Video Contested History - Rob van Ginkel
Contribution by Rob van Ginkel to the symposium Contested History. Rob van Ginkel is senior researcher at the department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. He is the author of the book Around the silence: Memorial Culture in the Netherlands.
Framer Framed and the East Indies Memorial Center organizes in collaboration with the Reinwardt Academy the symposium Contested History on the representation of the Dutch-Indonesian history in museums. The symposium Contested History will take place in the conference center Kumpulan Bronbeek in Arnhem on Thursday February 9th, 2012.
Different views
This symposium takes place on the occasion of the exhibition The Story of the Dutch East Indies on the colonial history of the Netherlands in the former Dutch East Indies. This exhibition is a coproduction by the Dutch East Indies Memorial Center and Museum Bronbeek. These two institutions have different views on how this history should be interpreted and represented, respectively a civilian versus a military perspective. The Story of the Dutch East Indies interlaces these two historical views, and thus provides a good case for organizing a symposium on the representation of the Dutch-Indonesian history in the museum context.
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