The Memory of the Syrian War is an interdisciplinary online research laboratory exploring how the Syrian war is remembered, documented, and contested across personal, spatial, cultural, and digital contexts. Integrating memory studies, oral history, heritage studies, and conflict research, it examines how displacement, destruction, and reconstruction shape collective and gendered memory.
The course analyzes the destruction of homes, cities, and heritage sites as violence against memory, while engaging with testimony, ruins, diaspora narratives, and grassroots documentation. Gendered experiences and marginalized voices remain central.
Through oral history and participatory spatial documentation, participants contribute to the documentation and analysis of Syrian war memory while developing advanced interdisciplinary research skills.
- Teacher: Mari Shammas