The project will examine how these new mnemonic practices in visual culture have seem to challenge previous hegemonic discourses and dominant narratives, articulate nuanced approached to the past and have the potential to create new bridges across nations in the present.

To that end, the project will assess a variety of war-related images, their usage across different formats (big and small screens as well as museums and print formats), their cultural and social implications, their impact on the international arena, and their role in not only representing the past but also transforming reality in the present. Along this line, rather than using images as documents of the past, they will be studied as contested places which will be interrogated not only for the changing narratives they embrace, examining not only what they show but also for what they hide.

To address these issues, TRAMEVIC works on, but is not limited to, the following research topics:

1. Representations of victims and perpetrators as an increasing slippery field.
2. Gender perspective in the creation of transnational memories
3. Creation of mnemonic communities based on transcultural and transnational identities
4. Interactions between visual culture and war-related memorial sites