Syllabus
1) Introduction - the question of time, reflexive look at the history
- literature: Olick, Jeffrey K.; Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered a Levy, Daniel (eds.). The Collective Memory Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 2) The collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs - sociological approach to the memory
- literature: Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. 3) Realms of memory of Pierre Nora - historiographic approach to the memory
- literature: Nora, Pierre (ed.). Realms of Memory I-III. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-1998. 4) Memory, history, and forgetting of Paul Ricœur - philosophical/psychoanalytical approach to the memory
- literature: Ricœur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 5) Cultural and communicative memory of Jan & Aleida Assmann
- literature: Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 6) Regimes of historicity, hypothesis of presentism
- literature: Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. New York, Columbia University Press, 1985. 7) American approach to the memory - Jeffrey K. Olick
- literature: Olick, Jeffrey K. The politics of regret. On collective memory and historical responsibility, New York: Routledge, 2007. 8) Development of historiography of contemporary history
- literature: Iggers, Georg G. The Global History of Modern Historiography. New York, Routledge, 2008. 9) Oral history - anglosaxon approach to the memory?
- literature: Ritchie, Donald A. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 10) Jewish memory - holocaust heritage
- literature: Lévy, Daniel. Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. 11) Trauma and ressentiment in history
- literature: Rousso, Henry. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 12) Final conclusion and discussion
Annotation
Facultative Master course "Who controls the past, controls the future?" offers a general overview of the reflexive problematics of history - i.e. uses of the past, collective memory, changing relationship between European societies and the past and the changing role of academic historians. The seminar offers introduction to the concepts of memory (Halbwachs, Nora, Ricœur, Jan & Aleida Assman), political approaches to the past (uses of the past, repentance, and resentments), hypothesis explaining the changing role of the western civilizations to the past (regimes of historicity, presentism) and reactions of academic historiography (freedom to history calls, question of history education).