Histories and Cultures (Cultural Memory)
Master
In Brighton And Hove
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton and hove
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Duration
1 Year
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About this course
For non-native speakers of English:
7.0 overall and 7.0 in writing.
Degree and/or experience:
Relevant honours degree or equivalent. Candidates without a degree but who have suitable professional experience or substantial experience of historical enquiry and research may be admitted.
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Course programme
Cultural Memory explores distinctive approaches to questions of historymaking, historical consciousness and the cultural significance of ‘the past' developed in the recently emerged, interdisciplinary field of ‘memory
studies'. It focuses on the social, cultural and political processes that produce ‘a sense of the past' for particular societies and social groups; and the inter-relation between these collective, ‘public' dimensions of remembering and forgetting, and the domain of ‘personal' memory. It develops a critical investigation of the key concepts and theories that define ‘cultural memory' as a new object of study, and of the key themes and issues entailed: the representation of the past, and of the past-present relationship, in diverse cultural practices and forms (oral, textual, visual and digital); the role of cultural memories in the formation of beliefs, ideologies and identities; conflict over the significance of the past; the relation between memory and politics; the relation between cultural and psychological dimensions of memory; memory and place; cultural memories and historical truth; and the ethics of remembering and forgetting. These general, critical concerns are brought to bear in the study of cultural memories in particular socio-historical contexts, and of specific practices and representations of memory in diverse sites, forms and media. The pathway begins by introducing the field of ‘memory studies', and key concepts, theories and methods in the study of cultural memory. It does so thematically by focusing upon studies and debates mainly concerned with the cultural memory of war; the importance of cultural memory to national identities; and cultural memory and racial or ethnic oppression and persecution. On this foundation, the pathway continues by developing more detailed investigation of particular contexts and cases, such as the memory of the Holocaust, and the relation between cultural memory and conflict resolution in the Irish Troubles.
Mode of Attendance : Full - time
Histories and Cultures (Cultural Memory)