Memory, Politics, Place: Berlin’s Twentieth Century

6 credits · Undergraduate

This course provides an intensive introduction to the themes of collective memory, public space, inter-generational responsibility, and historical trauma, with a focus on Berlin. Taught entirely on site, this course offers students the opportunity to consider the ethical, aesthetic, and public struggle to memorialize the victims of Nazi fascism and Cold War Stalinism through daily visits to museums and public art installations, as well as more informal explorations of memorial initiatives ‘from below.’ CROSSLISTED: GERM 3610.06 FORMATS: Seminar