Katrin Antweiler
Katrin Antweiler studied Cultural Studies and Gender Studies in Bremen, Tel Aviv, and at the HU Berlin. She received her PhD from the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the Justus Liebig University Gießen, where she researched representations of the Holocaust in human rights museums. In her dissertation, she combined the analytical perspective of governmentality with decolonial critique and examined the question of whether a new form of governance emerges at the intersection of global Holocaust remembrance and human rights education, which aims to shape a Global Citizen whose political engagement can be influenced and thus also risks limiting alternative political visions.
Since April 2022, Katrin Antweiler holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Bremen, which was funded by the Central Research Funding, to investigate the connection between Memory Studies and Contradiction Studies. She is examining the role of cultural memory practices in today's heterogeneous German society. With a particular interest in configurations of contradiction, she aims to gain new insights into the current significance of education after Auschwitz in a post-migrant society.
Memory Studies, in particular, Holocaust remembrance, remembrance of genocide, as well as multidirectional remembrance and global narratives of remembrance, and museum studies
Contradiction Studies, in particular, contradictory cultural practices, as well as cultural practices aimed at reconciling such contradictions, including through citizenship education
Global governance, decolonial perspectives on the role of human rights and the human rightsisation process, international relations, security technologies
Monograph
Antweiler, Katrin. Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023.
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
Antweiler, K. “Why collective memory can never be pluriversal: A case for contradiction and abolitionist thinking in memory studies”. Memory Studies 16(6), 2023, pp. 1529-1545. (https:// doi/10.1177/17506980231202337)
Antweiler, K. “Memory as means of governmentality”. Memory Studies, online first, 2023. (doi.org/10.1177/17506980221150892)
Antweiler,K. “The coloniality of Holocaust memorialization in post-apartheid South Africa”. International Affairs 98(1), 2022, pp. 263–280. (https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab205)
Antweiler, K. “Unlearning Prejudice Through Memory? Contemporary German Memory Politics and Human Rights Education”, AUC Studia Territorialia 19(2), 2019, pp. 55-79. (https//doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2020.4)
Publications without peer review process
Book Reviews
Antweiler, K. “Efforts in Futurity beyond Reconciliation” [review of: Chavez, Y./Mithlo, N. M. (Hg.). Visualizing Genocide. Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums], International Affairs 99(6), pp. 2522-23.
Antweiler, K. „Erinnerungskultur im Spannungsfeld zwischen universellen und partikularen Perspektiven“[review of: Sznaider, N., Fluchtpunkte der Erinnerung. Über Gegenwart von Holocaust und Kolonialismus]. Einsicht: Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts, 2022.
Antweiler, K. “Prescribed Anti-Racism? Historic and Contemporary Challenges to a Global Memory Imperative” [review of: Gilbert, S./A. Alba (Hg.). Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World], KULT_online 61, 2020.
Antweiler, K. “At the Limits of Transformation? Human Rights Education Between Colonial Conditions and Emancipatory Counter-Projects” [review of: Zembylas, M./Keet, A. (Hg.), Critical Human Rights, Citizenship and Democracy Education, Entanglements and Regenerations], KULT_online 57, 2019.