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This course looks at a variety of interesting ways in which we remember people and events.  By analysing famous, controversial, and obscure examples, we examine the impact of memorial culture on society and why it remains so relevant to us.  Case studies include the new 9/11 Memorial, the remnants of The Berlin Wall, an invisible Holocaust monument, the political murals of West Belfast, and the Graveyard of the Fallen Monuments, Moscow.  We also explore memory culture’s extraordinary devices in…See More

The Memory and Violence working group is a new interdisciplinary group, open to all with an interest in the relationships between collective memory, public history, trauma, violence, representation, and the politics of memorialisation and memory work. We will be reading some key texts in these fields, and will also be a space for postgraduate students and researchers to discuss their own work with each other. Based at the Birkbeck College School of Arts, we aim to meet once a month during term…See More