Berlin's Memory Landscape: National Socialism, World War II, and the Holocaust in Public Representation
Instructor: Dr. Marcus Funck, Date: Thursday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. (1st meeting 17 October), Room: KAI 1315
Over the last thirty years, a large number of memorial sites, museums, documentation centres, educational sites etc. habve been created in Berlin and its surroundings, representing and commemorating various aspects of more than a half-century of violence, war, and (state) terror. Together they form a unique memory landscape that relates to a century of dictatorship, war, and genocide. So far, these sites have been representing an ever widening and deepening culture of remembrance. But what are the deficits in Germany's official dealing with its past? What is to come after the "age of growth"? What are the greatest political and social challenges to the established memory culture? What is and what shoulod be the relation between the state, professionals, educatory, and "civil society". How might the local memorial landscape change in the age of global transformations? Berlin's memory landscape as the most prominent expression of Germany's memory culture faces a multitude of challenges we will discuss together with experts and actors in the field during this seminar.
This course is taught in English. International students are very welcomed. Most seminar meetings will be held on excursion sites on a bi-weekly basis.
- Trainer/in: Marcus Funck