Cultural Memory: Narration, Manifestation and Politics

Cultural Memory

Narration, Manifestation and Politics

Copenhagen 8 September 2011

The PhD Programme in Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen is organising a one-day course for PhD students on the presence of the past in contemporary culture and the political struggles over the construction of collective memories.

The invited speakers are Professor Ann Rigney, Utrecht University, well known for her studies on the intersections between literature and historiography. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Historical Representation (2002) and Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory (2009); Assistant Professor Sune Haubølle, Copenhagen University, author of War and Memory in Lebanon (2010), and Post doc Anamaria D Segesten, Copenhagen University, author of Myth, Identity, and Conflict (forthcoming).

Morning session

Ann Rigney, Utrecht

Imagining the Past: Literature as a Mediator of Cultural Memory

Sune Haugbølle

Cultural Memory and Memory Cultures in Lebanon

Anamaria D. Segesten

Collective Memory between Conflict and Reconciliation: The legacy of war and totalitarianism in Europe

Afternoon session

The second part of the seminar will take the form of a workshop and provide an opportunity to present on-going Ph.D. projects and receive comments from the lectures and members of the Nordic Network for Memory Studies.

Deadline for registration: 22 August 2011 to Oluf Schönbeck (oluf@hum.ku.dk) – and for those of you who want to present a paper: please add an abstract of 200 words. Full participation incl. presentation: ECTS 3. The programme for the seminar is now available on our website at https://phd.hum.ku.dk/regional/

“Cultural Memory. Narration, Manifestation and Politics” is organized in co-operation with the Nordic Network for Memory Studies