The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Themes and Approaches in Contemporary European Memory Studies - JTM650

• Title: The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Themes and Approaches in Contemporary European Memory Studies
• Czech title: Dvacáté století v evropské paměti: témata a přístupy v současných evropských memory studies
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 20 / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
• Key competences: 4EU+ Flagship 2
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (14.02.2023)

Contested memories and painful pasts regularly re-appear in the Europan public sphere on transnational, national and regional levels. Most recently, the war in Ukraine has instigated a new wave of memory themes and disputes, as various memory narratives are activated for numerous purposes, including explaining warfare, justifying various politics, attempting to explain ongoing events, bolstering identities and mobilising for political positioning or activism. This course asks why we need memory and memory studies, and what kinds of roles does memory play in contemporary Europe.

Aim of the course

Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (14.02.2023)

The course introduces the main concept and approaches within memory studies. Drawing on case studies from different European countries and regions, the course explores different ways of remembering Europe’s complicated past and investigates how these forms of remembering influence life, politics and culture across contemporary Europe.
The course will take place in a virtual format with online lectures and seminars taught on zoom by top academic experts in the field of Memory Studies from 4EU+ partner universities and the COST Action Slow Memory. Each session, except the Introduction and Wrap-up which are solely for students enrolled in the class, consists of an expert talk and Q&A and is a live stream. The recordings serve exclusively as an internal project archive.

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (14.02.2023)

Assessments:

Active participation in all sessions online: 50 %

Students are expected to attend each session at its full length. They can miss one class without prior justification and one additional class with relevant justification (illness, serious personal reasons, attendance of an extraordinary event related to the study program). A higher number of missed classes can be the reason for failing the course. During the seminar, students should actively input thoughts from personal reflections and reading.

 

Argumentative essay: 50 % 

3000 words on a subject related to the course, including a bibliography (consisting of at least 8 scholarly publications) and proper references either in Harvard or Chicago style. Essay to be submitted via Moodle until May 24, 2023.
(More info in Moodle)

 

Grading:

A: 100-91%; B: 90-81%; C: 80-71%; D: 70-61%; E: 60-51%; F (failed): 50% or less

Note: It is necessary to achieve at least 50% in both main activities, the exam and the presentation.

Teaching methods

Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (14.02.2023)

Online seminar

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (10.02.2023)

Preliminary course plan, one Zoom session per week (80 minutes):

ATTENTION: This course is starting only in March 2023!

 

Introductory part

1. 3. 2023         Why do we need memory studies?    

Overview of course (Joint lecture)

 

8. 3. 2023         What do we mean by Slow Memory?

Round table with members of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory

Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, TBC moderated by K. Králová

 

Case Studies

15. 3. 2023       Memory, migration and literature

Jessica Ortner, University of Copenhagen

(STARTING AT 10:00!)

 

22. 3. 2023       Memory, Mental Healthcare, and Oral History

Verusca Calabria, Nottingham Trent University

Members of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory

 

29. 3. 2023       Narrating the Holocaust

Katerina Kralova, Charles University, Prague

Members of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory

 

5. 4. 2023         Exhibitions of 'Diversity' in France through Visual Culture and Literature

Giancarlo Maria Grossi & Silvia Riva, University of Milan

 

12. 4. 2023       Remembering the Holocaust through Virtual and Augmented Technologies

Elisabetta Modena & Pietro Conte, University of Milan

 

19. 4. 2023       Archiving memories

Jiří Kocian, Charles University, Prague

 

26. 4. 2023       Landscape/environmental memory

Luba Jurgenson, University of Sorbonne

 

3. 5. 2023         Industrial memories

Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warszawa

Members of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory

 

10. 5. 2023       Cultural Heritage and Memory Politics

Thomas Matthias Schmitt, University of Heidelberg

 

17. 5. 2023       Cultural memories, circulation and reception

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, University of Copenhagen

Members of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory

 

24. 5. 2023       WRAP UP

 

Entry requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. (26.01.2023)

Initial recommendations for course participants: 

English at least B1/B2