Block 3.1: Connectivities built by memory modalities. Quoc-Tan Tran (University of Hamburg, Germany): Memory modalities in diverse types of memory institutions.

1. Connectivities built by memory modalities
Memory modalities in diverse
types of memory institutions
Quoc-Tan Tran
KNOWLEDGE HUB 1 | HAMBURG, 18.05.2018

2. Overview
1. Research topic: memory modalities in memory
institutions
2. State of research: defining research questions
3. Research design: ethnography of infrastructure
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3. Research topic (1)
❖ Memory institutions. Memory infrastructure.
▶Much more than GLAM and ‘lieux de mémoire’
▪ Education: Curriculum, textbooks
▪ Publishing: If not published remains invisible
▪ Historic sites: Preservation, interpretation
▪ Language policy: Preservation, “purity”
▪ Immigration, citizenship, belonging
▪ Digital memory, digital preservation
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4. Research topic (2)
❖ Memory modalities in memory institutions
▶Emerging participatory-interaction practices
▶Connectivities across divergent practices
▶New uses of heritage materials
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5. State of research (1)
❖ Research questions
▶Motivations and conditions for participatory
memory practices
▶Envisioned socially inclusive potential futures vs.
present understanding of what participation
involves
▶Socio-technical negotiations to achieve cultural
diversity and social cohesion
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6. This is not a pipe! They are cookies.
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7. Research design
Infrastructure studies:
▶To study the constitution of an evolving “participatory
landscape” among memory institutions
Ethnography of infrastructure:
▶To analyse today’s mediatized memory ecologies
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8. Thank you for listening!
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