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070225 SE Seminar - Looking at China's memory politics and memory culture from a comparative perspective (2022W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Please note: This course will start on October 12, 2022 at 9.45 am.

  • Wednesday 05.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 12.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 19.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 09.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 16.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 23.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 30.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 07.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 14.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 11.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 18.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 25.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course will be taught in English.
This course is aimed at learning how to deal with the relationship between politics and memory in the People's Republic of China and on Taiwan. It is a seminar course which requires active participation from the students' side by way of discussion and presentation. After an introduction by the professor to the state of the art of research on memory and poliics in the PRC, students will be asked to give presentations on issues regarding the memory of delicate events related to the PRC's contemporary history as well as to the history of Taiwan under Guomindang rule or on topics related to dealing with the memory of the 3rd Reich in Germany and Austria. Discussions will be focused on comparing the situation in the PRC and on Taiwan with the effort to address the past in both East and West Germany as well as in Austria.
The seminar will be held in the classroom and will only shift to the digital format if the university's leadership decides to change to digital teaching mode.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students will be assessed according to their regular participation in the course (20%), their participation in a group presentation (30%) and their term paper (50%).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students need to attend regularly and not miss class for more than 3 times during the semester. For the group presentation, students have to plan on giving a presentation including related discussions of approximately 45 minutes. Presentations will be prepared in teams of 4 students, and grades will be given on the team performance. Term papers should be no longer than 6000 words. They should be written on a topic related to the team presentation and submited individually. Students can only receive a grade if they fulfill all three requirements: regular participation,team presentation, and individual term paper submission.

Examination topics

The list of possible topics for the team presentation as well as the individual term paper can be found on the related moodle page.

Reading list

Daniel Leese: Maos langer Schatten. Chinas Umgang mit der Vergangenheit. München 2020
Jie Li: Utopian Ruins. A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. Durham and London, 2020
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: Broken Narratives. On Post Cold War History and Identity in Europe and East Asia (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography), Leiden, 2014
Mary Fulbrook: Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, New York, 2018
Mary Fulbrook, Konrad H. Jarausch, Karen Hagemann and Tobias Hof: Reframing the Past: Justice, Guilt, and Consolidation in East and West Germany after Nazism, in: Central European History, 2020, Vol.53 (2), p.294-313.
Vincenzo Pinto: Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel. Vergangenheitsbewältigung as a Historical Quest. New York 2021.

Association in the course directory

MA Geschichte Wahlbereich, MA Globalgeschichte & GS, PM 3.1 Vertiefung 1.

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