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H2020Staff exchange2018–2024

SPEME · Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2018-07-01 → 2024-04-30
EU contribution
€553,500
Participants
7
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia

SPEME takes as its specific object of investigation a various array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory in Europe, Argentina and Colombia, such as museums, former detention centers and clandestine camps. It investigates how various traumatic heritages and pasts can be preserved, narrated and transmitted through space, and which kind of innovative actions might both improve knowledge of the past and serve as an opening to actual issues and new social actors. The project builds on international and inter-sectorial networks which make possible transfers of knowledge, both between difficult and contested memories in different historical and geographical contexts (Europe and South America) and between academic researchers, museum curators and professionals stakeholders. SPEME also investigates the complementary competences that cultural institutions promote at fueling powerful knowledge exchanges at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels. Through a rich combination of methodological and theoretical approaches (concept-oriented, object-oriented and user-oriented approaches), SPEME has few precedents in the field of trauma and semiotics, heritage and memory studies and museum studies and offers valuable insights on the dynamics of memory, musealization, appropriation and commodification of traumatic heritages and pasts in the present. Speme’s overall objectives are: -To coordinate and implement innovative activities of a network encompassing international and inter-sectoral institutions aimed at examining creative ways through which traumatic heritage and pasts in Europe and South America can be preserved, represented, transformed and transmitted in different spaces and sites of memory. -To develop smooth, effective and constant transfer of knowledge between academic and non-academic partners and national and international networks -To advance the current state of the art on memory studies and sites of memory -To devise guidelines for original and creative activities and practices for the representation and sharing of traumatic heritage including imagining and testing new politics of transmission in actual spaces of memory and the ways in which these spaces foster transnational dialogues and tolerance.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

SPEME will develop a joint program of exchanges between academic researchers - working on memory, trauma and heritage - and non-academic professionals - working in the fields of memory museums and sites of memory - between Italy, The Netherlands, Argentina and Colombia. The fundamental aim of the project is to devise new forms of transmission of traumatic memories linking them to the present, on the assumption that memory, to be effective, has to invent creative ways of becoming relevant to the present.In order to do so, the project will take as its specific object of investigation a various array of spaces of memory, such as museums, former detention camps and sites of commemoration, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of innovative actions might both improve knowledge of the past and serve as an opening to actual issues and new social subjects.The international and intersectoral network developed by the project will make possible transfers of knowledge, both between difficult past heritages in different historical and geographical contexts (Europe and Latin America) and between academic researchers and museum curators. The different and complementary competences of these institutions will promote something more than a simple knowledge transfer but will fuel powerful knowledge exchanges at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels, which has few or no precedents in the field of memory and museum studies. Through a rich combination of staff meetings, theoretical seminars, training workshops, fieldworks and conferences, this project will increase competences and skills of both academic and non academic partners, as well as facilitate the development of innovative and creative actions involving new social actors (civil society, new generations, minority groups, refugees, and others) and addressing actual questions, from Human Rights to post-conflict reconciliation.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · BolognaCoordinatorItaly
  • FONDAZIONE RECUPERO E VALORIZZAZIONE DELLA MEMORIA STORICA DEL CAMPO DI FOSSOLI · CarpiItaly
  • MUSEO DE SITIO ESMA - EX CENTRO CLANDESTINO DE DETENCIÓN, TORTURA Y EXTERMINIO · Buenos AiresArgentina
  • STICHTING HERENGRACHT 401 · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES · Buenos AiresArgentina
  • UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA · BogotaColombia
  • UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · AmsterdamNetherlands

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union