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BiCuM: The Centre for Bible and Cultural Memory
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BiCuM is a centre connected with The Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. It is sponsored by The Danish Council for Independent Research, Program for Female Heads of Research.
The notion of cultural memory is the decisive factor in a society's reconstruction of the past through a number of media. BiCuM investigates how memory is a fundamental instrument in the formation of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national identity in the Old Testament. The research of the Centre demands an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on relevant studies of the Eastern Mediterranean area in Antiquity.
The past as constituted in memory through the presence of the collective frames of memory is the subject to the Centre's investigation. This memory of the past includes space and buildings, family, classes, sex and ethnicity, kingdom and nation. Special interest attracts the negotiation of cultural memory between local identities and "global" (imperial) culture. Read more
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December 6th @ 13:00-15:00
Room 243
Architecture and space design: Perception – Meaning – Function or: How to find the immaterial world behind the things. A case study – and many questions – (not only) from the archaeological everyday
/Prof. Dr. Marlies Heinz, Freiburg Universitet
Seminar: Materiality and remembrance, power and propaganda, creating identity; Theory and praxis.
Abstract: Material worlds are expressions of immaterial intellectual, social, religious, political, economic needs of societies. The perception of things, their meaning (s) and the dealing with things are directed by the normative concepts (see Hans Peter Hahn, 2005), the social rules and the daily practice of the people. The reconstruction of “praxis” is thus one of our major theoretical and methodological challenge if we want to explain the perceptions, meanings and functions of the material world.
Uge 50, december
Bicum får besøg af Professor David John Chalcraft, University of Derby, UK.
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