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Facultative Master course "Who controls the past, controls the future?" offers a general overview of the reflexive problematics of history - i.e. uses of the past, collective memory, changing relationship between european societies and the past and the changing role of academic historians. The seminar offers introduction to the concepts of memory (Halbwachs, Nora, Ricœur, Jan & Aleida Assman), political approaches to the past (uses of the past, repentance and resentiments), hypothesis explaining the changing role of the western civilisations to the past (regimes of historicity, presentism) and reactions of academic historiography (freedom to history calls, question of history education).
Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to history not as "past reality", but as contemporary reflexions of past in fields of politics, society and historiography. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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Conditions to pass the seminar: - active participation in the seminars - oral presentation - seminar paper - oral exam, in case of higher number of participants replaced by written test/essay Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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- Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. - Assmann, Jan. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. - Erll, Astrid; Nünning, Ansgar (eds.). Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdiciplinary Handbook. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. - Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. - Hartog, François. Régimes d’historicité. Présentisme et expériences du temps. Paris: Seuil, 2003. - Iggers, Georg G. The Global History of Modern Historiography. New York, Routledge, 2008. - Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. New York, Columbia University Press, 1985. - Lévy, Daniel. Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. - Nora, Pierre (ed.). Realms of Memory I-III. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-1998. - Olick, Jeffrey K. The politics of regret. On collective memory and historical responsibility, New York: Routledge, 2007. - Olick, Jeffrey K.; Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered a Levy, Daniel (eds.). The Collective Memory Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. - Ricœur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. - Ritchie, Donald A. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - Rousso, Henry. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. - Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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Regular and active participation of students in the seminar, which encompasses regular reading of the mandatory texts to the covered topics (approx. 180 pages) and active discussion based on this reader (approx. 50 hours of work / 2 credits). Oral presentation (20 minutes) on a selected topic (approx. 50 hours of work / 2 credits). Oral examination based on the defense of small seminar paper (10 pages max.) (approx. 50 hours of work / 2 credits). In sum 6 ECTS credits. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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1) Introduction - question of time, reflexive look at history - literature: Olick, Jeffrey K.; Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered a Levy, Daniel (eds.). The Collective Memory Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 2) Collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs - sociological approach to the memory - literature: Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. 3) Realms of memory of Pierre Nora - historiographic approach to the memory - literature: Nora, Pierre (ed.). Realms of Memory I-III. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-1998. 4) Memory, history and forgetting of Paul Ricœur - filosofical/psychoanalytical approach to the memory - literature: Ricœur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 5) Cultural and communicative memory of Jan & Aleida Assmann - literature: Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 6) Regimes of historicity, hypothesis of presentism - literature: Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. New York, Columbia University Press, 1985. 7) American approach to the memory - Jeffrey K. Olick - literature: Olick, Jeffrey K. The politics of regret. On collective memory and historical responsibility, New York: Routledge, 2007. 8) Development of historiography of contemporary history - literature: Iggers, Georg G. The Global History of Modern Historiography. New York, Routledge, 2008. 9) Oral history - anglosaxon approach to the memory? - literature: Ritchie, Donald A. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 10) Jewish memory - holocaust heritage - literature: Lévy, Daniel. Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. 11) Trauma and ressentiment in history - literature: Rousso, Henry. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 12) Final conclusion and discussion Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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This Master level facultative course requires advanced knowledge of English language and working knowledge of contemporary history at university level. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2020)
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