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Franziska Metzger

Prof. Dr. Franziska Metzger is a professor of history at the University of Teacher Education, Lucerne. She is the head of the study programme History Didactics and Public History Education, as well as representative of the research focus Memory Cultures at the Institute for History Didactics and Memory Cultures at the University of Teacher Education, Lucerne. Franziska Metzger's research interests include, apart from memory studies, the history of religion with a focus on Switzerland and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of historiography, nation and nationalism and cultural history of the turn of the century around 1900. She is editor of the Swiss Journal of Religious and Cultural History SZRKG and, with Dimiter Daphinoff, editor of the publication series «Erinnerungsräume – Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst».

Recent publications of special interest for the project:

  • Metzger, Franziska. «Erinnerungsräume.» Ausdehnung der Zeit. Die Gestaltung von Erinnerungsräumen in Geschichte, Literatur und Kunst. Eds. Dimiter Daphinoff and Franziska Metzger. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau, 2019, pp. 19–44 (vol. 1 of the publication series Erinnerungsräume – Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst. Ed. Dimiter Daphinoff and Franziska Metzger)
  • Metzger, Franziska. «Annäherungen an Staat und Historie im Geschichtsdenken des 19. Jahrhunderts.» Staat und Historie. Leitbilder und Fragestellungen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung vom Ende des 19. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eds. Walter Pauly and Klaus Ries. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2021, pp. 19–46.
  • Metzger, Franziska. «The Religious Memory of Crisis: The Example of Apocalyptic Memory in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction.» Cultures in Conflict. Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe c. 1800–2000. Ed. Johannes Ljungberg et al. Berlin et al.: Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 191–216.
  • Metzger, Franziska. «Memory of the Sacred Heart. Linguistic, Iconographic and Ritual Dimensions.» Sacred Heart Devotion. Memory, Body, Image, Text – Continuities and Discontinuities. Eds. Franziska Metzger and Stefan Tertünte. Köln/Wien/Paderborn: Böhlau, 2021, pp. 23–48. (Vol. 2 of the publication series Erinnerungsräume – Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst. Ed. Dimiter Daphinoff and Franziska Metzger)
  • Metzger, Franziska. «Das Gedächtnis der Religion. Gedächtnis als Kategorie für die Katholizismusforschung.» Katholizismus transnational. Beiträge zur Zeitgeschichte und Gegenwart in Westeuropa und den Vereinigten Staaten. Ed. Andreas Henkelmann et al. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2019, pp. 123–144.
Katarzyna Bojarska

Dr. Katarzyna Bojarska is ana assistant professor in the Cultural Studies Department of the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland. She is the coordinator of the Cultural Studies Program at the University, as well as a co-founder and president of View. Foundation for Visual Culture, an NGO which has dealt with the research and popularization of visual culture and contemporary art studies and criticism. She is also an editor of an international open-access academic journal View, Theories and Practices of Visual Culture www.pismowidok.org Katarzyna’s research interests include apart from visual culture, memory studies, contemporary visual arts, gender studies, and critical theory and critical uses of psychoanalysis in the study of memory and arts. She is on the board of a publishing series: Exhibiting Theory (Jagiellonian University Press). Additionally, she translates academic texts and books to Polish and English. She has received numerous grants and awards including Polish National Centre for Science individual grant Opus (2021-2023), Fulbright Slavic Award (2019), Horizon2020 (2018-2021), Junior Fulbright Research Grant (2009-2010).

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Christine Gundermann

Christine Gundermann is professor for Public History at the University of Cologne. She is director of the master program Public History there and is currently also member of the steering committee of the German association of public historians (AG Angewandte Geschichte/ Public History) and the German Society of History Didactics (KGD); she is also founder and member of the Werkgroep Duits-Nederlandse Geschiedenis/Arbeitskreis Deutsch-Niederländische Geschichte (WDNG/ADNG). She is on the board of the publishers series Geschichtsdidaktik diskursiv - Public History und Historisches Denken and founder of the DFG-Network Public History. Her research interests focus on European memory of the Second World War, historicizing comics and graphic novels, the theorization of Public History and Dutch-German contemporary history.

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László Munteán

Dr. László Munteán is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and American Studies whose research focuses on intersections of cultural memory and the built environment. He currently teaches at Radboud University Nijmegen where coordinates the research group ‘Memory, Materiality, and Affect’ (MMA). Drawing on diverse theoretical apparatuses, his publications have focused on the memorialization of 9/11 in literature and the visual arts, American cities and architecture, as well as the architectural heritage of Budapest. In a broader sense, his scholarly work revolves around the juncture of literature, visual culture, and cultural memory in American and Eastern European contexts. His teaching includes courses on visual culture, city culture, cultural theory, material culture, and the ethics of tourism.

