SOC 5150 - Time and Memory

This course surveys the field of memory studies, and is centered in particular on the concept of “collective memory.” What are the varieties of practices’including commemoration, recollection, collecting, museification, monument building, reminiscence, etc’through which we represent the past, and what difference do these practices make? Further topics include reputations, public history, transitional justice, and trauma.

Credits: 3