Syllabus
Lessons:
1. Introduction
2. Halbwachs, the collective memory
3. Pierre Nora - Between memory and history
4. Jeffery C. Alexander: "On the social construction of moral universals", pp. 196-221, in: Cultural Trauma and collective identity
5. Collective memory and nationalism: Hobasbawm – "Inventing traditions", in: the invention of tradition
6. Politics of memory: Bernhard, M. and Kubik J. “The Politics and Culture of Memory Regimes”, in: Twenty Years after Communism
7. Ostalgie: Berdahl - Ostalgie
8. Assmann - Collective memory and cultural identity
9. Zerubavel – time maps, introduction
10. Technology and memory: Hutton, Cultural Memory: From the Threshold of Literacy to the Digital Age
11. Media and memory
12. Conclusion * Required Reading: - OLICK, J. K. - VINITZKY-SEROUSSI, V. - DANIEL LEVY, D. (eds.). The Collective Memory Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2011. ISBN 978-0-19-533741-9. * Recommended reading: - ALEXANDER, J. C., EYERMAN, R., GIESEN, B., SMELSER, J. N., SZTOMPKA, P. Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. University of California Press: Berkeley.
2004. ISBN 0-520-23595-9. - ASSMANN, J. Das kulturelle Gedächtnis : Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen . München: C.H. Beck.
1997. ISBN
9783406568442. - CONNERTON, P. How Modernity Forgets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2000. ISBN
9780521745802. - HALBWACHS, M. On Collective Memory. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.
1992. ISBN
9780226115962. - KOPEČEK, L (ed.) Past in the Making: Historical revisionism in Central Europe after
1989. Budapešť: Central European University Press.
2008. ISBN 978-963-9776-04-3. - RICOEUR, P. Time and Narrative. Vol. 1 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1984. ISBN 978-0226713328. - WELZER, H.
2005. “Grandapa Wasn’t a Nazi: The Holocaust in German Family Remembrance” In International Perspectives
54. American Jewish Committee: New York, pp 1-30 - ZERUBAVEL, E. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2003. ISBN
9780226981529. Attendance and participation obligatory. If you cannot participate in person, write email for Zoom arrangement.