Recent publications of special interest for the project:

  • Munteán, L. ‘Fluvial Migrations: The Ethics of Comparison in Péter Forgács’s The Danube Exodus’. Image & Narrative 22(1) (2021): 45-56. http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/2592/2082
  • Munteán, L, Maarten van Gageldonk & Ali Shobeiri (eds.) Animation and Memory (Palgrave Animation). Cham: Palgrave, 2020. ISBN 9783030348878.
  • Munteán, L. ‘Nostalgia, Trauma, and Taboo. The Ship Model in Günter Grass' Crabwalk’. Desipientia. Kunsthistorisch Tijdschrift 26 (2/2019): 12-15.
  • Munteán, L. ‘Plaster Archeology in Budapest’s Seventh District: Toward a Mode of Engagement with Architectural Surfaces’, Hungarian Cultural Studies 11: (2018): 11-22.
  • ·Munteán, L, Liedeke Plate & Anneke Smelik (eds.) Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138203235.
Armin Owzar

Prof. Dr. Armin Owzar is professor of Modern and contemporary history at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and head of the master programme at the department of German Studies. His research interests include, apart from memory studies, the political, social and cultural history of modern and contemporary Europe with a focus on Germany and France in the 19th and 20th centuries. His current research interests include political iconography, the history of the modern city and the relationship between religion and politics.

Recent publications of special interest for the project:

  • Owzar, Armin: Europa in der politischen Ikonographie nach 1945, in: Coincidentia. Zeitschrift für europäische Geistesgeschichte 7/1 (2016), pp. 47-60.
  • Owzar, Armin: L’historiographie allemande et le mythe d’une  guerre de libération » en 1813. Le cas du royaume de Westphalie, in: Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande 47/1 (January/June 2015), Dossier: La déprise de l'Empire napoléonien en Allemagne et en Italie. Le moment 1813-1814 : mobilisations autour de la guerre et utilisations politiques du passé, Ed. Nicolas Bourguinat, pp. 117-133.
  • Owzar, Armin: The Image of Islam in Missionary Periodicals. A Green Peril in Africa? In: Missions and Media. The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv 20), hg. von Felicity Jensz und Hannah Acke, Stuttgart 2013, S. 133-149.
Irmgard Zündorf

Dr. Irmgard Zündorf is a research associate for university cooperation and knowledge transfer at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF). She is head of the Public History Department at the ZZF and one of the directors of the Public History study programme at the Freie Universität Berlin. Irmgard Zündorf’s research interests include museum studies, memory studies, and the history of Public History at Universities. She is one of the editors of HSozKult, of zeitgeschichte online and of Zeithistorische Forschungen. Together with Stefanie Samida, she edits the UTB study book series «Public History» Geschichte in der Praxis».

Recent publications of special interest for the project:

  • Irmgard Zündorf. «Public Historians in der Politikberatung.» Die Expertenkommission zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Public Historians. Zeithistorische Interventionen nach 1945. Eds. Frank Bösch; Stefanie Eisenhuth; Hanno Hochmuth; Irmgard Zündorf. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2021, S. 401-412.
  • Irmgard Zündorf and Martin Lücke. Public history as a university discipline - its background, content and value, in: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies 2021 (3), S. 396-404.
  • Irmgard Zündorf, Axel Drecoll and Thomas Schaarschmidt. «Authentizität als Kapital historischer Orte? Die Sehnsucht nach dem unmittelbaren Erleben von Geschichte». Göttingen: Wallstein 2019.
  • Irmgard Zündorf and Martin Lücke. «Einführung in die Public History.» Göttingen: UTB, 2018.
  • Irmgard Zündorf. «Contemporary History and Public History.», Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 16.03.2017, URL: http://docupedia.de/zg/Zuendorf_public_history_v2_en_2017
Kerstin Wirz-Burkard

Kerstin Wirz-Burkard has been working as a secondary school teacher since completing her Master's degree in 2013. She completed her second Master's degree in History Didactics and Public History at the PH Lucerne and the University of Fribourg in 2022. She is an assistant of Franziska Metzger at the PH Lucerne within the IBLS. Her interests lie in the field of historical educational research, Swiss history of the 19th and 20th centuries linked with the topic of religion.