Class Schedule:

Week 1: Introduction, Course Expectations, Discussion of Some Basic Theories and Concepts in the Field of Memory Studies, Definitions of Various Types of Memory.

Readings: No Readings

Week 2: The Recent Memory Boom, The Role of Memory in Social Sciences and Theoretical & Methodological Challenges

Required Reading:

Kerwin Lee Klein, "On the Emergence of Memory in the Historical Discourse", Representations , Winter 69, 2000, pp.127-150

Recommended Reading:

Jeffrey K. Olick and Joyce Robbins, "Social Memory Studies: from" Collective Memory "to Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices", Annual Review of Sociology , 24, 1998, pp. 105-40 (Jstore)

David Berliner, "The Abuses of Memory: Reflections on the Memory Boom in Anthropology", Anthropological Quarterly , Vol. 1, 2005

Week 3: Social Memory: Individualistic and Collectivistic Understandings of Social Memory.

Required Readings:

Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory , Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992, 37-51