Cultural History and Memory Studies
Module Coordinator:
Iva Kosmos, PhD
iva.kosmos@zrc-sazu.si
- MODULE COURSE LIST
- The Cultural History and Memory Studies module focuses on the study and critical reflection of cultural history, the historization of events, and memory practices in Slovenia, the region of former Yugoslavia, and the wider Central European context, in comparison with global and transnational processes. The module is problem-oriented: we encourage critical reflection on how historical and mnemonic narratives and practices emerge, how they transform over time, and how we use the past today.
- The module has two distinctive features. First, while exploring cultural history, we encourage students to understand and reflect on various processes of historization, which opens up space for reflection on their own research role. Second, the module addresses a wide range of memory practices that go beyond historiography yet actively participate in shaping collective cultural memory. We explore memory politics across the broad socio-cultural field, from media practices (including digital ones) and public rituals, to artistic production, popular culture and everyday life, musealization and heritage discourses, memory landscapes, and material culture.
- The module is distinctly transdisciplinary oriented. It brings together researchers from history, anthropology, cultural studies, political science, media studies, gender studies, literary studies, and the arts. Given the wide range of topics covered, the content of the teaching process, including methodological approaches, is specifically tailored to research interests of each student. Among the methodological approaches inlcuded in the module are classical methods of historical research (archival work, comparative analysis of sources, etc.), ethnography (interviews, oral history, various approaches to fieldwork), and analyses of media and cultural-artistic texts and artifacts (discourse analysis, analysis of visual representations, sociologically oriented analysis of material conditions of production, etc.).
- Lecturers and students focus on special contextualisations and materialisations of the past, as well as the representation of memory and history in digital media, with a particular emphasis on the affective evaluation of technologies and the past.
Obvezni predmeti modula z nosilci in nosilkami
Research, Argumentation, and Writing Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Prof. Borut Telban, Ph.D.,
ECTS: 6
Individual Research Work 1.
ECTS: 21
Individual Research Work I
ECTS: 16
Research Seminar I
ECTS: 26
Individual Research Work II
ECTS: 44
Research Seminar II
ECTS: 4
Individual Research Work III
ECTS: 30
Doctoral dissertation
ECTS: 30