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History and Memory, T Th 4-5:30 Wallenberg Hall, Room 127 Amir Eshel Office Hours, Th 3-4. A sign up sheet is outside my office in Bldg 260. Please note the two Friday Make-up Sessions on April 21 and May 19th. Both will take place in Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 252, the German Studies Library
1. Tuesday, April 4: GENERAL INTRODUCTION Jan-Werner Müller, "Introduction: the power of memory, the memory of power, and the power over memory," in Memory and Power in Post-War Europe [On reserve in Green]
a. Andreas Huyssen, "Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia" In Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory [Stanford Bookstore] b. Daniel Levi and Natan Sznaider, "Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory." [PDF] April 11 & 13, No Class 3. Tuesday, April 18: THEORIES OF MEMORY Primary reading: Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, pp. 3-132. [On reserve in Green] Further reading: a. Plato, Theaetetus (191d) [website] b. Mnemonics, ars memoriae (definition: Encyclopaedia Britannica) c. Walter Benjamin, "On the Concept of History" [website] d. Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History" [PDF] Thursday, April 20: NO CLASS
4. MAKE UP SESSION: 4-5:30 PM, Friday April 21st: THE STAKES OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION Primary Reading: a. Elizabeth A. Clark, History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, pp. 1-105. [Stanford Bookstore] b. Ernst Breisach, On The Future of History, pp. 1-57. [On reserve in Green] Further reading: Both articles as PDF a. Hayden White, "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth" b. Carlo Ginzburg, "Just One Witness" GERMANY 5. Tuesday, April 25 : BEFORE THE WALL CAME DOWN: GERMANY 1945-1989 a. Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory, chapter 6 (162-200). [On reserve in Green] b. Jan Werner Müller, Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity, chapter 1 (1-63). [On reserve in Green] c. Thomas Berger, "The power of memory and memories of power: the cultural parameters of German foreign policy-making since 1945," inMemory and Power in Post-War Europe [On reserve in Green]
Downfall (Der Untergang, 2004) [On reserve in Green] Downfall related websites: http://www.downfallthefilm.com/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/downfall/ 7. Tuesday, May 2 : NOTIONS OF CATASTROPHE: THE EXPULSION OF GERMANS FROM EASTERN EUROPE a. Hans Ulrich Treichel, Lost. [Stanford Bookstore] b. Robert G. Moeller, War Stories (chapter 3, 51-87). [PDF] 8. Thursday, May 4 : EMPLOTTING THE PAST: FROM THE HISTORIAN'S DEBATE TO THE DEBATE OVER THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL a. Peter Baldwin, "The Historikerstreit in Context" [PDF] b. Huyssen, Present Pasts, Chapters 3-4. [Stanford Bookstore] 9. Tuesday, May 9 : REWRITING THE PAST? GÜNTER GRASS, CRABWALK Günter Grass, Crabwalk [Stanford Bookstore] AUSTRIA a. Ingeborg Bachmann, "Youth in an Austrian town," and "Among Murderers and Madmen" [PDF] b. Hella Pick, Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider, chapter 2-5, 7. [On reserve, Green Library] 11. Tuesday, May 16 : THE WALDHEIM AFFAIRE a. Matti Bunzl, “From Kreiski to Waldheim,” in Contemporary Jewish writing in Austria. [On reserve in Green] b. Hella Pick, Guilty Victim, chapter 10-13. [on reserve, Green Library] c. J. Vansant, Challenging Austria's Victim Status: National Socialism and Austrian Personal Narratives" [PDF] 12. Thursday, May 18 : THE SEMANTICS AND SYMBOLIC OF THE PAST: CHRISTOPH RANSMAYR'S THE DOG KING I a. Christoph Ransmayr's The Dog King, chapters 1-19 [Stanford Bookstore] 13. FRIDAY, May 19th, MAKE UP CLASS. Meets in German Studies Library 260-252, 4-5:30 PM THE SEMANTICS AND SYMBOLIC OF THE PAST: CHRISTOPH RANSMAYR'S THE DOG KING II a. Christoph Ransmayr's The Dog King, chapters 19-34 b. (further reading) Hella Pick, Guilty Victim, chapter 11-13. [on reserve, Green Library] 14. Tuesday, May 23, SCREENING THE PRESENT “Walk on Water” [on reserve, Green Library] http://www.walkonwatermovie.com/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/walk_on_water/ ISRAEL a. Western Wall Tunnels movie [watch before class, through coursework at….] For more info see [http://www.aish.com/seminars/tunneltours/, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/walltoc.html] b. Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots, part 1, 2, chapter 11. [On reserve, Green Library] c. David Ben Guryon, "The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution" 16. Tuesday, May 30: THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAELI MEMORY, OR THE TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA a. David Grossmann, part I from See Under: LOVE. [Stanford Bookstore] b. Tom Segev, The Seventh Million, chapters 9, 10, 11, 12. [on reserve in Green] 17. Thursday, June 1: INDEPENDENCE AND TRAUMA: TE MEMORY OF 1948 a. A. B. Yehoshua, “Facing the Forests” b. Daniel Levy, "The Future of the Past: Historiographical Disputes and Competing Memories in Germany and Israel" History and Theory 38, no. 1: 51-66, 1999. [PDF]
Primary reading: Laurence Silberstein, The Postzionism Debates, chapters: intro, [on reserve, Green Library] Further reading: Ephraim Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History: "The New Historians" [on reserve, Green Library]
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