Week 1. (September 8) Introduction
Thursday: The architecture of remembering and forgetting. Overview of the semester.
- Hugo, Victor; 1978 (1831). "This will kill that" in Notre Dame de Paris. Trans. John Sturrock. Penguin 1978, 188-202. (Handout)
Week 2. (September 13-15) MOVE: Embattled sites of history and trauma
Tuesday Lecture: Buildings that tell the story: ancient, medieval and modern.
Thursday Discussion: MOVE and Ground Zero: sites of trauma and memory
- Dickson, Johannah Saleh; 2002. MOVE: Sites of trauma. Pamphlet Architecture 23. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press.
- Wagner-Pacifici, Robin; 1994. Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia versus MOVE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Excerpts.
Week 3. (September 20-22) After 9/11: Monuments and Memorials
- Forty, Adrian; 2001. "Introduction" in The Art of Forgetting. Adrian Forty, Susanne Küchler (eds.) Berg Publishers, 1-18.
- Harbison, Robert; 1992. "Monuments" in The built, the unbuilt and the unbuildable, 37-66.
- Nelson, Robert S. and Margaret Olin; 2003. "The rhetoric of monument making: the World Trade Center," in Monuments and memory: made and unmade, 305-325.
- Akcan, Esra; 2003. “Cosmopolitan memorials. Projections on the Projections on the Ground-Zero." In 9/11: New York – Istanbul. Feride Çiçekoğlu (ed.) Istanbul: Homer Books, 125-150.
- Gutman, Yifat; 2009. "Where do we go from here: The pasts, presents and futures of Ground Zero," Memory Studies 2: 55-70.
- Watts, Linda; 2009. “Reflecting Absence or Presence? Public Space and Historical Memory at Ground Zero.” Space and culture 12: 412-418.
Discussion page
Week 4. (September 27-29) Sharing the past: Collective memory
- Halbwachs, Maurice and Lewis A. Coser; 1992. On collective memory. Chicago: The University of Chiocago Press, 21-34.
- Nora, Pierre; 1989. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire” Representations 26: 7–24.
- Whitehead, Anne; 2009. “Collective memory” in Memory. New York: Routledge, 123-152.
- Connerton, Paul; 1989. "Introduction" and "Social memory" in How societies remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-40.
Discussion page
Week 5. (October 4-6) Archaeologies of Memory: Presence of the Past
Tuesday (10/4): Short Paper Assignment 1 due
- Van Dyke, Ruth M. & Susan E. Alcock; 2003. “Archaeologies of memory: an introduction,” in Archaeologies of memory. Ruth M. Van Dyke & Susan E. Alcock (eds.); Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1-13.
- Schnapp, Alain "Archaeology and the presence of the past" in The discovery of the past. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 11-37.
- Myers, Adrian; 2008. "Between Memory and Materiality: An Archaeological Approach to Studying the Nazi Concentration Camps" Journal of Conflict Archaeology 4: 231-245.
- Mills, Barbara J. and William H. Walker; 2008. “Introduction,” Memory work: archaeologies of material practices. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 3-24.
Discussion Page
Week 6. (October 11-13) The idea of the archive: Babylonian archaeologists of the Mesopotamian past
Thursday Guest: Prof Matthew Rutz
- Brothman, Brien; 2001. "The Past that Archives Keep: Memory, History, and the Preservation of Archival Records" Archivaria 51: 48-80.
- Jonker, Gerdien; 1995. "Continuity and change in Ebabbar of Sippar" in The topography of remembrance: the dead, tradition and collective memory in Mesopotamia. Leiden: Brill, 153-176.
- Winter, Irene J.; 2000. “Babylonian archaeologists of the(ir) Mesopotamian past,” in Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. P. Matthiae et al (eds.); Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” Roma, 1785-1789.
- Beaulieu, Paul-Alain; 1994. “Antiquarianism and the concern for the past in the Neo-Babylonian period,” Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 28: 37-42.
Discussion page
Week 7. (October 18-20) Landscapes of Greece: monuments and memorable places
Thursday Guest: Prof Sue Alcock
- Alcock, Susan E.; 2002. "Archaeologies of Memory" in Archaeologies of the Greek Past: landscape, monuments and memories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-35.
