Schedule of readings

SCHEDULE OF READINGS and PRESENTATIONS (subject to change):

Week 1, Sept. 5. Introduction
Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire”
Kerwin Klein, “On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse”

Week 2, Sept. 12. Edward Bruner, Culture on Tour

Presentation: Dean Maccannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
Presentation: John Urry, The Tourist Gaze

Week 3, Sept. 19. Edward Tabor Linenthal, Preserving Memory
Website of the United States Historical Museum, http://www.ushmn.org

Presentation: Linenthal and Englelhardt, eds., History Wars: The Enola Gay and
Other Battles for the American Past

Week 4, Sept. 26. Cathy Stanton, The Lowell Experiment
Website of the Lowell National Historical Park, http://www.nps.gov/lowe

Presentation: Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place

[Sept. 27-29, field trip: Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site]

Week 5, October 3. Discussion of MLKNHS.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, read Part 1 (“The Agency of Display”) and Part 2 (“A Second Life as Heritage), pp. 17-200.

Presentation: Richard Flores, Remembering the Alamo
Presentation: Teresa Moyer, The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Week 6, October 10. Richard Handler and Eric Gable, The New History in an Old Museum.
Website of Colonial Williamsburg, http://www.history.org

Presentation: Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS
Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering

Week 7, October 17. Jenny Thompson, War Games.

Presentation: Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic
Presentaton: Edward Linenthal: Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields

Saturday, October 20. Group trip to either “Frontier Day” of the New Echota Historic Site, Calhoun, Georgia, or to the Highland Games, Stone Mountain.

Week 8, October 24. Discussion of October 20 trip. Additional reading will be selected and
assigned depending upon the choice of trips.

Presentation: David Simpson, 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration
Presentation: Mary Lawlor, Public Native America

Week 9, October 31.
Selections from Karp et al., Museum Frictions:
Bennett, “Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture,” 46-69.
Hall, “The Reappearance of the Authentic, ” 70-101.
Joseph Masco, “5:29:45,” 102-106
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, “World Heritage and Cultural Economics,” 161-202
Note that during this class we will discuss proposals for collaborative research
projects.

[Nov. 2-4. Group trip to Atlanta History Center.]

Week 10, November 7.
Selections from Karp et al., Museum Frictions
Rassool, “Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South
Africa,” 286-321
[Website of the District Six Museum, http://www.districtsix.co.za]

Bunn, “The Museum Outdoors,” 357-391
Ruffins, “Revisiting the Old Plantation,” 394-434
[Website of the National Museum of African American History and Culture,
http://nmaahc.si.edu]
Kreamer, “Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain,” 435-468

Presentation: Horton and Horton, eds., Slavery and Public Memory: The Tough Stuff of
American Memory

Week 11, November 14. Hartman, Lose Your Mother

Presentation: Dann and Seaton, eds., Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism

Note that additional meetings may be scheduled to discuss the collaborative research project.