Assignment 2: Memory Groups

This project has two phases. In the first step, we will ask you to sign up for one of the following themes/memory groups for a team workshop of one relevant reading and collaboration. In the second step, each student will be expected to produce a 5-6 page research paper (double-spaced 12 font- excluding bibliography- not shorter not longer) related to the discussion theme of their memory groups. The individual papers are expected to draw on the group discussions but focus on a specific case study based on library research.

Please sign up below for the topic you would like to work on. Although I would like everyone to work on issues related to their interests, it would be great to have a balanced distribution on these topics.

Library/research resources

Deadline and submission: November 1 Tuesday at 5pm in Omur's mailbox. Hard copy!

Discussion themes for memory groups

1. House/home as memory

Participants: Morgan Albertson, Mo Hy, Anna Ghublikian, Tucker Halpern, Raisa Aziz
Bachelard, Gaston; 1994. Poetics of Space. Translated by M. Jolas. Contributor John R. Stilgoe. Beacon Press, 1994.

"the house. from cellar to garret. the significance of the hut", in Poetics of Space

2. Oral history

Participants: Mariagrazia LaFauci
6 Billion Others
Thomson, Alastair; 2010. "Memory and remembering in oral history" Oxford Handbook of Oral History 77-95.
Oral history and public memories By Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes (2008)

3. Public space and social memory; the city square

Participants: Peter Johnson, Aly Abouzeid, Jordan Edmonson
Linda Hershkovitz; 1993. "Tiananmen square and the politics of place" Political Geography Volume 12, Issue 5, September 1993, Pages 395-420.

4. Body-memory, body as a site of memory

Participants: Brittany Westerman, Sade Zimmerman-Feeley, Madison Utendahl
O’Neill, Máire Eithne; 2001. “Corporeal experience: A haptic way of knowing,” Journal of Architectural Eduation 55:3-12.

5. Nostalgia and space

Participants:Kirah Nelson
Legg, Stephen; 2005. "Contesting and surviving memory: space, nation, and nostalgia in Les Lieux de Memoire" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23: 481-504.
Jones, Janna; 2001. "Consumed With the Past: Nostalgia, Memory, and Ghostly Encounters at the Picture Palace" Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, Vol. 1, No. 3, 369-391.

6. Cultural heritage: heritage places

Participants: Seekay Hui
Harrison; Rodney; 2004. Shared landscapes: archaeologies of attachment and the pastoral industry in New South Wales. University of New South Wales Press.

7. Art/place/memory

Participants: Cally Tomlinson
Dean, Tacit and Jeremy Millar; 2001. Place. Art Works. Thames & Hudson.

8. Roman commemorative monuments

Participants: Alyssa Thelemaque, Emily McCartan, Alex Goodman, Sean Yancey
Holliday, Peter J.; 2002. The origins of Roman historical commemoration in the visual arts. Cambridge University Press

9. Architectural story-telling: Cultural biography of buildings

Participants:Adam Davis, Katherine Haves, Katerina Dalavurak, Oliver Weerasinghe, Lia Wang
Gosden, Chris and Yvonne Marshall; 1999. "The Cultural Biography of Objects." World Archaeology 31/2: 169-178.

10. Landscape and memory, landscape as archive

Participants: Camila Pacheco-Fores, Kasia Kociuba
Knapp, A. Bernard and Wendy Ashmore; 1999. “Archaeological landscapes: constructed, conceptualized, ideational,” in Archaeologies of landscape: contemporary perspectives. W. Ashmore and A.B. Knapp (eds.), Blackwell: Malden MA, 1-30.