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In recent years, memory has become one of the most
widely debated issues in the social sciences. While
modernity focused largely on the future, how do we
explain the enormous preoccupation with the past in the
postmodern era? This course will pose some answers
to this question. Beginning with a look at the way memory
operates, the course will review major debates on
memory in diverse fields such as psychology, sociology,
and history. It will then focus on particular themes,
including memory's relationship to place, identity, trauma,
narrative, commemoration, media and the body. The course
will rely on a number of case studies, including
studies of memory in Turkey.
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