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.

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