The workshop that took place on the stage of the MediaLab brought together nine academic researchers and practitioners to discuss the notion of the intriguing tension between official top-down narratives, and civilian bottom-up storytelling, as manifested in various cultural productions and/in the built environments. The event was well attended and the discussions and exchanges after each presentation were productive and fruitful. 

Speakers

Marketa Bajgerova Verly (Austrian Academy of Sciences),‘One Past, Two Histories: Exhibiting the Shanghai Jewish Refugees in China and Austria in Comparative Perspective’

Dora Choi and Haider Kikabhoy (‘Walk in Hong Kong’, Cultural Enterprise in Hong Kong),‘Non-touristic tourism: Local footsteps in Metropolitan Hong Kong’

Rossella Ferrari (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna),‘Cur(at)ing Ghosts: Networks, Heritage, and Memory’

Shu-Mei Huang (Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University),‘Memory, borders, and justice: the emerging morality competition over the wartime documentary heritage of Jewish refugees in East Asia’

Liza Wing Man Kam (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna),‘Learn to oppress: Intellectual trajectory in constructing the colonies in Hong Kong and Taiwan’

San-Hwan Lu (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Vienna),‘Architecture of Welfare, Architecture of Order: Public Housing as Political Form and Cultural Memory’

Fabrizio Massini (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna),‘The Past as Stage: Wuzhen Theatre Festival’

Florian Purkarthofer (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna),‘History and Memory in a Neighborhood without Monuments: Constructing Tokyo Stories in Times of Deconstruction’

For more information please contact Dr. Liza Wing Man KAM of the Department of East Asian Studies at liza.wing.man.kam@univie.ac.at.