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I am taking Topics in European History: Constructions and Instrumentalization this semester with Professor Evelin Kelbecheva. In a nutshell, what I will present ат AUBG’s Fellowship of the Mind Conference 2023 is a 10 min video regarding a monument of my choice with a short interview. This assignment is created for our classes to show what we have learned in this class, Topics in European History. Furthermore, this video will present the main points taken from this class - Major actors in the creation of public memory:
-the governments and political elites who desire to establish a worldview perspective showing the successful mastering of past events
-the intention is to develop a triumphant continuity of events that can be officially sanctioned through government agencies.
-representatives of minorities, usually ethnic, religious/gendered, desiring political recognition of or compensation for past injustices or traumas or demanding a proper place in the national narrative about the past. The new versions of the past also form new ways to engage citizens. Non- government organizations, often representing suppressed or persecuted groups, also participate in the demand for their historical narratives and new forms of commemoration, even their museums and school-book, and are occasionally financed and, in that way, controlled by the state.
And another point is the widespread phenomenon of government commemorative politics that includes the creation of historical commissions and institutions and legislating politicized interpretations of historical events.
-establishing new museums of national trauma
-getting into international conflicts over interpretations of history
-sponsoring history textbooks for schools
-erecting statues of national heroes
-instituting new days of national commemoration.
Overall, this is an abstract of what I'm focusing on and what I will present at the AUBG’s Fellowship of the Mind Conference 2023. The video will focus on an unknown Greek monument for many and its background.
