Project summary and aims
This project has involved the creation of four practice-as-research films, a video installation, and publication of a series of articles which collectively explore site-specific issues associated with Jewish identity, the Holocaust, its memorialization and representation in a contemporary context. Dissemination also involves invited talks, public lectures, film screenings and discussions with survivors, other researchers, museum directors and public policymakers.Who is affected by, or benefits from, the research?
Members of society, including Jewish and non-Jewish sectors.Impact status | Impact Completed (Open) |
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Impact date | 2006 → 2011 |
Category of impact | Societal |
Stage of Impact | Engagement |
Documents & Links
Related content
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Press/Media
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Video Installation of film 'Beautiful Dachau'
Press/Media: Research
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Interview in The Gaudie
Press/Media: Research
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Keynote and screening of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Press/Media: Research
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Screening and discussion of 'In Place of Death' at Caltech
Press/Media: Research
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Manchester Screening of film, 'Beautiful Dachau'
Press/Media: Research
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Conference Keynote, Spaces of Memory & Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement
Press/Media: Research
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Film Conference Keynote: Film, History and Public Memory
Press/Media: Research
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Conference Keynote: Trauma and Memory
Press/Media: Research
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Conference Keynote and screening of 'The Ghetto'
Press/Media: Research
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Jewish Studies at the University of Aberdeen
Press/Media: Research
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Beautiful Dachau: Film Screening and Discussion, Princeton University
Press/Media: Research
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Talk, Screening and Discussion of 'Beautiful Dachau', Bryn Mawr College
Press/Media: Research
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Holocaust Memorial Day screening and discussion
Press/Media: Research
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Activities
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'Forgetting to Remember: the broken glass of historical assumptions' and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (External organisation)
Activity: Membership (e.g. panels, networks, committees, etc.) › Visiting Fellow
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A Tale of Two Cities: Dachau observed, and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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The Birch Grove: filming in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and screening of 'In The Birch Grove'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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Screening of 'In Place of Death' - 10-12th September 2008, Cultural Memory Conference, University of Kent
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'A Film Practice Paradigm', and screening of 'The Ghetto'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'The Ghetto and the Politics of Place', and screening of 'The Ghetto'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Holocaust Memorial Day Pre-Event
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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'A Survivor's tale and filming contemporary Dachau', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Video Installation of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Exhibition/Festival
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'Dachau’s Architectural and Urban Integration', and screening of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Capturing Kafka: an observational glimpse, and screening of 'The Cemetery'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Talk and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Director's Cut Masterclass and screening of 'In Place of Death' and 'In the Birch Grove'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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'Kristallnacht and Remembrance Day: a tale of two cousins', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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Invited Screening of 'The Ghetto'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Film, History and Public Memory conference
Activity: Disseminating Research › Presentation
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Screening and discussion of 'In the Birch Grove'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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'In Absence of Memory'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'Beautiful Dachau: the tourism paradox', and screening of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Jewish Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'The Fragility of Memory', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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Keynote, 'Perimeters of Practice', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'The Ghetto as City Film', and screening of 'The Ghetto'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Screening of 'In Place of Death' - 23rd September 2008
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising Workshop, seminar, or course
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'When We Forget: Dachau and the displacement of memory'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'Dachau Today: the concentration camp as tourist attraction', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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'The Ghetto Unmapped'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Making Meaning from Memory: a filmic meditation
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'Observing contemporary Dachau on film'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Visible Evidence Conference Screening of 'The Cemetery' (Marcus, 2010)
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'The Death of Six Million in Boston', and screening of 'The Memorial'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'In Time of Place research project', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Shereen BBC Interview with Dr. Alan Marcus
Activity: Disseminating Research › Media / Social Media
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Holocaust Memorial Day Screening of 'The Cemetery'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
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STV News
Activity: Disseminating Research › Media / Social Media
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'When a town is called Dachau: urban reinvention and the stature of place', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Keynote 'Beautiful Dachau: practice as research', and screening of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Let's Go to Dachau!: the representation of tourism at an iconic site
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Rehabilitation of a Post-Traumatic Space, and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Beautiful Dachau, and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Talk and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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'Sensory Applications in Observational Cinema', and screening of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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'The City Square as Stage: cum nimis absurdum', and screening of 'The Ghetto'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Screening of 'In Place of Death' at Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse University, NY
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Plenary Screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'Dachau/Munich as a Conceptual Urban Space', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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'Memory and tourism at the trauma ground in Auschwitz-Birkenau' and screening of 'In the Birch Grove'.
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'In Time of Place' and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising Workshop, seminar, or course
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'Spatial Transfigurations in Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Plenary screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Visible Evidence Conference
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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'Bodies on Display: gender ambiguities and Riefenstahl's Olympia'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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'Filming Beautiful Dachau', and screening of 'Beautiful Dachau'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (External organisation)
Activity: Membership (e.g. panels, networks, committees, etc.) › Visiting Fellow
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'The Holocaust: in harm's way', and screening of 'In Place of Death'
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Prizes
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Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College
Prize: Election to learned society
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Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Prize: Appointment
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Research output
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Beautiful Dachau's Contested Urban Identity
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Through the lens
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Beautiful Dachau
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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The Cemetery
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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The Memorial
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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A tale of two cities: Dachau and KZ Munich
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Ghetto
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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In Place of Death
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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In The Birch Grove
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products