13315
Seminar
WiSe 22/23: War Stories. Myth, Memory, and Trauma in the Twentieth Century
Franziska Exeler
Kommentar
This course examines the aftermath of war. It discusses how extreme violence transforms states and societies; it analyzes the ways in which individuals and social communities try to rebuild their lives again after tremendous death and destruction; and it traces the different narratives that state and non-state actors create in their efforts to assign political or personal meaning to the war’s events. Our discussions will cover the aftermaths of twentieth-century wars that were fought by liberal states, totalitarian dictatorships, and colonial empires alike in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The focus of the seminar is thematic and includes topics such as the possibility (or impossibility) of social reconciliation, the complex interplay between official and private memories, and the search for truth and justice in the wake of war. Although historical in nature, the seminar also engages with research advanced by anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists, and lawyers.
As part of the course, students will visit one of the two following documentations centers in Berlin, which are important historical sites relating to the Second World War: the Topography of Terror (where the Secret State Police, the SS and the Reich Security Main Office were located) and the last well-preserved former Nazi forced labor camp in Schöneweide. The purpose of these visits is to explore the connection between public history and academic discussions, and to analyze what these sites can tell us about how the history of Nazi Germany has and continues to be remembered and represented in Germany today. Alternatively, students are invited to undertake their own field research by uncovering (with the help of photography) the visual traces that the Second World War has left in the urban landscape of Berlin.
Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Fr, 21.10.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 28.10.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 04.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 11.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 18.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 25.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 02.12.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 09.12.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 16.12.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 06.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 13.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 20.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 27.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 03.02.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 10.02.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 17.02.2023 10:00 - 12:00