Reenactment Case Studies

Vanessa Agnew is Professor of Anglophone Studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen. She directs the Critical Thinking Program of Academy in Exile at Freie Universität Berlin and is Honorary Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at The Australian National University. Sabine Stach is a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig. Her research focus is on Czech and Polish contemporary history, public history, and tourism. From 2015 to 2020 she worked at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Juliane Tomann is Assistant Professor for Public History at Regensburg University. Her teaching and research interests focus on practices of doing history in popular culture in Central-Eastern Europe and the USA. Previously she was head of the research unit "History in the public sphere" at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena.

Part 1: Raising Questions of Evidence

1. Global Reenactment, Local Practices

Vanessa Agnew, Sabine Stach, and Juliane Tomann

2. Reenacting 9/11 on Screen

James Chandler

3. Crime Scene: Reconstruction in the works of Forensic Architecture and Robert Kuśmirowski

Dorota Sosnowska

4. Indigenous, I presume? Unexpected outcomes of repatriation and reenactments of photographic archives in the Upper Amazon

Christian Vium

Part 2: Reaffirming Understandings of the Past

5. In Honor of the Forefathers – Archaeological Reenactment between History Appropriation and Ideological Mission. The Case of Ulfhednar

Ralf Hoppadietz and Karin Reichenbach

6. Retracing the Revolution: Partisan Reenactments in Socialist Yugoslavia

Nikola Baković

7. Reenacting the Revolution: The Sacred Site of Yan’an in Contemporary China

Marc Andre Matten

8. Reenacting Japan’s Past That Never Was: The Ninja in Tourism and Larp

Björn-Ole Kamm

Part 3: Challenging Narratives about the Past

9. "Are We Heroes Too?" Reenacting the 1949 Offensive against the Dutch Occupation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia"

Lise Zurné

10. Expedition and Reenactment: Recovering the Ottoman Past through Creating the Evliya Çelebi Way

Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean

11. You can’t just put men in the field and be accurate.’ Women in American Revolutionary War Reenactment

Juliane Tomann

Part 4: Restaging Lives

12. Exhibition as Reenactment: Kazimir Malevich at the Tretiakov Gallery, 1929

Marie Gasper-Hulvat

13. The Body as Time Machine: Reenactment in Lola Arias’s Documentary Performance

Brenda Werth

14. "On Motives for Reenactment: The Example of the Kindertransport"

Bill Niven

Part 5: Negotiating Justice

15. Reenacting the Cambodian Genocide: Performances of Memory in Ella Pugliese’s Documentary Movie We Want [u] to Know (2009)

Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier

16. Performing Violence: Trauma and Reenactment in Documentary Film

Charley Boerman and Boris Noordenbos