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Center for Ethics: Memory and Forgetting (2011-2012)

Stephanie Coontz (September 28)

Works by Stephanie Coontz

"The American Family.” Life 22.12 (1999): 79-82. Available here.

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trip. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1992. Available in Trexler Library call # 516.204 L788g

"Review: Complicating the Contested Terrain of Work/Family Intersections. ” Signs 22.2 (1997) : 440-452. Available here.

"Why American Families Need the Census." Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science 631.(2010): 141-149. Available here.

Works about Stephanie Coontz, plus Interviews

About Stephanie Coontz. 2005. Web. 11 July, 2011. Available here.

Dykstra, Katherine. “Parts and Partial [ Interview with Stephanie Coontz about the American Family].” Guernica. 1 Sept 2011. Web. 2 Sept 2011. Available here.

Works about Nostalgia and the Concept of the Family

Cassuto, Leonard. “The Real-Life Myth of the American Family [review of The Way We Never Were].” American Literary History 20.3 (2008): 487-496. Available here.

Cunningham, Mick. "Changing Attitudes toward the Male Breadwinner, Female Homemaker Family Model: Influences of Women's Employment and Education over the Lifecourse." Social Forces 87.1 (2008): 299-323. Available here.

Lundberg, Shelly, and Robert A Pollak. "The American Family and Family Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 21.2 (2007): 3-26. Available here.

Skolnick, Arlene S. Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty. New York: Basic Books, 1991. Available in Trexler Library call # 306.850973 S628e

Jonah Lehrer (October 5)

Works by Jonah Lehrer

How We Decide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. Available at Trexler Library, call number 153.83 L524h.

Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Available at Trexler Library, call number 700.105 L524p.

"The Truth Wears Off." New Yorker 86.40 (2010): 52-57. Available here.

"Think Better: Tips from a Savant." Scientific American Mind 20.2 (2009): 61-63. Available here.

"Unlocking the Mysteries of the Artistic Mind." Psychology Today 42, no. 4 (July 2009): 72-77. Available here

Works about Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer. n.d. Web. 12 July 2011. Available here.

Works about the Science of Memory

Boyer, Pascal, and James V. Wertsch, eds. Memory in Mind and Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Available at Trexler Library, call number 153.12 M533i.

Brainerd, Charles J. The Science of False Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Available at Trexler Library, call number  616.89 B814s.

Fahey, John A., and Gilberto De Los Santos. “Memory Improvement and Research Related to the Science of Memory.” Education 123.2 (2002) : 380+. Available here.

Glaskin, Katie. “Dreams, Memory, and the Ancestors: Creativity, Culture, and the Science of Sleep.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17.1 (2011) : 44-62. Available here.

Loftus, Elizabeth. “Science and Society: Our Changeable Memories: Legal and Practical Implications.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4.3 (2003) : 231+. Available here.

Quas, Jodi A., et al, eds. Emotion and Memory in Development: Biological, Cognitive,and Social Considerations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print. Available at Trexler Library, call number ( 155.41312 E54a).

National Memorials and Museums (October 15)

Works about Memorials and Museums as National Memory

Ater, Renée. "Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments." American Art 24.1 (2010): 20-23. Available here

Barnes, John. "The Struggle to Control the Past: Commemoration, Memory, and the Bear River Massacre of 1863." Public Historian 30.1 (2008): 81-104. Available here.

Dupré, Judith. Monuments: America's history in art and memory. New York: Random House, 2007. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 973 D942m.

Janney, Caroline E. "War over a Shrine of Peace: The Appomattox Peace Monument and Retreat from Reconciliation." Journal of Southern History 77.1 (2011): 91-120. Available here.

Shackel, Paul, ed. Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Available at Trexler Library, call number 973 S524m.

Theriault, Kim Servart. "Re-membering Vietnam: War, Trauma, and “Scarring Over” After “The Wall”." Journal of American Culture 26.4 (2003): 421-431. Available here.

Jeffrey Olick and Philip Gourevitch (October 19)

Works by Jeffrey Olick

The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility. New York: Routledge, 2007. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 303.601 O46p.

Works by Philip Gourevitch

"Climbers." New Yorker 87.20 (2011): 64-79. Available here.

“The Life After.” The New Yorker 85.12 (2009): 36-49. Available here.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 364.151 G714w.

Works about Jeffrey Olick and Philip Gourevitch

Jeffrey Olick. University of Virginia Dept. of Sociology, n.d. Web. 12 July 2011. Available here.

Philip Gourevitch, U.S. Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage, 2003. Web. 12 July 2011. Available here.

Works about Collective Memory and National Trauma

Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ON ORDER for Trexler Library.

