Steffi de Jong
| Epost | steffi.dejong@ntnu.no |
| Fasttelefon | 73596863 |
| Kontoradresse | Bygg 5*5518, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1 |
| Enhet | Institutt for moderne fremmedspråk |
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2008 Phd candidate at the research project Exhibiting Europe at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
2009-2010 research stay at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
2007-2008 MA Analysing Europe at Maastricht University and the Jagiellon University in Krakow. MA thesis: Europe on Show: Exhibiting European Culture and History in Museums.
2006-2007 European Voluntary Service at the Office for International Relations of the Province of Padua.
2003-2006 BA in English Literature and Drama/Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London finished with first class honours with the dissertation Subverting National Prejudices Wilkie Collins‘ portrayal of Europeans in The Woman in White, Poor Miss Finch and The Moonstone
Research Project
Musealising the witness: Staging Video Testimonies in Holocaust and Second World War Museums
The offspring of personal memory – diaries, pictures, letters and autobiographies by eyewitnesses of historical events– have always had their place in history museums. As testimonies to past events they fill the galleries or provide content for museum texts. In recent years we are however faced with a new phenomenon in museums: the display of personal memory itself. More and more museums confront their visitors with video testimonies in which witnesses of events of historical importance tell parts of their biographies. In my research project, I will analyse this musealisation of personal memory. Basing myself on several case studies of Holocaust and Second World War Museums, I will approach video testimonies as items of collection, exhibition and communication in museums.
Click here for a longer project description. The project is a part project of the larger research project
Exhibiting Europe. The development of a European narrative in museums, collections, and exhibitions
This research project for the period 2008-2011 received funding from the Norwegian Research Council and is hosted by NTNU, the University of Portsmouth and the Humboldt University Berlin. It aims to analyse two interrelated processes: on the one hand, the institution of the museum as a transformer and interpreter of history, and, on the other hand, the idea of a trans- and supranational Europe integrated by a shared history and common identity.
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Selected Articles
Is This Us? The Construction of European Woman/Man in the Exhibition It's Our History!. In Stefan Krankenhagen (ed.), Exhibiting Europe. Thematic Section of Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol.3, 2011, pp. 369-383.
Bewegte Objekte. Zur Musealisierung des Zeitzeugen. In Sibylle Schmidt, Sibylle Krämer, Ramon Voges (eds.), Politik der Zeugenschaft. Zur Kritik einer Wissenspraxis. Bielefeld: transcript, 2011, pp. 243-264.
Selected Conference Papers
18 November 2011 "Exhibiting History/Exhibiting Memory. Some reflections on the use of video testimonies in Holocaust and Second World War Museums" at the workshop From Mass Murder to Exhibition: Museum Representations in Transatlantic Comparison at the German Historical Institute in Washington
13 October 2011 "Musealisierte Erinnerung. Zur Figur des Zeitzeugen in zeithistorischen Museen ausserhalb Deutschlands" at the conference Zeitzeugen im Museum in Görlitz
8 April 2011 "The Figure of the Witness in Second World War Museums" at the conference Exhibiting Europe at the Intercultural Museum in Oslo.
5 February 2011, "Exhibiting Memory - Video Testimonies in Second World War and Holocaust Museums" at the conference Social Memory and Survivor Communities: Bergen-Belsen in Comparative Perspective at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial
2-3 December 2010 "Video Testimonies in History Museums" at the Kulver seminar-workshop Re-visioning the museal objects between things and signs in Oslo
16 July 2010 "Authentische Schauobjekte? Zeizeugeninterviews in zeithistorischen Museen" at the conference Erzählte Authentizität - Authentizität des Erzählens at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
17-19 March 2010 "Musealising the witness" at the CHIMERA workshop Making European Cultural Heritage at the University of Manchester
11 September 2009 "Musealising the witness: The staging of First-Person Testimonies in European Second World War Museums and Exhibitions" at the conference " Museums and Biographies" at The National Gallery in London
11 July 2009 "Whose history? The figure of the witness in museums" at the conference The figure of the witness at the Freie Universität in Berlin
