CIVIS announces the opening of the registration for the CIVIS course “MUSEO-POLIS. A Permanent Seminar on History, Memory and Museums”. The programme will take place in a virtual format between November 2021 and April 2022 and will consist in 7 monthly webinars of two hours.
The course aims to help students:
- explore the museum, its origins, and its development in the field of history and memory
- understand how the museum has adapted to European political systems from the 16th to 21st centuries.
This short term mobility course is open to Bachelor’s, Master and PhD students at the nine CIVIS member universities, studying and/or interested in the fields of History, Art History, Law, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science. A C1 level of English, French, Italian and Spanish is required.
Applicants should send their CV and a cover letter (maximum 500 words) by 7 October 2021 to roberto.quiros@uam.es. Selected students will be notified on 15 October 2021.
This course aims to offer different ways of approaching the institutional, social and cultural figure of the museum as a means of understanding the politics of history and memory in Europe, mainly in the Mediterranean area between the 16th and 21st centuries. Symbolic capital, political capital, economic capital and cultural capital participate in the construction and development of the museum as an institution: all these logics will be articulated in 7 monthly webinars (2 hours). The articulation of the course is designed to open up to a wide network of teachers and students, favouring the dissemination of knowledge and multilingualism.
Main topics addressed
- The museum as fabrication of a heritage status in European societies.
- Patrimonialisation, transmission and creation of political cultures and identities.
- Evolution of history and memory from the Ancien Régime to the contemporary crisis of the egalitarian/democratic model of heritage and culture.
The assessment will be based on a critical essay about the main topics from the conferences and debates of MUSEO-POLIS. Students will be allowed to write the papers in the four languages of understanding (English, French, Italian or Spanish).
More details about the intensive CIVIS Course “MUSEO-POLIS. A Permanent Seminar on History, Memory and Museums” are available on the CIVIS webpage here.
CIVIS is a European Civic University formed by the alliance of nine leading research higher education institutions across Europe: Aix-Marseille Université, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Universitatea din București, Université libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Sapienza Università di Roma, Stockholm University, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and University of Glasgow. It brings together a community of more than 450,000 students and 65,000 staff members including 30,000 academics and researchers.