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The Art of Memory:
Collective and
Individual
THURSDAYS, in AS -158-A
January 21, 2pm
MARYELLEN COLLETT, Theology “Virtually Sacred: Pilgrimage and Memory in the Internet Age”
January 28, 2pm
DAWN WALTS, English
“Chaucer’s Pilgrimage: Remembering Canterbury”
February 4, 2pm
CLARE ROTHSCHILD, Theology
“Ancient Pilgrimage Narratives”
February 11, 2pm
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, NANCY WORKMAN, WALLACE ROSS, English
“Consciousness and Memory in the Modernist Novel”
February 18, 2pm
EILEEN MCMAHON, History
“Mythical Memories of Immigration: The Collective Amnesia of the Americas”
February 25, 2pm
CATHY AYERS, Communication
“Southern Response to Civil Rights in the 1960’s: Memory and Memorial”
March 11, 2pm
WILLIAM MALONE, JAMES TALLON, History
“Armenia in Turkish Collective Memory” and “View from the Left and Right in Guatemala”
March 18, 2pm
NANCY WORKMAN, English
“Faultlines: Memory and Forgetting the the Poetry of Wislawa Szymborske”
March 18, 5pm
Film Presentation, CHRIS WIELGOS, English
Alain Resnais Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
March 25, 2pm
CLARE LAWLOR, Psychology
“A Psychological Perspective on the Experience and Meaning of Memory in a Case of Childhood Abuse”
April 8, 2pm
BR. JOSEPH MARTIN, President’s Office
“Recovering Family History through Memories”
April 8, 5pm
Film Presentation, CHRIS WIELGOS, English
Alain Resnais Last year at Marienbad (1961)
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2pm in IVES HALL
MIKE MCFERRON, Music
presentation of musicBYTES on the theme of ‘memory.’
April 15, 5pm
FILM PRESENTATION - CHRIS WIELGOS, English
Alain Resnais Night and Fog (1955)
April 22, 2pm
BR. ARMAND ALCAZAR, Theology
“Remembering Heroes and Heroines: Telling Their Stories”
April 29, 2pm
PATRICIA MOONEY-MELVIN, History, Loyola University Chicago
THE ANNUAL VINCE HOWARD MEMORIAL LECTURE
“Monumental Memory: Ethnicity in Chicago"
The Art of Memory: Collective and IndividualThe faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lewis University presents a two semester, interdisciplinary presentation on the topic of MEMORY. We will look at the construction as well as the distortion of historical memory; the relationship of place to memory, the biological formation of memory, divided memory, the cultural as well as religious use of memory and memorials as well as the theme of memory in both contemporary and classical films, music, poetry, and literature. 2010 Spring Semester:THURSDAYS, in AS -158-A January 21, 2pm MARYELLEN COLLETT, Theology “Virtually Sacred: Pilgrimage and Memory in the Internet Age” This presentation by Dr. Mary Ellen Collett (Theology) will use interdisciplinary tools from religious studies, theology, and media studies to explore configurations of sacred time and sacred space in the virtual realm. Keeping in mind traditional models of pilgrimage, the presentation will explore the impact of technology on the possibilities for pilgrimage in the Internet age, including opportunities for virtual pilgrimage and rituals of sacred memory. It will also consider the construction and use of sacred spaces in virtual worlds by virtual selves, in avatar-based technologies such as Second Life. This event is the first of 15 events in the spring semester devoted to memory. The series, which began last semester, provides an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fascinating of human faculties. Speakers in the series come from a wide range of disciplines: theology, history, psychology, English, film studies, and communication studies. January 28, 2pm DAWN WALTS, English “Chaucer’s Pilgrimage: Remembering Canterbury” This presentation by Dr. Dawn Walts (English) examines Chaucer’s use of a pilgrimage to Canterbury as the framing device for his tales. On the one hand, this device evokes a sense of community united by remembering the martyrdom of Thomas a Becket. On the other, the device actively seeks to undermine that memory and presents a community rife with division and class struggle. February 4, 2pm CLARE ROTHSCHILD, Theology “Ancient Pilgrimage Narratives” This paper by Dr. Clare Rothschild (Theology) undertakes summary and brief exploration of the writings of Egeria, possible sister of a religious society, recording her sojourn from (perhaps) Spain to the Levant (Holy Land) between 381 and 384 CE. Her so-called Travels, only part of which remain, were discovered in the late nineteenth century in Italy. They carefully record in Latin both her pilgrimage and the liturgy that she experienced in Jerusalem. As such they offer a valuable window on the origins of Christian pilgrimage. After summation of both the manuscript discovery and contents, this paper compares Egeria’s Travels with roughly contemporaneous pagan travel narratives in an attempt to place Egeria’s work it in its literary and historical context. February 11, 2pm MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, NANCY WORKMAN, WALLACE ROSS, English “Consciousness and Memory in the Modernist Novel” One of the features of high literary modernism is the writer’s attention to the inner life of characters. Three writers in particular – Joyce, Wolff, and Faulkner – were especially devoted to rendering faithfully the nature of consciousness, of which memory is an important dimension. In this panel presentation, Dr. Wallace Ross will examine Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and other Joyce fiction, Dr. Nancy Workman will look at Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Dr. Michael Cunningham will reveal Faulkner’s methods in The Sound and the Fury. February 18, 2pm EILEEN MCMAHON, History “Mythical Memories of Immigration: The Collective Amnesia of the Americas” As a nation of immigrants, Americans hold certain beliefs and assumptions of what that means. This talk by Dr. Eileen McMahon (History) will examine the myths and realities. February 25, 2pm CATHY AYERS, Communication “Southern Response to Civil Rights in the 1960’s: Memory and Memorial” This presentation by Dr. Cathy Ayers (Communication Studies) looks at how differently people of the South and the North remember their reactions to the Civil Rights Movement March 11, 2pm WILLIAM MALONE, JAMES TALLON, History “Armenia in Turkish Collective Memory” and “View from the Left and Right in Guatemala” Historians will once again examine the phenomenon on “divided memory.” How do you reconcile two conflicting stories about the same event? March 18, 2pm NANCY WORKMAN, English “Faultlines: Memory and Forgetting the the Poetry of Wislawa Szymborske” Dr. Nancy Workman (English) will focus on select poems of the Nobel Laureate Szymborska to address how she examines the tension between memory and forgetting. Herself a victim of intolerance on the part of the Nazis and later Russian occupiers of her native Poland, she avoids polarizing the responses to war and establishes that both impulses are needed to establish and maintain personal and national identity. March 18, 5pm Film Presentation, CHRIS WIELGOS, English Alain Resnais Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) While in Hiroshima, a woman creating a film about peace has an affair with a Japanese man while remembering an affair during World War II. Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) will lead the discussion. March 25, 2pm CLARE LAWLOR, Psychology “A Psychological Perspective on the Experience and Meaning of Memory in a Case of Childhood Abuse” This presentation by Dr. Clare Lawlor (Psychology) will discuss a psychological and phenomenological perspective on the meaning of memory in the life of a child who has experienced life-threatening abuse. The use of artistic representation in the treatment of children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder will be discussed. Art representations of the child’s experience will provide examples of the phenomenological and psychological meanings and perspective of the client’s and clinician’s therapeutic experiences. April 8, 2pm BR. JOSEPH MARTIN, President’s Office “Recovering Family History through Memories” Brother Joseph Martin will explore how family history research can prod and preserve memories and also keep alive the memories of our ancestors. He will provide examples of subjective memory (family stories) and objective memory (documents) to enhance the topic. This is “generational history” and includes research and the analysis of appropriate social history. April 8, 5pm Film Presentation, CHRIS WIELGOS, English Alain Resnais Last year at Marienbad (1961) In a huge old-fashioned hotel a stranger tried to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems that she hardly remembers the affair they had had (or not?) last year in Marienbad. Dr. Christopher Wielgos (Film Studies) will lead the post-film discussion. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2pm in IVES HALL MIKE MCFERRON, Music presentation of musicBYTES on the theme of ‘memory.’ A presentation of musicBYTES on the theme of ‘memory.’ Speaker: McFerron April 15, 5pm FILM PRESENTATION - CHRIS WIELGOS, English Alain Resnais Night and Fog (1955) Alain Resnais’s documentary about people who disappear into the “night and fog” of the Nazi concentration camps. Who will remember them once the evidence of their fate is erased by time. Dr. Christopher Wielgos will lead the post-film discussion. April 22, 2pm BR. ARMAND ALCAZAR, Theology “Remembering Heroes and Heroines: Telling Their Stories” How do we honor those who mean the most to us who are now deceased? How do their stories, as we tell them, form part of our own identity? Br. Armand Alcazar (Theology) will seek answers to these provocative questions. April 29, 2pm PATRICIA MOONEY-MELVIN, History, Loyola University Chicago THE ANNUAL VINCE HOWARD MEMORIAL LECTURE “Monumental Memory: Ethnicity in Chicago" THE ANNUAL VINCE HOWARD MEMORIAL LECTURE - DR. PATRICIA MOONEY-MELVIN, Loyola University in ChicagoMonuments represent objects around which memory coalesces and their existence reveals a multilayered past. During the waning years of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, ethnic statuary appeared in Chicago’s parks. The construction of these granite and bronze ethnics, who to the modern eye often seem oddly placed, reflected the wishes of urban ethnic communities to be situated in their city’s memorial landscape. This statuary served both a commemorative and didactic purpose. As a touchstone for ethnic memory, these statues offered immigrant communities the opportunity to honor something important in their past. At the same time, however, these statues represented a very physical way to assert that ethnic groups were a part of the larger Chicago community. Their existence in Chicago’s parks reflects the often tenuous balance between the retention of cultural identity and the pressure to assimilate into American society, the reality of the one and the many played out in physical form. Other SPRING 2010 Semester “Art of Memory” opportunities: “Windows,” The Lewis University Fine Arts Magazine, seeks submissions for the annual issue on the topic of “Memory.” Contact Professor Therese Jones, English Department. A one-credit hour “Art of Memory” workshop (09-397-4) with Dr. Bacon, History Department, is available in the Spring 2010 Semester. First meeting: Thursday, January 14, 2pm in (new) AS 133-A. Culture and Civilization points available for each presentation: 5 points for lectures and 10 points for films. The Vince Howard Memorial lecture on April 29th is ten points. I know I had it, Angus D. H. Ogilvy, 2009 Program conceived and organized by Dr. Ewa K. Bacon, History Department. Please contact Professor Bacon at baconew@lewisu.edu or 815.836.5568 |
Our work is supported by the Lewis University History Center and the Arts and Ideas Program. Culture and Civilization students: Project points are available.
