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Welcome to the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM)
at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS). Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in nature the Centre provides a forum for literary scholars, historians, cultural critics, sociologists, practising artists and others with an interest in the research and study of memory.
Linking with the Institute’s unique MA in Cultural Memory and the long-established Seminar in Cultural Memory, the CCM organises and hosts an extensive programme of seminars, conferences and workshops. Further it provides a range of web-based resources such as an international bibliography in memory studies, a database of researchers, an events listing, as well as publications of original (non-copyrighted) sources and abstracts of relevant articles and talks.
The CCM was launched officially on 4-6 February 2010
with a conference on Transcultural Memory.
Follow link for more info.
Watch Katia Pizzi's introduction of the Centre at the launch conference on 5 February 2010:
The Steering Committee
Dr. Rick Crownshaw
Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Goldsmiths University of London
Research Profile
Dr. Graham Dawson
Reader in Cultural History
University of Brighton
Research Profile
Prof. John Foot
Professor of Modern Italian History
University College London
Research Profile
Prof. Jo Labanyi
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
New York University
Research Profile
Dr. François Quiviger
Assistant Librarian, Warburg Library, Warburg Institute
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Research Profile
Dr. Katia Pizzi (Chair)
Senior Lecturer in Italian, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Research Profile
Prof. Susannah Radstone
Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies
University of East London
Research Profile
Dr. Colette Wilson
Lecturer in French, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Research Profile
Research Profiles of Steering Committee Members
Dr. Rick Crownshaw
Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Goldsmiths University of London.
email: r.crownshaw@gold.ac.uk
webpage: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/staff/r-crownshaw.php
Dr. Rick Crownshaw is the author of numerous essays on Holocaust
literature, museums, and memorials. He is also author of The After-life
of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture (forthcoming
with Palgrave Macmillan). He is co-editor, with Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland,
of The Future of Memory (forthcoming with Berghahn Books). The After-life
of Holocaust Memory is a scrutiny of the theory and literary and cultural
practice of secondary witnessing/memory. Current and future, memory-related
research projects include a monograph-length study of recent fiction dealing
with perpetrators of modern atrocity, as well as a monograph-length study
of transcultural memory.
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Dr. Graham Dawson
Reader in Cultural History
University of Brighton
email: G.Dawson@brighton.ac.uk
webpage: http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/dawson
Dr Graham Dawson is a Reader in Cultural History. His first degree was in English with Cultural and Community Studies from the University of Sussex. He studied as a postgraduate at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, where he worked as a member of the Popular Memory Group from 1979-1986 and was awarded a doctorate in 1991.
Dawson's first book, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (1994) has been acclaimed internationally as challenging, innovative, original, magisterial and essential reading. It is being actively used and cited by researchers in diverse fields of study in, inter alia, Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, France, Germany, South-east Asia and South Africa. Since 1995 the main focus of his research has been on questions of cultural memory, violence and conflict resolution in the Irish Troubles and the peace process. This has resulted in numerous articles and a second monograph, Making Peace with the Past ? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles, to be published by Manchester University Press in November 2007. He has also participated in national and international networks involved in the study of memory, co-editing three books - on the politics of war memory and commemoration, on trauma, and on contested spaces and the representation of conflicted pasts - and contributing to others. Alongside continuing work on the Irish peace process and legacies of the Troubles in Ireland and Britain, his current interests lie in the cultural dimensions of dealing with the past within conflict resolution processes, involving questions of memory, imaginative geography, social justice, and human rights.
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Prof. John Foot
Professor of Modern Italian History
University College London
email: j.foot@ucl.ac.uk
website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/italian/staff/academicandadmin/johnfoot
Research areas: modern Italian history , urban history, the history of Milan, immigration in the twentieth century, cultural and social history, Italian politics, the Resistance, micro and oral historical approaches, sport and history (football and cycling), memory and history, Franco Basaglia and mental health reform in Italy.
Professor Foot was project manager on the AHRC-funded 'Memory and Place' project and Director of the documentary film 'Piazzale Lugano, 22. Story of a House' (2004).
