When: November 03, 2009   7:30 pm -  8:30 pm

Cost: Free - Open to the public

 
Past Contributions and Future Prospects of Memory Studies
                                                                                                                      
Dr. Jeffrey K. Olick                                                                
Yale University:
Ph.D. in Sociology 1993; 
M. Phil. in Sociology, 1990;
M.A. in Sociology, 1987
Swarthmore College:
B.A. 1986

Dr. Olick, Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia, is the keynote speaker for Davidson's multidisciplinary discussion series "Memory & . . .."  While he has published on a wide variety of topics, his interests focus particularly on collective memory, critical theory, transitional justice, and postwar Germany. Olick has published three books, and three more are currently in press:

• The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility, Routledge, 2007
• In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat,1943-1949, University of Chicago Press, 2005
• States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection,Edited Volume, Duke University Press, 2003
  
  Forthcoming in 2010 :
  
  The Collective Memory Reader (with Vered Vinitsky-Seroussi and Daniel Levy). Oxford University Press.
  
  Guilt and Defense: Theodor Adorno and the Legacies of Fascism in Postwar Germany. Edited, translated, and introduced (with Andrew J. Perrin). Harvard University Press.
  
  Before the Public Sphere: The Frankfurt School, Public Opinion, and the Group Experiment of 1950. Edited, translated, and introduced (with Andrew J. Perrin). Harvard University Press.

Contact: Vicki Heitman  704-894-2385