Sylabus
Preliminary course plan, one online session per week (80 minutes):
ATTENTION: This course is starting only in March 2024!
Introductory part 6. 3. 2024 Course Overview: Why do we need memory studies? 13. 3. 2024 What do we mean by Slow Memory?
Round table with members of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen moderated by K. Králová
Case Studies 20. 3. 2024 Czechoslovak Aid to Child Refugees from Greece
Nikola Tohma, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Member of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory 27. 3. 2024 Welfare and Care in Exhibitions of the Communist-era
Rose Smith, Charles University & the University of Groningen
Member of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory 3. 4. 2024 Cultural memories, circulation and reception
Tea Sindbæk Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Member of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory 10. 4. 2024 Virtual memories underground: The case of bunker architecture
Margherita Fontana, University of Milan 17. 4. 2024 More or less of a care? Ukrainian discourse on the current war and the collective memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust
Paweł Dobrosielski, University of Warsaw 24. 4. 2024 Memory between reparation and prevention. How the memory of extreme violence can be seen as a form of cure for societies.
Luba Jurgenson, University of Sorbonne 15. 5. 2024 A glorious square of colour in a drab world: memoralising a mental health day centre through participatory methodologies
Verusca Calabria, Nottingham Trent University
Member of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory 22. 5. 2024 Making Memory Work for People Experiencing Mental Suffering: Arts-based Practices of Memory in Argentinian Mental Health Care
Marileen La Haije, University of Cologne
Member of the EU network COST Action Slow Memory 29. 5. 2024 WRAP UP
Anotace
Contested memories and painful pasts regularly re-appear in the Europan public sphere on transnational, national, and regional levels. The war in Ukraine as well as the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel and Israel fighting back, but also the recent experience with global pandemics have instigated a new wave of memory themes and disputes.
Various memory narratives have been lately activated for numerous purposes, explaining warfare, justifying various politics, attempting to explain ongoing events, bolstering identities, and mobilizing for political positioning or activism. In this sense, the course will focus specifically on memories of care, and welfare in a broad sense both disciplinary (including, e.g., history, sociology, psychology, literature, arts, and heritage) and topics-wise (such as well-being now and then, Balkans, Holocaust, current wars) asking why we need memory and memory studies, and what kinds of roles does memory play in contemporary Europe.