Memory, Culture & Identity International Summer School on Cultural Sociology, Brno 2011
Academic schedule
June 16 Conceptual Foundations: Memory, Imagination, Representation (Csaba Szaló)
● Assmann, Jan. 2011. „Communicative and Cultural Memory“. pp. 15-28 in: Cultural
Memories, ed. by Peter Meusburger. Dordrecht: Springer
June 17 Conceptual Foundations: History, Forgetting and Forgiveness" (Csaba Szaló)
● Nora, Pierre. 1989. „Between Memory and History: Les lieux de mémoire“. Representations
(26):7–24.
June 18 Cultures and Memories: Generational Memories of the Communist Past I. (Radim Marada)
● Alexander, J. C. 2004. „Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma“. pp. 1–30 in: Cultural trauma
and collective identity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
June 20 Cultures and Memories: Nationalizing states (Michal Vašečka)
● Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed. pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
June 21 Cultures and Memories: Generational Memories of the Communist Past II. (Radim Marada)
● Mannheim, Karl. 1964. „The Problem of Generations“. pp. 276-320 in: Essays on the
Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
June 22 Memories, Identities and Storytelling Workshop (Jitka Oláh)
June 23 Identities and Memories: Heritage (Miklós Vörös)
● Clifford, J. 2004. „Looking Several Ways: Anthropology and Native Heritage in Alaska“.
Current Anthropology 45(1): 5–30.
June 24 Identities and Memories: Narratives and Performances (Csaba Szaló)
● Le Rider, Jacques. 2008. „Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire“. S. 37-45 v Cultural Memory
Studies, editoval Astrid et al. Erll. New York: Walter de Gruyter.
● Alexander, J. C. 2002. “On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The ‘Holocaust’ from
War Crime to Trauma Drama.” European Journal of Social Theory 5(1):5.
June 25 Identities and Memories: National Identities (Andrej Findor)
● Brubaker, Rogers, and Frederick Cooper. 2000. „Beyond ‚identity‘“. Theory and Society 29:1-
47.
June 27 Identities and Memories: Sociology and Intellectuals (Janusz Mucha)
● Mucha, J. 2009. „Sociology in Eastern Europe or East European Sociology: Historical and
Present“. Sociologia / Slovak Sociological Review 41(6): 507-525.
June 28 “Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch” Workshop (Kateřina Tučková)
● Leggewie, Claus. 2011. „Seven Circles of European Memory“. pp. 123-143 in: Cultural
Memories, ed. by Peter Meusburger. Dordrecht: Springer
June 29 Memory Struggles and the Changes of Urban Space Workshop (Slávka Ferenčuhová)
● Till, Karen E., and Julia Jonker. 2009. „Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial
Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin“.pp. 85-105 in: Memory Culture and the
Contemporary City, ed. by Uta Staiger. Palgrave Macmillan.
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