Inequalities, Personal Inequalities, Personal Accounts & Collective Accounts & Collective MemoriesMemories

Professor: Professor:

Jan MarontateJan Marontate

Falling Man

ThemesThemes Methods for conducting research on Methods for conducting research on

collective memorycollective memory Archives and other documentary Archives and other documentary

sources;sources;– visual images; living traditions; innovations visual images; living traditions; innovations

and the culture of the “new”; events and and the culture of the “new”; events and non-events; material culture (objects, non-events; material culture (objects, artefacts, memorials, built heritage, artefacts, memorials, built heritage, reconstructions);reconstructions);

Memories as mediation & Memories as mediation & communicationcommunication– creation, selection, contextualization, creation, selection, contextualization,

interpretation, reception interpretation, reception

Planning researchPlanning research

Handout 6: Handout 6: more readingsmore readings on case studies on case studies Review of First Short ReportsReview of First Short Reports Next Short ReportNext Short Report Term AssignmentTerm Assignment

““Bearing Witness” to Traumatic Bearing Witness” to Traumatic Pasts (Zelizer)Pasts (Zelizer)

““Finding Aids”—technical termFinding Aids”—technical term Device for Reframing Collective (Public) Device for Reframing Collective (Public)

Memory Memory Personal need to respond to traumatic public Personal need to respond to traumatic public

eventsevents ““bearing witness”bearing witness”

– public actpublic act– commitmentcommitment

PhotographyPhotography

Today’s Activities: Workshop Today’s Activities: Workshop on Film Analysison Film Analysis

Film Clips fromFilm Clips from– Obachan’s Garden,Obachan’s Garden, produced & directed by Linda produced & directed by Linda

Ohama. NFB 2001Ohama. NFB 2001– In the shadow of gold mountain, In the shadow of gold mountain, producer: producer:

Tamara Lynch, written & directed by Karen Cho. Tamara Lynch, written & directed by Karen Cho. NFB, 2004.NFB, 2004.

– Sleeping Tigers. The Asahi Baseball Story. Sleeping Tigers. The Asahi Baseball Story. NFB NFB 2003. 2003.