[H-verkko] Helsinki, The History and Historiography of Memory

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The History and Historiography of Memory
Helsinki 14.05.2012  - 14.05.2012 

The 10th Annual Collegium Lecture

Professor Gabrielle M. Spiegel (Johns Hopkins University): “The
History and Historiography of Memory”

The lecture addresses the problem of what is often claimed to be an
excessive concern with memory in contemporary historical studies,
often figured as “the memory industry.” The result, according to many
scholars, has been the over-privileging of subjectivity at the expense
of objectivity, the collapse of historical awareness, and, in effect,
the coming “end of history.” Contributing to the turn to memory has
been the worldwide proliferation of public controversies over
divisive historical legacies, both global in scope and traumatic in
nature. This lecture argues that it is an open question whether “the
end of history” is the ly result of the focus on memory over the last
several decades or whether it is merely the consequence of a
particular historical moment in the history of historiography. It
argues that the return of history is much more probable than its
demise, and that history’s “return” is something that is already
occurring, not least in studies of memory itself.

The lecture traces the return of history through a variety of
memorial channels, including work involved with “transitional
justice” and the emergence of judicial tribunals such as the Truth
and Reconciliation Commissions created to negotiate past grievances
in the interest of new historical “beginnings.”

In conclusion, the lecture will take up the methodological,
historiographical and ethical implications of the rise of memory
studies in contemporary history.

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Gabrielle M. Spiegel is Krieger-Eisenhower University Professor of
History at the Johns Hopkins University, she has also served as Chair
of the History Department. She is a past President of the American
Historical Association and was Dean of Humanities at UCLA and Dean of
Faculty at Johns Hopkins University. She is a Fellow of the Medieval
Academy and was named a Gilman Scholar by President Daniels. She is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Her work centers on the theory and practice of writing history, both
in the Middle Ages and in the modern era. In addition to doing
research on medieval historical writing in Latin and Old French, she
works on the implications of postmodern critical theory for
understanding contemporary historiographical practices. Her
publications on these topics include The Chronicle Tradition of
Saint-Denis: A Survey (1978); Romancing the Past: The Rise of
Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France, (1993);
The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography
(1997); translated into Italian as Il Passato come Testo.Teoria e
pratica della storiografia medievale (1998), Ed., With an
Introduction, Practicing History: New Directions in Historical
Writing after the Linguistic Turn, (2005). Trans. with Stephen
Nichols, Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian, by Alain Boureau
(2001). Plus some 70 articles on medieval historiography and
contemporary theories of historical writing.

Every spring the Helsinki Collegium invites an internationally
distinguished scholar to Helsinki to give the Annual Collegium
Lecture on her research. In the past we have had the pleasure of
listening to academics such as Carlo Ginzburg, Paul Rabinow,
Jacquelynne Eccles, Julia Annas, Mary Kaldor, Deborah Cameron, John
Dunn, Marc Hauser and Vivian Sobchack.
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Aika:	ma 14.5.2012 klo 16:15-18:00
Paikka:	University main building, Small Assembly Hall
Osoite:	Fabianinkatu 33 Keskusta
Tapahtuman järjestäjä:	Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies


Tiedustelut:
Maria Soukkio <maria.soukkio at helsinki.fi> 

Ilmoitus lähetetty: 16.3.2012 13:46

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