PY3091 Memory, Testimony and the Shoah
CM3037, CM5037 Museum as Medium
Brian Schiff & Charles Talcott
Cost: 鈧�550 (includes round-trip air transportation, on-site transportation, entrance fees,聽guided visits, professors鈥� trip costs, and VAT)
This trip focuses on the sites of social memory, with particular attention to the聽public display and representation of traumatic events within museums, memorials聽and monuments. Address issues of social construction and how the processes of聽memorialization and 鈥渕useum-ification鈥� following mass atrocity create possible sites of聽restorative justice and collective witnessing. The Shoah serves as the point of reflection聽on how memory is materialized and put into social practice. We also investigate 鈥渉istory聽tourism鈥� while exploring the meaning and the 鈥渓ived experience鈥� offered by historical聽sites and museums for visitors.聽We examine Krakow鈥檚 rich and complex Jewish and Catholic religious history and聽cultural heritage while studying the impacts that popular media representations, such as聽Steven Spielberg鈥檚 film Schindler鈥檚 List, have had within the cityscape of Krakow. How聽is history told and displayed and to what end? Why are sites of destruction increasingly聽popular tourist destinations? What does it mean to 鈥渂ear witness鈥� today?
Last day to register/cancel: January 24
Late cancelation fee: 鈧�550
Payment for study trips must be made no later than February 1 for the Spring 2016聽semester. Any concerns in this regard should be addressed to the Cultural Program &聽Student Accounting Services.