Seminars

Cultural Memory

Year Founded 2007

Seminar # 717

StatusActive

The University Seminar on Cultural Memory began in 2005 as an interdisciplinary colloquium welcoming graduate students and faculty from Columbia and its neighbors. The Seminar, incepted in 2007, builds upon this already-established community and aims to further develop a vibrant interdisciplinary dialogue on contemporary issues of cultural and collective memory, including but not limited to traumatic memory, collective and national forgetting, memorialization and museology, historical consciousness and historiography, embodied memory and performance, archive and testimony. The Seminar meets monthly and, in addition to discussing chapters and works-in-progress, hosts a series of distinguished visiting speakers, working in close cooperation with relevant departments and institutes at Columbia.

Chair/s

Marianne Hirsch

Andreas Huyssen

Sonali Thakkar

Rapporteur/s

Isabel Blankfield

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

31
Oct

October 31, 20241:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Faculty House

Rethinking Memory From the New Abyss
A Conversation With Omer Bartov, Marianne Hirsch and Rashid Khalidi, Moderated by Sonali Thakkar

Speaker/s

Omer Bartov, Brown University

Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

Sonali Thakkar, NYU

Scheduled

02
Apr

April 2, 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns

Speaker/s

Jay Prosser, University of Leeds

Respondent/s

Carol Becker,

Mikhal Dekel, CUNY Graduate Center

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

18
Apr

April 18, 20246:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Central America on the Move: Migration, Asylum, and Transnational Adoption

Scheduled

25
Mar

March 25, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

01
Nov

November 1, 20237:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Butler Library

Discussion of Palestinian Author Adania Shibli’s Novel Minor Detail

Scheduled

04
Oct

October 4, 20236:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

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