Witnessing, Remembrance, Commemoration: Calendar

ARTHI 5807 001 VCS 5010 003 Professor: Margaret Olin tel: (312) 345-3771 [email protected]

Requirements: Readings: All readings are due on the day they are assigned. Articles are located on Docutek; books are in the DePaul bookstore. Come to class prepared to discuss them, or don’t come to class. A presentation assignment based on the reading will be explained in class. Reports: Twenty minute reports based on projects of your choice, to be discussed with and approved by me, during the month of September. Papers: 10-20 page papers based on the seminar report, but not necessarily identical to it.

September 1: Introduction

September 8: Witnessing Genesis 31:43-32:3 and Deuteronomy 19:15-21. From The Hebrew Bible in English, according to the JPS 1917 Edition © 2002 all rights reserved to Mechon Mamre for this HTML version http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm The Gospel According to St. John. From The New English Bible. Oxford, Cambridge: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970. “Witness to the Faith,” New Catholic Encyclopedia , 19 vols. New York : McGraw- Hill, [1967-1996], s.v. Frisch, Andrea. “The Witness and the Judge.” The Invention of the Eyewitness, pp. 21-40. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 2004. By this week you should have read halfway through the Plague.

September 15 The Art of Testimony Albert Camus, The Plague (1947). Stuart Gilbert translation, Vintage. If you have another translation of this book, or even if you are reading the French edition, you will still be required to cite from this edition.

September 22 Memory Yates, Frances A. “The Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory.” The Art of Memory, pp. 1-26. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Carruthers, Mary J. “Descriptions of the Neuropsychology of Memory.” The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture, pp. 46-79. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Witnessing Remembrance Commemoration page 2

Freud, Sigmund . "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917) in Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol.14, pp. 239-258. London : Hogarth Press, 1957. Freud, Sigmund. “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-analysis II.” Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol.12, pp. 147-156. London : Hogarth Press, 1957.

September 29 Collective Memory Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory, 37-40; 46-83. Edited and translated by Lewis A. Coser. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Connerton, Paul. “Bodily Practices.” How Societies Remember, 72-115. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

October 6 W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz (2001). Translated by Anthea Bell. New York : Random House, 2001

October 9 Sunday 10:00-1:00 Seminar Report Previews

October 13 No Class Yom Kippur

October 20: No Class: Professor Traveling

October 27: Commemoration Meet at Stanley Tigerman McCurry architects, 440 N. Wells St. Suite 206, 1:30. (or meet at the classroom at 1:00 sharp) Reading: Kings 5-9 Also, look at http://www.tigerman-mccurry.com/; and google.

November 3: Commemoration Riegl, Alois. “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin” (1903). Translated by Kurt W. Forster and Diane Ghirardo. Oppositions 25 (1982): 21-51. Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire.” Representations 26 (1989): 7-25.

November 10: Counter-memory and commemoration Nora, Pierre. “The Era of Commemoration.” In Realms of memory: The Construction of the French Past, vol. 3, pp. 609-637. Edited by Pierre Nora. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Young, James E. “Germany's memorial question: Memory, counter-memory, and the end of the monument.” South Atlantic Quarterly 96 (Fall 1997): 853-880.

November 13, Sunday 1-4: Memory History Forgetting Friedrich Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History (1874), trans. Ian Johnston, http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/history.htm. Michel de Certeau. The Writing of History, trans. Tom Conley (New York: Columbia University Press, Witnessing Remembrance Commemoration page 3

1988), pp. 1-16. Paul Ricoeur, “Forgetting” (selection), from Memory, History, Forgetting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 412-418; 443-456.

November 17 Seminar Reports: Erin, Soren, Murat, Lindsay Page November 24 Thanksgiving December 1 Seminar Reports: Leigh, Stephanie, Lindsay Bosch, Brad December 8 Critique Week No Class December 15 Seminar Reports: Rebecca, Jen, Lenka Witnessing Remembrance Commemoration page 4

Bibliography

Readings we will do in class (in order): Genesis 31:43-32:3 and Deuteronomy 19:15-21. From The Hebrew Bible in English, according to the JPS 1917 Edition © 2002 all rights reserved to Mechon Mamre for this HTML version http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm The Gospel According to St. John. From The New English Bible. Oxford, Cambridge: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970. [St. John] “Witness to the Faith,” New Catholic Encyclopedia , 19 vols. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1967-1996], s.v. Frisch, Andrea. “The Witness and the Judge.” The Invention of the Eewitness, pp. 21-40. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 2004. Camus, Albert. The Plague. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. New York : A. A. Knopf : Random House [distributor], 1991, c1948. Yates, Frances A. From The Art of Memory, pp. 1-26. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Carruthers, Mary J. “Descriptions of the Neuropsychology of Memory.” The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture, pp. 46-79. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Freud, Sigmund . "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917) in Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol.14, pp. 239-258. London : Hogarth Press, 1957. Freud, Sigmund. “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through (Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-analysis II.” Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol.12, pp. 147-156. London : Hogarth Press, 1957 Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory, 37-40; 46-83. Edited and translated by Lewis A. Coser. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Connerton, Paul. “Bodily Practices.” How Societies Remember, 72-115. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Sebald, W.G. Austerlitz. Translated by Anthea Bell. New York : Random House, 2001 Kings, 5-9. From The Hebrew Bible in English, according to the JPS 1917 Edition © 2002 all rights reserved to Mechon Mamre for this HTML version http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm [Kings] Riegl, Alois. “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin” (1903). Translated by Kurt W. Forster and Diane Ghirardo. Oppositions 25 (1982): 21- 51. Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire.” Representations 26 (1989): 7-25. Nora, Pierre. “The Era of Commemoration.” In Realms of memory: The Construction of the French Past, vol. 3, pp. 609-637. Edited by Pierre Nora. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Young, James E. “Germany's memorial question: Memory, counter-memory, and the end of the monument.” South Atlantic Quarterly 96 (Fall 1997): 853-880. Witnessing Remembrance Commemoration page 5

