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.
Click here to visit the five themed rooms of the Monuments & Memory exhibition:
Project Participants in 2023
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
Project Partners at Flagler College, St. Augustine & Tallahassee
Prof. Dr. Timothy Johnson (Religion)
Prof. Dr. Wayne M. Riggs (Modern History & Politics)
Prof. Dr. Edwidge Crevecoeur Bryant (Education)
Prof. Dr. Anna M. Burnley (Education)
Prof. Dr. Rachel Cremona (Political Science)
Prof. Dr. Lorna Bracewell (Political Science)
Prof. Dr. Michael Butler (History)
Prof. Dr. Angelenia Semegon (Psychology)
Project Partners at JMU Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Helmut Flachenecker (Franconian Regional History)
Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (American Cultural Studies)
Caterina Schmitz (American Studies)
Dr. Petra Zaus (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU & WueGlobal – Writing, Learning, Digital Connection)
Prof. Dr. Michael Becker (Political Science)
Prof. Dr. Peter Hoeres (Modern History)
Media Connections
Sabrina Lacić (Online Exhibition Design and Media Training)
Thomas Schröter (Media Training)
Thomas Schwabe (Media Training)
Project Development
Cathrin Lüderitz (WueGlobal Project Assistant)
Katja Ruete (WueGlobal Project Assistant)
Nina Wintermeyer (WueGlobal Project Assistant)
Tobias Jetter (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg)
Ramon Durner (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg)
Student Participants at JMU Würzburg
Marvin Christopher Bauersfeld
Johanna Betz
Mona Burger
Johanna Dahl
Hanna Carlina Eizenberger
Hanna Frommherz
Vanessa Hamm
Markus Hanke
Mg Lopatin
Anne Mertel
Katrin Pfahlmann
Pascal Pill
Lisa Rissel
Luca Schilp
Mark Slater
Nicole Zaunrith
Student Participants at Flagler College, St. Augustine
Paige Marie Banas
Elkins Bastion
Jacquelyn Constance Brown
Faith Raine Dianich
Charlie Adah Hall
Sydney Anne Jackson
Jana Marie Klinger
Project Partners at Flagler College, St. Augustine & Tallahassee
Prof. Dr. Edwidge Crevecoeur Bryant (Education)
Prof. Dr. Anna M. Burnley (Education)
Prof. Dr. Timothy Johnson (Religion)
Prof. Dr. Wayne M. Riggs (Modern History & Politics)
Project Partners at JMU Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Helmut Flachenecker (Franconian Regional History)
Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (American Cultural Studies)
Dr. Petra Zaus (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU & WueGlobal – Writing, Learning, Digital Connection)
Online Exhibition Design
Raphaëlle Jung (Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU & WueGlobal – Writing, Learning, Digital Connection)
Sabrina Lacić (WueGlobal International Writing Fellow & Global Tutor)
Project Development
Thomas Feiler (WueGlobal International Writing Fellow & Global Tutor)
Anna Köhler (WueGlobal International Writing Fellow & Global Tutor)
Student Participants at JMU Würzburg
Veronika Banach
Lisa Beer
Tobias Debold
Timothy Holden
Tobias Knöchel
Jan-Erik Ohnezat
Victoria Porcu
Wesley Raab
Julia Rasche
Anna Lena Rusch
David Schiepek
Raphael Spatz
Amelie Steinruck
Student Participants at Flagler College, Tallahassee
Jaylene Ceballo
Kendall Ward
Mayson West
Reagan John Williams
Shawnteria Willis
Student Participants at Flagler College, St. Augustine
Iman Barakzoy
Emily Frances Courter
Annabelle Grace Lassiter
Abby Morgan Sadler
Kayla Nichole Toney
Anna Shelby Valvo Schnotalla
