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The module aims to (1) equip students with the advanced skills, methods, concepts and theories essential for the study of aspects of memory and literature in a globalised culture; (2) to give students the opportunity to apply these methods, concepts and theories in both general and more specialised contexts; and to introduce students to new and challenging areas of literary and cultural studies; (3) to strengthen students' intercultural competences through international collaboration; (4) to further students' communicative skills using digital technologies and media; and (5) to foster students' ability to think critically, and to carry out independent research.
By the end of the module, students will be able to understand the key issues involved in the cultural formation of identity and community through conceptions of memory and globalisation; to apply contemporary theories of memory to analyse specific texts and cultural products on an advanced level; to evaluate the impact of globalisation and technology on memory, literature and culture; to create presentations and hypertexts on an advanced theoretical, methodologial and analytical level; to conduct team organised research as well as independent research in an intercultural environment.
Please notice that the course starts on 18 January 2010 (prior to semester start 1 February 2010)
The course unit will study the interaction between memory and literature in a globalised culture. Memory is increasingly being recognized as fundamental to the formation of individual and collective identities. This course unit aims to investigate the role of memory in an age of globalisation powered by new communication technologies, with examples drawn from literature, film and digital media. Central questions to be investigated are: in which ways does globalisation challenge the content and function of collective memory circumscribed by national cultures and its literary canons, and how do new media co-operate with literature in shaping memories and identities? How does the aesthetic strategies of literature and other media influence memory as content , as function and as process . Jorge Semprún's novel The Long Voyage (1963), González Iñárritu's film Babel (2006), the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) or materials of a similar nature will be studied.
Skills and qualifications: The module aims to (1) equip students with the advanced skills, methods, concepts and theories essential for the study of aspects of memory and literature in a globalised culture; (2) to give students the opportunity to apply these methods, concepts and theories in both general and more specialised contexts; and to introduce students to new and challenging areas of literary and cultural studies; (3) to strengthen students' intercultural competences through international collaboration; (4) to further students' communicative skills using digital technologies and media; and (5) to foster students' ability to think critically, and to carry out independent research.
By the end of the module, students will be able to understand the key issues involved in the cultural formation of identity and community through conceptions of memory and globalisation; to apply contemporary theories of memory to analyse specific texts and cultural products on an advanced level; to evaluate the impact of globalisation and technology on memory, literature and culture; to create presentations and hypertexts on an advanced theoretical, methodologial and analytical level; to conduct team organised research as well as independent research in an intercultural environment.
Svend Erik Larsen, litsel@hum.au.dk . The course is an e-learning organised from the Department of Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus (Prof. Svend Erik Larsen) in cooperation with the University College London (Dr. Jakob Stougaard Nielsen, e-mail: j.stougaard-nielsen@ucl.ac.uk ) and possibly one or two other universities. The course is open to graduate students (MA or PhD) enrolled in Humanities Departments in each university. The working language is English. The course is part of the e-learning development scheme at the faculty of the Humanities and is supported by the it-unit (Michael Høyer)
This unit will be conducted in parallel with a seminar taking place at University College London - an AU-partner within the European Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies (http://www.hermes.au.dk/hermeshome). Since this course is partly designed to further students' transnational awareness and increase their knowledge of communication technologies through practical experience, its ‘method of delivery' will necessarily make use of various virtual learning environments and distance education.
A video conference facility will be established on the premises in Helsingborggade by the it-unit of the Faculty of the Humanities and supported by Michael Høyer. This facility will constitute the common meeting place for most of the weekly seminars between the two institutions (two seminars will be conducted locally: an introduction to the unit and a session preparing students for the final project). Additionally, a moodle site is being developed to form a common virtual seminar room. The site will include introductions, online training sessions, reading materials, powerpoints for the seminars, and student generated forum discussions, collaborative wikis, blogs and databases. Proper introductions to the use of site will be conducted in class and in writing.
Outside the weekly seminars, students will be paired in transnational groups to work on smaller projects including setting up a wiki, keeping a research blog, conducting an online discussion and preparing a visual and oral presentation. These group sessions will be conducted on a weekly basis in Helsingborggade, or at a time and place defined by the groups.
The five smaller projects scheduled for this unit will take their cue from the seminar discussions and common reading materials, but students will be expected to include and present their own materials and research interests as well. Students will also devote themselves to private reading, preparation and hypertext writing.
All seminars and groups sessions will be conducted in English, and all materials included in the course will be available in English as well. Though the products of group sessions will be transnational in nature, AU students will be assessed individually and separately.
The online facilities, software, technical equipment and course schedule will be ready during Fall 2009.
10 weeks with max 2 sessions pr. week at the two university campuses plus a seminar for the AU-students. In Aarhus teaching will take place in the it-facilities in Finlandsgade.
Course start: 18. January 2010
English
Preliminary Bibliography:
Assmann, Jan. Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies . Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005.
Barash, Jeffrey Andrew. "The Sources of Memory". Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997): 707-717.
Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory . Trans. N. M. Paul and W. S. Palmer. London: G. Allen & Co., 1912.
Bolter, Jay D. and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media . Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
Boyer, Christine. The City of Collective Memory . Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
Draaisma, Douwe. Metaphors of Memory. A History of Ideas about the Mind . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Eco, Umberto. "An art oblivionis? Forget it!" PMLA 103 (1988): 254-261.
Erll, Astrid and Ansgar Nünning, eds. Cultural Memory Studies . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008.
Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory . Trans. Lewis A. Coser. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1992.
Haverkamp, Anselm. "Memory of Pictures: Roland Barthes and Augustine on Photography." Comparative Literature 45 (1993): 258-279.
Huyssen, Andreas. Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory . Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003.
Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting . Trans. Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.
Rigney, Ann. "Plenitude, Scarcity and the Circulation of Cultural Memory." Journal of European Studies 35 (2005): 11-28.
Rossington, Michael and Anne Whitehead, eds. Theories of Memory. A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007.
Wägenbaur, Thomas. ed. The Poetics of Memory . Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1998.
Yates, Frances. The Art of Memory . Chicago: Chicago UP, 1974.
IT-facilities in Finlandsgade
Please notice that the course starts on 18 January 2010 (prior to semester start 1 February 2010)
According to study programme.
10 ECTS: Independent reading and active participation in the video sessions, group work around student project, synopses during the course and a written hypertext report (3,000 words) to be delivered after the course. For AU-students the course will be followed by a compulsory seminar.
