Memory Studies: Basic Concepts and New Research Directions 3500-FAK-MEMS-scc

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(in Polish) English minimum B2 level. No further conditions for participation. Erasmus students are particularly welcome! In case of large number of applicants, a selection criteria will be a letter (max. 1000 words in English) explaining the motivation for taking the course.

CMR for The Collective Memory Reader, eds. J. K. Olick, V. Vinitzky-​Seroussi, D. Levy, Oxford University Press 2011
and RIHMS for the Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, eds A. L. Tota, T. Hagen, Routledge 2016.

É. Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life; M. Halbwachs, The Collective Memory; M Bloch, Collective Memory, Custom, and Tradition: About a Recent Book, Ch. Blondel, Critical Review of M. Halbwachs Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire” in CMR.

F. Bartlett, Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology; E. Zerubavel, Social Memories: Steps towards a Sociology of the Past; J. K. Olick, Collective Memory: The Two Cultures, in CMR.

K. Barclay, NJ Koefoed, Family, Memory, and Identity: An Introduction. Journal of Family History. 2021 46(1): 3-12. doi:10.1177/0363199020967297
H. Welzer et al, Grandpa Wasn’t a Nazi: National Socialism and Holocaust in Family Memory in CMR.

K. Mannheim, The Sociological Problem of Generations; M. Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory in CMR. JK. Olick, The Sins of the Fathers, OUP, p. 426-469.

A. Portelli, Uchronic Dreams: Working Class Memory and Possible Worlds, Oral History. 1988 16 (2): 46-56.

R. Eyerman, Social Movements and Memory in RHIMS.

K. Loughran, G. A. Fine, and M. A. Hunter, Urban Spaces, City Cultures, and Collective Memories in RIHMS.

F. Davis, Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia; S. Boym, Nostalgia and Its Discontents in CMR.
Y. Gabriel, Organizational Nostalgia: Reflections on the Golden Age, in: Emotion in Organizations, ed. S. Fineman, Sage 1993.

E. Renan, What Is a Nation?; J. Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century; E. Hobsbawm, Introduction: Inventing Traditions in CMR.

P. H. Hutton, Pierre Nora’s Les Lieux de mémoire Thirty Years After, in RHIMS.

K. Bachmann et al. The Puzzle of Punitive Memory Laws: New Insights into the Origins and Scope of Punitive Memory Laws. East European Politics and Societies. August 2020. doi:10.1177/0888325420941093.
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E. Gombrich, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography: J. Assmann, Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism; J. Assmann, Collective Memory and Cultural Identity; A. Assmann, Canon and Archive in CMR.

A. Rigney, Cultural Memory Studies: mediation, narrative, and the aesthetic in RIHMS
Erll, Travelling Memory, Parallax 17 (4), 2011.

D. Levy and N. Sznaider, Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory in CMR.
AC Bull, HL Hansen, On agonistic memory. Memory Studies. 2016; 9 (4): 390-404. doi:10.1177/1750698015615935.

J. K. Young, “Filled with Words”: Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory; José van Dijck, Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past; in: Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies, eds, Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and
Pieter Vermeulen Berghhan Books 2017.

J. Garde-Hansen et al. Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience. Memory Studies 2017 10(4):384-405. doi:10.1177/1750698016667453.

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