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TRAMEVIC (Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture) examines the creation of wartime transnational memories in East Asia through visual culture. The processes of visual remembrance of war-related issues as fluid and changing phenomena that constantly adopt new meaning. The topic is particularly relevant today as it includes unresolved issues that keep conditioning international relations today and regularly cause diplomatic tensions in the region. The project proposes an original transnational and transdisciplinary approach that focuses on how the extensive new usage of images (including films, tv dramas, animation, photos, and other visual material) has allow the representation of a new kind of memory based on often traumatic experiences that expand beyond national boundaries.
Acronym

TRAMEVIC

Reference code

CIGE/2023/066

Description

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 examine 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
Principal investigators:
  • Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo
  • PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
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Start date
2024 January
End date
2025 December
Funding agencies:

Generalitat Valenciana, Department of Education, Culture, Universities and Occupation

Project type
  • GVA - GE - Emerging research groups