Overview

This topic investigates the importance of memories and other representations of the past in the present. It investigates the various ways that the past is remembered, and forgotten, and examines the processes of seeking, communicating and interpreting memory. The topic focuses on the ways in which memorialising practices are shaped … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce students to the area of memory studies and the ways in which memories are key in constructing not only personal but also collective and national presents
  • Introduce students to the diversity of ways in which memories of the past are carried and their always contested nature, including examinations of Indigenous memories in Australia and other settler-colonial nations
  • Focus on the ways that memories are central in the creation of gendered, raced and sexualised individual subjects and collectivities
  • Introduce students to a wide range of case studies that suggests the importance of the practices of memory and memorialisation, and the issues of ethics and politics these speak to, in Australia and in selected other locations
  • Consolidate students' oral and written communication skills
  • Foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation that encourages students to both learn through collaboration and to become independent and critical thinkers

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