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WiSe 20/21: Europe. Practices, Narratives, Spaces of Memory

Irmgard Zündorf

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The MA seminar with participants from Lucerne, Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Nijmegen and Warsaw focuses on the analysis of practices and narratives of memory with regard to Europe’s colonial past. The construction, public usage, contestation and transformation of memory regarding European imperialism, colonialism and decolonization by different agents in the public sphere, especially museums, monuments, art, the media and political agents will be approached systematically. Against the background of postcolonial theories and theories on memory, the seminar aims at deconstructing blind spots in past and present constructions of European and national memories, on their mechanisms of exclusion that foster(ed) and perpetuat(ed) images of the ‘other’, of racism, discrimination and violence. Comparative perspectives on different national contexts and their entanglements are specifically analysed. In a digital classroom and live seminars with the professors, students will collaborate with their international colleagues and exchange ideas, reflect about texts and analyse primary sources in various formats (e.g. short collaboratively elaborated papers, forums, online live presentations etc.). Towards the end of the semester, two live events with the House of European History (Brussels) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Brussels) will be organised, followed, if the situation permits, by a voluntary on-site workshop in Brussels in April or May 2021.

English is the main language of communication.
Participants are MA students in the study programmes of the six partner Universities.
The number of participants is limited.
Modes of teaching and communication:
group work (collaborative work on chosen topics, short written assignments and oral presentations in live seminars)
group discussions in live seminars and activities in the digital classroom
video/audio inputs by the profs.
possibility to participate in a two-day workshop in Brussels (trip and accommodation financed) in April or May

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