"Memory" has been deployed as one of the central concepts in the human and social sciences for the analyses of problems of power and knowledge, representation, subjectivities, and social identities. Concept of memory has also been regarded as a useful tool for questioning the teleological and developmental sense of time that underlies the colonial-modern temporality and historical consciousness. This course will offer several key texts that have been central to the discussions on philosophy of history, violence, trauma, and the politics of remembering and forgetting. We will also read several recent monographs related to Asia that, through examining various cultural production, including, the visual media, historical narrative, testimonies, law, social space, etc., critically explore the workings of power and memory in the production of nationalism, diasporic identities, loss, vengeance, revolutionary consciousness, and subalternity.