Contested Sites of Memory: History, Politics, Emotion, 7.5 ECTS
The Department of Culture and Aesthetics offers this course as part of the Doctoral School in the Humanities in the autumn semester 2023.
Course content
This course aims to critically investigate the material infrastructure of contemporary transnational memory culture, by exploring six sites which harbor complex memory conflicts: the monument, the ruin, the museum, the archive, the city, and the waste-site. Drawing from expertise from the fields of literary studies, art history, history, intellectual history, modern languages and archeology, the course works with transnational and multidirectional memory as a performative category, challenging a view on memory as a property of predefined groups. How is cultural memory made and unmade in and by these sites? How do memory and forgetting interplay in conflicts in and about these sites and the objects connected to them?
Learning outcomes
In order to pass the course, students should be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge about cultural memory studies as an interdisciplinary research field
- articulate and critically reflect on how the past is made present by differing practices of memory, within material culture and through aesthetic expressions
- analyze and critically discuss the employment of memory in relation to questions of historical justice and reparation
Practical information
Mandatory elements
Active participation in the seminars is mandatory, including the concluding symposium.
Examination
The examination on the course consists of a written paper, which is orally presented at the symposium.
Instruction
Instruction is given in the form of seminars, lectures and participation in a symposium.
NB. The course will be offered on campus only.
Teaching language: The course is taught in English.
Period: 2023-10-20 – 2023-12-15
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Course syllabus: IH1625F Course syllabus (466 Kb)
Contact
Course directors: Victoria Fareld and Anna Jörngården
Course name in Swedish: Minerade minnesplatser: Historia, politik, känslor
The course is offered by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
- Visiting address
- A 237
- Södra husen F6
Last updated: January 17, 2024
Source: Faculty of Humanities