Myth Making, Collective Memory, and Identity

All are welcome at a theory reading seminar entitled "Myth Making, Collective Memory, and Identity," led by John-Wilhelm Flattun (University Library). Discussion will be based on two short advance readings: 

• Assmann, Jan, and John Czaplicka. 1995. "Collective Memory and Cultural Identity." New German Critique (65): 125-133. doi: 10.2307 / 488538
  • http://www.jstor.org/stable/488538
• Lincoln, Bruce. 2014. Ch. 9 "Shaggy Harald" in Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p.80-95.
  • https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bergen-ebooks/reader.action?ppg=91&docID=1742626&tm=1540215504279