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In recent years, questions about the ways we remember the past have attracted wide public attention and produced considerable controversy. Both President Reagan's decision to visit a German cemetery at Bitburg and the debates about the Smithsonian exhibit on the bombing of Hiroshima have demonstrated the various contexts in which history can be, and is, produced outside of the academy. This seminar will examine the different ways that Europeans have remembered and memorialized the World Wars of th e 20th century. We will explore the differences among official memory, individual memories, media representations, and academic history as we examine the different genres used to represent historical events. We will inquire: How did memories of World W ar I affect interpretations of World War II? What is at stake in the choice of particular war memorials? When we speak of collective memory, exactly whose memory is being invoked? How has mass culture affected the transmission of historical memory? Wh at kind of history emerges through docudramas and documentaries?
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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