HIST 6252

Commemorations and Public Culture

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This course is a reading seminar structured around the history of commemoration and public culture. We will focus on how historical events and figures are remembered and even celebrated in monuments, statutes, the naming of streets, parks, buildings, and other public sites. The materials will be drawn from various parts of the world, addressing controversies and debates about which historical events and subjects are honored, and which are forgotten. We will investigate how certain kinds of (local, national, ethic, racial, gendered) publics are represented for popular consumption, while other forms of identification are made less visible and even erased. The course is open to graduate students who are interested in history, art, history, anthropology, and those interested in understanding how the past is represented in the future.

When Offered Fall.

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