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History and memory: Interpreting life stories

  • APG4305
  • Caulfield Second semester 2013 (Day)
    Caulfield Second semester 2013 (Off-campus)
  • 12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
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This unit introduces the theoretical and conceptual frameworks deployed in the analysis of various forms of history that involve memory. In particular it considers oral history, life stories and autobiography, and commemoration, and explores the relationship between these forms of memory and history. Specific topics include oral history and social history, private and public memory, myth and history, war and remembrance, popular memory and nostalgia, psychoanalysis and history, memory and collective identity, and trauma and memory. -- Course Website

Instructor: Professor Alistair Thomson and Professor Bain Attwood



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