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GERMAN & EUROPEAN STUDIES in the U.S. Changing World, Shifting Narratives GERMAN & EUROPEAN STUDIES IN THE U.S. Changing World, Shifting Narratives University of Massachusetts Amherst NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE 6 July – 2 August 2005 Syllabus *Note: Unless noted otherwise, readings are part of the books or readers that will be sent to you. Some readings could not be included in the readers for copyright reasons. These will be on ereserve and/or print reserve. For instructions on using ereserves, please see Orientation Information or go directly to the handout on ereserves. *Note on Die Umkehr. Due to delivery problems we have not been able to provide you with this book. The author, Konrad Jarausch, has generously offered electronic copy of a draft of the unpublished English translation, entitled After Hitler. Recivilizing Germans. This draft translation has been made available for you on ereserves. **subject to change. Please check updated program at: http://www.umass.edu/germanic/neh2005 . WEEK I (July 6-8, 2005) Transatlantic Agendas in Contemporary History and a “New European Historiography” Facilitator: Sky Arndt-Briggs, Konrad Jarausch and Jay Rowell Tuesday July 5 Arrivals and Registration 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 Duckett House, Smith College p.m. Registration, 11:30 – 5:30 p.m. 6 – 8 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Opening Get-Together (a light meal will be served) Wednesday July 6 Introductions and Keynote 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Faculty Introductions Self Introductions and Overview Reading: Sara Lennox. “Globalization and German Studies.” Manuscript Draft. Ereserves Altner et. al. “Traum und Albtraum Amerika. Europa und die USA müssen ihr Verhältnis zueinander ohne ideologische Scheuklappen neu ordnen. Die Duisburger Erklärung.” Frankfurter Rundschau. 16 April 2004. Dokumentationen 9. [Altner et. al. “The Duisburg Declaration.”] Ereserves 1 Recommended Reading: Jürgen Habermas, with endorsement of Jacques Derrida. “Unsere Erneuerung: Nach dem Krieg: Die Wiedergeburt Europas.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 31 May 2003. Feuilleton 33. Ereserves Iris Marion Young. “Europe and the Global South: Towards a Circle of Equality.” Open Democracy. Ereserves 2 – 5 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Keynote lecture (Konrad Jarausch) Cultural Dimensions of the Estrangement between the US and Europe 3:15 pm Coffee Break 4 – 5 pm Discussion: Thinking about 20th Century Germany after Postmodernism and Unification Reading: Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer. Shattered Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Intro and chapters 1 – 6. Recommended Reading: Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer. Shattered Past. Chapters 7 – 12. 6 – 8 p.m. Opening Reception, Neilson Browsing Room Thursday July 7 Reconstructing German History in an Intertwined Europe 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Presentation and discussion (Konrad Jarausch): After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans Reading: Konrad Jarausch. Introductions and Conclusions from each section. Die Umkehr. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2005. Translation available as : After Hitler. Recivilizing Germans. Unpublished Manuscript. Ereserves. See note above. 1:30 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Lecture (Jay Rowell): Narrating Intertwined European Histories: histoire croisée Discussion: The “histoire croisée” Toolbox and the Production of Sociohistorical Knowledge Reading : Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann. “Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity.“ Unpublished Manuscript. [translation of: Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann. "Penser l'histoire croisée: entre empirie et réfléxivité." Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 1 (Jan-Feb, 2003): 7-36.] 2 Recommended Reading: Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann. "Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtung: der Ansatz der Histoire croisée und die Herausforderung des Transnationalen." Geschichte und Gesellschaft 4 (2002): 607-636. Ereserves Friday July 8 Intertwined Europe 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Discussion: Histoire croisée – Case Studies Reading: Jan C. Behrends and Friederike Kind. “Vom Untergrund in den Westen. Samizdat, Tamisdat und die Neuerfindung Mitteleuropas in den achtziger Jahren.” Unpublished Manuscript. Nicolas Mariot and Jay Rowell. “An Asymmetrical Comparison: Visits of Sovereignty and the Nation in France and Germany before World War I.” Unpublished Manuscript. [translation of: Nicolas Mariot and Jay Rowell. In De la comparaison à l’histoire croisée. Le genre humain, 42. Paris: de collectif.] Recommended Reading: Valerie Amiraux: “Restructuring Political Islam: Transnational Belonging and Muslims in France and Germany.” Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power. Ed. Azza Karam. London: Pluto Press, 2004: 28-57. Ereserves 1 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Discussion: Histoire croisée and the Transnational Approach Reading: Deniz Göktürk: “Migration und Kino – Subnationale Mitleidskultur oder transnationale Rollenspiele?” Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland. Ed. Carmine Chiellino. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000. 329-47. Recommended Reading: Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Public Worlds. Vol. 1. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Introduction. Ereserves Thomas Faist. The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Introduction. Ereserves 2:45 p.m. Film Screening: Academy of Music Head-on. [Gegen die Wand]. Germany, Fatih Akin, 2004. 121 minutes. 35 mm. 3 Week II (July 11-15, 2005) Film and History / Film as History / Film History Facilitator: Barton Byg and Katie Trumpener Sunday July 10 Film Screening: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall 7:30 p.m. Die Patriotin [The Woman Patriot], FRG, Alexander Kluge, 1979. 121 minutes. 16 mm. Monday July 11 Film and History / Film as History / Film History: Narratives Moving East 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Keynote lecture (Katie Trumpener): Rethinking German Film History Discussion. Reading: Katie Trumpener. “La guerre est finie: New Waves, Historical Contingency, and the GDR ‘Rabbit Films’.” Ed. Michael Geyer. The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. Helma Sanders-Brahms. “…desto ferner sieht es zurück. Die Patriotin von Alexander Kluge.” Film und Fernsehen. 1 (1992): 10 – 12. Recommended Reading: Stuart Liebman, “Why Kluge?” October, 46 (1988): 5 – 22. Ereserves Philip Rosen. “History, Textuality, Nation: Kracauer, Burch, and Some Problems in the Study of National Cinemas.” Iris II/2 (1984): 69-84. Ereserves Barton Byg. “DEFA and the Traditions of International Cinema.” Ed. Catherine Fowler. The European Cinema Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. 153 – 161. Ereserves Barton Byg. “Introduction: Reassessing DEFA Today.” Moving Images of East Germany: Past and Future of DEFA Film. Eds. Barton Byg and Betheny Moore. Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program Ser. 12. Washington DC: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and Johns Hopkins UP. 1 – 23. http://www.aicgs.org/Publications/PDF/gdr.pdf Katie Trumpener, “DEFA: Moving Germany into Eastern Europe.” Moving Images of East Germany: Past and Future of DEFA Film. Eds. Barton Byg and Betheny Moore. Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program Ser. 12. Washington DC: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and Johns Hopkins UP. 85 – 104. http://www.aicgs.org/Publications/PDF/gdr.pdf Andreas Dresen and Erika Richter. “Mann muss versuchen nicht ganz soviel Angst zu haben, wie man wirklich hat.” Film und Fernsehen. 25.5/6 (1997): 7 – 15. Ereserves Erika Richter. “Ula Stoeckl - Frauenfilm – Pionierin und öffentliche Ruhestörerin.” Film und Fernsehen. 27.3/4 (1999): 62 – 65. Ereserves 4 7 & 9:15 p.m. Film Screenings: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall Wittstock, Wittstock. Germany, Volker Koepp, 1997. 117 minutes. 16 mm. Grill Point [Halbe Treppe]. Germany, Andreas Dresen, 2002. 106 minutes. 16 mm. Tuesday July 12 Hitler as Heritage Film? 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Discussion of Films Reading: Lutz Koepnick. “Reframing the Past: Heritage Cinema and Holocaust in the 1990s.” New German Critique. 87 (Fall 2002): 47 – 82. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer. Shattered Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Chapter 11. Recommended Reading: Johannes von Moltke. “Heimat and History: Viehjud Levi.” New German Critique. 87 (Fall 2002): 83 - 106. Ereserves Additional articles from New German Critique: special issue on Postwall Cinema 87 (Fall 2002). You can access this journal electronically through the Smith College library catalog. Julia Hell. “Eyes Wide Shut: German Post-Holocaust Authorship.” New German Critique. 88 (Winter, 2003): 9-36. Ereserves Patrick Wright. Excerpts. On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain. London: Verso, 1985. Ereserves 2:30 p.m. Film Screenings: The Academy of Music. Blind Spot. Hitler’s Secretary. Austria, André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer, 2002. 90 minutes. 35 mm. 7:30 p.m. Film Screening: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall Downfall. Germany, Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004. 156 minutes. Wednesday July 13 Historical Geography/Archaeology and Film. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room Discussion of films Recommended Reading: Barton Byg: "Is There Still an East German Cinema?" Draft manuscript. Ereserves Additional Articles from special issue of New German Critique on East German Film 82 (2001). You can access this journal electronically through the Smith College library catalog. 5 7 p.m. Film Screenings: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall Too Early, Too Late. France/Egypt, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie
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