IICAS European Studies Speaker Series: Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Professor of Modern European Intellectual History, Department of Philosophy

Université de Picardie Jules Verne at Amiens

"Is Collective Memory a

Figment of the Imagination?"

Monday, January 9, 2012

3:00-4:30 PM

Galbraith Conference Room, H&SS 4025

Register<http://iicas.ucsd.edu/speaker-series/registration.html>

Jeffrey Barash has published extensively on the problem of historical

meaning in relation to memory, myth, personal experience, and political

identity in studies of Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, and

Ernst Cassirer. His lecture is taken from a chapter of a new book in

progress, "Collective Memory and the Historical Past."  The lecture

concerns the reality of the remembered past and the role of imagination in

creating symbols and myths within the scope of the public realm.

View Barash's webpage<http://sites.google.com/site/jeffreyandrewbarash/Home>.

Read Barash's recent article, At the Threshold of

Memory<http://iicas.ucsd.edu/_files/papers/european-studies/Barash_Threshold_of_Memory_META.pdf>.