The  Cultural  Memory  Colloquium

A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR SCHOLARS OF CULTURAL MEMORY

The Cultural Memory Colloquium hopes to create a vibrant interdisciplinary dialogue on contemporary issues of cultural and collective memory including but not limited to traumatic memory, collective and national forgetting, memorialization and museology, historical consciousness and historiography, embodied memory and performance, archive and testimony. We welcome graduate students and faculty from Columbia and its neighbors.

To join the email list: please send a message to jmj2123@columbia.edu
Graduate Student Organizing Committee: Jenny James, Joanna Scutts, Kate Stanley, Sonali Thakkar.
Faculty advisor: Marianne Hirsch

Sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University with additional support from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender


Colloquium Events


Readings for upcoming colloquium events (requires password)


Spring 2007


Jan 22
Monday
6-8 pm
Jay Winter's 'Remembering War'

Feb 21
Wednesday
6-8 pm
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, "Holocaust Studies / Memory Studies: The Witness in the Archive"

in room 754 Schermerhorn Extension (IRWAG Seminar Room)
Mar 23
Friday
1-7 pm
"Objects and Memory: Engendering Public and Private Archives"

A Half-day conference / in room 612 Schermerhorn

Co-sponsored by IRWAG and Art History
Apr 18
Wednesday
8 pm
Aleida Assmann, "Gender and Memory"

at Deutsches Haus, Columbia University (429 West 116th St.)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures



FACULTY AND STUDENT PARTICIPANTS

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University Seminar: Beyond History and Memory