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Use and Abuse of History (1874). Translated by Adrian Colloins. 2d ed., rev. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, The Library of Liberal ARts, 1977. De Certeau, Michel. The Writing of History, pp. 1-16. Translated by Tom Conley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Ricoeur, Paul. “Forgetting” (selection). From Memory, History, Forgetting, pp. 412-418; 443-456. Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Readings I wish you had done before the class began. If you have time, read these when you have time during the semester: Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. : Reflections on Photography, Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981. Bergson, Henri. Time and free will : an essay on the immediate data of consciousness. Translated by F.L. Pogson. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2001. Benjamin, Walter. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations. Edited by Hannah Arendt. Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. Any edition, any amount. Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative. 2 vols. Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Other Readings you might find useful

Witnessing Bordo, Jonathan. "The Keeping Place (Arising from an Incident on the Land).” In Nelson & Olin, chapter 7, pp. 157-182 Laub, Dori. “Bearing Witness, or the Vicissitudes of Listening,” and “An Event Without A Witness: Truth, Testimony and Survival.” In Shosana Felman and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History, chapter 2, pp. 57-74. Chaps. 2 & 3.

Remembrance Auge, Marc. Oblivion. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. : Reflections on Photography, Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981. Connerton, Paul. How Societies Remember. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. (resto of book) Draaisma, Douwe. Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas About the Mind. Translated by Paul Vincent. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Witnessing Remembrance Commemoration page 6

Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Edited and Translated by Lewis A. Coser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. (rest of book) Huyssen, Andreas. Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. New York : Routledge, 1995. Hutton, Patrick. History as an Art of Memory. Hanover and London: University Press of new England, 1993. Kwint, Marius. Material Memories. Oxford, New York: Berg, 1999. Mitscherlich, Alexander and Margaret. The Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behavior. translated by Beverley R. Placzek. New York : Grove Press: 1975. Le Goff, Jacques. “Memory,” in History and Memory, pp. 51-99. New York: Columbia University, 1992. Lewin, Bertram D. The Image and the Past. New York, International Universities Press [1969, c1968] Lipsitz, George. Time Passages : Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1990 Matsuda, Matt K. The Memory of the Modern. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Piaget, Jean and Inhelder, Bärbel, in collaboration with Hermine Sinclair-De Zwart. Memory and Intelligence. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. New York, Basic Books [1973]. Santner, Eric L. Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990. Schwarcz, Vera. Bridge across broken time : Chinese and Jewish cultural memory. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c1998. Turim, Maureen Cheryn. Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History. New York : Routledge, 1989. Yates, Frances A. The Art of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Commemoration Public sculpture and the civic ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 / Michele H. Bogart. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1989 Nora, Pierre, ed. Realms of memory : rethinking the French past.; Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. 3 vols. New York : Columbia University Press, 1996-1998 Musil, Robert. "Monuments" (1936) In Robert Musil, Selected Writings, 320-23. Edited and translated by Burton Pike. New York, 1998. Sherman, Daniel. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999. Sider, Gerald. Between History and Histories : The Making of Silences and Commemorations. Toronto. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Stewart, Susan. On Longing : Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Zerubavel, Yael. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Witnessing Remembrance Commemoration page 7

You may also consult numerous available studies of specific monuments, such as the Vietnam Monument, the Oklahoma City monument, and the Holocaust Museum

Place/Space Aitken, Stuart C., and Zonn, Leo E. Place, Power, Situation, and Spectacle: A Geography of Film. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Duncan, James, and Ley, David, eds. Place/Culture/Representation. London, 1993. Gupta, Akhil and Ferguson, James, "Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference," Cultural Anthropology 7 (February, 1992): 6-23. Keith, Michael, and Pile, Steve, eds. Place and the Politics of Identity. London, 1993. Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space (1974). Translated by Donald Nicholson- Smith. Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1991. Liu, Alan. "Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail," Representations 32 (1990): 75-113. Massey, Doreen. Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis, 1994. Olin, Margaret. “Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Topography of the Holocaust Film.” Representations 57 (1997): 1-23 Pile, Steve, and Thrift, Nigel. “Introduction and Mapping the Subject.” In Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation, pp. 1-51. Edited by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Soja, Edward. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. New York, 1989.

Some Useful Anthologies Collective remembering / edited by David Middleton and Derek Edwards. London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1990 [political reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln, British royal family] Eber, Dena Elizabeth and Neal, Arthur G. Memory and Representation: Constructed Truths and Competing Realities. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001. [prisoners, medical students and the corpses they dissect, court cases] Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler. Witness and Memory: the Discourse of Trauma. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. [race, ethnicity, holocaust] Nelson, Robert S., and Olin, Margaret. Monuments and Memory Made and Unmade. University of Chicago Press, 2003.