PhD Seminars: Semiotics, Trauma and Memory

Seminars for the PSCS PhD students (Curriculum. Semiotics - 12 hours - 1 CFU - SSD: M-FIL/05, coordinator Prof. Francesco Mazzucchelli, in collaboration with Prof. Anna Maria Lorusso and Prof. Cristina Demaria.

  • Date:

    01 DECEMBER 2023
    -
    12 APRIL 2024
     from 15:00 to 13:00
  • Event location: different locations

The course offers doctoral students a program of seminars and lectures on topics in the semiotics of memory. Through contributions from scholars and experts, doctoral students will explore some aspects of the debate within memory studies and the semiotics of culture and cultural memory. Presentations will address, among other topics, the symbolic reprocessing of cultural trauma, the construction and transmission of cultural heritage, the construction and sharing of collective memories, and the intergenerational transmission of memory.

Planned activities include seminars and conferences organized and co-organized by the TRAME Research Center (Center for Semiotic Studies on Memory), the MSCA-RISE SPEME Project - Spaces of Memory, and the Mokichi Okada Chair on Beauty. Other seminars will be organized as part of the Semiotics of Memory, Semiotics of Conflict, and Semiotics of Culture courses of the Master of Arts in Semiotics. The full program will be posted on the TRAME Center website https://centri.unibo.it/trame/it

 

1 dicembre, ore 15, Centro Umberto Eco, Via Marsala 26, 

Les abords de Notre-Dame de Paris. Sémiotique aspectuelle de l'espace et du temps.

Con Denis Bertrand, Universitè de Paris 8 - St. Denis.

https://cue.unibo.it/it/lectures-e-seminari/les-abords-de-notre-dame-de-paris-semiotique-aspactuelle-de-lespace-et-du-temps

 

11 dicembre, ore 15, Centro Umberto Eco, Via Marsala 26

(Ab)Usi della storia in Ucraina. Guerra e patrimonio culturale.

Con Julie Deschepper, University of Utrecht.

https://cue.unibo.it/it/lectures-e-seminari/ab-usi-della-storia-in-ucraina-guerra-e-patrimonio-culturale

 

3 aprile, ore 17, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Aula C

The magician's hat: Conspiracy narratives’ potentiality for cultivating collective memory.

Con Mari-Liis Madisson, Tallinn University.

https://centri.unibo.it/trame/en/events/the-magician-s-hat-conspiracy-narratives-potentiality-for-cultivating-collective-memory

 

10 aprile, ore 17, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Aula C

Conflict Heritage and Holocaust Analogies: Competing Memories beyond Identity Politics

Con Ihab Saloul, UvA – University of Amsterdam.

 

11 aprile, ore 10, Centro Umberto Eco, Via Marsala 26

Final conference of the European Project SPEME-SPACES OF MEMORY

Panel: Models of memory

Con Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge), Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Berlin), Valentina Pisanty (Università degli studi di Bergamo), Amit Pinchevski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

https://centri.unibo.it/trame/en/events/spaces-of-memory-questioning-traumatic-heritage

 

12 aprile, ore 9.30, Centro Umberto Eco, Via Marsala 26

Final conference of the European Project SPEME-SPACES OF MEMORY

Panel: Arts and memory

Con Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University), Andrea Pinotti (Università degli studi di Milano Statale), Erika Diettes (artist).

https://centri.unibo.it/trame/en/events/spaces-of-memory-questioning-traumatic-heritage