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04-11-2004 |
The ACUME Network intends to investigate ‘Cultural
Memory’ in various European nations; it groups
87 partner Universities and about 15 associated partners
in Europe
and outside Europe. By ‘Cultural Memory’ we mean
here a heritage that, in time, each nation has created in order
to mould its own identity.
‘Cultural Memory’ is built upon two different,
yet complementary aspects that partners in this project intend
to investigate: remembrance (memory) and oblivion (amnesia).
The project is characterised by an interdisciplinary methodology
and by a comparative approach. The areas of research and teaching
are: history of ideas; philosophy; literature and translation
studies; anthropology (folklore and ethnographic studies) and
social sciences; cultural studies (cinema, media, pop-cult)
and gender studies; visual arts. The project includes five fields
of research: Cultural Amnesia; Bearing Witness; Places and memory;
Oral and written History; Foundation Texts and Mythology.; Each
area of research groups several partner-universities working
under the supervision of a team of co-ordinators from different
European Countries).
The various co-ordinators co-operate, together with the Steering
Committee and the Scientific Board, in order to pursue the
following
goals: to address education trans-nationally; to encourage
the active involvement of students; to encourage the active
involvement
of local professional /educational/ vocational agencies and
institutions; to assess curriculum innovation and develop new
educational strategies at a European level; to promote the
production
of new teaching / study material on the theme of ‘Cultural
memory’ (i.e.: WebPages; teaching modules both ‘traditional’ and
ODL; newsgroup / permanent e-forums; bibliographical indexes;
Readers; Manuals; multimedia archives; etc.). |
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