memory & memorialization | representing trauma and war
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SEMINAR 2009 | 2010 | Denial, concealment, Forgetting, selective memory
December 9, 2009 (4.30-7.30 pm)
Jan T. Gross | historian | Princeton
Opportunistic Killings and the Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors: a Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe ?
Commentators: Hasia Diner, historian (NYU), Fréderique de Vignemont, philosopher and cognitivist (CNRS)
March 3, 2010 (4.30-7.30 pm)
Carol Gluck | historian | Columbia
The Politics of War Memory in Asia: 1945-2010
Commentators: David Blight, historian (Yale), Brigitte Sion, Religious studies (NYU), Henry Rousso (CNRS, by videoconference).
March 24, 2010 (4.30-7.30 pm)
Myriam Cottias | historian | CNRS
Memories of Slavery : Geneaolgy of Forgetting, Resilience and National Deafness
Commentators: Fred Cooper, historian (NYU), Joseph E. Ledoux, neuroscientist (NYU), M.-Cl. Lavabre, sociologist (CNRS by visioconference)
April 21, 2010 (4.30-7.30 pm)
Clifford Chanin |museum consultant | National 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Forgetting and Remembering: Museums and the Track of Memory
Commentators: Vera Schwarcz, historian (Wesleyan) and Robert Smith, psychiatrist, Yves Burnod, neuroscientist (INSERM, by videoconference) and Katia Dauchot, neuroscientist (CNRS, by videoconference)
December 4, 2009 (2.00-5.30 pm)
Marie-Claire Lavabre | sociologist | CNRS
Forgetting the Great Writers and the Problem of Forgetting in their Work
Commentators: Sandrine Lefranc, politist (CNRS) and Marie-Christine Laznik, psychoanalyst (Paris7-Denis Diderot).
February 5, 2010 (2.00-5.30 pm)
Henry Rousso | historian | CNRS
How to approach the issue of ‘Absence’ in History ?
Commentators: Denis Peschanski, historian (CNRS), Boris Cyrulnik, psychologist (Nice), Jan T. Gross, historian (Princeton, by videoconference)
March 26, 2010 (2.00-5.30 pm)
Yves Burnod |neuroscientist | INSERM
Katia Dauchot |neuroscientist | CNRS
Cerebral Dynamics of Memory
Commentators: Valérie Doyère, neuroscientist (CNRS), Stéphane Grimaldi, director of the Mémorial de Caen, Carol Gluck, historian (Columbia, by videoconference).