- philosophical approaches to forgetting (Nietzsche, Ricoeur, etc.)
- digital media and forgetting
- literatures of forgetting
- genocide denial and the politics of memory
- psychoanalytic approaches to forgetting, repression, and disavowal
- amnesty and amnesia
- productive forgetting and the arts of memory
- commemoration, counter-monuments, and forgetting
- state-sponsored forgetting
- minority histories and imperial amnesia
- silence(s)
- individual vs. collective forgetting
- non-sites of memory
- archival forgetting
- historical repetition and the consequences of forgetting
- embodied forgetting
- therapeutic forgetting
Confirmed Keynote Speakers



Format

Each of the three days of the summer school will start with a keynote lecture, followed by sessions consisting of three graduate student papers, responses, and extensive Q&A. Participants are expected to be in attendance for the full three days of the summer school. In order to foster incisive and targeted feedback, all accepted papers will be pre-circulated among the participants and each presentation session will be chaired by a senior scholar who will also act as respondent.
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