Connecting Memories keynote lecture: Professor Jay Winter We are delighted to invite you to the 8th Connecting Memories research initiative's keynote lecture. Join us for a talk by Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) who will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Silence as a language of memory: War, revolution and trauma, 1914-1924’. This event is a collaboration between Connecting Memories and the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH), the University of Edinburgh's leading centre for research into the history of the modern world. The event is free of charge but booking is essential via Eventbrite as numbers are limited. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and wine reception. Book now on Eventbrite About the lecture Language frames memory. Words, images, photographs, films, sculptures, are all languages of memory. Each of these languages has its rules and its own history. Each frames memory, in that each enables us to construct, retrieve and express memory, and each limits what we can recall and what we can say about our recollections. Winter's claim is that silence is one such language of memory. He will develop this argument in the context of remembering the upheavals of the war decade 1914-24. Silence frames war remembrance for many reasons. The most elementary is that the carnage caused by war touches on the sacred, and the sacred is one theatre of memory where silence is ubiquitous. But there are other domains of silence, in particular that of family memory, in which what is not said in daily life performs the underlying insults and injuries survivors of war and revolution carry with them for the rest of their lives. About the speaker Professor Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Focusing on World War I and its impact on the 20th century, Professor Jay Winter’s research has explored countless aspects of the relationships between history and memory as well as war and society. Before moving to Yale in 2001, Professor Winter taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University, New York. He is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History; The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century; and most recently, War beyond words: Languages of remembrance from the Great War to the present. As well as editing or co-editing 30 books and contributing 130 book chapters to edited volumes, Prof Winter was co-producer, co-writer, and chief historian for the PBS/BBC series 'The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century'. About the Connecting Memories research initiative Connecting Memories is a collaborative interdisciplinary research initiative that sets out to open up a space for presently unconnected scholars working on memory to interact, to share their perspectives and reflections on what memory means in the context of their research. Founded by Paul Armstrong Leworthy and Bárbara Fernández Melleda (PhD candidates in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies respectively), the Connecting Memories group is based in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the University of Edinburgh. The group's objective is to connect scholars working on memory, not only from across the School but also across the University, and from further afield too. Having launched in November 2017, the group's first keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Gustavo San Román (The University of St Andrews) on 'The Purple Land of Memory and Identity' in December 2017. Find out more on the Connecting Memories website Nov 08 2018 17.00 - 18.30 Connecting Memories keynote lecture: Professor Jay Winter Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Silence as a language of memory: War, revolution and trauma, 1914-1924’. Project Room (1.06) 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue (50 George Square) Book your free ticket through Eventbrite
Connecting Memories keynote lecture: Professor Jay Winter We are delighted to invite you to the 8th Connecting Memories research initiative's keynote lecture. Join us for a talk by Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) who will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Silence as a language of memory: War, revolution and trauma, 1914-1924’. This event is a collaboration between Connecting Memories and the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH), the University of Edinburgh's leading centre for research into the history of the modern world. The event is free of charge but booking is essential via Eventbrite as numbers are limited. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and wine reception. Book now on Eventbrite About the lecture Language frames memory. Words, images, photographs, films, sculptures, are all languages of memory. Each of these languages has its rules and its own history. Each frames memory, in that each enables us to construct, retrieve and express memory, and each limits what we can recall and what we can say about our recollections. Winter's claim is that silence is one such language of memory. He will develop this argument in the context of remembering the upheavals of the war decade 1914-24. Silence frames war remembrance for many reasons. The most elementary is that the carnage caused by war touches on the sacred, and the sacred is one theatre of memory where silence is ubiquitous. But there are other domains of silence, in particular that of family memory, in which what is not said in daily life performs the underlying insults and injuries survivors of war and revolution carry with them for the rest of their lives. About the speaker Professor Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Focusing on World War I and its impact on the 20th century, Professor Jay Winter’s research has explored countless aspects of the relationships between history and memory as well as war and society. Before moving to Yale in 2001, Professor Winter taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University, New York. He is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History; The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century; and most recently, War beyond words: Languages of remembrance from the Great War to the present. As well as editing or co-editing 30 books and contributing 130 book chapters to edited volumes, Prof Winter was co-producer, co-writer, and chief historian for the PBS/BBC series 'The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century'. About the Connecting Memories research initiative Connecting Memories is a collaborative interdisciplinary research initiative that sets out to open up a space for presently unconnected scholars working on memory to interact, to share their perspectives and reflections on what memory means in the context of their research. Founded by Paul Armstrong Leworthy and Bárbara Fernández Melleda (PhD candidates in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies respectively), the Connecting Memories group is based in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the University of Edinburgh. The group's objective is to connect scholars working on memory, not only from across the School but also across the University, and from further afield too. Having launched in November 2017, the group's first keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Gustavo San Román (The University of St Andrews) on 'The Purple Land of Memory and Identity' in December 2017. Find out more on the Connecting Memories website Nov 08 2018 17.00 - 18.30 Connecting Memories keynote lecture: Professor Jay Winter Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Silence as a language of memory: War, revolution and trauma, 1914-1924’. Project Room (1.06) 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue (50 George Square) Book your free ticket through Eventbrite
Nov 08 2018 17.00 - 18.30 Connecting Memories keynote lecture: Professor Jay Winter Prof Jay Winter (Yale University) will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Silence as a language of memory: War, revolution and trauma, 1914-1924’.
