The HRC is proud to announce that Museums as Transnational Heritage Hubs: Civilian War Victims, Memory Networks, and Global Recognition, led by DKU History Professors Dr. Kolleen Guy and Dr. Jay Winter, has been awarded funding through the Transnational Heritage Joint Research Grants, supported by UNESCO.

This project builds on the foundational work of Professor Guy and Professor Jay’s Parapolitics of Empathy project, exploring how museums, especially those dedicated to Jewish refugees in WWII-era Shanghai and the ‘comfort women’ experience across East Asia, serve as transnational heritage hubs. It aims to create new frameworks for historical justice and global recognition of civilian wartime trauma.

The HRC congratulates Professor Guy and Professor Jay, and looks forward to the continued progress of this substantial research!