Issue:

№6 2019

УДК / UDK: 82-991
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2019-6-386-394

Author: Victoria I. Zhuravlev
About the author:

Victoria I. Zhuravleva (Doctor in History, Professor, Сhair of the American Studies Department, Vice-dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Area Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)

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Author 2: Irina V. Morozova
About the author 2:

Irina V. Morozova (Doctor Hab. in Philology, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)

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Abstract:

The review outlines the major topics of the conference on the American Studies held by the Russian State University for the Humanities in May 2019. The conference focused on the collective memory phenomenon as an object of intensive reflection in American literature, history, culture, politics and media. Problems of symbolic representation of the historical past and its fictionalized representation, opposition of the collective and individual memory, correlation between cultural, historical and collective memory, politics of history and memory were being discussed at a series of workshops. Additionally, a special round-table discussion was arranged at the conference commemorating the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth.