"Pruzzenland" as a Region of Broken Memories. Reconstruction and Representation of European Historical Space in Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Russia since 1900

该项目以普鲁兹兰岛为重点，重点关注东北欧地区，该地区以多元文化传统和邻国相互竞争的政治和国家主张为标志。第一阶段资金的主要目标是对研究中的四个国家：德国、波兰、立陶宛和俄罗斯的教科书中的记忆文化和身份建构进行国际比较分析。在这些发现的基础上，开始了一项概念性设计工作，以便在课堂上传达欧洲地区多变和高度冲突的历史，超越国家决定的记忆文化。第一阶段的主要成果是一部专著，目前正在撰写中。这本专著批判性地反映了记忆研究、地区历史和/或地区教育的当前理论趋势，以及正在开发的与内容相关的TOPOI，这些TOPOI记录了该地区的历史，超越了民族、国家和种族的解释性范畴，因此将以对话的形式初步推动欧洲历史方面的工作。在第二个资助期内，通过对理论、方法论、学术和教学方面的考虑而选定的一些来源，将在德国、波兰、立陶宛和俄罗斯的课堂上使用，从而使这一推动力具有坚实的比例。这一转移产品将以多语种数字版本提供，为其用户在国际层面上提供机会，远远超出上述四个国家的边界。正是在这个意义上，该项目开辟了新的教学领域：仍然相当缺乏跨越国界并提到一个共同的欧洲地区的学习材料。因此，计划中的数字版将对目前欧洲大部分地区正在进行的辩论做出建设性贡献，辩论的主题是如何将历史教学非国有化，并提供接触跨国视角的途径。同时，由于地区、国家和跨国视角的交织，共时和历时方法的结合，以及合作的、跨界的开发和可用性，该项目还涉及数字人文领域的最新发展，这些领域在过去几年中在人文和文化研究中的重要性迅速增加。虽然教科书等传统媒体只能以连续的方式揭示不同的视角，但数字版本提供了一种针对多种视角的独特方法。为了鼓励学生形成多元化的历史图像，多媒体形式将允许用户适当地可视化复杂的记忆网状结构和空间视角，以区分普鲁兹兰岛的历史区域。

With its focus on Pruzzenland, this project concentrates on a North-East European region marked by diverse cultural traditions and by rival political and national claims of its neighbours. The primary objective of the first phase of funding was an international comparative analysis of memory cultures and identity constructions in the medium of the textbook for the four countries in the study: Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Russia. On the basis of these findings, work was begun on a conceptual design for conveying the variable and highly conflictual history of a European region in the classroom, moving beyond the nationally determined memory cultures. The principal product of this first phase was a monograph, currently being written. The monograph reflects critically on current theoretical trends within memory research, regional history and/or regional education, as well as within developing content-related topoi that capture the history of the region beyond the interpretative categories of the nation, the state, and ethnicity, and will thus provide an initial impetus for work on European history in dialogical form. The impetus will take on solid proportions during the second funding period via a selection of sources, selected after consideration of theoretical, methodological, scholarly and didactic aspects, for use in the classrooms of Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Russia. This transfer product will be available as a multilingual digital edition, opening up opportunities for its users on an international level well beyond the boundaries of the four countries mentioned above. It is in this sense that the project breaks new didactic ground: there is still a considerable lack of learning material that crosses boundaries and refers to a shared European region. The planned digital edition will thus make a constructive contribution to the debate currently underway across much of Europe as to how history instruction can be de-nationalised and provide access to transnational perspectives. At the same time, with its interlacing of regional, national and transnational perspectives, its combination of synchronic and diachronic approaches, and its collaborative, cross-boundary development and usability, this project also addresses the latest developments within digital humanities, which have rapidly gained in importance in the humanities and cultural studies over the past few years. While a traditional medium such as the textbook can only unveil different perspectives in a successive manner, a digital edition provides a unique approach towards multiple perspectives. With the objective of encouraging pupils to develop pluralised images of history, the multimedia form will allow the user to visualise appropriately the complex mesh of memories and spatial perspectives that distinguish the historical region of Pruzzenland.