SYS, Memory Studies: Student Presentations Schedule

Week Reading Assignments/Activities/

Deadlines
1. Movie screening and
Jan. 11–17 Introductions and Course discussion.
Summary/Teaching
Methodology (Student- Remember. 2015 drama-
Centered Learning thriller film directed by
Approach) Atom Egoyan and written
by Benjamin August,
starring Christopher
Plummer.
2. Screening and discussion
Jan. 18–24 cont.

A Hidden Life. A
philosophical epic (2019)
by Terrence Malick, based
on the true story of
Franz Jägerstätter, an
Austrian farmer who
refused to join the army
during World War II.

UDOJ.HEBEL: Sites of Clyde Forsberg

Memory in U.S.-American
Histories and Cultures...47

JAY WINTER: Sites of Konarski Moritz Macan

Memory and the Shadow
of War..61
3. ANDREAS LANGENOHL: Maznichenko Galina
Jan. 25–31: Social, Memory in Post- Sergeevna
Political, and Philosophical Authoritarian
Memory Societies..163

ERIK MEYER: Memory Emilzhanov Beknazar

and Politics..173 Zhanybekovich

4. ELENA ESPOSITO: Ashyraliev Islambek

Feb. 1–7: Social, Political, Social Forgetting: A Nurbekovich
and Philosophical Systems-Theory
Memory, Cont. Approach..181

MAUREEN JUNKER- Duishegulova Meerim

KENNY: Memory and Ramisovna

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 Forgetting in Paul
Ricœur’s Theory of the
Capable Self..203
5.
Feb. 8–14: Psychological JÜRGEN STRAUB: Saparalieva Zarena
Memory Psychology, Narrative, Sanzharbekovna
and Cultural Memory: Past
and Present...215

WULFKANSTEINER AND Torogul kyzy Rakhilya

HARALD WEILNBÖCK:
Against the Concept of
Cultural Trauma...229

6. HERBERT GRABES: Dzholdosheva Symbat

Feb. 15–21: Literature and Cultural Memory and the Nurlanovna
Cultural Memory Literary Canon..311

MAXSAUNDERS: Life- Khasanza Ibragim

Writing, Cultural Memory, Makhmudovich
and Literary Studies..321
7. BARBIEZELIZER: Nurlanova Begimai
Feb. 22–28: Media and Journalism’s Memory Nurlanovna
Cultural Memory Work..379

MARTINZIEROLD:
Memory and Media
Cultures..399
8. EDMUND BURKE, Konarski Moritz Macan
Mar. 1–7: Precursors and Reflections on the
Classics Revolution in France…65

ALEXIS DE Zarylbekova Zhazgul

TOCQUEVILLE, Syrgakovna
Democracy in Americ…68

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Emilzhanov Beknazar

"On the Uses and Zhanybekovich
Disadvantages of History
for Life"…73

SIGMUND FREUD, Totem Ashyraliev Islambek

and Taboo: Nurbekovich
Resemblances between
the Psychic Lives of
Savages and Neurotics,
and Moses and
Monotheism…84 Duishegulova Meerim
Ramisovna

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 KARL MARX, from "The
Eighteenth Brumaire of Saparalieva Zarena
Louis Bonaparte"…89 Sanzharbekovna

ÉMILE DURKHEIM, The

Elementary Forms of Torogul kyzy Rakhilya
Religious Life…136

CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS,
from The Savage Mind…
173
9. Deadline:
Mar. 8–14: History, Mon Oct 26: Writing
Memory, and Identity Assignment #2: Critique of
JAMES E.YOUNG: The
Texture of Memory:
Holocaust Memorials in
History..357. 1000 words,
typed, double-spaced.

HANS-GEORG Dzholdosheva Symbat

GADAMER, Truth and Nurlanovna
Method…180

ALON CONFINO, Khasanza Ibragim

"Collective Memory and Makhmudovich
Cultural History: Problems
of Method"…198

10. YOSEF HAIM Nurlanova Begimai

Mar. 15–21: History, YERUSHALMI, Zakhor: Nurlanovna
Memory, and Identity, Jewish History and Jewish
Cont. Memory…201

JAN ASSMANN, Moses Maznichenko Galina

the Egyptian: The Memory Sergeevna
of Egypt in Western
Monotheism and
"Collective Memory and
Cultural Identity"…209

YAEL ZERUBAVEL, Zholdosheva Aidai

Recovered Roots: Salavatovna
Collective Memory and the
Making of Israeli National
Tradition…237

