Syllabus

The reading list may be viewed or downloaded in .doc format here. The schedule for the class is covered below.

Schedule:

Monday, May 19th
Lecture: Introduction to Holocaust commemoration; the Reichstag; memorial to the burning of books; meeting with Holocaust survivor; neighborhood remembrance in eastern Berlin.
Guest speakers: Inge Deutschkron and Ulrich Tempel

Tuesday, May 20th
Lecture: Historical sites of memory; the dilemma of German victimhood; the Memorial Church; Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Astrid Ley

Wednesday, May 21st
Lecture: Unsanctioned memory and guerrilla archaeology; remembrance in Einstein's neighborhood; Gestapo headquarters and the topography of terror.
Guest speaker: Dr. Thomas Lutz

Thursday, May 22nd
Institutional memory and commemorating resistance; the German Railway; the National Resistance Memorial.
Dr. Ekkehard Klausa and Dr. Johannes Tuchel

Friday, May 23rd
"Holocaust tourism" in Berlin; Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe; Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum.
Guest speaker: Dr. Andrew Gross