The Concept of Memory in Late-Modernity: Commemoration, Representation, Trauma

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will involve an examination of the relations between memory, theory, and representation in the context of proliferating ‘cultures of memory’. Differing theoretical approaches to memory from the philosophy and psychoanalysis of the 19th and 20 centuries will be explored, alongside various genres & practices of memory (political, memorial, artistic, and critical). RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to students in their second year and above EXCLUSIONS: CTMP3410.03 for the 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11 academic years only and CTMP3415.03 for the 2011/12 academic year only FORMATS: Seminar