We have readings on OCRA! The password is “gtmo”
Updated Syllabus: Week 9-13
Week 9 November 12:
Monday:
– Alon Confino. “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method,” The American Historical Review, December 1997, pp. 1386 ‐ 1403.
– Roger Simon, “A Shock to Thought: Curatorial Judgement and the Public Exhibition of ‘Difficult Knowledge’” Memory Studies pp. 432 ‐ 449.
– Lisa Knauer and Daniel Walkowitz, eds., Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space “Museums,” pp. 103 ‐ 147. ON OCRA
Wednesday:
– Brandon Hamber, Ershnee Naidu, and Liz Sevcenko. “Utopian Dreams or Practical Possibilities? The Challenges of Evaluating the Impact of Memorialization in Societies in Transition,” International Journal of Transitional Justice, November 2010. pp. 397 ‐ 420.
– Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. (282‐303)
– Maggie Russell ‐ Ciardi and Liz Sevcenko. “Sites of Conscience: Opening Historic Sites for Civic Dialogue,” The Public Historian February 2008. pp. 17 ‐ 105. (read selections of Public Historian)
Week 10 November 19
Monday:
– Bill Adair, Benjamen Filene, Laura Koloski, eds. Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User‐Generated World (Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, 2011). (online) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/brown/docDetail.action?docID=10500139
Community as Curators
Wednesday:
– Scott Boehm. “Privatizing Public Memory: The Price of Patriotic Philanthropy and the Post ‐ 9/11 Politics of Display,” American Quarterly pp. 1147 ‐ 1166.
– Elazar Barkan, “Historical Reconciliation: Redress, Rights and Politics,” Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2006. pp. 1 ‐ 15.
Week 11 November 26
Monday:
– Dolores Hayden. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997) ORDER THIS FROM THE LIBRARY
– Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer Bacon, eds., History as Catalyst for Civic Dialogue: Case Studies from Animating Democracy Chapter on RI: Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
(possibly also the one on Lower East Side Tenement Museum) ORDER THIS FROM THE LIBRARY
Wednesday:
– Bill Adair, Benjamen Filene, Laura Koloski, eds. Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User‐Generated World (Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, 2011). (online) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/brown/docDetail.action?docID=10500139
Virtually Breaking Down
– Amber Reed and Amy Hill, “Don’t Keep it to yourself!”: Digital Storytelling with South African Youth,” Seminar.net 2010 (vol. 6 no. 2) pp. 268 – 279.
– Roy Rosenzweig. “The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web,” +, September 2001 (vol. 88 no.2) pp 548‐579
Week 12 December 3
Monday/Wednesday:
– Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds. Oral Histories and Public Memories (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).
– Patricia Lundy and Mark McGovern, “You Understand Again: Testimony and Post‐conflict Transition in the North of Ireland,” Words and Silences: Journal of the International Oral History Association, (vol. 2, no. 2), pp. 30 – 35.
– Valerie Janesick, “You Understand Again: Testimony and Post‐conflict Transition in the North of Ireland,” The Qualitative Report, March 2007 (vol. 12, no. 1), pp. 111 – 121.
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Week 2
The Perez reading is on OCRA.
Jonathan Hansen, Guantanamo: An American History. pp. xi ‐ xvii, 75‐195
Week 3
What does a history of Guantanamo tell us about “America’s deepest policy conflicts” including immigration, public health, human and civil rights, and national security? What was the role of the public each time the detention center was “closed”?
‐ Jonathan Hansen, Guantanamo: An American History Chapter 8
‐ Naomi Paik, “Testifying to Rightlessness: Haitian Refugees Speaking from Guantanamo” Social Text (2010), 28: pp. 39‐65
‐ “Anita Lewis Isom’s Story” and “Pavel Rodriguez Story” Guantanamo Public Memory Project, at http://gitmomemory.org/stories/
Week 4
How can the lessons from Guantanamo be conveyed to an international audience? How can multiple voices be included in an exhibitonincluding past detainees, military personnel, Cuban workers, and others to tell a story while maintaining individual narratives and dignity?
Read secondary sources and primary documents from exhibit packet.
Review images, oral histories, and video footage from exhibit packet.
Review Guantanamo Public Memory Project principles and exhibit guidelines.
Maggie Russell ‐ Ciardi and Liz Sevcenko. “Sites of Conscience: Opening Historic Sites for Civic Dialogue,” The Public Historian February 2008. pp. 9 ‐ 16. Public Historian February 2008 Introduction
Also write a blog post on the GPMP blog and start to compile research on our own blog.
Week 5
What lessons can be learned from Guantanamo? How does the history of the place reflect on American policy today?
Karen Greenberg, “World Gone Wrong” The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 1‐23
Lauren Martin and Matthew Michelson, “Geographies of Detention and Confinement: Interrogating Spatial Practices of Confinement, Discipline, Law and State Power” Geography Compass 3 (Winter 2009), pp. 459‐477
Film: The Road to Guantanamo, Dir. Michael Winterbottom and Matt Whitecross, 2006
Add readings here about Haitian refugees
Week 6
What media have been used to create a public dialogue about important but controversial issues? Can public commemoration lead to dialogue? What is civic dialogue?
Maggie Russell ‐ Ciardi and Liz Sevcenko. “Sites of Conscience: Opening Historic Sites for Civic Dialogue,” The Public Historian February 2008. pp. 17 ‐ 105. [CHOOSE SOME OF THESE]
Brandon Hamber, Ershnee Naidu, and Liz Sevcenko. “Utopian Dreams or Practical Possibilities? The Challenges of Evaluating the Impact of Memorialization in Societies in Transition,” International Journal of Transitional Justice, November 2010. pp. 397 ‐ 420.
Lisa Knauer and Daniel Walkowitz, eds., Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space “Museums,” pp. 103 ‐ 147. ON OCRA
Scott Boehm. “Privatizing Public Memory: The Price of Patriotic Philanthropy and the Post ‐ 9/11 Politics of Display,” American Quarterly pp. 1147 ‐ 1166.
Also read:
Larry Borowsky. “Telling a story in 100 words: Effective Label Copy,” AASLH Technical Leaflet.
Week 7
How can it be used to advance the cause of human rights? What is the relationship between history and present conflicts in the eye of the public? Can perceptions of who is to be blamed in historical accounts be explored and challenged in public dialogue.
Elazar Barkan, “Historical Reconciliation: Redress, Rights and Politics,” Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2006. pp. 1 ‐ 15.
Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer Bacon, eds., History as Catalyst for Civic Dialogue: Case Studies from Animating Democracy pp. 1 ‐ 100.
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