Memory and History

• The students will learn the topics that will enrich their knowledge about the relation between history and memory studies;
• The students will learn the mechanisms of formation of the modern memory, which intertwines the individuality and generality, concrete and abstract;
• They will be capable of critical analyses of the problems. They will be able to find solutions by transferring their own or foreign experiences or by synthesizing their solutions due to the special conditions.

No prerequisites are required.

The course deals with the complex relationship between history, memory studies and the practical research of the past on the examples of commemorations and days of remembrance Students become familiar with modern theories of memory and forms of memory practices (official, collective, individual, marginalized...), the most important authors and texts, differences in understanding the culture of memory and the role of historical representations in the processing of memory and struggles for interpretations of the past (the works of theorists of memory studies, which reflect the relationship between memory and history).
Remembrance practices will be presented within selected historical events and, according to the sources and methodologies of the work, analysed together with the students.
The events of the 20th century and multifaceted interpretations of memory will be presented on practical examples. An independent analysis of exhibitions and places of memory will be presented in the seminar assignment.
Key themes: Memory, historical practices of remembrance, forgetting, national/ethnic/minority/collective/group memory, colonization, and decolonization, (...)
1. Theories of memory studies
2. History, memory, identity
3. Politics, revisionisms, shared memories
4. Media and narratives
5. Memory, wars and courts
6. Memory and oral history
7. Memory and museum presentations of the time
8. Places of memory
9. Oblivion
10. Memory and colonization

• Students will be capable of detecting cultural-historical issues and social problems in general. They will solve these problems using different methodological approaches based on critical and self-critical judgment;
• The students will learn about different levels of historical knowledge based on different collective understanding of the past, from individual to collective memory experiences;
• The student will evaluate the past events and form their personal perspective of the topics.

Basic:

• Maurice Halbwachs, Kolektivni spomin, Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis, 2001 Catalogue
• Barbara Mistzal, Theories of social remembering, Maidenhead, Open Univ. Press, 2003 Catalogue
• Connerton, Paul How societies remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 Catalogue E-version
• Assmann, J. “Collective Memory and Cultural Memory”, New German Critique 65, 1995, 125–133 https://doi.org/10.2307/488538 E-version
• Ollick, (ed.), Collective Memory Reader, Oxford University Press, 2011 Catalogue
• Erll, A., Nunning (ed.), Cultural Memory Studies, Walter de Gruyer, Berlin, 2008 Catalogue E-version

Additional:

• Širok, K. Kaleidoskop preteklosti, ZRC SAZU, 2012 Catalogue E-version
• Oto Luthar, Marjeta Šašel Kos, Nada Grošelj, Gregor Pobežin, Zgodovina historične misli, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2006 Catalogue Catalogue
• Keith Jenkins, Re-thinking History, London − New York: Routledge, 1991 Catalogue E-version
• Hayden White, Metahistory; The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Baltimore − London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973 Catalogue E-version
• Bal, M., Crewe, J. and Spitzer, L. (eds.). Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present. Mieke Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1999
• Boym, S. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001 Catalogue E-version
• Van Dijck, J. Mediated Memories in the Digital Age, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 E-version
• Jan- Werner Muller, Memory and Power in Post- War Europe, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002 E-version
• Avishai Margalit, Ethics of Memory, Harvard Press, 2004 E-gradivo
• Arnold De SImine, Mediating Memory in the Museum: Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia E-gradivo
• (other literature by program)

Seminar paper (40 %) and oral exam (60 %).

Dr. Jasna Fakin Bajec is a research fellow at the Research centre of the Slovenian academy of Science and Arts (Institute for cultural and memory studies) and assistan professor at UNG. She studies ethnology, cultural anthropology and history. In her research she pays special attention to cultural practices of (re)creation of cultural heritage for the purposes of social, cultural, environmental and economic development of local communities. She develops participatory approaches, methodologies and techniques for the integrated evaluation, protection, management and interpretation of cultural heritage. She is particularly interested in ways to empower and involve civil society in the management of cultural heritage practices. She is also concerned with the importance of memories, emotions, and affective reactions of the bearers of cultural practices in the mobilization of heritage for market purposes and the resulting violation of cultural rights. She has published the results of her research in the field of heritage and cultural studies in several scholarly and professional articles, proceedings, and books.

Bibliografija/Bibliography:
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. Izzivi uporabe dediščine za reševanje okoljskih izzivov na primeru ustvarjanja vodne dediščine na Krasu. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2024, letn. 34, str. 17-46,
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. Procesi ustvarjanja kulturne dediščine: na razpotju med neoliberalizmom in prostovoljstvom v okviru dediščinskih društev. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, letn. 30 = 81, str. 69-88. https://www.etno-muzej.si/files/etnolog/pdf/0354-0316_30_fakin_procesi.pdf.
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. The interpretation and utilization of cultural heritage and its values by young people in Slovenia : is heritage really boring and uninteresting?. Etnološka tribina : godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva. 2019, vol. 49, [no.] 42, str. 173-193. ISSN 0351-1944. https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=335470, DOI: 10.15378/1848-9540.2019.42.07.
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna (avtor, fotograf). An integrated approach to the revitalization, safeguarding and management of cultural heritage: how to establish a durable and active local group of stakeholders. Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, letn. 30, št. 2, str. 285-300, https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ASHS_30-2020-2_FAKIN.pdf.
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna (avtor, fotograf). Vključevanje skupnosti v razvoj in upravljanje kulturne dediščine v aplikativnih evropskih projektih. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, 60, št. 1, str. 90-100, ilustr. ISSN 0351-2908. https://www.sed-drustvo.si/domains/sed-drustvo.si/modules/Domino/Files/glasnik-60-1-2020-manjaa-resolucija-1.pdf.
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. Cultural heritage and the role of voluntary associations in the process of achieving sustainable development in rural communities. Studia ethnologica Croatica. 2016, vol. 28, str. 21-45,. http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=253563.
FAKIN BAJEC, Jasna. Procesi ustvarjanja kulturne dediščine : Kraševci med tradicijo in izzivi sodobne družbe. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2011. 327 str., ilustr. Ethnologica - Dissertationes, 2.