Creating Places-of-Memory: Photographs, Identity, & Matrilineality

My artistic practice and family genealogy create the opportunity for a change in the perception of family history. I seek to illuminate and reframe family history and definitions of self while exploring an alternative to, or an addendum to, the patrilineal model of genealogy. Using the photographs and information gathered from my matrilineal bloodline and my preconceived definitions of self, I have created artworks that are places-of-memory. The places-of-memory, sometimes locations, sometimes objects, or sometimes the interaction with objects in an environment, provide an opportunity for discussion regarding the omitted or dismissed nature of the matrilineal line. This paper outlines the theoretical background of family history and identity, using photographs as methodology. In analyzing my family photographs, I have found I can use photographs as a tangible grounding for exploring abstract concepts such as memory and transgenerational family dynamics. Providing examples of my artwork and the work from a selection of my contemporaries, I show photographs used as a prompt for conversations and the impetus for my artistic practice. The visual components of this thesis work consist of seven portraits of my matrilineal bloodline. The organization of my artwork is modeled after the photo album while managing to challenge the traditional book-bound layout. In place of a book-style format, rendering the work in mediums such as cyanotype, resin molded into cube shapes, and 24inch x 36inch film-negatives creates a new arrangement of the photo album

Review of Lieux de mémoire en Orient grec à l'époque impériale edited by Gangloff, A.

This volume publishes the proceedings of a conference held in Lausanne in 2011, focused on places of memory in the imperial Greek East. It consists of nineteen short papers, the majority in French, with three in English. The introduction by Gangloff reviews the recent bibliography on cultural memory studies, outlining especially recent work on places of memory in the Roman world, and the link in the Greek world between sacred places and the creation of memory

La «tyrannie» de la mémoire

We are experiencing today everything related to memory, which is perhaps the sign of a new regime of historicity privileging the present and a symptom of the crisis of the future. While one should maintain a critical regard, that of the historian on the memorial legacy, one must also be careful not to challenge the memorial dimension which has greatly enriched the historical discourse. The problem of the places of memory permits this double movement of appropriation and of critical distance which augurs a new way of writing history, starting from its footprints. Key words: Regime of historicity. places of memory, appropriation, critical distance, footprints

Places of Memory and Meaning: The Eastern Sierra and Mojave Desert

A long-time lover of the Eastern Sierra, Glenn Pascall recalls in words and photographs how and why this region of staggering beauty has resonated so deeply with him

How to manage the unknown past: places of memory and places of playing

В данной статье приводится и анализируется аргументация различных авторов как в пользу сохранения памяти о травмирующем прошлом, так и в пользу ее уничтожения. Раскрываются причины и последствия создания мест памяти и мест забвения. Кроме того, рассмотрение примеров управления памятью о нацистских лагерях в Германии, Украине и России позволяет приблизиться к решению этического вопроса о долге памяти или формировании единства через забытье.The given article presents and analyzes the argumentation provided by various scholars concerning the issue of saving the memory of challenging past or eliminating it. The causes and consequences of creating lieux de memoire and lieux de amnesie are revealed. Moreover, the study of Germany, Ukraine and Russia cases of dealing with the memory of Nazi concentration camps allows to approach the solution for an ethical question of the duty of memory or forming unity and identity through forgetting

Місця пам'яті чи пам'ять місць? Польські музеї місця пам'яті в контексті історичної ідентичності. (Places of memory Or memory ofplaces? Polish museums-places of memory in the context of historical identity.)

Стаття присвячена пам 'яті про Голокост у польському суспільстві в контексті творення колективної ідентичності, а також ролі музеїв-місць пам 'яті в процесі еволюції і підтримки ідентичності. Ключові проблеми стосуються також еволюції пам 'яті про Загибель від повоєнного до сучасного часу та сприйняття минулого, історичної ідентифікації й адаптації музейних інституцій у контексті соціальних, культурних і ментальних трансформацій у Польщі. (Following article is dedicated to memory model about the Holocaust in Polish society and role of museum and education in fostering historical identity. Its describes strategies of commemoration starting from 1945 till nowadays and evolution of museum-places of memory modernization and development.

Gent en zijn advocaten: een historische wandeling door de stad

This illustrated booklet tells the story off the presence of lawyers in Ghent, heart of the old county of Flanders. Commenting on places of memory (the Count's castle, the Town Hall, the Law Faculty, the Palace of Justice...), it deals with the history of proctors and advocates from the Late Middle Ages to 2012, the year of the bicentennial of the Ghent bar

Marc Andre Matten (ed.), Places of Memory in Modern China: History, Politics, and Identity

In the past two decades, interest in collective memory studies has rapidly grown and has inspired debate among historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with regard to both theoretical issues and methodological tools. This emerging field stretches beyond the borders of the “West,” and scholars with different backgrounds are turning their attention to the analysis of non-Western contexts, where the interplay between collective memory and the making of modern nation-states in post-colonial ..