- Davis, Jack L.; 2007. "Memory groups and the state: Erasing the past and inscribing the present in the landscapes of the Mediterranean and the Near East," in Negotiating the past in the past, 227-256.
Discussion Page
Week 8. (October 25-27) Iconoclasm: destruction as performance of memory.
- Latour, Bruno; 2002. "What is iconoclash? Or is There a World Beyond the Image Wars?" in Iconoclash: Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds.). The MIT Press, 14-37.
- Elsner, Jaś; 2003. "Iconoclasm and the preservation of memory," in Monuments and memory, made and unmade, 209-232.
- Crawford, Catherine Lyon; 2007. "Collecting, defacing, reinscribing (and otherwise performing) memory in the ancient world," in Negotiating the past in the past, 10-42.
- Meskell, Lynn; 2002. "Negative Heritage and Past Mastering in Archaeology" Anthropological Quarterly 75.3: 557-574.
- Flood, Finbarr Barry; 2002. "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum" The Art Bulletin 84/4: 641-659.
Discussion page
Week 9. (November 1-3) Ayodhya: the contested place of memory, history, identity, violence
Tuesday: Short Paper assignment 2 due
- Guha-Thakurta. 2003. “Archaeology and the monument: an embattled site of history and memory in contemporary India,” in Monuments and Memory, 59-81.
- Bernbeck, Reinhard and Susan Pollock; 1996. “Ayodha, archaeology and identity,” Current Anthropology 37: 138-142.
- Ratnagar, Shereen 2004. "Archaeology at the heart of a political confrontation: the case of Ayodhya," Current Anthropology 45/2: 239-259.
- Shaw, Julia; 2000. "Ayodhya's sacred landscape: ritual memory, politics and archaeological fact," in Antiquity 74: 693-700.
Discussion Page
Week 10. (November 8-10) Spolia: use, re-use and abuse of the architectural fragment from Byzantium to Berlin wall
- Van der Hoorn, Mèlanie; 2003. "Exorcising remains: Architectural Fragments as Intermediaries between History and Individual Experience," Journal of Material Culture 8/2: 189-213.
- Papalexandrou, Amy; 2003. "Memory tattered and torn: spolia in the heartland of Byzantine Hellenism," in Archaeologies of memory 56-80.
- Elsner, Jaś; 2000. "From the culture of spolia to the cult of relics: The Arch of Constantine and the genesis of Late Antique forms," Papers of the British School at Rome 68: 149-84.
- Kinney, Dale; 2006. "The concept of Spolia," in A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe. C. Rudolph (ed.) Oxford, 233-52.
Discussion Page
Week 11. (November 15-17) Place and memory: Ruins, abandoned places, haunted memories
- Foucault, Michel; 1967. "Of other spaces: heterotopias" http://www.foucault.info/documents/heteroTopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en.html
- Harbison, Robert; 1992. "Ruins" in The built, the unbuilt and the unbuildable, 99-130.
- Edensor, Tim; 2005. "Introduction" and "The spaces of memory and the ghosts of dereliction" in Industrial ruins : spaces, aesthetics, and materiality. Oxford and New York : Berg.
- See British Industrial Ruins webpage with photographs by Tim Edensor.
- Trigg, Dylan; 2009. "The place of trauma: Memory, hauntings, and the temporality of ruins," Memory Studies 2009 2: 87-101.
- Dawdy, Shannon Lee; 2010. “Clockpunk anthropology and the ruins of modernity. “ Current Anthropology 51: 761-793.
Discussion Page
Week 12. (November 22) Workshop on paper topics
Nov 23-27: Thanksgiving recess
Week 13. (November 29-December 1) Cities of memory, urban space, nostalgia and heritage: the case of post-civil war Beirut
- Khalaf, Samir; 2006. "On collective memory, central space and national Identity" Heart of Beirut: reclaiming the Bourj. London: Saqi Books.
- Makdisi, Saree; "Beirut, a City without History?" in Memory and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silverstein (eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201-214.
Optional
- Naccache, A.F.H.; 1998. "Beirut's memorycide: hear no evil,see no evil," in Archaeology Under Fire. Lynn Meskell (ed.). Routledge: New York
Discussion Page
Week 14. (December 6) Architecture of Memory: wrap-up discussion and course evaluations
Reading Period: December 8-12.
Final papers due: December 13.
