wenke: Gold Treasures as Objects of Identification in the Baltic Sea Region from 1800 until Today
Hanna Horn, University of Greifswald
Museum studies
Lyykorpi: A Place with a Powerful Past: Representations of Königsberg’s Memory in Kaliningrad Museums
Hanna Horn, University of Greifswald
Garcia: Negotiating a New Take on History. Narrations of the Soviet Past in Lithuanian Museums
The project examines the ongoing process of change in memory culture and its manifestations in Lithuanian museums. The focus of the project are narrative representations of the Soviet past and their actualizations in light of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Soviet memory culture in Lithuania appears to be in motion; this momentum of re-consideration and change is manifested for instance by interventions in public space, such as the renewed wave of dismantling of statues, removing of plaques or changing names of public institutions.
Ong: Forging Identities for City and Nation: Analyzing Selected Museal Depictions of the Kresy Expulsions in Present-day Wrocław
The project examines the museal representations of the 1944-1955 expulsions of Poles from the former eastern Polish borderlands in the city of Wrocław (formerly Breslau). The objective of the thesis is not to discuss the forced removal and resettlement itself, but rather to investigate how collective memories of the event are being expressed in the present, cultivating ideas of identity representative operating at both regional and national levels.