Monuments & Memory

How do communities and individuals remember? How and why do they forget? What modes of collective memory help us to engage productively with the past? Which practices, in contrast, tend to mythologize and oversimplify history?

This exhibition documents a collaborative effort to address these and other thorny questions. What we learned as a collaborative transatlantic team of teachers and students from Flagler College and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is that the answers to the how, what, and why of memory practices proved to be as varied and thought-provoking as the questions we started with.

The five virtual rooms of the exhibition – Mobilities & Migration, Media of Memory, Personal & Public Remembrance, Cultural Landscapes, and Teaching Memory – showcase student-developed projects in multiple media: videocasts, podcasts, and textual-visual essays. We invite visitors to read, listen, watch, and ponder dynamics of remembering and forgetting with us as part of the ongoing Flagler-JMU collaboration in Transatlantic Cultures & Histories.

These efforts began with the WueGlobal – Writing, Learning, Digital Connection (2020-2021) and WueGlobal Transatlantic Cultures & Histories (2021-2022) projects generously funded by the German Academic Exchange Service |  Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education & Research | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within the International Virtual Academic Cooperation (IVAC)  Initiative.

We thank our original institutional sponsors DAAD | BMBF as well as cooperating colleagues and departments at Flagler College and JMU Würzburg. Most of all, however, thanks go to the wonderfully engaged students and those who shared their perspectives and expertise in the student-developed contributions.

Project Partners at Flagler College, St. Augustine

Prof. Agnieszka Johnson (Spanish)

Prof. Dr. Timothy Johnson (Religion) 

Prof. Dr. Wayne M. Riggs (Modern History & Politics) 

Prof. Dr. Rachel Cremona (Political Science) 

Prof. Dr. Lorna Bracewell (Political Science) 

Prof. Dr. Michael Butler (History) 

Prof. Dr. Angelenia Semegon (Psychology) 

Prof. Dr. Jeanette Vigliotti (Classical & Liberal Education) 

Project Partners at JMU Würzburg

Prof. Dr. Helmut Flachenecker (Franconian Regional History) 

Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Synder-Körber (American Cultural Studies)

Prof. Dr. Michael Becker (Political Science) 

Prof. Dr. Peter Hoeres (Modern History) 

Project Development

Ramon Durner (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg) 

Nina Wintermeyer (Project Assistant) 

Dr. Petra Zaus (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg) 

Student Participants at JMU Würzburg 

Anne Denzlein

Julia Forst 

Celine Gobernatz

Lena Giegerich

Marina Greb

Johanna Händler

Sina Paul 

Melisa Polat  

Lina Schreiber 

Amelie Stegmair

Judith Theißen

Lara Wahlheim

Chrissi Zeißlein

Student Participants at Flagler College, St. Augustine 

McKenna Hazel

Kaitlyn Mackenzie

Christina Mark 

Gabriel Spathelf

Joseph Venrere-Coyle 

Stephen Warnes