SOC 4150

Course Description

Too much memory can be the gravedigger of the present. By contrast, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. Where is the balance between too much memory and too little? What obligations, particularly in an age of trauma and atrocity, do we owe to the past? This course explores these and other questions of memory from the perspective of ethics. Topics include commemoration, healing, reparations, truth and reconciliation, and testimony.