In the past decade, Memory Studies, like many other fields, has been undergoing a ‘transnational turn’. With globalization, mass migration, and the diversity and increasing speed of new technologies, memory scholars have been shifting their focus from the nation as the predominant framework for sites of memory (Pierre Nora), to questions of how memory travels and circulates transnationally. This Masterclass provides an opportunity to discuss the current state of the field with two of its leading figures:

Ann Rigney holds the chair of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where she also coordinates the platform in memory studies. She has published widely in the field of cultural memory studies, philosophy of history, and historical fiction. She is author of The Rhetoric of Historical Representation (1990), Imperfect Histories (2001), The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (2012), as well as several edited collections.

Participants will be expected to complete three readings prior to the Masterclass, which can be obtained upon registration. Please register by Friday, 28 November 2014. Please indicate your school, and include a brief description about your interests in memory studies.

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E Rosanne.Kennedy@anu.edu.au

Enquiries and Registration:

E Jonathon.Zapasnik@anu.edu.au

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