During the first semester (October – December), a reading group series of five thematic sessions will allow us to theoretically reflect on ‘In Dialogue with the Living Past.
PRACTICAL INFO AND CONTACT
TAPAS reading groups are informal and we welcome all interested colleagues and students to join the discussion. We will share all literature beforehand and will organize all sessions both virtually as well as physically. Join us online via this link or at the Malpertuis meeting room (Ghent, UFO, third floor). We meet always on a Friday from 15h to 16h30.
PROGRAM
Friday September 27, 2024 | 15h-16h30
Historical Ethnography/Ethnographical history: what are the ethics of doing ethnographic research?
- Johannes Fabian, “Time and the Emerging Other” in Time and the Other: how anthropology makes its object. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983: 1-36.
- E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Anthropology and History in excerpt from Essays in Social Anthropology. Londen, Faber, 1962: 46-65.
Extra:
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology
- Johannes Fabian, Anthropology with an attitude
- Geertz, Clifford. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.
Friday October 18, 2024 | 15h-16h30
The benefits and burdens of oral history as a research method
- Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod, 2007. Introduction, the claim of memory, in Nakba, 1948 and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press: 1-26.
- Stephan Palmié & Charles Stewart, eds. Introduction: the varieties of historical experience. in The varieties of historical experiences. Abingdon, Routledge (2019): 1-29.
Extra:
- Thompson, Paul. The voice of the past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Friday November 8, 2024 | 15h-16h30
Listening to the story of the past: whose’s story?
- Michael Rothberg & Yasemin Yıldız, 2011. ”Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” Parallax 17:4, 32-48.
- Michael Herzfeld, 1991. A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town.
Friday November 29, 2024 | 15h-16h30
How to listen to the story of the past?
- Michel Rolph-Trouillot, The Power in the Story in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995: 1-30.
- Katherine Borland: “‘That’s not what I said’: interpretative conflict in oral narrative research” in Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History.
Friday December 13, 2024 | 15h-16h30
Historical narratives: how to analyze?
- Fujii, Lee Ann. “Shades of Truth and Lies: Interpreting Testimonies of War and Violence.” Journal of Peace Research, vol. 47, no. 2, 2010, pp. 231–41.
- Mark Roseman: “Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony” The Journal of Holocaust Education, 1999, p. 320-332.
Extra:
- Marianne Hirsch, 2008. “The Generation of Postmemory.” Poetics Today 29: 1, 103-28.
- Kathleen Lee: “Evidence, empathy and ethics: lessons from oral histories of the Klan”