Mutable Pasts
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
19-9-2018 5:00 PM
Description
This talk explores the dynamic nature of the meanings of the past. Historians can describe what happened in particular pasts, but how does an individual or culture group or a nation understand the meanings of those pasts? Beginning with a reflection on the changing meanings of personal pasts, the talk goes on to explore the fluidity of narrative constructions of the past—autobiographical oral histories—as well as shifting memorial landscapes.
Recommended Citation
Norkunas, Martha, "Mutable Pasts" (2018). Humanities Symposium. 8.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2018/2018/8
Mutable Pasts
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
This talk explores the dynamic nature of the meanings of the past. Historians can describe what happened in particular pasts, but how does an individual or culture group or a nation understand the meanings of those pasts? Beginning with a reflection on the changing meanings of personal pasts, the talk goes on to explore the fluidity of narrative constructions of the past—autobiographical oral histories—as well as shifting memorial landscapes.
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Featured Speaker
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts and Sciences