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Current Courses on Memory
For further information, please contact the course conveners or David Sugarman
Mercedes Camino
SPANISH 218: 'Moving Times: Spanish Society Through Film'. This course studies Spanish society through films which illustrate particular 'times' and 'emotions'. While Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) provides a point of access to memories of the Civil War and its long aftermath, the so-called 'time of silence' (1939-75), the course also looks back to the death of Federico García Lorca through Carlos Saura's adaptation of Blood Wedding (1984). Other films in the course include Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006) and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006), which approaches the guerrilla resistance to Franco's regime.
Robert Crawshaw
EUR0 316: 'Writing in the margins: narrating cross-cultural experience'. This course is about the relationship between identity, history and writing with particular reference to the literature and ideas of post-World War II Europe. It doubles as an MA module and is taken by a mixture of students from DELC, English and overseas.
Patrick Hagopian
AMST 351: 'The Vietnam War and After'. This is a full-unit module, deals with the commemoration of the Vietnam War in the Michaelmas term.
CULT 907: 'Sites and Sights of Memory'. This is a half-unit module that deals entirely with commemoration in museums, monuments and other public sites. It tackles topics such as Holocaust memorials, museum exhibitions on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, massacre sites, and exhibitions on and memorials to the slave trade.
Nayanika Mookherjee
SOC 206: 'Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology'. This 20 week course gives the foundation of anthropology in the first term but builds on that to address issues of Violence and Memory in the second term. The students did a mini fieldwork and ethnography on Lancaster's slave history and the Liverpool international slavery museum.
Derek Sayer
HIST 254: 'Prague 1780-1992: A History of the Modern World'. While in part a survey course, deals centrally with the role of historical 'memory' in successive reconstructions of national, ethnic and class identities in 19th- and 20th century Bohemia in relation to the shifting vicissitudes of political power.
John Strachan
HIST 429: 'Power in History'. This is a new MA module which starts in October. The details of the syllabus are still being finalised, but memory will play an important part.
David Sugarman
Law 311: 'Responses to Massive Violations of Human Rights'. This course critically addresses issues of, and the inter-play between, law, politics, ethics, culture and society, including memory and memorialisation. The geographical focus is principally on Latin America and Europe. The course also doubles as a postgraduate module.
Yoke-Sum Wong and Derek Sayer
FASS 526: 'Historical Methods in the Arts and Social Sciences'. This is an advanced course in historical methodologies in which the relationship between 'memory' and historical narratives is a major theme, which is addressed in contexts as different as architecture, material culture, and ghostly hauntings. It is taken by PhD students from a range of FASS departments.