Dear all,
We will organize the sixth international Human Science Doctoral Student course: Materiality, Living Memory, Civil Wars, and Difficult Heritage, 3 credits, in the University of Oulu, Finland, in mid-August 2021.
This doctoral student teaching course supports teaching and doctoral training in the human sciences. The course outlines international difficult heritage scholarship, focusing on archaeological and anthropological studies of memory and commemoration of civil wars, places of atrocities, and other conflict related sites. The course will focus on civil wars, like in Ireland, the USA and Finland in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Arctic conflict sites in Finland and Greenland. The course will examine different kinds of materialities and representations of conflicts and how these materialities illuminate, hide, and direct memories of conflict. This focus will emphasize the intersection of difficult conflict heritage and the experience of how Civil Wars are remembered, forgotten, or even silenced.
This course will deepen the student's knowledge of how past civil wars shape living memories and material experience through memorials, monuments, and sites of atrocities. Students will develop tools to interpret how contemporary political groups use past civil war memorials for their political agendas or to foster reconciliation after civil wars.
Short description of the course:
Course includes six (6) hours teaching each day in one-week period in the August 2021, so there will be 30 hours teaching in the course. Teaching will happen two-hour classes before the lunch and four hours at afternoon. Students will give a short max. 15 min paper of their own doctoral research topic during the course.
There is no course fee. Students will be responsible of their own travels, accommodation and living in Oulu during the course. Because of the pandemic, check and follow the travel instructions of the Finnish institute for health and welfare: https://thl.fi/en/web/infectious-diseases-and-vaccinations/what-s-new/coronavirus-covid-19-latest-updates/travel-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic
Maximum participation will be 20 doctoral students.
Recommended readings:
McAtackney, Laura (2019) Material and Intangible Interventions as Future-Making Heritage at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, Vol. 6(1): 120-135.
Dwyer, Owen J. and Alderman, Derek H. (2008) Memorial Landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors. GeoJournal 73: 165-178.
Oula Seitsonen, Paul R. Mullins, Timo Ylimaunu (2019) Public memory, National Heritage, and memorialization of the 1918 Finnish Civil War. World Archaeology, Vol. 51(5): 741-758. Online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1724821
Course teachers:
Professor Hannu I. Heikkinen, University of Oulu.
Associate Professor Laura McAtackney, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Professor Paul R. Mullins, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA.
Docent, Senior lecturer Timo Ylimaunu, University of Oulu.

Contact:         Timo Ylimaunu, email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Research Unit for History, Culture and Communications, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu.


Timo Ylimaunu
Dosentti, yliopistonlehtori | Docent, Dr., Senior lecturer
Historiallinen arkeologia | Historical Archaeology
Humanistinen tiedekunta | Faculty of Humanities
Oulun yliopisto | University of Oulu
PL 1000, 90014 Oulun yliopisto | P.O. Box 1000, 90014 Oulun Yliopisto
Tel. +358 (0)50 350 7785 / 0294 483361
International Associate, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA


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