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Prof. Jo Labanyi
Professor, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese
New York University
email: jo.labanyi@nyu.edu
webpage: http://as.nyu.edu/object/JoLabanyi/html
Jo Labanyi is Professor in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at New York University (NYU) and Director of the King Juan Carlos
I of Spain Center at NYU. She previously held chairs at the University of
London (where she directed the Institute of Romance Studies from 1997-2002,
creating its MA and seminar in Cultural Memory) and the University of Southampton
(where she directed an inter-Faculty seminar in Memory Studies). She is founding
editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. She directed the
AHRB-funded project An Oral History of Cinema-going in 1940s and 1950s Spain,
and edited the special issue The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain for the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 9.2 (2007). Her research
interests are in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish cultural history, including
literature, film, visual culture, popular culture, gender, and memory.
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Dr. Katia Pizzi
Senior Lecturer in Italian,
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
email: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
webpage: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/staff/katia-pizzi.html
Dr Katia Pizzi's book A City in Search of an Author:
The Literary Identity of Trieste (2001) discusses authors from Trieste
within their wider cultural and historical context and addressed issues of
identity formation linked to memory, nationhood, gender, ethnicity and confession.
She has since taken her research further into the domain of cultural memory
and is a member of the European research project ACUME. Her work and publications
on children's illustration and comics have developed into a wider interest
in the Futurist avant-garde and she is researching a book on the Futurists'
sustained interest in dynamism and machines (e.g. arte meccanica) together
with their international mindset, which led to contacts and extended residence
outside Italy.
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Dr François Quiviger
Assistant Librarian, Warburg Library, Warburg Institute
School of Advanced Study, University of London
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/institute/fq/index.html
B.A., Art history, University of Montreal (1980); M.A., Art History, University of Montreal (1982); Ph.D. Combined Historical Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London (1989).
Since 1987 François Quiviger works at the Warburg Institute as assistant librarian and webmaster. He also contributes one yearly seminar to the Warburg Institute's MA in Cultural & Intellectual History as well as to the V&A / RCA course on the history of design.
Since 2002 he develops the Institute website and digitisation programme which aims at creating an online electronic library of facsimiles of out-of-print source material on Medieval and Renaissance studies freely available worldwide.
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/DigitalCollections.htm
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
He has studied and written on early modern ideas and beliefs about images. His current research focuses on the relation that representational arts bear to ancient and modern theories of the mind and of sensory perception.
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Prof. Susannah Radstone
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies
University of East London|
email: S.Radstone@uel.ac.uk
phone: 0208 223 2751
webpage: http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/staff/susannah-radstone/
Susannah Radstone is Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she teaches in Film and Cultural Studies, and she is a member of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. With Katharine Hodgkin, she co-organized the international conference Frontiers of Memory and she also co-organized the international conference series Culture and the Unconscious. She is co-organizer of the Cultural Memory seminar and on the editorial board of the journal Memory Studies (Sage). Publications include (ed) Memory and Methodology (Berg, 2000); (ed with Katharine Hodgkin) Regimes of Memory and Contested Pasts (both Routledge 2003) now re-issued as Memory Cultures and The Politics of Memory (both Transaction, 2005). Other publications include with Perri 6, Corinne Squire and Amal Treacher, Public Emotions (Palgrave, 2007); (ed. with Caroline Bainbridge, Michael Rustin and Candida Yates) Culture and the Unconscious (Palgrave, 2007); The Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory (Routledge, 2007); (ed with Bill Schwarz, Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates (Fordham University Press, 2010. She is currently completing a new book titled Getting Over Trauma.
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Dr. Colette Wilson
Lecturer in French, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
email: colette.wilson@sas.ac.uk
Dr. Colette Wilson's research interests are in the fields
of French literature of the nineteenth-century, cultural memory, history and
politics, the visual arts and photography. Her recent publications include: Paris and the Commune 1871-78: the politics of forgetting, Manchester
University Press, 2007 (short-listed and highly commended for The Society
of French Studies R.H. Gapper Book Prize, 2008), and a specially edited number
of the Journal of Romance Studies entitled ‘The Well-travelled
Lens: studies in photography and cultural encounter, memory and identity’,
2008, 8:1(Spring). Her current research focuses on French representations
of Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Colette is also a Visiting
Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies where she teaches
on the MA in Cultural Memory and convenes the seminar series ‘Photography:
Theory, Practice, and Debate’.
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