The Intersection of Cultural and Personal Memory Engaging a collection of postcards from art museums, Dr. Mendelsohn discusses this mode of communication as a repo-sitory of personal and cultural memory: how do these cards as objects create and curate identities? How do they mediate cultural experience? As images repre-senting museum objects representing a culture—the museum, a city, a country—postcards have both a literal and symbolic status, he argues. They “circulate through personal/collective consciousness,” as Lauren Berlant puts it, and thereby localize national cultures. The talk positions post-cards as they relate to the United States, transnationally, and other countries. https://www.nas.uni-bonn.de/en/events/events-collection/the-intersection-of-cultural-and-personal-memory https://www.nas.uni-bonn.de/++resource++plone-logo.svg

Engaging a collection of postcards from art museums, Dr. Mendelsohn discusses this mode of communication as a repo-sitory of personal and cultural memory: how do these cards as objects create and curate identities? How do they mediate cultural experience? As images repre-senting museum objects representing a culture—the museum, a city, a country—postcards have both a literal and symbolic status, he argues. They “circulate through personal/collective consciousness,” as Lauren Berlant puts it, and thereby localize national cultures. The talk positions post-cards as they relate to the United States, transnationally, and other countries.