PY3067 Social Memory & CM 3037 / CM 5037 Museum as medium
Professor Charles Talcott & Professor Brian Schiff
Cost: €490 (includes round-trip air transportation, shared hotel accommodations with breakfast, on-site transportation, visit & entrance fees, lectures, professors’ trip costs, and VAT)
The trip focuses on the sites of social memory, with particular attention to the public display and representation of traumatic historical events within museums, memorials and monuments. The trip to Auschwitz and Krakow addresses issues of social construction and how the processes of memorialization and "museum-ification" following mass atrocity create possible sites of restorative justice and collective witnessing. The Shoah serves as the point of reflection on how memory is materialized and put into social practice. We will also investigate "history tourism" while exploring the meaning and "lived experience" of historical sites and museums for visitors. Why are sites of destruction increasingly popular tourist destinations? How is history told and displayed and to what end? What effect do these representations (and preservations) have on the personal meaning of history?
Last day to register/cancel: January 25
Late cancelation fee: €490
Payment for study trips is due as soon as the trip is officially confirmed by email adang
aup.edu (from the CP Coordinator, Alexis Dang)