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Inequalities, Personal Accounts & Collective Memories

Inequalities, Personal Accounts & Collective Memories. Professor: Jan Marontate. Falling Man. Themes. Methods for conducting research on collective memory Archives and other documentary sources;

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Inequalities, Personal Accounts & Collective Memories

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  1. Inequalities, Personal Accounts & Collective Memories Professor: Jan Marontate Falling Man

  2. Themes • Methods for conducting research on collective memory • Archives and other documentary sources; • visual images; living traditions; innovations and the culture of the “new”; events and non-events; material culture (objects, artefacts, memorials, built heritage, reconstructions); • Memories as mediation & communication • creation, selection, contextualization, interpretation, reception

  3. Planning research • Handout 6: more readings on case studies • Review of First Short Reports • Next Short Report • Term Assignment

  4. “Bearing Witness” to Traumatic Pasts (Zelizer) • “Finding Aids”—technical term • Device for Reframing Collective (Public) Memory • Personal need to respond to traumatic public events • “bearing witness” • public act • commitment • Photography

  5. Today’s Activities: Workshop on Film Analysis • Film Clips from • Obachan’s Garden, produced & directed by Linda Ohama. NFB 2001 • In the shadow of gold mountain, producer: Tamara Lynch, written & directed by Karen Cho. NFB, 2004. • Sleeping Tigers. The Asahi Baseball Story. NFB 2003.

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