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492A PROBLEMS IN COMPARATIVE

HISTORY (Fritzsche)

Topic: History and Memory

This is an interdisciplinary, comparative course.  Themes will include the rise of historical consciousness; the presence of the past; commemorative politics; the Holocaust; nostalgia; forgetting; attics; quilts; collecting; antiques; and museums, and will embrace private and public spheres, and will pay special attention to literary genres of remembrance.

The course will be run both as a problems and a research course; topics will be drawn primarily from modem Europe and the United States, and emphasize theoretical and methodological approaches.