History 692M - S-History,Memory,Modernity/Eur

Scholars are accustomed to using the term "history" in the dual sense of both "res gestae" and "historia rerum gestarum": historical events and historiography. In recent years, they have also turned increasingly to the relationship between "history and memory": as the journal of that name puts it, "the manifold ways in which the past shapes the present and is shaped by present perceptions." The course explores some of the ways that groups and individuals have recalled, interpreted, and appropriated the past, primarily in modern and contemporary Central Europe. Probable topics include: cultural landscapes, the formation of national cultures and identities, the First World War, the Holocaust and the vanished Jewish communities of Europe.

Open to Doctoral and Masters History students only.