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7. Course overview by week
BLOCK 1
Session 1 (12 February 2025): Introduction: Media & Memory in a Global Age (CB + MB)
Reading:
– Garde-Hansen, Joanne. Media and Memory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2011, 13-30, 44-49.
– De Cesari, Chiara, and Ann Rigney, “Introduction,” in De Cesari, Chiara, and Ann Rigney, eds. Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, 1-25.
– Hirsch, Marianne. “Connective Arts of Postmemory.” Analecta Política 9.16 (2019): 171-176.
– Rothberg, Michael. “Multidirectional Memory.” Témoigner: Entre histoire et mémoire 119 (2014), https://doi.org/10.4000/temoigner.1494Links to an external site..
To do: read through Course Manual/session topics; read all texts; think of an example of an ‘object of memory’ to bring to the first session (e.g. it could be a media text, a place etc.)
Session 2 (19 February 2025): Mediated Memory, Remixing & Remediation (CB)
Reading:
– van Dijck, José. “Mediated Memories: Personal Cultural Memory as Object of Cultural Analysis.” Continuum 18.2 (2004): 261-277.
– Garde-Hansen, Joanne. Media and Memory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2011, 105-119.
– Baron, Jaimie. The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History. London: Routledge, 2014. 16-45.
To do: read all texts, watch the found footage film They Call Me BabuLinks to an external site. (S. Beerends, 2019).
Session 3 (26 February 2025): Travelling Memory & Memory Activism (CB)
Reading:
– Erll, Astrid. “Travelling Memory.” Parallax 17.4 (2011): 4-18.
– Arps, Arnoud. “Memori melompat (‘jumping memory’): The Mnemonic Motion of Indonesian Popular Culture and the Need for a Local Reframing.” Memory Studies 16.6 (2023): 1423-1435.
– Ristić, Katarina. “Far-right Digital Memory Activism: Transnational Circulation of Memes and Memory of Yugoslav Wars.” Memory Studies 17.4 (2024): 741-756.
To do: read all texts & think of a (media) example of ‘travelling’ memory and relate it to the texts.
Session 4 (5 March 2025): Politics of Memory in Public Space (CB)
Reading:
– Wüstenberg, Jenny. “Locating Transnational Memory.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 32 (2019): 371-382.
– Gensburger, Sarah, “Beyond Trauma: Researching Memory on My Doorstep.” In Danielle Drozdzewski and Carolyn Birdsall, eds., Doing Memory Research: New Methods and Approaches. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 109-128.
– Drozdzewski, Danielle, and Carolyn Birdsall. “Using Emplaced Ethnography, Mobility, and Listening to Research Memory.” In Danielle Drozdzewski and Carolyn Birdsall, eds., Doing Memory Research: New Methods and Approaches. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 39-61.
To do: read all texts & think of an example of a ‘memory practice’ in public space (e.g. in Amsterdam, another city) and relate it to the texts.
Session 5 (12 March 2025): Temporalities: Slow Memory and Environmental Mourning (CB)
Reading:
– Wüstenberg, Jenny. “Towards a Slow Memory Studies” in Brett A. Kaplan, ed. Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, 59-68.
– Messina, Marcello, et al. “Towards Amazon-centred Memory Studies: Borders, Dispossessions and Massacres.” Memory Studies 16.6 (2023): 1407-1422.
– Knittel, Susanne C. “Ecologies of Violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the Genocide–Ecocide Nexus.” Memory Studies 16.6 (2023): 1563-1578.
– Feldberg, Olya. “From Dinosaurs to Nuclear Fallout: Multiple Temporalities of Scale in Memory Studies.” Memory Studies 16.6 (2023): 1594-1608.
To do: read all texts & watch the documentary film The Magnitude of All Things (J. Abbott, 2020) (the link for this film to be shared later)
Session 6 (19 March 2025): Recap + Excursion (CB)
During this session we will devote the first part of the session to a ‘Recap’ as preparation for the Take-home exam, followed by an excursion to an exhibition.
