Universität Wien

070309 SE Seminar (2011S)

"Trauma und Kultur"

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

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 09.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 16.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 23.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 30.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 06.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 13.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 04.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 11.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 18.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 25.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 01.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 08.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 15.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 22.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 29.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Memory, Trauma, Culture

SYLLABUS

Week 1
Introduction: On the relationship between memory, trauma, and culture

Week 2
Individual, Collective, Cultural Memory I: Distinctions
Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora: selections on blackboard
Jan Assmann, "Collective Memory and Cultural Identity" (blackboard)
Henry Roediger and James Weltsch, Memory Studies (blackboard)
Steven Brown, "Memory Studies" (blackboard)

Week 3
Individual, Collective, Cultural Memory II:
Establishing a Field

Henry Roediger and James Weltsch, Memory Studies (blackboard)
Steven Brown, "Memory Studies" (blackboard)

Week 4
Testimony: Memory and History

Dominick LaCapra, "Holocaust Testimonies" (in: LaCapra)
Dori Laub, Essays on Witnessing (blackboard)
Steven Knapp, "Collective Memory and the Actual Past" (blackboard)
Marianne Hirsch, "Testimonial Objects" (blackboard)

Week 5
Testimony: Law and Literature

Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature
Michael E. Tiger, Examining Witnesses (American Bar Association, excerpts on blackboard)
Shoshana Felman, "Forms of Judicial Blindness" (blackboard)
Barbie Zelizer, "Journalism" (blackboard)

Week 6
Holocaust Narratives

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
Elie Wiesel, Night

Week 7
Remembering and Forgetting

Sigmund Freud, "Remembering, Repeating, Working Through," and "Mourning and Melancholia" (blackboard)
Michael Roth, "Forgetting" (blackboard)

Week 8
Trauma: The Wound

Dominick LaCapra, "Writing History, Writing Trauma," and "Trauma, Absence, Loss" (in: LaCapra)
Bessel A. Van der Kolk and Onne van der Hart, "The Intrusive Past" (in: Caruth)
Kai Erikson, "Trauma and Community" (in: Caruth)

Week 9
Trauma and Treatment

Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Genealogy

Week 10
Trauma and Image

Ulrich Baer, The Photography of Trauma
Elisabeth Bronofen, "Image Affects and Cultural Memory" (blackboard)
Marianne Hirsch, "Surviving Images" (blackboard)
Photographs by Christian Boltanski, Paintings by Anselm Kiefer (shown in class/ on blackboard)

Week 11
Trauma and/in Film

Joshua Hirsch, Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust
Claude Lanzmann, Shoah (excerpts shown in class)

Week 12
Trauma and Poetry

Paul Celan, poems (selection, blackboard)
(German/English)

Week 13
The Presence of Trauma

Carol Blair and Neil Michel, "The Aids Memorial Quilt" (blackboard)
Thomas Kane, "Mourning in the Promised Land" (blackboard)

Week 14
Studying the Holocaust: Classrooms

Shoshana Felman, "Education in Crisis" (in: Caruth)
Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg, The Holocaust
Geoffrey Hartman, "Scars of the Spirit" (blackboard)

Week 15
Museums and Memorials

James Young, The Texture of Memory
Michael Bernard-Donals, "The Holocaust Museum after 9/11" (blackboard)

Assessment and permitted materials

Course Requirements:

Class attendance; class participation; research paper (ca. 15-25 pages)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Books under Discussion:

Ulrich Baer, Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002)
Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore: JHU Press, 1995)
Dominick LaCapra, Writing History, Writing Trauma (Baltimore: JHU Press, 2001)
Joshua Hirsch, Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003)
Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg, The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2003)
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table (New York: Schocken, 1995)
Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Geneology (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2000)
Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature (3rd Edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
James Young, The Texture of Memory (New Haven: Yale UP, 1993)
Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006)

Association in the course directory

MA Zeitgeschichte:Vertiefung 1+2; Lehramt: Vertiefung 2; Diplom: P2; BA-Modul 2 (10 ECTS); MA Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Europaforschung: Vertiefung 2 (6 ECTS); MA Geschichte: Vertiefung 2 - Späte Neuzeit (6 ECTS);

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