In his book Twilight Memories Andreas Huyssen (1995) famously described contemporary Western culture as 'a culture of amnesia'. That concern about social memory is evident in many areas of contemporary discourse. Social memory's confabulatory, subjective, and ambiguous nature makes its analysis an arena of conflicting and diverse opinions. Drawing on Maurice Halbwachs' concept of 'collective memory', and its use in more recent sociological studies, this study uses preaching theory and practice as a way of addressing those wider memory concerns in the life of the church. In particular, the profound challenge of memory work to Christianity's insistence on remembrance as the foundation of its authenticity is examined through contemporary homiletic practice. It is argued that, alongside the familiar didactic, cognitive, epistemological and contextual categories employed in preaching practice, the current crisis of memory requires a new emphasis on memory maintenance. Sermons are presented as mnemonic events essential to the ongoing living tradition of the faith.

O presente trabalho busca realizar uma reconstrução teórica e sistemática da teoria da memória coletiva do sociólogo francês Maurice Halbwachs, dispersamente contida em seus três livros sobre o tema: Les Cadres Sociaux de la Mémoire (1925), La Topographie Léngendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte (1941) e póstumo La Mémoire Collective (1950). Para isso, rastreamos e reconstruímos o cenário intelectual da época que versava sobre o tema da memória nas Ciências Humanas, Psicologia e Filosofia, e também as principais influências intelectuais de Halbwachs, a saber, Durkheim e Bergson, a fim de demonstrar quais problemas a teoria da memória coletiva de Halbwachs procurou responder. O núcleo da dissertação está contido na reconstrução da teoria da memória coletiva a partir do rastreamento e reconstrução dos conceitos de memória coletiva e memória individual e também a noção de grupo das obras supracitadas. Após a reconstrução nuclear da teoria, colocam-na à prova em uma demonstração histórica a partir do caso da formação da memória coletiva cristã (a qual também é trabalhada por Halbwachs em seus escritos. Uma vez reconstruída e demostrada teoria, nos dedicamos a definir a memória coletiva contrapondo-a com outros termos: memória social, memória cultural, tradição, mito, história e conhecimento. Por fim, nas considerações finais, buscamos aproximar a concepção halbwachsiana de memória às teorias da mente contemporaneamente existentes. / This study aims to perform a systematic and theoretical reconstruction of the theory of collective memory of the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, which is sparsely contained in his three books on the subject: Les Cadres de la Mémoire Sociaux (1925), La Topographie des Léngendaire Evangiles en Terre Sainte (1941) and the posthumous La Mémoire Collective (1950). In order to accomplish this aim, we tracked and reconstructed the intellectual scene of that time that dealt with the subject of memory within the Humanities, Psychology, and Philosophy. Moreover, we analyzed Halbwachs main intellectual influences, namely, Durkheim and Bergson, in order to demonstrate the problems that he sought to answer. The dissertations core is the reconstruction of the theory of collective memory, tracking and reconstructing it´s main concepts: collective memory, individual memory and the groups. We demonstrated the articulation of these concepts in a historical case: the formation of the Christian collective memory (which is also examined by Halbwachs in his writings). Once the theory was rebuilt and demonstrated, we defined the concept of ´collective memory´ contrasting it with other terms such as, ´social memory´, ´cultural memory´, ´tradition´, ´myth´, ´history´, and ´knowledge´. Lastly we tried to match the halbwachsian conception of memory to actual theories of mind.

