We are pleased to announce the exciting news that Prof. Kolleen Guy’s joint project, Museums as Transnational Heritage Hubs: Civilian War Victims, Memory Networks, and Global Recognition, has been awarded funding through the UNESCO Transnational Heritage Joint Research Grant program.
This research builds directly on the foundational work made possible by the generous funding for the Parapolitics of Empathy project from the DKU Humanities Research Center. The joint project with Professor Yujie Zhu (Australian National University) and Professor Jay Winter (Yale University) investigates how museums—particularly those dedicated to Jewish refugees in World War II Asia and the ‘comfort women’ experience across East Asia—serve as transnational heritage hubs. By exploring how these institutions facilitate memory networks, intercultural dialogue, and collaborative public education, we aim to offer new frameworks for historical justice and global recognition of civilian wartime trauma.
