Communication & Memory

COM 75-444 | Fall 2023

 

Course Schedule and Resource Links:

 

Aug 29: Mapping the Course/Introductions

Aug 31: Introduction to Critical Memory Studies

Read: Ratnam; Rose-Redwood et al.

Sep 5: Intimate Collective Memories: Material

Read: Marcoux; Epp & Price

Sep 7: Intimate Collective Memories: Virtual

Read: van Dijck, "Memory Matters in the Digital Age"; Walker; Goode

Sep 12: Individual and/vs. Collective Memory

Read: Read: Erll: Ch 2 and pp. 82-94

Sep 14: Collective Memory Theory

Read: Rossington/Whitehead: Sec 4

Sep 19: Trauma & Memory

Read: Rossington/Whitehead: Sec 6; Keightley & Pickering

Sep 21: "Family Memory Object" Presentations

Sep 26: Memory, Identity & Culture

Read: Erll, Ch 4

Sep 28: The Medium is the Memory

Read: Erll, Ch 5; Ong; Walter

Sep 29: Special Friday Due Date

Due: Paper #1: Family Memory Project [electronic submission, by 10:30am]

Oct 3: Mediated Individual/Cultural Memory

Read: Sturken; Landsberg; Cole

Oct 5: Photography and Memory

Read: van Dijck, "Projecting the Family's Future Past"; Ledezma; Dyer

Oct 10: {Fall Break--No Class}

Oct 12: Mediated Memories

Read: Hales; Brooks

Oct 17: Collective Memory and Place: Monuments and Memorials

Read: Rossington/Whitehead: Sec 5.3; Doss; Bednar

Oct 19: Placing Memory at Southwestern {Meet in Library Lobby}

Read: Brasher, Alderman, & Inwood
Explore: Placing Memory Website

Oct 20: Special Friday Due Date

Due: Paper #2: Mediated Memory Project [electronic submission by 10:30am]

Oct 24: Analyzing Memory Places

Read: Smith and Bergman; Ladino

Oct 26: Remembering Jim Crow

Read: House; Evans & Gaddie

Oct 31: {SUnity Day--No Class}

Nov 1: Special Wednesday Due Date

Due: Proposal for your Placing Memory Project [brief email by 10:30am]

Nov 2: Screen The Neutral Ground (2021)

Read: Apel

Nov 7: Finish and Discuss The Neutral Ground (2021)

Read: Remembering the Civil War in Central Texas

Nov 9: Reckoning with Racial Trauma

Read: Clint Smith

Nov 14: Black Lives Matter, Memory, and Place

Read: Borysovych et al.; Strauss

Nov 16: Memory Practices, Publics, and Counterpublics

Read: Kim; Newton-Jackson

Nov 17: Special Friday Due Date

Due: Research Project Proposal [electronic submission, by 10:30am]

Nov 21: {Research Consultations}

Nov 23: {Thanksgiving Break--No Class}

Nov 28: "Southwestern Memory Place" Presentations

Nov 30: "Southwestern Memory Place" Presentations

Dec 1: Special Friday Due Date

Due: Paper #3: Memory Place Project [electronic submission by 10:30am]

Dec 5: Counter-memories and World-Making

Read: McCormack; John & Carlson

Dec 7: (Last regular class day) Informal Presentations on Final Research Projects; Course Evaluations; Conclusions

Dec 13 (Wednesday): by 5pm

Due: Final Research Project [Electronic Submission]