Universität Wien

240031 VS Sleeping Dogs, Best Forgotten, Always Remembered: On social amnesia and collective memory (3.3.6) (2022W)

Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Die Lehrveranstaltung soll nach Möglichkeit in Präsenz durchgeführt werden. Aufgrund der jeweils geltenden Abstandsregelungen und anderer Maßnahmen kann es zu Anpassungen kommen.

Tuesday 04.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday 18.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday 08.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday 22.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday 06.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday 10.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday 24.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Proverbs and colloquial expressions communicate social experience and knowledge and allow an understanding of patterns of remembering and forgetting as social action.
This is an inter-active course. Apart from introductory input and impulse lecturing the seminar is based on intense communication, open discussion, active contribution and group work of all participants, and makes use of multi-media materials and seminal texts.

Assessment and permitted materials

Continuous assessment.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Marking is based on active participation including collective and peer-group discussion and short written work (30%), 10 minutes presentation (25%), and final paper (aprox. 20000 characters; 45%).
Closing date for final paper delivery: 27.02.2023

Examination topics

The assessment load is constituted by notions, concepts and approaches that were presented, examined and debated in the course as well as the discussed ethnographic case studies; all work done by the participants, whether collectively or independently.

Reading list

Assmann, Jan: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen. Munich 1992.
'Trans.: Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing,
Remembrance, and Political Imagination. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Assmann, A. 1999 Erinnerungsräume: Formen und Wandlungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses. Munich: C.H. Beck

Assmann, Aleida: Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Halbwachs, Maurice: On Collective Memory. The University of Chicago Press, 1992; (french origina texts 1925/42/50).
Halbwachs, M. 1980 The Collective Memory (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Kidron, C. A. 2009 Toward an Ethnography of Silence. The lived Presence of the Past in the everyday Life of Holocaust Trauma Survivors and their Descendants in Israel.
Current Anthropology 50(1), 5-27.

Kleinman, A., & Kleinman, J. 1994 How Bodies Remember. Social Memory and Bodily Experience of Criticism, Resistance, and Delegitimation following China's Cultural Revolution.
New Literary History, 25, 707-723.

Ross, F. C. (2001). Speech and Silence: Women’s Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In V. Das, A. Kleinman & M. Lock (Eds.), Remaking A World. Violence, Social Suffering and Recovery.
Berkeley, University of California Press.

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