOF 139
Chapter 9 From the Breeding Ground of Social Tensions to Genocide: A Resistible Spiral
ALAIN CHOURAQUI AND LENA CASIEZ 155
Section III Contemplating Memory through the Arts
Chapter 10 The Impact of Listening to Luigi Nono’s Il Canto
Sospeso
EMILY MACCALLUM 179
Chapter 11 Photographs and Memories: The (In)tractable Reality of the Still Image
PAIGE THOMBS 193
Chapter 12 Inside-Outside: The Efficaciousness of Art and Culture within Social Movements
ADAM SCIME 209
Chapter 13 “Vorstellen” As: To Put Forward, To Introduce, To Imagine
KIMBERLEY FARRIS-MANNING 237
Chapter 14 Composing (Border)
DÁNIEL PÉTER BIRÓ 255
Conclusion EMMANUEL BRUNET-JAILLY 267
Appendix 1 Syllabus: Narratives of Memory, Migration, and
Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada 273
Appendix 2 Course Schedule: EU Summer Field School: Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia
in the European Union and Canada 289
List of Figures
FIGURE 8.1 The Gates of Ravensbrück
FIGURE 10.1 Pitch series from Nono’s Il Canto Sospeso FIGURE 10.2 Arch dynamic form used in movement 4
FIGURE 11.1 Syrian toddler, Alan Kurdî, washed ashore in 2015 FIGURE 11.2 Inside the barracks of Buchenwald concentration camp Figure 11.3 Keleti Railway Station
Figure 11.4 Crematorium ovens at the Dachau Memorial Site Figure 11.5 Crematorium ovens at the Ravensbrück Memorial Site Figure 13.1 Graphic for Engrenages: Inverting the Spiral of Fear for
solo violin and electronics
Figure 14.1 Gvul (Border), movement I mm. 41-47
Figure 14.2 Gvul (Border), movement II mm. 36-39
Figure 14.3 Gvul (Border), movement III mm. 103-106
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This book, above all else, is the result of two important grants: a Connection grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and a Jean Monnet grant through the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. These two grants allowed us to run a graduate-level field school, create a symposium in conjunction with the SALT Music Festival, and bring together interdisciplinary research insights in the form of this book. In addition to these granting agencies, we would like to thank the University of Victoria (in particular, the Centre for Global Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and the European Studies program) for contributing to the symposium. Several arts funding sources also contributed to the corresponding musical compositions and performances: the British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, the Conseil des arts et des lettres Québec, and in
partnership with Tsilumos and the 2017 SALT Festival, we’d like to also thank Open Space and Tom Lee Music.
Besides the four key members of the research team (Dániel Péter Biró, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, Charlotte Schallié, and Helga Thorson), there are several key individuals who worked extremely hard in the process of this ambitious endeavor: Wendy Swan and Tamara Gonçalves helped with all the details, both big and small, related to the field school and the corresponding symposium, and our photographer and videographer, Chorong Kim, made a deep and lasting contribution to this project. A special thanks also to Inba Kehoe and staff in the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office at the University of Victoria Libraries, and again to Tamara Gonçalves, who helped bring this book to fruition. Finally, we would like to thank all of our European and Canadian partners who contributed their time and energy to this project — most of whom also contributed to this volume — and the students from four different countries who made the whole endeavor possible.
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