Ars Memoriae Reading Groups | Michaelmas Term 2024 - Week 4 | TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Mondays of Weeks 3, 4 & 8 at 5.15 pm

Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building

All welcome

Reading List – Michaelmas Term 2024

Monday, October 28 (Week 3)

Texts

Note: The first week we will discuss till the section, ‘The Cigarette.’

Jenny Wüstenberg. “Toward Slow Memory Studies.” Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, edited by Brett Ashley Kaplan, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, pp. 59–68.

Film

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ib8m-PVw0U

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Monday, November 4 (Week 4)

Texts

Note: The first week we will discuss till the section, ‘The Veil.’

Edward Said. “Reflections on Exile.” Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, London: Granta, 2012, pp. 185–97.

Film

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p1P4fdhaF8&t=172s

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Monday, December 2 (Week 8)

Texts

Note: The first week we will discuss till the section, ‘The End.’

Marianne Hirsch. “Feminism at the Maternal Divide: A Diary.” The Politics of Motherhood, edited by Annelise Orleck and Diana Taylor, University of New England Press, 1996.

Film

Thursday, November 21 (Week 6)

Collaborative Event with Queer Intersections Oxford (QIO)

More details soon!

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All readings can be accessed here.

Convenors:

Shivani Arulalan Pillai, DPhil Candidate (Faculty of English)

Malavika P Pillai, DPhil Candidate (Faculty of English)

Smriti Verma, DPhil Candidate (Faculty of English)

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