Unmasterable Pasts: Memory Culture and Education in the United States and Germany - Einzelansicht

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This seminar focuses on the shifting debate around memory culture in the US and Germany. The course will use Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil as a guide to compare the two memory cultures. On the US side, we will explore cultural and educational clashes involving the history of slavery and the American Civil War, particularly debates on the Confederate flag and Confederate Monuments. The German example will examine the differing ways the BRD and GDR handled the Nazi past, as well as more recent controversies about Holocaust remembrance in Germany. How does Germany deal with its status as a ”perpetrator nation” and can the US truly learn anything from it? The course is particularly suited to students wishing to learn more about the local memorial landscape and will be supplemented by visits to memorials in Münster.

This course will use English-language literature. Students are expected to be willing to write a paper or sit for an exam on a historical topic.

Prüfungsleistung: Hausarbeit, Mündliche Prüfung Studienleistung: Essay

Literature:

Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.

Module Bachelor:

• EW B11b (1-Fach BA EW)

Module Master:

• M2/MB2(MA of Arts EW)
• M6 UP (MEd Gym/Ges UP LABG + neue FPO)
• M6 UP (MEd BK UP LABG + neue FPO)
• UP M5 (MA Gym/Ges UP Modellversuch)
• UP M5 (MA BK UP Modellversuch)

Die Studien- und Prüfungsleistungen in dieser Veranstaltung werden PO-konform angeboten. Welche Leistungen genau zu erbringen sind, wird in der ersten Sitzung bekannt gegeben.