Friedlander, Saul. Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Harvard University Press, 1992. ON ORDER for Trexler Library.

Ghosts of Rwanda. Dir. Greg Barker. PBS Video, 2004. DVD. Available at Trexler Library, call number: AV ALCOVE 967.57104 G427o.

Hirsch, Marianne. Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Harvard University Press, 1997. ON ORDER for Trexler Library.

Huyssen, Andreas. Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. 1st ed. Stanford University Press, 2003.  Available in Trexler Library, call # 901 H988p.

Kaplan, Harold. Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 940.5318 K17c.

King, Elisabeth. “Memory Controversies in Post-Genocide Rwanda.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 5.3 (2010): 293-309. Available here.

Lupu, Noam. “Memory Vanished, Absent, and Confined: The Countermemorial Project in 1980s and 1990s Germany.” History & Memory 15.2 (2003): 130-164. Available here.

Rothberg, Michael. Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. 1st ed. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000. ON ORDER for Trexler Library.

Spargo, R. Clifton. Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death. 1st ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.  ON ORDER for Trexler Library.

Zelizer, Barbie. Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye. 1st ed. University Of Chicago Press, 2000. Available at Trexler Library, call # 940.5318 Z49r.

Eric Strange (week of Oct. 31)

Works by Eric Strange

The War That Made America. PBS Home Video, 2006. DVD. Available at Trexler Library, call number AV ALCOVE 973.26 W253t.

Works about Eric Strange and His Films

Barr, Daniel P., and Robert Brent Toplin. "The War That Made America: The Story of the French and Indian War." Journal of American History 93.3 (2006): 968-969. Available here.

“A Conversation about the PBS film ‘The War That Made America’.” The Charlie Rose Show. PBS. 17 January 2006. Available here.

Works about Visual Represention of Historical Subjects

Beattie, Keith. "From City Symphony to Global City Film: Documentary Display and the Corporeal." Screening the Past: An International, Refereed, Electronic Journal of Visual Media & History 20 (2006): 17+. Available here.

Donato, Raffaele. "Docufictions: an interview with Martin Scorsese on documentary film." Film History 19.2 (2007): 199-207. Available here.

Orgeron, Marsha, and Devin Orgeron. "Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries after the Age of Home Video." Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television 60 (2007): 47-62. Available here.

Strout, Lawrence N. "The Edward R. Murrow of Docudramas and Documentary." Media History Monographs 12.1 (2010): 1-21. Available here.

Marie-Celie Agnant, Gabri Christa, and Lynn Nottage (November 10)

Works by Marie-Celie Agnant

Le livre d'Emma: Roman. La Roque d'Anthéron: Vents d'ailleurs, 2004. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 843.914 A271L.

Le silence comme le sang. Montréal, Québec: Editions du Remue-ménage, 2002. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 843.914 A271s.

La dot de Sara. Montréal, Québec: Editions du Remue-Ménage, 1995. Available at Trexler Library, call number:  843.914 A271d.

Works by Gabri Christa

ANOTHER BUILDING dancing: Making Quarantine and Savoneta." S&F Online 7.2 (Spring 2009). Web. 17 Oct. 2011. Available here.

Works by Lynn Nottage

Ruined. New York: Dramatist's Play Service, 2010. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 812.54 N918r.

Intimate Apparel, Fabulation. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2006. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 812.54 N918i.

Works about Agnant, Christa, and Nottage

Gabri Christa. n.d. Web. 23 July 2011. Available here.

Official Website for Lynn Nottage, Award-Winning African-American Playwright. 2006. Web. 23 July 2011. Available here.

Works about Artistic Remembrance of the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean

The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. New York: Garland Pub, 2000. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 780.899621 M755a.

Carter, Donald Martin. Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 305.896 C323n.

The New African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. Available at Trexler Library, call number: 305.896 N532a.

Friedrich St. Florian (November 15)

Works by Friedrich St. Florian

Friedrich St. Florian Architects. Web. 23 Aug 2011. Available here.

Works about Friedrich St. Florian

“Friedrich St. Florian.” David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. May 2006. Web. 23 July 2011. Available here.

Works about the Role of Architecture in Public Memory and History

National Coalition to Save Our Mall. The World War II Memorial Defaces a National Treasure. Web. 26 Aug 2011. Available here.

Pickford, Henry W. “Conflict and Commemoration: Two Berlin Memorials.” Modernism/Modernity 12.1 (2005): 133-173. Available here.

Shackel, Paul A. “Public memory and the search for power in American historical archaeology.” American Anthropologist 103.3 (2001): 655-670. Available here.

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