Postgraduate Course: Memorials and Cultural Memory (HIAR11119)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course investigates the historical and contemporary politics of memorials and their role in shaping cultural memory. |
| Course description |
Memorials and monuments shape public spaces and cultural memory long after those who commission and produce them pass on. In this course we will explore how their meanings shift over time and what happens when they are interpreted as symbols of repression or resistance.
Through a series of case studies from across the world we will examine the production, reception, and afterlife of memorials, as well as their complex relationships with the events they commemorate and the creative interventions they inspire. Using memorials as a starting point, we will examine legacies of cultural dominance, commemoration, and iconoclasm in public spaces. This interdisciplinary course focuses on the art and visual culture of memorials but also draws from heritage studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and dark tourism to build a picture of our changing relationship with the past.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 22 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1 x 4000 word essay 100% - submitted weeks 8-11 |
| Feedback |
Students are given feedback on FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT as follows:
Students will submit a mid-semester essay plan (c.500 words) and annotated preliminary bibliography. Written feedback on the student plans will be provided with the opportunity for a one-to-one follow-up meeting.
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Written feedback on student essays will be provided, in addition to the opportunity for a one-to-one meeting towards the end of semester.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of key developments and debates in the field of memorials, monuments and other forms of public commemorative art.
- Analyse the ways in which artists and critics have engaged with different models of art institutions and art publics.
- Demonstrate understanding of the role of monuments and memorials in shaping cultural memory, with different political implications and effects.
- Critically examine how and why broader historical changes in society have contributed to changes in public commemorative art projects.
- Apply developed skills of analysis, communication, and organisation.
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Reading List
Apor, Péter. 'Eurocommunism: Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe.' A European memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance. Ed. Ma¿gorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. 233-247.
Giblin, John, Imma Ramos, and Nikki Grout. 'Dismantling the Master's House: Thoughts on Representing Empire and Decolonising Museums and Public Spaces in Practice An Introduction.' Third Text 33.4-5 (2019): 471-486.
Margry, P. J., and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero. 'Grassroots Memorials the Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death.' Edited by Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.
Rajagopalan, Mrinalini. Building Histories: the Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. [20th anniversary edition]. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2015.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Visual and critical analysis; Clear thinking and the development of an argument; Independent research; Presentation and communication skills; Organisation and planning; Teamwork through group discussion |
| Keywords | Memorials,Monuments,Memory,Heritage,Decolonising |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Keava McMillan
Tel:
Email: kmcmill2@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anna Johns
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: Anna.Johns@ed.ac.uk |
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