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Our next Inimkond seminar will be held by Dr Eneken Laanes from Tallinn University and is titled: Multidirectional Memory and Travelling Memorial Forms.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday, May 13th, from 6 to 8pm in room M-342 (Tallinn University Mare building). You are cordially invited to attend!

Abstract
In his book “Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization” (2009) Michael Rothberg draws attention to the ways in which one historical experience and the ways of its remembering have been used to remember others. Rothberg shows how since the end of the 20^th century, the Holocaust memory has created a consciousness for the memory of slavery in the US and of the legacies of colonialism in Europe. In recent developments of memory studies, scholars increasingly draw attention to the ways in which the Holocaust memory has developed into a global human rights regime and serves as a template for remembering other histories of violence including the legacies of the Stalinist repressions. However, the historical parallels and recycling of memorial forms in the contemporary world is not limited only to the Holocaust memory.

The talk deals with multidirectional memory and transnational memorial forms in the post-Soviet Estonian culture of remembrance, scrutinising in particular documentary films, fiction and video art that deal with remembering WWII and the Stalinist repressions. On the one hand, it shows how the internationally successful memorial texts borrow their memorial forms from the Holocaust memory and from the remembrance of other historical events prominent in the transnational memory culture. On the other, it also discusses recent attempts to make use of the memory of the Estonian suffering in order to draw attention to burning issues of human rights in the present.

Bio
Dr Laanes specialises in comparative literature and cultural theory. She is the co-editor of the recent volume Novels, Histories, Novel Nations: Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in Finland and Estonia (2015, Helsinki: Studia Fennica) as well as a number of articles and reviews for Baltic Worlds and Vikerkaar amongst others.

Inimkond: Current Issues in Anthropology and Beyond
full program at http://www.tlu.ee/en/estonian-institute-of-humanities/Anthropology/inimkond

This seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and history, among others.