We are excited to share below the announcement of the Summer School ‘Migration Memory Under Construction’. The Summer School, jointly organized by the research schools Huizinga and Posthumus, touches on some of the key themes of Connecting in Times of Duress.

Date: May 24 and June 13-16, 2017
Location: Leiden, Mathias de Vrieshof 2/Room 004 (13, 14, 15 June) / Antwerp, Red Star Line Museum (16 June)
Open to:  RMa students and PhD candidates. Members of the Huizinga Institute and the N.W. Posthumus Institute will have first access
Credits: 5 ECTS
Course coordinator: Marlou Schrover (Leiden University)

Registration

This Summer School deals with how migration is remembered. Remembering and disremembering are conscious activities, springing from social debates and political decisions. Debates about remembering aspects of migration history, and the construction of a collective heritage (in school books, in museums, as part of a curriculum) are frequently very emotional. Claim-makers lobby for the right of ‘their’ group to be remembered, and to make (rather ambiguously) ‘our’ history part of ‘your’ history. Women, workers, homosexuals and ethnic minorities have over time claimed their place in history, and have (successfully) argued for a rewrite of the historical narrative. Authorities generally accept the emancipatory aspect of collective heritage for migrants and ethnic minorities. Denial of certain parts of history is punishable in some countries.

This Summer School deals with two subjects:

1. The representation in museums of (elements of) migration/minority history, the choices that are made and how they are justified, and the societal debates regarding the need for remembrance.
2. Academic debates about migration history and heritage culture: can history ever be inclusive? When and why do ideas about remembering migration change?

Assignment

In order to get ECTS for this Summer School, the students have to read articles, attend all meetings, play an active role as commentators, comment on presentations of fellow students and give a presentation at the end of the Summer School. Furthermore they are being asked to write a paper (5000 words) based on the literature and presentations. The papers are to be submitted before 30 June.

The readings will be posted on a protected page, for which participants will get a password.

Participate as auditor

It is also possible to attend (a part of) the lectures as auditor. Please send an email to Rebekka Luijk (r.t.luijk@hum.leidenuniv.nl) for more information or signing up. Attendance is free of charge.

Programme

24 May

Whole day: meeting about the literature for students (in Leiden)

13 June

9:00 – 12:00
Preparation for following talks (introducing speakers, preparing comments)
Teachers: Laura Evans (Sheffield Hallam University), Joanne Laycock (Sheffield Hallam University), Marlou Schrover

12:00
Lunch

12:30 – 13:00 
Michael Wintle (Huizinga Institute), Bram Hoonhout (N.W. Posthumus Institute), Marlou Schrover
Introduction

13:00 – 13:45  
Sarah Hackett (Bath Spa University)
Putting a New Face on the Story of Migration: Remembering Migration at Newcastle upon Tyne’s Discovery Museum

13:45 – 14:30   
Pascale Falek Alhadeff (Brussels, conservatrice au Musée Juif de Belgique)
Brussels, safe haven? Addressing migration history as a Jewish Museum

14:30 – 15:15    
Hetty Berg (Amsterdam, chief curator Jewish Cultural Quarter)
Seeking Relevance: Jewish History as Migration History

15:15 – 15:30 
Tea

15:30 – 16:15     
Philippe Rygiel (Paris)
Migration museum Paris

16:15 – 17:00
Olaf Kleist (IIMIS Osnabrück)
Political Memories and Migration: Negotiating Belonging

17:00
Drinks

14 June

9:30 – 10:15 
Johannes Müller (Leiden University)
From diaspora to imagined minority. Mainstream religion and the appropriation of migrant identities in early modern Germany

10:15 – 11:00     
Janet Dugdale (Liverpool)
TBA

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee

11:15 – 12:00 
Wayne Modest (Head of the Research Center for Material Culture)
About remembering

12:00 – 12:45     
Kevin Myers (Birmingham)
Struggles for a past

12:45 – 13:15  
Lunch

13.15 – 14.00
Christiane Hintermann (Vienna)
Marginalized Memories: About the (In)visibility of Migration History in Textbooks, Museums and the Public Space

14:00 – 14:45  
Anouk Smeekes (Utrecht: social psychologist)
Perceptions of national history and identity

14:45 – 15:30
Mila Ernst (Amsterdam)
Young Trackers Project

15:30 – 15:45
Tea

15:45 – 16:15     
Pieter de Bruijn (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Bridges to the Past Historical Distance and Multiperspectivity in English and Dutch Heritage Educational Resources

16:15 – 17:00      
Bambi Ceuppens (Brussels, director Belgium Africa Museum)
TBA

17:00
Drinks

15 June

9:30 – 10:15  
Leo Lucassen (director International Institute of Social History)
Soldiers, sailors, missionaries, and diplomats. Organisational migrants and social change

10:15 – 11:00  
Irial Glynn (Leiden University)
Can teaching high school students about the migration past foster greater understanding for the diverse present?

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee

11:15 – 12:00 
Valika Smeulders (Pasado Presente)
Slave heritage in museums in Suriname, Curacao, Ghana, South Africa and the Netherlands

12:00 – 12:45     
Emily Miller (London, curator Migration Museum London)
TBA

12:45 – 13:30     
Jozefien de Bock (University Gent, curator of the Blijven Plakken exhibition)
Making Migration Memory Visible: Scientific Rigour and Public Participation in a Project on Migration History

13:30 – 14:00       
Lunch

14:00 – 18:00
Paper presentations by students
Teachers: Laua Evans, Joanne Laycock, Marlou Schrover

16 June

Excursion to the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp. (It is possible to be reimbursed your travel expenses to a maximum of 25 euros.)

Contact

Any questions? Don’t hesitate to contact us! (Huizinga-fgw@uva.nl)