Guy Beiner
Guy Beiner | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Jerusalem |
Awards | George L. Mosse Prize Katharine Briggs Award Irish Historical Research Prize Ratcliff Prize Wayland D. Hand Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Tel Aviv University University College Dublin |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Institutions | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Boston College |
Main interests | Memory studies, Irish studies, Oral history, Oral tradition, Folklore, Spanish flu, History of terrorism |
Website | Guy Beiner |
Guy Beiner (born in 1968 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli-born
Academic career
Guy Beiner was born and raised in
He was appointed full professor at
Research
Beiner's research has largely been devoted to the study of remembrance and forgetting in
In his contributions to memory studies, Beiner's critique of less-reflective uses of the term collective memory, has led him to explore more sophisticated categorizations of social remembrance and to develop the study of "social forgetting".[8] He has also contested the validity of conventional use of the term "postmemory" (as coined by Marianne Hirsch), suggesting in its place alternative conceptualizations of "postmemory", introducing a corresponding concept of "pre-memory" (when the memory of an event is shaped by memories of earlier events),[9] and adding an original notion of "pre-forgetting" (with reference to concerns over the forgetting of an event that are raised prior to when it occurs).[10] Examining modern cases of destruction of monuments, with reference to classical scholarship on damnatio memoriae, Beiner has argued that political iconoclasm does not necessary efface memory but in effect can instigate ambiguous remembrance, through which the former sites of commemoration and the acts of destruction continue to be recalled locally. While his case studies are often grounded in modern Irish history, Beiner has demonstrated the broader applicability of his theoretical innovations for historical studies elsewhere.
Critical reception
His book Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (
His book Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (
Publications
- Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2007) Google Books
- Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2018) Google Books
- Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919 (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2020) Google Books
References
- ^ "NEH Fellows: Guy Beiner". Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
- ^ "Burns Visiting Scholars". Boston College.
- ^ "Prof. Guy Beiner". The Department of General History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
- ^ Smith, Sean. "Guy Beiner named Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies". BC News. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ISBN 9780192843739.
- ^ "Guy Beiner". Academia.edu.
- ^ "Guy Beiner". ResearchGate.
- ^ Beiner, Guy (2016). "Making Sense of Memory: Coming to Terms with Conceptualisations of Historical Remembrance". In McGarry, Fearghal; Grayson, Richard S. (eds.). Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland. Cambridge University Press. pp. 13–23.
- S2CID 164769201.
- ^ Beiner, Guy. "Forgetting to Remember Orr: Death and Ambiguous Remembrance in Modern Ireland". In Kelly, James; Lyons, Mary Ann (eds.). Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain, and Europe: Historical Perspectives. pp. 171–202.
- ^ Beiner, Guy (2007). Remembering the Year of the French Irish Folk History and Social Memory. University of Wisconsin Press. Reviews: Times Literary Supplement (7 December 2007), Dublin Review of Books (Winter 2007), Journal of British Studies (Oct. 2007), SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 (Winter 2007), Choice (Feb. 2008), History (April 2008), Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 2008); Études Irlandaises (Spring 2008); Nations & Nationalism (April 2008); Cultural & Social History (June 2008), Field Day Review (June 2008); Journal of Folklore Research (July 2008); English Historical Review (August 2008); Folklore (Aug. 2008); Journal of Historical Geography (Oct. 2008); History Ireland (Sept./Oct. 2008); American Historical Review (Oct. 2008); Zmanim (Autumn 2008); Irish Historical Studies (Nov. 2008); Memory Studies (Jan. 2009); Public Historian (May 2009); Journal of Contemporary History (June 2009); Irish Times (July 2009); Irish Review (2009); H-Albion (Nov. 2009); Western Folklore (Spring 2009); Irish Economic and Social History (2009); Historia (March 2010). Media features: Forward (30 March 2007), Jerusalem Post (7 October 2007); Public Radio International (6 July 2008); ‘Talking History’, Newstalk (2009)
- ^ "Israeli wins literary prize in Great Britain and Ireland". Jerusalem Post. 7 October 2007.
- ^ "Winner of the Wayland D. Hand Prize". The Folklore Historian. 25. 2018.
- ^ "Cundill International Prize in History longlist announced". McGill.
- ^ Beiner, Guy (2018). Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster. Oxford University Press.. Reviews : Irish Times (29 December 2018), Slugger O'Toole (22 Jan. 2019); Times Higher Education (March 2019), Irish Catholic (March 2019), European History Quarterly (April 2019), New Hibernia Review (Spring 2019), History Ireland (July–August 2019), Dublin Review of Books (October 2019); Irish Historical Studies (Nov. 2019), Essays in History (2019), Heythrop Journal (Jan. 2020), Public Historian (Feb. 2020), Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 2020), Historische Zeitschrift (April 2020), Journal of Contemporary History (May 2020), Revue d’histoire moderne & contemporaine (June 2020); Media features: Irish News (17 January 2019), Belfast Newsletter (23 January 2019), History Now Northern Vision TV (February 2019), New Books Network podcast (March 2019), Belfast Telegraph (July 2019)
- ^ "George L. Mosse Prize Recipients". American Historical Association.
- ^ "AHA George L. Mosse Prize, 2000-". George L. Mosse Program in History, Dept. of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- ^ "The Katharine Briggs Award 2019". The Folklore Society.
- ^ "NUI Publication Prizes & Grants".
- ^ "AFS History and Folklore Section Awards 2020 Wayland D. Hand Prize to Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance". History and Folklore Section, American Folklore Society.
- ^ "Donnelly Prize Recipients". ACIS.
- ^ "2018-2019 Prize". Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.
- ^ "Books Of The Year". Times Literary Supplement. 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Books of the Year: Christmas Log Rolling 2018". Private Eye. 22 December 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-19-874935-6.
- ^ "The Real McCorley". Dublin Review of Books.
Sources
- Guy Beiner at academia.edu
- Guy Beiner at ResearchGate
- Guy Beiner at the Dept. of General History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Guy Beiner at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies website
- Cundill International Prize in History longlist annunciation
- Gabriel Sanders, "Israeli Scholar Trains an Eye on the Emerald Isle", Forward (March, 2007)
External links
- Faculty Page at Ben Gurion University of the Negev