O presente trabalho busca realizar uma reconstrução teórica e sistemática da teoria da memória coletiva do sociólogo francês Maurice Halbwachs, dispersamente contida em seus três livros sobre o tema: Les Cadres Sociaux de la Mémoire (1925), La Topographie Léngendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte (1941) e póstumo La Mémoire Collective (1950). Para isso, rastreamos e reconstruímos o cenário intelectual da época que versava sobre o tema da memória nas Ciências Humanas, Psicologia e Filosofia, e também as principais influências intelectuais de Halbwachs, a saber, Durkheim e Bergson, a fim de demonstrar quais problemas a teoria da memória coletiva de Halbwachs procurou responder. O núcleo da dissertação está contido na reconstrução da teoria da memória coletiva a partir do rastreamento e reconstrução dos conceitos de memória coletiva e memória individual e também a noção de grupo das obras supracitadas. Após a reconstrução nuclear da teoria, colocam-na à prova em uma demonstração histórica a partir do caso da formação da memória coletiva cristã (a qual também é trabalhada por Halbwachs em seus escritos. Uma vez reconstruída e demostrada teoria, nos dedicamos a definir a memória coletiva contrapondo-a com outros termos: memória social, memória cultural, tradição, mito, história e conhecimento. Por fim, nas considerações finais, buscamos aproximar a concepção halbwachsiana de memória às teorias da mente contemporaneamente existentes. / This study aims to perform a systematic and theoretical reconstruction of the theory of collective memory of the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, which is sparsely contained in his three books on the subject: Les Cadres de la Mémoire Sociaux (1925), La Topographie des Léngendaire Evangiles en Terre Sainte (1941) and the posthumous La Mémoire Collective (1950). In order to accomplish this aim, we tracked and reconstructed the intellectual scene of that time that dealt with the subject of memory within the Humanities, Psychology, and Philosophy. Moreover, we analyzed Halbwachs main intellectual influences, namely, Durkheim and Bergson, in order to demonstrate the problems that he sought to answer. The dissertations core is the reconstruction of the theory of collective memory, tracking and reconstructing it´s main concepts: collective memory, individual memory and the groups. We demonstrated the articulation of these concepts in a historical case: the formation of the Christian collective memory (which is also examined by Halbwachs in his writings). Once the theory was rebuilt and demonstrated, we defined the concept of ´collective memory´ contrasting it with other terms such as, ´social memory´, ´cultural memory´, ´tradition´, ´myth´, ´history´, and ´knowledge´. Lastly we tried to match the halbwachsian conception of memory to actual theories of mind.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-06-13T18:33:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Follis.pdf: 3676197 bytes, checksum: 360b5f8441568dd60c63012cb18226e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-13T18:33:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Follis.pdf: 3676197 bytes, checksum: 360b5f8441568dd60c63012cb18226e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis discusses the transmission of the religious memory of Brazilian Adventism, focusing on the use of electronic communication (radio, television and internet). The theoretical background was based on the aspects of memory and religious transmission, especially its tension between continuity and rupture within the modernizing process. For this, the sociology of religious memory built by Halbwachs was chosen. This combination allowed us to analyze how the theology of the group studied articulates past events to justify beliefs and habits of the present. The delimitation of the corpus was found in the Revista Adventista, between 1906 and 2010, which was used as a mirror of a larger reality, the carrier of the transitions and continuities of the memory discourse. The work is structured through a content analysis together with a qualitative approach on the discourses. The logic of the chapters begins with the historiographical construction of the thought and development of brazilian and world adventism to later include the copies of the publication that deal with aspects of the use of the founding memory of the group, as well as all the apparitions of the terms "radio" "television" and "internet." As part of the results, we note how the Seventh-day Adventist Church's (SDA) conception of producing a rationalistic preaching based on reading and searching for the "correct" interpretation of the biblical text brings some important characteristics to this movement, shaping your missiology and worldview. The use of the founding past was seen through reports about the pioneers, notably Ellen G. White. We have also seen that there are re-significances of some constitutive bases of the identity of the movement, which defy the denomination in its attempt to remain faithful to its founding message. The research revealed an ambiguous relationship between brazilian adventism and the media, which is associated with the tensions arising from modernity. There is a tension experienced by the memory of the brazilian movement regarding the use and refusal of the communicational instruments. This relationship is mainly due to a utilitarian vision, which sees in the message delivered, and not in the medium itself, dangers to be avoided by the movement. / A presente tese discute a transmissão da memória religiosa do adventismo brasileiro, com foco no uso dos instrumentos comunicacionais eletrônicos (rádio, televisão e internet). O pano de fundo teórico se baseou nos aspectos da memória e da transmissão religiosa, principalmente sua tensão entre a continuidade e a ruptura dentro do processo modernizante. Para tanto, escolheu-se a sociologia da memória e da transmissão religiosa halbwaquiana. Essa junção nos permitiu analisar como a teologia do grupo estudado articula eventos do passado para justificar crenças e hábitos do presente. A delimitação do corpus foi encontrada na Revista Adventista, entre os anos de 1906 e 2010, a qual foi utilizada como um espelho de uma realidade maior, portadora das transições e continuidades do discurso. O trabalho se estrutura por meio de uma análise de conteúdo em conjunto com uma abordagem qualitativa sobre os discursos. A lógica dos capítulos se inicia com a construção historiográfica do pensamento e desenvolvimento do adventismo brasileiro e mundial para, depois, incluir os exemplares da publicação que abordassem aspectos da utilização da memória fundante do grupo, assim como todas as aparições dos termos “rádio”, “televisão” e “internet”. Como parte dos resultados, notamos como a concepção mantida pela Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia (IASD) em se produzir uma pregação racionalista, baseadas na leitura e na busca pela “correta” interpretação do texto bíblico, traz algumas características importantes a esse movimento, moldando sua missiologia e visão de mundo. Foi visível o uso do passado fundante, através de relatos sobre os pioneiros, principalmente Ellen G. White. Vimos também que existe ressignificações de algumas bases constitutivas da identidade do movimento ao longo do tempo, que desafiam a denominação na sua tentativa de permanecer fiel à sua mensagem fundante. A pesquisa revelou uma relação ambígua do adventismo brasileiro com os meios de comunicação, o que se associa com as tensões provindas da modernidade. Existe uma tensão vivida pela memória do movimento brasileiro quanto ao uso e recusa dos instrumentos comunicacionais. Essa relação se dá principalmente devido a uma visão utilitarista, que vê na mensagem proferida, e não no meio em si, perigos a se evitar por parte do movimento.

This dissertation investigates the relationship between György Ligeti’s soundmass works and the musical past. After his emigration in 1956, Ligeti (1923-2006) gained renown for his sound-mass style, exemplified in works such as Apparitions (1958- 59), Atmosphères (1961), Requiem (1963-65) and Lontano (1967). These works minimize the perceptual salience of melody, rhythm and harmony, instead foregrounding orchestral clusters and thus suggesting that timbre is the central compositional issue. Despite his immersion in the creative atmosphere of the Darmstadt circle, Ligeti’s soundmass works diverged from the serial, pointillist style that preoccupied the European avant-garde at the time. However, I argue that Ligeti’s distance from the Darmstadt avant-garde is only apparent. In fact, this milieu served as his primary socio-cultural reference point after his emigration. The concept of “historical memory,” following from the work of French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945), suggests that Ligeti’s understanding of the musical past was deeply shaped by the collective interpretations in circulation amongst the Darmstadt avant-garde circle. Analysis of Ligeti’s sketches, writings and scores shows that he recollected historical influences that were important in the discourses of his milieu and redeployed them in his sound-mass works. For example, Ligeti’s Apparitions shows traces of the analyses of Debussy’s Jeux that were produced by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Atmosphères, though it is an acoustic work, reflects the collective representation of electronic music that had developed at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk studio in Cologne. The Darmstadt composers’ sustained interest in the concept of Klangfarbenmelodie, as practiced by both Schoenberg and Webern, informs Ligeti’s use of timbre in Lontano and the Cello Concerto. Finally, Ligeti capitalizes upon the popularity of Webern around Darmstadt, using Webern’s music as an opportunity to recast Bartók’s achievements to his new Western European colleagues in the Requiem. Ligeti’s renegotiation of the musical past, within the discourses of his Darmstadt avantgarde milieu, was crucial for his composition of the sound-mass works. / text

This thesis reconsiders Maurice Halbwachs' theory of collective memory in terms of rhetoric. My purpose is to examine specifically how fading generations conform the present to the past as they fight to maintain and defend their collective identities. Although rhetoric and memory studies have often focused on the complex matters of national collectives, Halbwachs was also concerned with the individual and his or her interaction among those groups that matter in everyday living and memory's role in generational shifts that slowly transform culture. Halbwachs' theory helps determine exactly how attempts at conflict resolution are sometimes guarded defenses against threats to one's personal and collective identity. In contrast to the generally accepted use of memory as selectively adapting the past for present purposes, this protection of identity may require the present to remain faithful to one's past. To examine how memory and rhetoric are complementary, I draw a parallel between Maurice Halbwachs' collective memory theory and Jim Corder's notion of individual identity as historical narrative. Then, in further retracing Kenneth Burke's influence on Corder's work, I also compare Halbwachs' social constructionist view of memory to Burke's theories of symbolicity and identification. Finally, I apply these theories to the recent 2012 debate in Ybor City, Florida over the Spanish spelling of Seventh Avenue in which passing generations struggle to preserve their identity and sense of belonging in the changing social milieu. In demonstrating how people seek a more permanent sense of identity articulated through memory, this debate offers an alternative to the theory of identity as a rhetorical performance negotiated in the present.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

This research has identified elements of the social memory of librarianship from the last half of the twentieth century by collecting and examining thirty-four oral history interviews of librarians at the end of their careers. These professional life stories trace an important arc through the history of library and information science. Many of these librarians began their careers prior to the use of any form of computer technology in libraries. This cohort ushered in a wave of technological innovations that has revolutionized the access to information. These oral history interviews are part of the Capturing Our Stories Oral History Program of Retiring/Retired Librarians sponsored by the American Library Association and the School of Information at the University of Texas. The social memory includes regret and nostalgia for the librarianship practiced at the beginning of their careers, excitement and wonder about how technology has fundamentally changed the profession, and perspectives on the popular stereotype associated with their careers. / text

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Renato José Pinto Ortiz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T01:15:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PagePereira_Lucas_M.pdf: 78122115 bytes, checksum: bfc43164197a2b792a5da5f592ec74db (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A presente dissertação tem como objetivo o estudo do conjunto da obra de Maurice Halbwachs, buscando apreender seus principais movimentos e conformar uma apresentação que possibilitasse ao público brasileiro situar seu pensamento e se situar em seu pensamento. Nesse sentido, após uma breve introdução genealógica, ela é composta por um primeiro capítulo voltado à biografia de Halbwachs, um segundo destinado à sociologia das classes sociais, um terceiro focando-se na psicologia coletiva da memória e, por fim, um quarto capítulo em que se traça, a partir de suas análises do suicídio, uma reflexão sobre alguns dos deslocamentos de Halbwachs em relação a sociologia de Émile Durkheim / Abstract: This dissertation¿s aim is to study the whole of Maurice Halbwachs's Works, seeking to understand its main movements and to elaborate a presentation that would allow the brazilian public to situate his thoughts and place themselves in it. Thereby, after a brief genealogic introduction, the first chapter is focused on Halbwachs's biography, the second examines his sociology studies of social classes, the third one looks at his collective psychology of memory and, finaly, the last one analyzes through the Halbwachs¿s suicide perspective, his detachments from Durkheim¿s sociology / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia