November 9-13, 2009
This year the Dept. of English and American Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia organizes the third week-long project designed mainly for students of the department. Each year, there is a different thematic focus which is explored through a series of lectures presented by academics, workshops, film screenings, discussions and competitions. This year’s thematic focus is MEMORY.
Memory has been understood as an experiential link between the past and present. In that way memory has served as a source of knowledge but also as a tool to re/construct the truth. Even though memory seems to differ from perception and cannot be identified with pure imagination the contemporary thought investigates how things that we remember may relate to our present day perception. Though our memories may be shaped by various forms of experience, and we remember them in words, imagery, or through our senses they all are emotional recordings.
Memory is important for personal and group identity. But the continuation of the Self can be sustained only in narration. The ways we organise our memories are very similar to the narrative in fiction, film or dream, because we summarize, construct, interpret and condense in the process of remembrance. Philosophy asks how pieces of memory are represented in mind, or whether they leave traces at all, we are interested in the exploration how an individual, or collective memory, the memory of the place or a building, how the visual memory or the memory of the sound, smell, and touch can be revoked in the formative and deformative process in works of art, political discourse, historiography, in visual art, culture and literary criticism.
Therefore, our aim is to contemplate on the role the liminal space of memory plays in our everyday lives, how it influences our acting both positively and negatively and how it constitutes our vision of the world and people around us. The idea of the memory, remembering, repression, trauma and truth, what we remember and we cannot remember and how we remember, is to be associated not only with its psychological (physical, spatial) context but it is to be transmitted beyond it in order to explore the cultural, social, spiritual and other dimensions as well. The memories may act as a constructive and creative link that may eliminate the boundaries between the past and present.
GALLERY:
day 1
the rest of the week
more pictures on Facebook
Films to be screened during the week
Check out the PROGRAM:
Competitions:
This project is the result of the project KEGA 3/6468/08 Vyučovanie interkultúrneho povedomia cez literatúru a kultúrne štúdiá (Teaching intercultural awareness through literature and cultural studies).
This year the Dept. of English and American Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia organizes the third week-long project designed mainly for students of the department. Each year, there is a different thematic focus which is explored through a series of lectures presented by academics, workshops, film screenings, discussions and competitions. This year’s thematic focus is MEMORY.
Memory has been understood as an experiential link between the past and present. In that way memory has served as a source of knowledge but also as a tool to re/construct the truth. Even though memory seems to differ from perception and cannot be identified with pure imagination the contemporary thought investigates how things that we remember may relate to our present day perception. Though our memories may be shaped by various forms of experience, and we remember them in words, imagery, or through our senses they all are emotional recordings.
Memory is important for personal and group identity. But the continuation of the Self can be sustained only in narration. The ways we organise our memories are very similar to the narrative in fiction, film or dream, because we summarize, construct, interpret and condense in the process of remembrance. Philosophy asks how pieces of memory are represented in mind, or whether they leave traces at all, we are interested in the exploration how an individual, or collective memory, the memory of the place or a building, how the visual memory or the memory of the sound, smell, and touch can be revoked in the formative and deformative process in works of art, political discourse, historiography, in visual art, culture and literary criticism.
Therefore, our aim is to contemplate on the role the liminal space of memory plays in our everyday lives, how it influences our acting both positively and negatively and how it constitutes our vision of the world and people around us. The idea of the memory, remembering, repression, trauma and truth, what we remember and we cannot remember and how we remember, is to be associated not only with its psychological (physical, spatial) context but it is to be transmitted beyond it in order to explore the cultural, social, spiritual and other dimensions as well. The memories may act as a constructive and creative link that may eliminate the boundaries between the past and present.
GALLERY:
day 1
the rest of the week
more pictures on Facebook
Films to be screened during the week
Check out the PROGRAM:
Competitions:
