Cultural Memory
The University Seminar on Cultural Memory began in 2005
as an interdisciplinary colloquium welcoming graduate students and faculty from
Columbia and its neighbors. The Seminar, incepted in 2007, builds upon this
already-established community and aims to further develop 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. The
Seminar meets monthly and, in addition to discussing chapters and
works-in-progress, hosts a series of distinguished visiting speakers, working in
close cooperation with relevant departments and institutes at Columbia.
Seminar: #717
Founded: 2007
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
Sarah Cole
Associate Professor
Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature
sc891@columbia.edu
Marianne Hirsch
Professor
Columbia Unviersity, Department of English and Comparative Literature
mh2349@columbia.edu
Rapporteurs:
Kate Stanley
Columbia Unviersity
kjs2113@columbia.edu
Sonali Thakkar
Columbia Unversity
srt2114@columbia.edu
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Meetings
 Monday, September 10, 7:00 PM, 612 Schermerhorn, Elizabeth Jelin, Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Victims, Relatives and Citizens in Argentina: Whose Voice is Legitimate Enough? RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
Thursday, September 27, 7:30 PM, 612 Schermerhorn, Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock (Artists, Berlin, Germany), "Memory and Social Sculpture, Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of English and Comparative Literature, the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Barnard Art History Department, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and IRWaG
Memory and Social Sculpture RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
Monday, October 15, 7:00 PM, 754 Schermerhorn ext, Miya Masaoka, Composer and Performer, New York
Memory and Sound RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
Wednesday, November 29th, 7:00 PM, location TBA, Sarah Cole, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Cyclical Violence: The Irish Uprising and the Limits of Enchantment RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
Monday, February 4, 2008, 7 - 8:30pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext [the IRWAG seminar room], Evelyne Ender, Professor of French at Hunter College and The CUNY Graduate Center, and author of Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography [ Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005]
Memory as Text: an Interdisciplinary View on Personal Remembrance RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
Monday, March 31, 2008, 7 - 8:30pm, 503 Hamilton Hall, Toni Dove, writer/director and responsive media artist, Please see link above for reading from "Performance and Place", eds. Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Spectropia: Sneak Preview! RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
Thursday April 10, Columbia Law School, Friday April 11, CUNY Graduate Center, A two-day symposium about the new genealogy, cultural memory, and the contemporary obsession with the recovery of roots.
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7 - 8:30pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext., Columbia University, Kate Stanley, doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature
"Between Shock and Habit: An Ethics and Aesthetics of Surprise." We will be discussing a work in progress. Please email srt2114@columbia.edu to receive an electronic copy of the article. RSVP:srt2114@columbia.edu;kjs2113@columbia.edu
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