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IAH Announces Memory Studies Series for the 2008-2009 Academic Year
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), in conjunction with the working group on cultures of memory, will host a series of lectures, workshops and colloquia in memory studies during the 2008-2009 academic year. The memory studies series is made possible in part by support from The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
Memory studies is an emerging field of academic research that includes history, psychology, education, literary studies and the visual arts, among other disciplines. It focuses on the ways that cultures create and transmit basic stories about origins, identities and the past. Among its objects of study are history books, memorials, museums, archives, oral traditions and material artifacts. Memory studies explore questions of collective memory, cultural formation and extinction, reparations for past injustices and the various psychological and sociological factors that influence memory.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Further details about these events can be found at the IAH Web site.
September 24, 4-5:30 p.m.
Games of War: Counterculture, Cyberculture, Popular Culture
Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine
Incubator, Hyde Hall (second floor)
October 28, 4-5:30 p.m.
Justice, Absence and Memory
W. James Booth, Vanderbilt University
University Room, Hyde Hall (first floor)
November 10, 4-5:30 p.m.
The Memory of War and the Erasure of Iraq
Marita Sturken, New York University
University Room, Hyde Hall (first floor)
December 5, 12-2:30 p.m.
Colloquium: Memory and the Politics of the Popular
University Room, Hyde Hall (first floor)
January 15, 2009, 4-5:30 p.m.
Revisiting the Southern Past: Memory, Religion and History
Fitz Brundage, University of North Carolina
University Room, Hyde Hall (first floor)
February 27–28, 2009, 8 p.m. each night
The Lastmaker, a performance archive of restless ghosts from varied pasts
Studio Six, Swain Hall [Admission $10 general, $5 students]
Sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies, Carolina Performing Arts, the Department of Dramatic Arts and Duke University Department of Theatre Studies
April 2–April 4, 2009
Conference*: The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories
Hyde Hall
Sponsored by the Southern Oral History Program, UNC Press, the UNC School of Law Center for Civil Rights and the UNC Academic Affairs Library
* Conference requires registration
April 15–April 17, 2009
Conference: Monuments and Memory: Race and History
All sessions held at Duke University
Sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University and the Research Network on Race and Ethnic Inequality
