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Graduate Course / Project Seminar
SoSe 21: Sociology and Memory: Global Perspectives
Fabio Heupel Santos
Information for students
Students are expected to have very good English skills. While some optional texts may be available in other languages, the language of all required readings and our discussions will be English.
Comments
Sociology is often (mis)understood as an ahistorical discipline focusing solely on contemporary social problems. Such a view ignores the fact that the past echoes in complex ways in the present. These echoes become apparent when we consider how societies struggle to come to terms with violent and traumatic histories of social injustice, as illustrated by the contested memories of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade. Besides exploring classical and contemporary theoretical contributions at the crossroads of sociology and memory studies, this course focuses on the ways in which specific, globally entangled histories are repressed and remembered in different social, spatial and political contexts. close
Suggested reading
Araujo, Ana Lucia. 2020. Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. -- Assmann, Aleida, and Sebastian Conrad. 2011. Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories. -- Jelin, Elizabeth. 2021. Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social Memories. New York: Berghahn. -- Olick, Jeffrey K. 2007. The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility. New York: Routledge. -- Santos, Myrian Sepúlveda. 2001. “Memory and Narrative in Social Theory.” Time & Society 10 (2–3): 163–89. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2021-04-14 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-04-21 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-04-28 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-05-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-05-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-05-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-05-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-06-02 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-06-09 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-06-16 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-06-23 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-06-30 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-07-07 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-07-14 14:00 - 16:00