Our previous activities
Start of the doctor tandem Santiago de Chile - Berlin on 21.10.2021
The second doctor tandem between Hannah Müssemann (Freie Universität Berlin) and Consuelo Ábalos (Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen de la Universidad de Chile) started in mid-October. They will support each other in research on transnational memory images.
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke at the 53rd German Historians Conference, 05.10.2021: The Struggle for Concepts. Treatment of the dictatorship in the Chilean public discourse since 1990
The lecture retraced the transformation of dictatorships as a concept in historical narratives and dealt with the controversial balance between atonement and reconciliation in the public discourse of remembrance in Chile.
Workshop with Lorena Antezana Barrios and Wolfgang Fuhrmann on the ad-hoc reception of Narcos, 01.10.2021
Together with the communication scientist Lorena Antezana Barrios and the film scholar Wolfgang Fuhrmann, the workshop focused on the ad-hoc reception of an episode of Narcos (Colombia) and the methods for analysing memory images.
Visit of guest researcher Lorena Antezana Barrios, 12.09.-12.10.2021
Her research fellowship at GUMELAB was focused on conceptualizing specific terms of work and on preparing various transfer activities.
Television Fiction, History and Memories. Challenges for International Cooperation in Research" (Institute of Communication and Image, University of Chile). Colloquium of the Institute of Communication and Image at the University of Chile
Our collaborators from the Institute of Communication and Image at the University of Chile spoke at the Research Colloquium on "Television Fiction, History and Memories. Challenges for International Research Collaboration", which took place on Wednesday, September 22 from 19:30 to 21:00 (UTC) (14:30 - 16:00 in Chile).
Start of the doctor tandem Santiago de Chile - Berlin on 09.08.2021
Start of the doctor tandem between Holle Ameriga Meding (Freie Universität Berlin) and Juan Pablo Sánchez Sepúlveda (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/ Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen de la Universidad de Chile), 9.8.2021
Visit of the visiting scientist Karen Genschow 26.07.-06.08.2021
Dr. Karen Genschow is a literature and cultural studies scholar with a regional focus on Latin America (with a thematic emphasis on cultural memory, trauma, gender) in literature, film, and popular cultural objects such as comics and series. She is an expert on Chilean series about the military dictatorship such as Mary y Mike, Ecos del desierto, and Argentine telenovelas with historical reference such as Montecristo. Various working meetings and internal workshops have been held on genre decoding and narrative elements of Latin American telenovelas and series.
Panel at the conference of the Memory Studies Association, Conference 2021 in Warsaw on 07.07.21
“Convergences between Entertainment Media and Memory Processes in Digital Spaces in Latin America” (Chair: Mónika Contreras Saiz; participants: Holle Meding, Evelyn Hevia Jordán, Andrea Cagua, Mónika Contreras Saiz)
The following video was made for the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86s60Kw8UKU
Presentation of GUMELAB at Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories PGR on 01.07.2021
Presentation “The transmission of transgenerational memories through telenovelas of memory (telenovelas de la memoria) and the impact on the collective historical consciousness” by Hannah Müssemann at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories PGR Conference 2021, ‘Transgenerational Memory’, University of Brighton, 1.7.21
Teaching unit: „Colonia Dignidad between media, politics of memory and historical culture“
During the seminar „Colonia Dignidad: Von der Mustersiedlung zum Folterlager?“ (FU Berlin, Prof. Stefan Rinke, Prof. Ingrid Kummels), 22.6.21
Kick-Off-Meetings with GUMELAB’s German partners on 18.06.2021
Kick-Off-Meetings with GUMELAB’s USA partners, 17.06.21
Presentation in the Universidade Estadual de Campinas on 21.05.2021
Presentation of the project GUMELAB as well as Hannah Müssemann’s and Holle Meding’s doctoral projects at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in the PhD colloquium at the Centro de Humanidades Digitais (directed by Prof. Thiago Lima Nicodemo), 21.5.21
Kick-Off-Meeting with GUMELAB’s Latin American partners, 06.05.21
