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 St. Augustine & Tallahassee 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 four virtual rooms of the exhibition –Mobilities & Migration, Media of Memory, Personal & Public Remembrance, and Cultural Landscapes– 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.

Both the Monuments & Memory exhibition and the preceding WueGlobal Conversation Seminars  in Summer Terms 2021 and 2022 are part of WueGlobal – Writing, Learning, Digital Connection and WueGlobal Transatlantic Cultures & Histories, funded within the International Virtual Academic Cooperation (IVAC) - Initiative of the German Academic Exchange Service |  Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) | Federal Ministry of Education & Research | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).

We thank our 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 generously shared their perspectives and expertise in the student-developed contributions.

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