Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “MEMORY”
Dr Julia Buyskykh (UCC) Pilgrimages in a Landscape of Memories: The Сase of Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Poland Thursday 29th February 3 pm ORB 1.24 The revival of local Christian pilgrimages to sacred sites such as springs, wells, footprint stones, abandoned chapels, and devastated shrines is widely known and increasingly practised throughout the post-communist European terrain. In some cases, …
The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism Prof. Ana Lucia Araujo Ana Lucia Araujo is a social and cultural historian writing transnational and comparative history. Currently, she is a Full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her work explores the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and their …
Faced with discussion of her party’s roots in historical fascism, Giorgia Meloni often dismisses their relevance — claiming that the Italian right “handed fascism over to history decades ago”. Far from simply “nostalgic” for the regime, leaders of the postfascist right have since the 1990s increasingly called for a “pacified” view of history, focused on the remembrance of victims, from …
A roundtable discussion organised by the CASiLaC research cluster, Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past, chaired by Chiara Giuliani (UCC) and featuring: Dónal Hassett (University College Cork) Heather Laird (University College Cork) Louisa Esther Mugabo (University College Cork) Kevin O’Sullivan (University of Galway) John Paul Newman (University of Maynooth) Monday 3rd April, 3-5pm, Mary Ryan Room (ORB – O’Rahilly Building) …
Democracy and Defeat: Morante, Moravia and Malaparte in Capri, 1946 Franco Baldasso Bard College Thursday, 26 January 4.00 pm ORB 1.24 How Italy’s shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape remains the most disputed question in the country’s modern history. Taking a cue from the unlikely meeting of Jewish authors Elsa Morante and Alberto …
Join us on Friday 25th November, at 3:30 pm in Mary Ryan Room, for a roundtable discussion with some of the contributors to the volume Memory, Mobility and Material Culture edited by Chiara Giuliani (Dept of Italian) and Kate Hodgson (Dept of French). Siobhán Browne and Clíona O’Carroll (Folklore), Chiara Giuliani (Italian), Kate Hodgson (French), Cara Levey (SPLAS) and Mastoureh …
Dr Chiara Giuliani, Dr Till Weingärtner, and the CASiLaC Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past research cluster invite you all to the upcoming seminar on hauntology and spectrality by Prof Esther Peeren from the University of Amsterdam on Thursday 28th January, 4 pm, on Teams (link below). Click here to join the meeting Prof Peeren’s abstract In this …
Unprivileged pasts, unwritten origins Research Workshop The event is funded by the Irish Research Council through a New Foundations Grant and is the final outcome of the project RoOTS: Research on Origins, Traditions and Survival (PI Martina Piperno). 21 September 2019, Room G27 O’Rahilly Building, UCC How do we moderns conceptualize the “roots” and the “beginning” of our collective identities? …
