Lunch Time Lecture: Lia Yoka – “Histories of Europe today: the limits of museum representation“

Any attempt at a “valid representation of European history“, reconciling the history and the idea of the continent, would have to deal with numerous challenges. Even the House of European History, conceived almost a decade ago and approved by the European Parliament’s Bureau, aiming to “become an open platform for reflection and debate about Europe and its history“,  has already been criticized from many sides and has yet to present an exhibition. However, the ways in which the economy, warfare and technologies of mass communication have been connected to one another and have developed in Europe are historically unique. And so are the responses and alternatives. How can the museum, a modern European institution, represent this history? 
Lia Yoka is assistant professor of art history and theory at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and coordinator of the “cultural theories“ module at the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in Museology, AUTh and University of Western Macedonia. She studied history at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and art history at the Ludwig Maximilian Universitaet in Munich and at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She has edited three volumes on museology and cultural studies (2009, 2010, and 2012) and has published, in Greek, English, German, French on the history of comics, the critique of technoscience and 19th-century European painting. She translates, edits and writes for the Editions des Etrangers in Thessaloniki.
Architekturtheorie
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sokratis Georgiadis
LB Claudia Nitsche, MA
LA Thomas Cappellaro, MA