Symposium_Nuernberg2024

Symposium “No future without memory. Strategies of preservation in cultural archives” – Nuremberg, 20-22 June 2024

Symposium in Nuremberg
There are more than 350 different archives in Germany alone, containing collections on architecture, photography, dance and more. That’s why the Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg and the Neues Museum Nürnberg are organizing a conference on the topic of “No future without memory. Strategies of preservation in cultural archives”. At this symposium, guests from all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland will talk about the work and challenges of cultural archives.

Alina Januscheck and Christopher Li from the “Towards Sonic Resocialization” project will be holding a lecture on Friday, 21.6.24. Focusing on the ethic(s) of the Lautarchiv, they will discuss the handling of collections from colonial contexts of injustice. Furthermore, the impact of these ethics on the Lautarchiv’s current and future culture of remembrance will be explored.

Date: 20-22 June 2024
Venue: Auditorium in the Neues Museum Nuremberg, Luitpoldstraße 5, 90402 Nuremberg
Costs: EUR 50,- (lecturers + students free of charge)
Website: https://www.moderne-kunst.org/archiv/kulturarchive-projekt