To do: re-read all texts from Sessions 1-5 (with particular attention to key concepts, definitions, arguments), and prepare/bring your questions to class
DUE DATE Take-home exam – due Wed 26 March, 23.59 (Canvas)
NO CLASS 26 March & 2 April 2025
BLOCK 2
Session 7 (9 April 2025): Ruins and Ghosts of Memory (MB)
Reading:
– Boym, Svetlana, “Ruinophilia: Appreciation of Ruins” (2011), http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/html/r/ruinophilia/ruinophilia-appreciation-of-ruins-svetlana-boym.htmlLinks to an external site.
– Landsberg, Alison. Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 111-139 (chapter four).
– Rodriguez, Juan Carlos, “Framing Ruins: Patricio Guzman’s Postdictatorial Documentaries », Latin American Perspectives (special issue on “Political documentary film and Video in the Southern Cone 1950s-2000s), 40.1 (January 2013): 131-144.
To do: read all texts & watch the feature film Ararat (A. Egoyan, 2002).
Session 8 (16 April 2025): Memory, Material Objects, and Displacement (MB)
Reading:
– Parkin, David, “Mementoes as Transnational Objects in Human Displacement”, Journal of Material Culture, 4.3 (1999): 303-320.
– Schlör, Joachim, “Means of Transport and Storage: Suitcases and other Containers for the Memory of Migration and Displacement”, Jewish Culture and History, 15.1-2 (2014): 76-92.
– Löfgren, Orvar, “Emotional Baggage: Unpacking the Suitcase”, eds. J. Frykman and M. Povrzanovic Frykman, Sensitive Objects. Affect and Material Culture, Nordic Academic Press, 2016, 125-151.
To do: read all texts & bring (in group) a clip from a film/artwork/media object that deals with a suitcase in relation to memory, migration and displacement.
Session 9 (23 April 2025): The Memory of Clothes and Mourning (MB)
Reading:
– Stallybrass, Peter, “Worn World: Clothes, Mourning and the Life of Things”, Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity, eds. D. Ben-Amos and L. Weissberg, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999, 35-50.
– Gibson, Margaret, Objects of the Dead. Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life, Melbourne University Press, 2008. Read chapter 1 “ Objects of the Dead” (1-19) and chapter 5 “Clothing” (103-130).
– de Perthuis, Karen, “Darning Mark’s Jumper: Wearing Love and Sorrow”. Cultural Studies Review, 22.1 (2016): 59-77.
To do: read all texts & think of one of your own ‘memory of clothes’ and relate it to the texts.
NO CLASS 30 April 2025
Session 10 (7 May 2025): Memory in Fashion, Fashion in Memory (MB)
Reading:
– Hunt, Carolyn, “Worn Clothes and Textiles as Archives of Memory”. Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 5.2 (2014): 207-232.
– Toussaint, Lianne and Smelik, Anneke, “Memory and Materiality in Hussein Chalayan’s Techno-Fashion”, Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, eds. L. Muntean, L. Plate, and A. Smelik, Routledge, 2017, 89-105.
To do: read all texts & think of a fashion object (e.g. work of a designer / fashion item) and/or a fashion-related audiovisual media object that touches upon issues of memory.
Session 11 (14 May 2025): Fabricating Memories, Subverting History (MB)
Reading:
– Van Doorn, Niels, “The Fabric of our Memories: Leather, Kinship, and Queer Material History”. Memory Studies, 9.1 (2015): 85-98.
– Michna, Natalia Anna, “Knitting, Weaving, Embroidery, and Quilting as Subversive Aesthetic Strategies”, ZoneModa, 10.15 (2020): 167-183.
– Braidotti, Rosi and Smelik, Anneke, “Unfolding Patterns of Revolt”. Tansitions in Art, Culture and Politics, 2023, 289-297.
To do: read all texts & think of a ‘textile (art/media) practice’ that subverts history and/or works as memory activism.
Session 12 (21 May 2025): Mini-conference (MB + CB)