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11.
Mar. 29–Apr. 4: Power,
Politics, and Contestation
12.
Apr. 5–11: Power, Politics,
and Contestation, Cont.
13.
Apr. 12–18: Memory,
Justice in the
Contemporary Epoch
March 22–28 Spring Break
No classes
JOHN BODNAR, Konarski Moritz Macan
Remaking America: Public
Memory, Commemoration
and Patriotism in the
Twentieth Century…265
ROY ROSENZWEIG and Zholdosheva Aidai
DAVID THELEN, The Salavatovna
Presence of the Past:
Popular Uses of History in
American Life…269
TERENCE RANGER, Emilzhanov Beknazar
"The Invention of Tradition Zhanybekovich
Revisited: The Case of
Colonial Africa"…275
ORLANDO PATTERSON, Ashyraliev Islambek
Slavery and Social Death: Nurbekovich
A Comparative Study…
279
RICHARD SENNETT, Duishegulova Meerim
"Disturbing Memories"… Ramisovna
283
JEFFREY ALEXANDER, Saparalieva Zarena
"Toward a Cultural Theory Sanzharbekovna
of Trauma"…307
Deadline:
Mon Nov 30: Writing
Assignment #3: Revised
Critique (Reverse
Argument) of Writing
Assignment #2, JAMES
E.YOUNG: The Texture of
Memory: Holocaust
Memorials in History..357.
1000 words, typed,
double-spaced.
ANTHONY GIDDENS, Torogul kyzy Rakhilya
"Living in a Post-
Traditional Society"…416
DAVID GROSS, Lost Dzholdosheva Symbat
Time: On Remembering Nurlanovna
and Forgetting in Late
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 Modern Culture…420

ANDREAS HUYSSEN, Khasanza Ibragim

"Present Pasts: Media, Makhmudovich
Politics, Amnesia"…430

CHARLES MAIER, "A Nurlanova Begimai

Surfeit of Memory? Nurlanovna
Reflections on History,
Melancholy, and Denial"…
442
14. FRED DAVIS, Yearning Zholdosheva Aidai
Apr. 19–25: Memory, for Yesterday: A Sociology Salavatovna
Justice in the of Nostalgia…446
Contemporary Epoch
SVETLANA BOYM, Zarylbekova Zhazgul
"Nostalgia and Its Syrgakovna
Discontents"…452

PAUL RICOEUR, Maznichenko Galina

"Memory - History - Sergeevna
Forgetting"…475

DANIEL LEVY and

NATAN SZNAIDER,
"Memory Unbound: The
Holocaust and the
Formation of
Cosmopolitan Memory"…
465

MARK OSIEL, Mass Zarylbekova Zhazgul

Atrocity, Collective Syrgakovna
Memory, and the Law…
468
15. Review Deadline:
Apr. 26–May 2 Wed Dec 18: Writing
Assignment #4: What the
May 3–7 Exam period – no Hell is Memory Studies?
classes but using two chapters, of
your choosing, from
Memory in Culture to
contextualize your
argument. 1000 words,
typed, double-spaced.
Final Grades due by end of May, 2021

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Emails

Konarski Moritz Macan

konarski_m@auca.kg

Maznichenko Galina Sergeevna

maznichenko_g@auca.kg

Emilzhanov Beknazar Zhanybekovich

emilzhanov_b@auca.kg

Ashyraliev Islambek Nurbekovich

ashyraliev_i@auca.kg

Duishegulova Meerim Ramisovna

duishegulova_m@auca.kg

Saparalieva Zarena Sanzharbekovna

saparalieva_z@auca.kg

Torogul kyzy Rakhilya

torogul_r@auca.kg

Dzholdosheva Symbat Nurlanovna

dzholdosheva_s@auca.kg

Khasanza Ibragim Makhmudovich

khasanza_i@auca.kg

Nurlanova Begimai Nurlanovna

nurlanova_b@auca.kg

Zholdosheva Aidai Salavatovna

zholdosheva_a@auca.kg

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Zarylbekova Zhazgul Syrgakovna

zarylbekova_z@auca.kg

zholdosheva_a@auca.kg, zarylbekova_z@auca.kg, konarski_m@auca.kg,

maznichenko_g@auca.kg, emilzhanov_b@auca.kg, ashyraliev_i@auca.kg,
duishegulova_m@auca.kg, saparalieva_z@auca.kg, torogul_r@auca.kg,
dzholdosheva_s@auca.kg, khasanza_i@auca.kg, nurlanova_b@auca.kg